How To Build a Brewery: Unitanks or Bright Beer Tanks?
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- If you're building a brewery, one of the many design decisions you need to make is whether to use Unitanks where you brew into and pack beer directly out of, or to use Bright Beer Tanks aka BBTs where you transfer finished beer into from the Unitank to prepare for packaging.
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In this video, I run through what Unitanks and BBTs are as well as why you would choose one type of tank over another.
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Thanks Hendo! That's given me a clear direction moving forward, and hopefully cleared things up for others who didn't 100% understand the place of BBT's. The safe working pressure is definitely something I hadn't considered, and will have to factor in when doing nitro beers. Keep up the good work, as there seems to be a plethora of homebrew channels out there, but not many doing commercial scale info. Legend!
Not a problem, Aaron and thank you for posting your question. I'm guided by the community out there as to the direction that this channel will take. Cheers!
Hendo. As always, clear and accurate advice . Thank you from Scotland
Hey thanks for watching!
Im a home brewer with a 1BBL system but missing a brite tank. I settled on buying another 1BBL unitank to use as a brite tank. Its the best of both worlds!
Absolutely!
Cheers Hendo. Very useful. We will review the uni v bbt options as we hadn’t considered the SWP aspect. Cheers
Great vid! I am always struggling with consistently with carbonation. I would love a video on consistent co2 volumes. Please and thank you.
That's a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks Hendo.
This was very educational. Thanks.
I learn a bit more every day.
Fantastic video.
To follow on from this video, you spoke about nitrating a beer using a bright tank.
I am in the process of making a cidery and my process looks like this...
1. Apple juice in unitank 1 to ferment
2. rack into unitank 2
3. Filter into bright tank or unitank1 for carbonation and blending [flavouring]
4. bottling/canning
My question is on stage 3. is a bright tank necessary? I am worried about the carbonation pressure, and what you said about bottling pressure. Is it better to use a bright tank for this, or can I filter and carbonate back into unitank 1?
Thank you for your videos.
That depends upon the maximum safe working pressure of your Unitanks and Bright Tanks so you need to check with your tank fabricator about that. Stay safe :-)
Nitrogen requires a much higher operating pressure than CO2. Also - to save yourself some work, you could drop step 2 completely.
Really good video. Thanks.
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Great video thanks. Just one comment and it’s purely a personal one. Loose the music or lower the volume of it in future videos. And another question about brewing. I’m currently brewing at 1550m above sea level. I have issues with lower boiling points etc. I have been told Bitter hops need to be added earlier due to my altitude. Can you clear this up for me and explain why?
Thanks for the feedback....I'm better at making beer than video production lol. To answer your question, yes, the boiling point of your wort is lower due to your altitude so your boil is in fact running at a lower temperature than say someone at sea level where it should be, in theory, 100 Celsius. Isomerisation of alpha acids is related to temperature and starts at about 82 Celsius and increases in efficiency the higher the temperature. The best way to ensure a repeatable result is to have your IBUs tested by a lab and adjust your beer recipe development software to adjust for your altitude. Cheers!
Yeah music is way too loud 👎
Hi Hendo, my business partner Drew and I are working on our business plan. I'm wondering as a future brewpub owner if Unitanks would be the way to go, as most of our sales are going to be directly to our customers from the brewery, and we won't be selling much kegs intially. Or if it would be better to go with a combo of the two...
The really cool thing is that a Unitank can be used as a BBT (but not the other way around).....does that give you a big enough hint? ;-) Thanks heaps for watching!
G’day Hendo, loving the info that you are sharing in these videos. Not sure if it’s too late to ask a question, but if it isn’t, I’d love to get your opinion and correct use of Rakes in a Mash/ Lauter Tun (not Temperature Controlled). I have been reading conflicting views. Cheers
That's a great question. Thanks! I'll pop that in for a future video.
Thanks for a great video! You mentioned ”harvesting yeast” out of the unitank. How do you do that?
Helpful, practical advice. Thanks!
Hi Hendo, Would you say it is possible to drop all of the yeast, trub and hop matter out of the cone on a unittank? Do you think BBT's are mainly to ease production or does the transfer also increase the quality of the beer? thanks!
Yep - that's exactly what unitanks are for....you can even package straight out of them in many cases. BBTs are good if you need to filter/centrifuge your beer or you need a buffer in your production schedule for your packaging team, if you are a larger brewery. Thanks for watching!
Great video! Does using a BBT result in 'cleaner' beer by transferring beer into BBT off any trub/yeast/hops that remain in the unitank, followed by carbonation? That's my main concern for using the unitank as a one stop shop, but I'm an amateur trying to setup up a commercial brewery with little professional experience so I don't really know...
Hey Brenton. Normally, your Unitank will have a "racking arm" which will allow you to draw clear beer from a varying height within the tank (ideally above the yeast cake at the bottom of the cone) and you can dump yeast and trub out from the bottom of the cone as well prior to transferring beer out. Some breweries employ some sort of beer clarification during transfer to BBT such as fitering or centrifugation but this not really necessary unless you want really clear beer. Storing beer in a BBT to let it settle out isn't really the purpose of the BBT. If you're starting out, a Unitank should do you fine. I hope that helps!
@@RockstarBrewer Cheers Hendo! Will take this into consideration.
thanks man I appreciate the info
Thanks Hendo. One thing I always wonder is how commercial breweries (but "craft" sized) deal with purging equipment prior to filling. E.g. I always purge kegs completely by pushing water out as I've had heavily hopped beers oxidate before I started doing so. How does this scale when you're filling, say, 50 kegs? Or how would you purge a BBT?
Hey there - unfortunately, that doesn't scale. Imagine if you had a 100hL (aka 100BBL) tank you had to purge? That's a lot of water and time wasted. Fortunately there are better ways to purge a tank and machinery to help you measure if you've done the purging properly....thanks for watching!
Great video
Hello from the Philippines. We are in the process of building a 10bbl brewhouse with 20bbl FVs and a 20bbl BBT. My question is this: are BBTs this size have their own chilling system? Or should we design our brewery with the BBTs in a cold room? Thank you for your guidance.
Hello from Australia! Your BBTs should have integrated chilling jackets. It's much faster and more energy efficient. Thanks for watching!
Do you have a full video of that clip at 7:08?
Thank you for the analysis. As I a sidebar note: I found the groovy background music somewhat annoying.
Hi Hendo I am focused on supplying my local neighbourhood with bright carbonated botltled beer i have 2 unitanks 1bbl each and i want to know how to fine my beer both auxilliary and isinglass and carbonate prior to bottling. if possbile i would really like to keep the carbonation from the fermentaion process as they are both pressure vessels and i like the thought of a softer carbonation in my Ales as an improved offer than gassy bottled ales. any help greatly appreciated warm regards Matthew
Hey Matthew - got your email but your reply address bounced when I tried to reply. Feel free to head to rockstarbrewer.com/contact and drop me another email. Thanks for watching!
Hi Hendo, I was wondering if you had any advice on lager? Lagering tanks. transfer from FV to lagering tank to brite tank? carbonation? etc? Thanks!
Yeah probably - what in particular would you like to know? How to transfer or what happens to lager after you transfer aka maturation? Happy to help and thanks for watching :-)
@@RockstarBrewer So, in general do smaller breweries lager in specific lagering tanks. What happens? and when/if do they filter? Lager seems to have a lot more steps than ale so i'm very interested to learn how it all works!
@@chestbrah3200 It depends on the brewery and what the brewer's objectives are. You can brew a lager in as little as 10 days with the right equipment but some brewers don't like to do that. Have you seen my lager brewing video? Check it out here - ruclips.net/video/5dNszuyjShQ/видео.html
Can a unitank be utilized for direct serving?
There's no reason why not! Though it would be better to increase your production volume with more fermentation space. Thanks for watching!
I'm a homebrewer. I want a brite tank.