Product Introduction
The brown swing top bottles feature light protective amber glass and a wire-bail closure, offering a unique 485ml bottle size for beverage brands which make light sensitive specialty beverages, fermented drinks and craft beer.
Why Choose This 485ml Swing Top Bottle?
- Brown Glass for Light-Sensitive Products: The brown glass body helps to minimize the light exposure compared with clear glass, which makes it a good packaging solution for beverages and other products where light protection is a key factor.
- Reusable Swing-Top Closure: A distinctive reusable packaging format for the bottle, which is opened and closed without a separate screw cap.
- 485ml Mid-Size Format: This mid-size capacity is good for a single beverage serving, table service and specialty retail products.
- Long, Narrow Bottle Profile: Long, narrow body creates a recognisable shelf profile, is easy to hold and pour from.
- Brandable Glass Surface: Smooth brown glass surface for screen printing, acid etching or labelling, providing a brandable package without having to modify the bottle structure.
Key Specifications
| Specification | Details |
| Capacity | 485ml |
| Glass Color | Brown |
| Material | Soda-Lime Glass |
| Bottle Shape | Tall, Straight-Sided |
| Closure | Swing-Top Wire Bail |
| Closure Seal | Gasket / sealing ring |
| Height | 223 mm |
| Diameter | 77.5 mm |
| Suitable Products | Craft Beer, Kombucha, Specialty Beverages, Sauces |
What Can You Package in a 485ml Brown Swing Top Bottle?
- Brown Glass Specialty and Craft Beer Packaging: Brown glass provides a traditional look in specialty and craft beer packaging.
- Kombucha: The reusable swing-top is for brands that focus on the ideas of reusable or refillable packaging.
- Fermented Beverages: Good for specialty fermented beverages where a unique bottle shape is used to present the product.
- Botanical Drinks: Herbal and Botanical beverage branding works well with the brown glass appearance of botanical drinks.
- Specialty Sauces: For certain sauces and liquid food products, the swing-top bottle is a viable option to the traditional screw cap bottle.
- Hospitality Beverages: 485ml size is perfect for restaurants, cafés and small hospitality ventures.
Brown Glass vs Clear Glass
| Packaging Factor | Brown Glass | Clear Glass |
| Light exposure | Lower | Higher |
| Product visibility | Moderate | Excellent |
| Vintage appearance | Strong | Neutral |
| Suitable for light-sensitive products | Better suited | Less suitable |
| Brand positioning | Craft / Heritage | Clean / Modern |
Use brown glass if the visibility of the product is less important than light exposure and the appearance of a craft. If the objective of the packaging is to display the product color, it is recommended to use clear glass.
Customize the Bottle Around Your Beverage Brand
- Glass Colour: Set to match your brand and packaging needs for a lighter or darker brown/amber colour.
- Bottle Decoration: Screen print or branding / acid etched to make a hallmark look.
- Swing-Top Components: Closure components like the ceramic stopper/gasket, wire bail, can be coordinated to the bottle design, depending on the configuration available.
- Custom Packaging: Carton dividers, protective packaging and pallet configuration can be modified to bulk ship and minimize the risk of movement and breakage.







