Tired of leftover brew or only filling that last bottle half way? In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to use a homebrew bottling calculator to input your exact available bottle sizes —from standard wine bottles to custom sizes—and optimize your bottle usage to completely eliminate waste and excess headroom. Mastering this workflow is the final, crucial step to protecting your hard work and ensuring your homebrew wine, mead, or cider tastes incredible.

We break down the entire process: calculating precise yields, applying non-negotiable sanitization rules, and using a spring-loaded bottling wand for a clean, mess-free fill every time. Plus, we put new tamper-evident twist-and-seal caps to the leak test!