I 100% agree with you on serving tanks. I renovated a oil change garage into our brewery and we put 4 unitanks and 6 “brites” as serving vessels in the pit(basement) with two more 5bbl’s on the way, and a 10bbl single wall in the cold room behind the bar. We will have 9 beers on tap without having to keg anything! We are using home brew kegs to milk the 10-20 gallons left tanks to get another beer on, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!
When you do a CIP on a serving tank that is in a cold room, are you using a cleaner that does not need to be heated up beforehand? As a homebrewer, the PBW I'm familiar with requires the water to be heated.
I agree. We build small breweries in existing restaurants, and use unitanks to ferment, condition, and serve since our customers never have the cooler space. Kegging doesn't happen and neither does needless O2 pickup. Love your stuff Tom and glad to be following now.
No I typically use PBW and do heat it. For the time it is cleaning it doesn't effect (affect?) the temps in the other tanks.
I 100% agree with you on serving tanks. I renovated a oil change garage into our brewery and we put 4 unitanks and 6 “brites” as serving vessels in the pit(basement) with two more 5bbl’s on the way, and a 10bbl single wall in the cold room behind the bar. We will have 9 beers on tap without having to keg anything! We are using home brew kegs to milk the 10-20 gallons left tanks to get another beer on, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!
When you do a CIP on a serving tank that is in a cold room, are you using a cleaner that does not need to be heated up beforehand? As a homebrewer, the PBW I'm familiar with requires the water to be heated.
I agree. We build small breweries in existing restaurants, and use unitanks to ferment, condition, and serve since our customers never have the cooler space. Kegging doesn't happen and neither does needless O2 pickup. Love your stuff Tom and glad to be following now.