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Clear glass swing top bottle with a wire bail and a ceramic stopper

Beverage glass · Swing-top and flip-top bottles

Swing Top and Flip Top Bottles for Fermenters and Brewers

Carbonated or still, settled first. Gaskets quoted as spares. Amber where the light is the problem.

If you brew kombucha or kefir, make cordials or sell to homebrewers, you buy this bottle for what happens after you fill it, and every one comes off our own lines in Shandong. Your round, square and amber beer profiles run 100 ml to 1 litre (3.4 to 34 fl oz), all on the same ceramic stopper and wire bail. A live ferment keeps building pressure in the bottle, so what you fill decides the body long before the label does.

Swing Top Bottles in Stock: Round, Square and Amber

Running-mould bodies on one closure system, filtered by profile and colour. Amber is your answer where light is the problem, clear where the drink is the display. We quote wholesale per body, with stoppers and spare gaskets priced beside it.

Capacities in production, ml (330 ml ≈ 11 oz · 500 ml ≈ 17 oz · 1 L ≈ 34 oz)
  • 100
  • 250
  • 330
  • 500
  • 1000
  • ml
Four clear swing-top bottles in a row, one with its ceramic stopper and wire bail swung open
Three parts, and only one of them is glass. The gasket is your wear item, and on a live ferment it is also the pressure seal.

What a Fermenter Confirms Before a Pallet Ships

A swing top is the only bottle we make that your customer opens and closes fifty times. Three things follow from that, and all three reach you in writing before a deposit.

01

Carbonated, or still

What is at stake

Kombucha, kefir, water kefir and bottle-conditioned beer keep fermenting after you close them, and the pressure they build has nowhere to go. Choose a cordial bottle and fill it with a live ferment, and you have the one packaging error that ends in glass across a floor. Cordial, oil, vinegar and syrup ask nothing of the bottle by comparison.

What we supply

The intended contents belong in your first message, because they decide which of these bodies are suitable at all. Your quotation states, per design, what it is made for, and where your product carbonates in the bottle you get that answer before a sample ships.

02

The gasket, and the spares behind it

What has to match

The ceramic stopper does not seal anything. The gasket does, and it is the part that hardens with your heat, your cleaning and time. On a refill or returnable range your glass outlives several gaskets, and a customer who cannot buy a replacement throws away the bottle.

What we supply

Every body takes the same stopper assembly, so one gasket stock covers your whole eleven-size listing. Gasket material is stated on your quotation and spares are priced alongside the bottles, which is what your customer service will need in the first year.

03

Amber, when light is the problem

What is at stake

Hop compounds break down under light and turn your beer skunky, which is why brewers have used brown glass for a century. Clear glass sells your cloudy kombucha or coloured cordial on sight, and does nothing for a hopped beer under a shop light.

What we supply

Amber runs at 330 ml, 500 ml and 1 litre on beer profiles, and clear runs across every body you might list. Both take the same closure, so if you sell beer and a soft drink from the same door you run one stopper and one gasket across both.

Stoppers, Gaskets, Bails and Spares We Supply

One closure system runs the whole ladder, and your quotation prices the stopper, the bail and a spare gasket run beside the glass.

Ceramic stopperA porcelain or ceramic plug on the wire, printed or plain. It takes no odour and shows no wear, and your customer sees it every time, so it carries your brand well.
Food-grade gasketThe part that actually seals, and the part that ages. Your quotation states material and hardness, and it seats on the stopper, so your customer replaces it in seconds with no tools.
Wire bail and leverThe bail holds the stopper down against the gasket and springs back when your customer opens it. You specify the finish per order, because a plated bail in a humid kitchen corrodes at the pivot long before your glass fails.
Spares and replacementsWe quote gaskets and complete stopper assemblies with your bottles. A refill or returnable range needs them on your same order, because the bottle outlives the rubber by years.

Your quotation states the stopper, the gasket material and the bail finish, so none of the three non-glass parts is left to assumption.

Say what goes in, and whether it is still fermenting.

What goes in, and whether it is still fermenting when it does. Within 24 hours you have the bodies built for it, with their closures and loading data.

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Swing Top MOQ, Wholesale Terms and Loading

Bulk terms from the factory. No tooling on a running body, 15–20 days from confirmation, bottles sampled with the stopper fitted, and a pallet count printed beside your price.

MOQ

Pallet or container

A running mould carries no tooling minimum, so your opening order can be a single pallet across several sizes, on identical terms for private-label drinks brands and craft breweries. Cutting steel of your own starts at 12,000 pieces in extra flint, 50,000 in standard flint.

Lead time

15–20 days

From confirmation on running moulds, glass and stopper assemblies together. A custom mould adds 30–45 days to your lead time, counted from drawing approval.

Samples

On request

Bottles ship assembled, so you can fill, close and leave one in a warm room for a week before committing a season. On the custom path, an acrylic model lands in about 10 days at $500, then a sample mould at 35 days puts 5–10 bottles on your desk.

Shipping terms

EXW · FOB

Warehousing and consolidation stay in-house, and we quote transit to your port. Your swing tops travel with juice or beer bottles in one container, which is how most opening orders are built.

Container loading

Per size, with the quote

The wire assembly adds carton volume that a plain bottle does not, so a screw-cap loading figure would mislead you here. Your quotation gives carton dimensions and the 20GP and 40HC counts per size.

Square swing-top glass bottle filled with infused oil and a sprig of rosemary
A square panel takes print flat. Decoration on a running body reaches a brand look without new steel.

Own-Label Swing Tops: Printing, Frosting, Stopper Marks

A swing top stays in a fridge door for weeks, so your mark on the glass and on the ceramic gets seen more than a label on a shelf ever does. Our Shandong plant screen prints, frosts, sprays, hot stamps and labels in-house, so your decorated glass keeps the same 15–20 days as plain.

Screen printingYour name straight onto the glass, on the flat panel of a square body or wrapped on a round one. It survives the wash your returnable bottles come back through.
Printed stoppersThe ceramic plug carries your logo or your colour, and your customer holds it every time they open the bottle. The cheapest branding on the whole product.
FrostingFull-body or a band, matte or satin, for your premium cordial, spirit and gift lines at the same glass cost.
Hot stampingMetallic foil for your crest or brewery mark, on limited runs and gift packs.
Spray coatingOpaque or translucent colour on clear glass, matched to your brief, with a window where the fill level still needs to read.
LabellingApplied in-house, so bottles arrive shelf-ready and your line skips a second handling.

We quote decoration per design, beside the glass. Decoration and labelling in detail →

One litre swing-top bottle with a moulded texture down the body, filled with a fruit drink
Moulded texture is what tooling buys. The closure stays the same whatever body it sits on.

Custom Swing Top Moulds, and Why the Bail Comes First

A bottle, a stopper or a drawing starts the check. Running bodies cover almost any brief you bring, because a bail and a rim have to agree to a tolerance that fresh steel has to earn. When a bottle of your own is the point, our mould shop prices it in three stages.

Stage 1Acrylic model~10 days · $500

A full-size model of your bottle, so shape, shoulder and label panel are signed off before steel is cut.

Stage 2Sample mould35 days · ≈$1,200

Real glass from a sample mould: 5–10 bottles with the stopper assembly fitted, for your line and your retailer to approve.

Stage 3Production mould$1,200–2,200

Your production tooling runs on the flint lines in Shandong. Minimum 12,000 pieces in extra-flint, 50,000 in standard flint.

The custom process, priced by stage →

Glass forming machines running on the hot end of the production line
Our own lines in Shandong. Bottles are formed, annealed and assembled inside the group.

Swing Top Manufacturing: Rim Flatness and Bail Fit

We form your bottles in Shandong, decorate them on the same site and load them with our own warehouse team, so the glass, the bail and the gasket come from one supplier. Fermenters in 40+ countries have shipped from these Shandong lines since 2013.

Finish

We gauge the lip the gasket presses onto across every run. A lip that runs out of round gives you a bottle that closes with a satisfying snap and still leaks, and that fault only shows up in your customer's fridge.

Annealing

Controlled lehr curve on every bottle, and we check residual strain under polarised light on every run, with polariscope results on request. Anything that carbonates in your bottle makes that the one check we would never skip.

Wall thickness

We measure it across the run, because on a pressure product the thin spot is where your bottle decides to fail. Distribution matters more here than average weight does.

Documentation

Your shipment carries an EC 1935/2004 declaration of compliance for the EU and UK, food-contact documentation to FDA requirements for the United States, and ISO 9001. SGS test reports and third-party pre-shipment inspection come on request.

Before You Order Swing Top Bottles

Pressure, Gaskets and Swing Top Spares

A bottle that seals is half of what your live ferment needs, so the rest is answered too.

Can I use these bottles for kombucha or bottle-conditioned beer?

Only against a design confirmed for it, and that confirmation comes from us in writing, because the look of a bottle tells you nothing about it. A live ferment keeps building pressure after the stopper closes, so the intended contents belong in your first message and the quotation answers design by design.

Are the gaskets replaceable, and can I buy spares?

Yes to both. The gasket seats on the ceramic stopper and changes in seconds without tools, and we price spare gaskets and complete stopper assemblies alongside your bottles. On a returnable or refill range they belong on the same order, because the glass outlives the rubber by years.

Do you supply 16 oz and 32 oz flip top bottles?

500 ml and 1 litre are the two sizes this trade buys, and both run in clear for you, with the litre also in amber. Your 500 ml sells as a 16 oz bottle and your litre as a 32 oz. Both take the same ceramic stopper and the same gasket, so your spares stock stays at one part number.

Are you the manufacturer, or a brewing supply shop?

The manufacturer. Your bodies come off our own lines in Shandong, one of MAIDAO INDUSTRY's two production sites. Brewing supply shops sell six-packs and twelve-packs to homebrewers, which is the right way to buy a first batch; a pallet is where the freight starts working for you.

Why are beer swing tops amber?

Hop compounds break down under light and give your beer a skunky character, and brown glass blocks most of what causes it. Clear suits a cloudy kombucha or a coloured cordial that sells on being seen. Amber runs here at 330 ml, 500 ml and 1 litre.

What is the minimum order for swing top bottles?

There is no tooling minimum on the 11 running-mould bodies, so your opening order can be a single pallet across several sizes. An embossed brand mark needs steel of your own, which starts at 12,000 pieces in extra flint or 50,000 in standard flint.

Do all your swing top bottles use the same stopper?

Yes. Every body takes the same ceramic stopper and wire bail, so your eleven-size listing runs on one gasket stock and one spare part. That is the main reason to buy the range from one source.

Are your swing top bottles food-grade?

Yes. Your order ships with food-contact documentation to FDA requirements for the United States and an EC 1935/2004 declaration of compliance for the EU and UK, and SGS test reports come on request.

Can the ceramic stopper be printed with our logo?

Yes, and it is the cheapest branding you can buy, because the stopper is the part your customer handles every time they open the bottle. Printed stoppers are quoted with the glass.

Do swing top bottles ship well?

They ship fine and they load differently. The wire assembly adds carton volume a plain bottle does not, so your quotation gives carton dimensions and per-size container counts instead of a screw-cap figure that would flatter the numbers.

Ask for Swing Top Wholesale Pricing

A size, a colour or what you are fermenting is enough to start. Our beverage desk answers you with pricing, closure options and loading data inside 24 hours.

I know the sizes and colour I want

Matching running-mould bottles, pricing and loading data come back within 24 hours.

  • Capacity, shape and glass colour per SKU
  • What goes in, and whether it carbonates
  • Quantity or container count, and destination port
Request Pricing

I am matching a bottle already on shelf

The running moulds that fit get found before anyone talks about tooling.

  • A photo of the bottle and stopper, with a ruler in frame
  • The gasket you currently buy, if you buy spares
  • Whether the bottles are returned and washed
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