After doing it for 15 years, I've changed as production grew (but then got smaller). I now bottle a few pints, lots of qts and lots of half gal, but only a few gallons. My sales are mostly in qts and half gallons in jugs. But I recently started making bourbon barrel aged maple syrup, and that sells the best of all, that I pack in 200ml glass (6.76 fl oz.). The rest all goes into SS barrels which I repack from as my stocks need replenishing. In the early years I sold mostly qts, and about 1/3 the number of pints, now I sell very few pints and actually my half gallons exceed my qt sales, but not by much. I have to buy jugs in a ratio of 1 case (75) qts to 3 cases half gal (32 ea), but I have only used about 30 pints total in the last 2 years combined. I also have used less than 1 case of Gal (24) in 2 years, but the qts-HG orders I need to get more jugs every 2 months or so. I pack some in glass but don't sell much that way, except the bourbon barrel aged maple, which is only offered in the 1 size glass at this time. For pricing, the glass raises the cost so much that few want to pay for it, however some do for gifts in glass.
Sometimes customers will buy both and tell me the glass is to put on a shelf for show and the jugs are for consumption.
Unless you have a way to keep them cold, don't pack jugs too far ahead (I like to just do 8-10 weeks max and mine are all stored in 2 dedicated coolers, kept at 30-35F).
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.