A real conical.
At every scale you brew.

No. The Unitank is a standalone fermenter. It pairs with any tri-clamp kettle — our BräuPro and Unibräu brewhouses, your existing HERMS or RIMS, or someone else's pilot system. The only thing the Unitank cares about is that wort can get into it; how that wort got made is your call.

The current 1 BBL Unitank ships with a partial body jacket — same configuration that's been inside the BräuPro 1 BBL for the last two years. Starting fall 2026, the 1 BBL moves to a fully jacketed + insulated build, matching the spec of the 3–5 BBL production line. Faster crashes on lager, less ambient bleed-through, same vessel envelope. Current builds remain in stock until the changeover; updated builds open for pre-order this summer.

Three things.(1) It's jacketed.Most homebrew conicals manage temperature with an immersion coil sitting inside the beer — one more thing to clean and sanitize, cooling from a single spot instead of the whole wall, and hardware in the way of your trub dump and yeast harvest. The Unitank's dimpled jacket cools from outside the vessel; nothing inside but beer.(2) Pressure-rated to 15 PSI— spund, carbonate, and closed-transfer to keg without ever exposing the beer to air.(3) Standard tri-clamp at every port, and it's the same vessel that ships inside our commercial pilot systems — the architecture you buy at 13 gal scales to 1 BBL without changing your process.

Tap water works for ales fermenting at 65–72°F if your tap is cold enough year-round — which it isn't, for most of North America in summer. Glycol is required for lagers, cold-crash, and anything where your set point is below ambient. Most homebrewers add a glycol chiller within the first year. We sell a matched BEF-02 glycol kit on the parts page.

Yes — that's the most common second-purchase pattern. Brew on Saturday, ferment in Unitank #1, brew the next batch the following weekend, ferment in Unitank #2. The BräuPro brewhouse runs back-to-back at whatever pace you want; only the fermenters are the throughput bottleneck. Add a second Unitank in the same size class and you've doubled your output.

2 years full warranty on the vessel, jacket, valve hardware, and every Bräu Supply-manufactured part. Lifetime parts support — every component is serviceable and individually replaceable. Tri-clamp throughout means most replacement parts ship from stock the day you ask for them.

Production launch is targeted for Q3 2026, parallel with the BräuPro 3–5 BBL systems. Waitlist members get early pricing, build-slot priority, and the prototype walkthrough in Q1. No deposit required — joining is non-binding.