In our 2017 Gear Guide issue (April/May), our editors tested and reviewed a homebrew-scaled brite tank and two products that help with packaging your beer. Here are the results.
Ss Brewtech Brite Tank
The one piece of homebrew gear we never knew we needed
Test lab notes
There’s a really good reason that all professional breweries have brite tanks. The vessel is built specifically to drop temperature, carbonate your beer, settle out any remaining particulates, free up a fermentor, blend batches, and serve beer. The Ss Brewtech Brite Tank (above, center) is designed based on those pro vessels to allow you to achieve those same functions. Before testing, we questioned whether we needed one since we have a keezer for serving and dropping particulates, and our fermentors space is not at a premium, so we put it to the test. We racked a beer into the brite tank, crashed it, cleared the remaining particulates, carbonated, and served/packaged directly out of the tank. That experience was great—easy to do, cleared the beer, and it was done with far more style than we could in the past.