how much air space in ez-cap bottles?

[ellijo89]

So I've been bottling all my beers to date in 12oz bottles, leaving about 1 inch or so of air space at top.

But today i bottled in 16oz ez-cap bottles and 1liter ez-cap bottles, when filling them i started thinking about if the change of capacity should change the amount of air room at the top. I gave it more then usual, and just did what looked right to me.

In the end, is there a standard for each of these bottles on how high to fill them?

thanks,
josh

 

[mordantly]

the same headspace all across the board.

 

[ellijo89]

cool. I didn't do anything absurd so they should be good. haha.

 

[Edcculus]

A good rule of thumb with any bottle is fill it to the brim with the bottling want inserted all the way. Pull it out, and whatever volume the want displace is now your headspace.

 

[lurker18]

A good rule of thumb with any bottle is fill it to the brim with the bottling want inserted all the way. Pull it out, and whatever volume the want displace is now your headspace.

That is how I was told to do it, and so far there has been no problems.

 

[DavidSteel]

A good rule of thumb with any bottle is fill it to the brim with the bottling want inserted all the way. Pull it out, and whatever volume the want displace is now your headspace.

Yep, do this.

 

[Grimster]

This is what I do as well, I have 12 and 22 glass, .5 and 1L PET and do the same with them all, so far so good.

 

[ellijo89]

from what im getting out of this i really need to buy a new wand lol