Unitank - Jacketed Conical Fermenter

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A unitank is a conical fermenter that can also hold pressure, so one vessel handles the whole cold side: ferment, dump yeast, cold crash, carbonate and transfer — "uni" as in one tank. Ours is 304 stainless with a welded cooling jacket, a 60° cone with a butterfly trub-dump valve, tri-clamp ports throughout, and 30 psi working pressure (2 bar), with a 15 psi PRV as shipped.

To pressure ferment, fit the adjustable spunding valve and set the pressure you want. Close it up toward the end of fermentation and the yeast carbonates the beer naturally, then push it to kegs through the racking arm under CO2 with no oxygen pickup. Stay under the 15 psi PRV and never exceed the 30 psi working pressure. More in our pressure fermentation guide.

No. The Unitank is a standalone fermenter. Pair it with our BräuPro and Unibräu brewhouses, your existing HERMS or RIMS, or any tri-clamp pilot system. The Unitank only cares that wort can get into it; how it got made is your call.

8 gal for 3–6 gallon batches with proper headspace; 13 gal (default) for 5–10 gallon batches; 26 gal for 10–20 gallon batches. For 30+ gallon batches see the Unitank 1BBL. All three share the same architecture — same valves, same fittings, same workflow.

Four rungs, pick by how cold you need to ferment. None — just the Unitank; bring your own controller or ferment at room temp. + Water kit — temperature controller + solenoid + thermowell, plumbed for tap water. Works for ales when your cold tap runs below your fermentation set point (typical for basements + cold seasons). + Glycol kit (most popular) — same hardware, plumbed for glycol; required for lagers, cold-crash, anything below ambient. + Glycol kit + BEF-02 chiller (turnkey) — glycol kit bundled with the matched MCED BEF-02 glycol chiller, lager-capable out of the box. Current prices for each are on the cooling options above, in your currency. You can add any of these later — the jacket fittings don't change.

Vessel only is a complete fermenter — you can pitch yeast, ferment, dump trub, and rack to keg through the racking arm. + Conditioning Kit adds the spunding valve, sintered stainless carbonation stone + 6" TC spool, HopDrop, and CIP spray ball — everything you need to naturally carbonate, force-carbonate, dry-hop oxygen-free, and run closed-loop sanitation. The kit is also available standalone if you want to upgrade later.

Three things mostly. (1) Rated to 30 psi working pressure (2 bar) — most homebrew conicals top out at 5 psi or aren't pressure-capable at all. (2) Every port is standard sanitary tri-clamp; no proprietary fittings, no shop-only spares. (3) It's the same vessel architecture that scales into commercial pilot systems — what you buy at 13 gal scales to 1 BBL and beyond without changing your process. Coming from Ss Brewtech? See our Ss Brewtech Unitank alternative page.

Yes — that's the most common second-Unitank use case. Brew on Saturday, ferment in Unitank #1, brew the next batch the following weekend, ferment in Unitank #2. The brewhouse runs back-to-back; only fermenters bottleneck throughput. Add a second Unitank in the same size class and you've doubled your output.

Ships from our Vancouver, BC workshop. Most orders out in 5–10 days, free shipping to the lower 48 — delivered price, no customs, no surprises. Palletized for international freight; you'll get tracking and a delivery appointment.

2-year warranty on the vessel, every weld and TC port, and on the controller and pump where they're included.

Heating element: 2 years against defects. Not covered: 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.

Temperature probe: 6 months — it's a consumable. Gaskets, clamps and O-rings are consumables too; replacements for all of these are in stock and cheap.

Lifetime parts support on everything we build — serviced, not replaced.

Most homebrew temperature-controlled fermenters use a coil suspended inside the vessel — your beer fights to cool through limited tubing contact, the coil itself becomes a sanitation problem, and a leak contaminates your batch. Ours is a true welded jacket wrapped around the body: cold liquid circulates between two stainless walls, transferring heat across the entire vessel surface. No internal coil to clean, no sanitation risk, no contact between coolant and beer. The same architecture used in commercial breweries at every scale.

The Conditioning Kit is built to commercial standard. Sintered stainless carbonation stone (not plastic), spunding valve calibrated for repeatable natural carbonation, HopDrop for oxygen-free dry hopping under pressure, CIP spray ball for closed-loop sanitation. 1.5" tri-clamp throughout — every fitting is replaceable with standard sanitary hardware, the same parts used in any commercial brewery.