Bottling & Kegging - How Many Gallons and Ounces of Beer?

February 26th, 2008

If I have 2 six packs of 12 oz. bottles, two 22 oz. bombers, two - one liter swing top bottles and a growler than how many gallons of beer do I need to fill all the different sizes of bottles? With that, if I am using priming sugar to naturally carbonate each bottle, how much dextrose do I need for that many bottles? Plus, I also need some of my five gallon batch of craftbrew to go into my corny keg right?

We already know that five oz. of priming sugar works for a five gal. batch of beer and if…

	12 oz. Standard Size Beer Bottle 5 gal. (640 oz.) = 54 - 12 oz. bottles 1/2 gal. Growler (64 oz.) = 5.4 - 12 oz. bottles six pack is 72 oz. / 12 pack is 144 oz. / case is 288 oz. Use 1 tsp. dextrose for bottle priming
	16 oz. Small Swing-Top Grolsch Style 16 oz. = 1/8 gallon Two 16 oz. bottles = 1 liter large swing top bottle (32 oz.) Eight 16 oz. bottles = 1 gal. (128 oz.) Use 1 1/2 tsp. dextrose for bottle priming
	22 oz. Bomber 29 - 22 oz. bottles = 5 gallons (640 oz.) Use 2 tsp. dextrose for bottle priming
	1 Liter Large Swing-top 32 oz. Two (1L) 32 oz. bottles = 1/2 gallon Growler (64 oz.) Four (1L) 32 oz. bottles = 1 gallon Jug (128 oz.) Use 3 tsp. dextrose for bottle priming
	1/2 gal.  Growler 64 oz. 1/2 gal. 2 Liters Use 6 tsp. (or 1/2 oz.) dextrose for bottle priming
	Six pack 72 oz. 54 - 12 oz. bottles in 5 gal. 8.9 - 6 packs in 5 gal. 5 gal. = 2 cases & 1 - 6 pack case = 4 - 6 packs Use 1 tsp. dextrose for priming each 12 oz. bottle
	1 gal. Jug 128 oz. Five 1 gal. Jugs = 5 gallon batch-o-beer (640 oz.) Use 1 oz. dextrose for bottle priming

For winemaking you will need 5 - 750ml wine bottles for every gallon of wine to be bottled or 25 - 750ml wine bottles for every 5 gallon carboy you are planning on bottling.

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