Signs You Should Replace Your Brewery Unitanks

Your fermenters and unitanks provide you with the means to create your beer at a consistent level of quality. Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever. Eventually, you’ll need to replace your unitanks with newer versions. While these pieces of equipment can last a long time, you shouldn’t hold onto them for too long once you notice something off. Be aware of these signs that you should replace your brewery unitanks if you want to avoid future issues.

You Can’t Effectively Clean It Anymore

An effective unitank should be very easy to clean and sanitize so that nothing can influence the next batch of beer you put into it. However, using a unitank incorrectly or leaving something to ferment for too long can affect how easy it is to clean. If you notice any visible staining or a smudge that you can’t get off, no matter how many times you clean it, it might be time for a replacement.

Your Beer Continually Comes Out Poor

The clearest sign that you’ll need to replace your unitanks is if they just can’t seem to produce high-quality beer anymore. There are a variety of reasons why this could be, but if you’ve checked every other variable and can’t seem to understand why your beer keeps resulting in a strange taste, your unitank could be the issue. Don’t waste more materials and time than you need to once you’ve determined that the unitank won’t work for you anymore.

Your Yeast Keeps Mutating

Collecting and re-pitching a particular strain of yeast is a common practice among brewers in order to ensure consistency between batches. However, yeast can mutate over time, especially if you consistently use the same strain. What you’ll want to watch out for is if your yeast seems to mutate very quickly after putting it in your unitank. If this happens repeatedly, your unitank might have an issue where it’s letting outside contaminants in that can alter your yeast in unwanted ways.

There’s Noticeable Damage

Speaking of outside contaminants, your unitank needs to be able to fully block out the outside environment in order to protect your fermenting beer. Accidents happen, obviously, and unitanks can be damaged and still work perfectly fine. If your unitank is damaged and you soon start finding that your beer isn’t coming out as good as you’d hoped, it’s possible that damage has made your unitank less fit for service than before.

Craftmaster Stainless makes unitanks that are built to last and can withstand plenty of punishment. Whether you’re just getting started or you need a replacement, we can help stock your operation with the unitanks it needs.