Production losses during bottling?

Where does parabola sit on shelves? in my area of Cali it was gone fast maybe 2-3 days at most in some stores with one bottle behind the counter limits.

 

That has to be volume dependent because it seems high. Bottling juice - and I know it isn't the same thing - we typically run a one to two percent loss, but that is on a huge volume over long production runs, comparatively speaking. So I could convince myself that 8% loss in bottling could be right on a small volume, short duration run where you can't really recover what is in the lines.

 

Parabola had 3, 000 cases for 2010 and 2011 and 3, 500 for 2012 and 2013.....

 

1-2% loss during bottling is about right for a newer, high-tech bottling line like Goose probably has (can't remember what exactly they use).

There is more lost during the barrel handling process though. Barrels aren't completely full when they are emptied, probably about 5 gallons of headspace in a bourbon barrel, mostly from loss through the wood, and then you don't drain the entire barrel and the amount left in the barrel can vary from probably a quart to a gallon depending. Then you have loss to settling in tank after taking the beer out of barrels. You have to cold condition to drop out proteins and all the charcoal that comes out of the barrels. Lots of variability but always a decent amount of loss in the barrel aging process.