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To decide which to choose between unitanks and brite tanks is a question that asked by customers a lot, to better answer this question, it is necessary to know the factors and features that make each one of them distinct.
 
First the primary difference between them is the shape.
The main body of the unitank is a cylinder, but the bottom drops into a cone shape. Unitanks work well for both fermentation and aging since their shape creates a space for the yeast to accumulate at the bottom, making it easy to filter out later.
Brite tanks also have a cylindrical shape, but they have a flat bottom. Technically, fermenting in a brite tank is okay, but the shape make filtering out the yeast kind of difficult. Considering this, they’re typically only used for aging and maturation, as well as a place to hold beer until it is packaged or served.
Benefits:
1) Unitanks:
Simplicity:
Being able to combine the fermenting and aging step streamlines the brewing process by removing one step. Because of this, breweries are available to buy less equipment, which saves both money and space in a brewhouse. Along with this, it also saves workers time and labor, we don’t have to take the time to move the beer from one tank to the other and are able to dispense the beer directly from the unitank.
Low Risk of Contamination:
As we know every time beer is taken out of a tank, it is exposed to the open air leading to dissolved oxygen, besides, beer may also be exposed to other contaminants like microorganisms, which might lead to awful-tasting beer, using a unitank lessens this contamination risk.
 
2) Brite Tanks:
Larger Quantity of Beer Production:
For some big breweries that brew large amount of beer per day, the process of brewing and packaging are two separate operations. In these instances, fermenting beer and serving it would need to be done in two separate areas of the brewhouse, making unitanks impractical. By moving beer out of the fermenter and into a brite tank, it makes pack easier and frees up the fermenter for another batch, allowing a brewhouse to make large quantities of beer.
 
Improved Clarity:
Brite Beer Tanks are called “brite” because of the clarity of the beer they produce, when beer goes from a fermenter to a brite tank, the yeast if filtered out first, this extra layer of filtration before undergoing further maturation and carbonation produces a clearer beer, which is preferred by some bigger brewhouse.
 
Choosing Between the Tanks:
In conclusion, unitanks are the perfect choice for microbreweries or brewpubs, for these facilities, space is often limited, the brewery isn’t producing as many barrels of beer, and the emphasis is less on packaging and more on serving brews directly. Unitanks work well in these contexts because they save space and labor.
 
Brite tanks are better for larger-scale beer productions, especially productions that rely on packaging and shipping much of their product. Brite tanks allow you to leave more fermenters open at a time.
 
Other configurations and more details to be discussed to meet your personal demands and special requests, please feel free to contact us, we shall be honored to support you build your brewery dream in any way we can!
 
Sharon
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