Abstract: Carbonated beverage is bottled without foaming, even though at a comparatively elevated temperature (i.e. 55.degree.-60.degree. F.), by confining it, as it fills each bottle, between an incoming fluid pressure and a displaced air outgoing pressure of a sufficient extent to prevent release of the carbon dioxide content thereof. Further, said two just referred to pressures are maintained in balanced relation, so as not to impede the flow rate of the beverage, and thereby to contribute to a commercially acceptable bottling rate.