500ml bottles co2 headspace?
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As little as possible....unless you are doing primary fermentation in them.
KevinW
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Hopefully you have a bottling wand cause they will leave just the right amount of head space otherwise, usually about 2-2.5cm should do it.
You could pour 500 ml of liquid into the bottle and see how much headspace is left and that should give you the line to shoot for! I tried that with 12oz bottles and they have a built in headspace measurement.
You could pour 500 ml of liquid into the bottle and see how much headspace is left and that should give you the line to shoot for! I tried that with 12oz bottles and they have a built in headspace measurement.
Using a bottling wand will give you the right head space every time due to volume displacement. It fills the bottle slowly from the bottom up & prevents splashing,etc that can lead to oxidation. Just fill to the top,pull up on wand to close the lil pin valve on the end. remove wand...perfect head space.
For less than the price of a craft 6'r here,you can het a bottling wand. Better flow control that way.
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