Home Brew Bottle Packaging Calculator
To bottle 5 gallons of home brew beer:
- 54 of the standard 12 oz bottles.
- 38 of the half liter (16.9oz) bottles.
- 30 of the 22 ounce bottles.
- 10 of the 64 ounce (half gallon) growlers.
- 4 of the 5 liter mini kegs.
It is more fun to do a mix. You can use this calculator to figure out how to bottle beer in the exact combination you desire. Just make sure the difference field is in green and you will have enough.
All values are in ounces. To be conservative, this calculator rounds down decimals. When bottling a five gallon carboy worth of beer, there will always be less than 640 ounces of beer available to bottle because of the yeast at the bottom. Sanitizing an extra bottle or two is good insurance in case one drops or breaks. Always have a few extra sanitized caps on hand as well as they can be easily mis-capped and ruined.
To give you an idea of what the bottles look like:
From Left to Right: 64 oz growler jug, 22 oz craft beer bottle, 1/2 Liter (16.9 oz) bottle, 12 ounce bottle.
If you are getting sick of all this bottling, advanced home brewers will bottle their 5 gallon batch in a 5 gallon corny keg, which requires a CO2 system and fridge.
The beer fermenting there next to the corny keg and CO2 tank is a German lager.