Monetary Benefits of Using Stainless Steel Conical Fermenters

Shrinivas lal
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

Did you know that the biggest benefit of using a conical fermenter is the ability to collect and reuse yeast from prior batches? The savings can help you add up if you’re accustomed to buying a vial (or smack pack) of yeast each time you brew.

The conical fermenter allows easy yeast collection. You simply have to open the the dump valve and gather the yeast into a sanitized container. Next, you can either wash the yeast, or just pitch your used yeast slurry into your next batch.

Advantages of Stainless Steel Conical Fermenters:

Professional brewers use conical fermenters for their durability as well as overall practicality. Here are some of the benefits you must know.

· Collecting yeast from dump value and reusing yeast is easy

· You can age the beer in a conical without having to rack into a secondary vessel.

· Gravity and pressure transfers

· Racking arm for transferring beer into kegs, as well as taking samples during fermentation

· Beer never comes into contact with light

· Long life — easy to clean and maintain

If you have ever visited a brewery, you might have caught sight of big stainless steel fermenters with cone-shaped bottom and a tall cylinder at top. The cone shape at the bottom allows yeast and other sediment to collect at the bottom of the fermenter from where the slurry can be removed using the lower dump valve.

This microbrewery equipment also makes racking beer easier as it can be gravity fed or pressurized with CO2 to force beer out.

With conical fermenters, there is no longer a need for a racking cane as they have a build in racking arm built into the middle to upper portion of the cone. As this racking arm reaches into the center of the fermenter (above the level of the trub and sediment and allows) you can pull up clean beer for sampling.

Conclusion

Overall, stainless steel conical fermenters are very easy to use and are a great upgrade to any homebrewery. Although stainless fermenters are a bit expensive, they really can pay for themselves over time through their overall utility and ease of use.

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