10BBL BBTs Fermenting vessels stainless steel conical jackted tanks DEGONG Maker

Fermenting vessels Unitanks 10BBL

 WHY USE A BRITE TANK?  

Brite Tanks Help Clarify and Free up Unitanks

Some of our customers going have asked why they should use a brite tank as opposed to just buying more Uni Tanks (Conical Fermenters). While situations and brewing styles vary we did our best to answer some of those questions here.

1.Free up Fermenters 

If you are bottling, canning, or kegging a brewery will typically have one brite tank for every 4-5 fermenters. Beer will usually spend 2 days in a brite tank to clarify and adjust carbonation levels while most fermenters hold the beer for 10-20 days.

2.Clarity + Get Every Last Drop!

A Brite Tank allows for greater clarity while allowing you to transfer off the yeast in a more complete way. When you pull the yeast out of a conical you leave a layer of yeast on the walls and in the cone. That yeast discourages other yeast from flocking out due to the like charges which has a significant effect on beer clarity. Brite tank has a 150 degree dished bottom which causes the final yeast that flocculate out to stay on the bottom and not find its way into the final beer, be it packaged or on draft. This is also why brew pubs choose to draw directly from brite tanks to the taps. Draw clear beer to the end!

3.Refill a Brite Tank up to 10x Before Cleaning

Brite tanks are often kept pressurized  through the filling and draining up to 10 times before being fully emptied and drained. They are not required to be cleaned like fermenters because they do not develop the same krausen line. This saves considerable time and co2.

4.Brite Tank Beer Volume Can Be Easily Measured

You will typically yield 100% of the beer in a Brite tank which helps you plan for packaging. A conical tank will always leave some portion of the beer behind as you are  typically drawing from the racking arm and the yeast sediment levels will vary. You never know exactly how much beer you are getting. Because of the known volumes brite tanks can also be handy for tax determination.

Size available:3.5bbl 5bbl 10bbl 15bbl 20bbl 30bbl 40bbl 50bbl 60bbl

Jacketed brite tanks are made from 304 stainless steel and built to high quality standards.  All of our brite tanks are pressured tested at the factory, feature 100% sanitary welds, and are backed by the DEGONG! one year warranty. Every brite tank features an average 15% headspace not stated in the volume, so for example, a 10 bbl brite really has 11.5 bbl of volume.

Bright beer tanks model 3.5bbl-60bbl available

Features Include:

1 bar working pressure

Side manway door for cleaning

1.5" Tri-clamp carbonation stone

1.5" Tri-clamp pressure gauge

1.5" Tri-clamp dial face bi-metal, easy-read analog thermometer

1.5" Tri-clamp Perlick-style sample valve

2" Tri-clamp pressure/vacuum relief

2" Center bottom tri-clamp drain

Sight-glass for reading volumes

Dedicated pipe system with 4" Tri-clamp center top opening and 1.5" tri-clamp rotating CIP spray ball for easy cleaning

3/4" NPT glycol ports

PT100 Thermocouple interface

Shadowless Manway

Construction

304 stainless steel construction

Double walled with 80 mm thick polyurethane insulation

External Shell: 2 mm thick with brushed finish

Internal tank: 3 mm thick with smooth ground welds, 2B finish and passivated

Glycol Jacket: dual cooling zone, 1.5mm thick

Cool fermenters

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