Homebrewing
8 · 13 · 26 galThe fermenter that ships inside the BräuPro Homebrewing system, sold standalone. Pairs with our brewhouses or your own. Add a second to brew Saturday, ferment two batches at once.
The Unitank is Bräu Supply's standalone fermenter — jacketed, pressure-capable, sanitary tri-clamp throughout. Same vessel that ships inside our BräuPro brewhouses, sold on its own to pair with any tri-clamp hot side, double your fermentation capacity, or replace whatever plastic conical, carboy bucket, or band-heater compromise you're still tolerating. Three scales: homebrew 5G–20G, 1 BBL pilot, and 3–5 BBL production.
Same architecture across every scale. The geometry, the fittings, the pressure rating, the standard tri-clamp ports — these don't change when you move from 10G to 1 BBL. What changes is jacket coverage, controller, and how much beer comes out the bottom.
Spund, carbonate, and closed-transfer to keg without ever exposing the beer to air. No more siphons, no more bottling-bucket oxidation, no more lager that tastes like cardboard after week three.
Trub falls to the apex. Dump it through the butterfly valve after cold-crash. Harvest clean yeast for the next batch. No racking off the trub bed, no fermenter-shaped sediment cake.
Tap water for ales. Glycol for lagers and any temperature below ambient. The jacket holds set point within ±0.5°F across a 14-day fermentation — no band-heater swings, no fermentation chamber required.
1.5", 2", and 3" tri-clamp ports. No proprietary fittings, no shop-only spares. Replacement gaskets at any homebrew store, every valve serviced with a 9/16" wrench. The vessel is repaired, never replaced.
The Unitank is a standalone fermenter. It doesn't care how the wort got there — pour it in cold, or land it via tri-clamp from any compatible kettle. Common pairings on the Bräu Supply side:
Match the Unitank to your batch size — or to the brewhouse you already own. Architecture, fittings, and parts are constant across the lineup; what changes is jacket coverage, controller, and capacity.
The fermenter that ships inside the BräuPro Homebrewing system, sold standalone. Pairs with our brewhouses or your own. Add a second to brew Saturday, ferment two batches at once.
The 40-gallon Unitank — the same vessel inside the BräuPro 1 BBL brewhouse. Commercial duty cycle, identical workflow to the homebrew line.
3 BBL and 5 BBL production-scale Unitanks. Same architecture as the homebrew line, scaled for commercial duty cycles — fully jacketed, fully insulated, with side and base jacket coverage for fast crashes on large volumes.
The Unitank exists to ferment beer. It isn't a kettle that someone bolted a thermowell onto — the conical bottom, jacket, ports, and pressure rating were sized for the fermentation use case from day one.
A dimpled body jacket gives even, full-body cooling. Pair with glycol and a controller and you get rock-stable set points across the longest cold-side beers you'll ever make.
Carbonate naturally during the tail end of fermentation. Push finished beer to keg under CO₂ without ever exposing it to air. Beer that tasted right on Day 14 tastes right on Day 90.
Conical bottom + butterfly valve = trub leaves cleanly, yeast harvests cleanly, and the next batch's pitch is sitting in a sanitized jar by Sunday afternoon. No racking, no second-vessel hop.
1.5" and 2" tri-clamp at every port. Off-the-shelf gaskets, off-the-shelf valves, off-the-shelf spares. Nothing about owning a Unitank means waiting on a single-supplier part.
Learn the workflow at 13 gal. The 1 BBL and 3–5 BBL builds behave the same — same ports, same hardware, same cleaning regime. You scale your vessel, not your process knowledge.
Same workflow, same fittings, same pressure rating. Here's where the three sizes differ.
| Configuration | Homebrewing 8 · 13 · 26 galIn stock | Pilot & Nano 1 BBL · jacketed★ Most selected | Nano & Micro 3 BBL · 5 BBL · productionWaitlist open |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vessel size | 8 / 13 / 26 gal |
1 BBL (~31 gal / 124 L) |
3 BBL · 5 BBL |
| Pairs with | BräuPro 5G / 10G / 20G · any tri-clamp kettle |
BräuPro 1 BBL · pilot brewhouses |
BräuPro 3/5 BBL · existing breweries |
| Architecture | Jacketed conical · tri-clamp |
Jacketed conical · tri-clamp |
Jacketed conical · tri-clamp |
| Jacket coverage | Dimpled body jacket |
Dimpled body jacket |
Fully jacketed body + base · insulated |
| Pressure rating | 30 PSI working |
30 PSI working |
30 PSI working |
| Cooling input | Tap water or glycol |
Glycol recommended |
Dedicated glycol loop |
| Ports | 1.5" + 2" tri-clamp |
1.5" + 2" tri-clamp |
Commercial port layout |
| Manway | Top tri-clamp lid: 6" on 8 and 13 gal, 8" on 26 gal |
Top 8" tri-clamp lid |
Top 12" pressure manway |
| Trub dump | 2" butterfly valve |
2" butterfly valve |
2" butterfly valve |
| Lead time | Ships in 0-5 days |
Ships in 0-5 days |
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| Starting price |
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Every Unitank uses the same fittings, same cleaning regime, same valve hardware. The vessel grows; the process you learned doesn't.
8, 13, or 26 gallons. Master pressure transfers, spunding, and yeast harvest at homebrew scale.
From $1,999 USD
Same valves, same ports, bigger vessel. Closed hop additions and transfers
From $2,999 USD
Side manway, base jacket, commercial CIP layout. Same six accessories, same cleaning chemistry — at a scale that pays a taproom's bills.
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Already own a Homebrew Unitank? The 1 BBL and 3/5 BBL use the same valve, gasket, and racking-arm hardware. Your spares drawer carries over. The next vessel is just a bigger version of the one already in your garage.
No. The Unitank is a standalone fermenter. It pairs with any tri-clamp kettle — our BräuPro and Unibräu brewhouses, your existing HERMS or RIMS, or someone else's pilot system. The only thing the Unitank cares about is that wort can get into it; how that wort got made is your call.
Three things.(1) It's jacketed.Most homebrew conicals manage temperature with an immersion coil sitting inside the beer — one more thing to clean and sanitize, cooling from a single spot instead of the whole wall, and hardware in the way of your trub dump and yeast harvest. The Unitank's dimpled jacket cools from outside the vessel; nothing inside but beer.(2) Rated to 30 PSI working pressure— spund, carbonate, and closed-transfer to keg without ever exposing the beer to air.(3) Standard tri-clamp at every port, and it's the same vessel that ships inside our commercial pilot systems — the architecture you buy at 13 gal scales to 1 BBL without changing your process. Coming from Ss Brewtech? See our Ss Brewtech Unitank alternative page for a side-by-side.
Tap water works for ales fermenting at 65–72°F if your tap is cold enough year-round — which it isn't, for most of North America in summer. Glycol is required for lagers, cold-crash, and anything where your set point is below ambient. Most homebrewers add a glycol chiller within the first year. We sell a matched BEF-02 glycol kit on the parts page.
Yes — that's the most common second-purchase pattern. Brew on Saturday, ferment in Unitank #1, brew the next batch the following weekend, ferment in Unitank #2. The BräuPro brewhouse runs back-to-back at whatever pace you want; only the fermenters are the throughput bottleneck. Add a second Unitank in the same size class and you've doubled your output.
2 years on the stainless: the vessel, every weld and TC port, grain baskets, brew tables and stainless fittings.
1 year on electronics: controllers, pumps, heating elements, solenoid valves and temperature probes, whether they come with a system or are bought on their own. Not covered on elements: dry-firing (running the element without liquid covering it), and heat or melt damage at the twist-lock plug from a loose or improper connection — a proper, fully seated connection has to be maintained.
Gaskets, clamps and O-rings are consumables; replacements are in stock and cheap. Warranty replacement parts are free, and we bill the shipping at cost. If we need the faulty part back, we send you a prepaid label.
Lifetime parts support on everything we build — serviced, not replaced. Orders placed before October 8, 2026 keep the warranty terms they were sold with.
Join the waitlist and we contact you as build slots open. Waitlist members get priority and pricing first. No deposit; joining is non-binding.
Pick the scale that fits today — the architecture, fittings, and workflow stay constant when you grow.