In a commercial or micro beer brewery, unitanks and brite beer tanks will be considered by the brewmaster when they buying beer brewing equipment.
What are the difference of bright beer tanks and beer fermentation tanks unitanks?
 
The primary difference is the shape.
 
The main body of the unitanks 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 center, but they have a flat bottom. Technically, fermenting in a brite tank is possible, but its shape would make filtering out the yeast problematic. Because of 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 of Unitanks
 
--Unitanks could be used for beer fermentation and aging.
Because of this, breweries can buy less equipment, which saves money and space in a brewhouse.
--Unitanks can save labor.
Workers do not have to take the time to move the beer from one point to the other and are able to dispense the beer directly from the unitank.
--Unitanks can make your beer safer
 Every time beer is taken out of a tank, it is exposed to the open air leading to dissolved oxygen. This can be especially problematic if you plan on packaging and distributing your beer outside of a taproom.  
 
Benefits of Brite Tanks
 
--Larger Quantity of Beer Production
Some breweries might put brewing and packaging into two separate operations. So it would need to be done in two separate areas of the brewhouse, fermenting beer and serving. By moving the beer out of the fermenter and into a brite tank, it makes packing easier and frees up the fermenter for another batch, allowing a brewhouse to make larger 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 is filtered out first. This extra layer of filtration before undergoing further maturation and carbonation produces a clearer beer, which some brewhouses prefer.
 
Choosing Between the Tanks
 
Usually, unitanks are preferred for microbreweries or brewpubs. It can help the whole beer brewing equipment saves more space, labor and cost. Also their output is usually not that high.
Brite tanks are better for larger-scale commercial breweries, especially for the beer brewery equipment that rely on packaging and shipping much of their product. Brite tanks allow you to leave more fermenters open at a time. Generally, if you are brewing more barrels than a microbrewery, it can be a good idea to add brite tanks into your beer brewery equipment.
 
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