The Grainfather Glycol Chiller and Conical Fermenter
Conical Fermenter $695, Glycol Chiller $998, grainfather.com 
If you want it to taste like the pros, brew it like the pros. Once it’s in the fermentor, so much depends on how we control the environment. To test how well this system manages that, we nearly abused it.
Pros and Cons
The conical has all the bells and whistles: 60° cone, jacketed wall, tri-clamp lid, sample valve, trub dump valve, closed-transfer capability, and temp control. The chiller, meanwhile, can keep up to four of those fermentors cold. Its power is impressive. It turns on and drops down without hesitation and hits the conical hard. I assume that four conicals would press its performance, but it brings the cold. The controls are easy. Next, the conical: Stainless vessels are notorious for coming with a dogged layer of machine oil. I did a full tear-down and cleaning with PBW and quadruple-strength Star San, then a hard rinse with boiling water. Despite my rigor, after the first fermentation, there was a bit of the tell-tale black foam around the wall; my cleaning wasn’t complete. The beer had no oil or chemical taste, but you have been warned: Clean it twice, and do that three times.