SS Brewtech Brite Tank

Did a quick search and didnt see anyhing on this.

Just a couple days ago SS debuted a home brew Brite Tank.

http://www.ssbrewtech.com/collections/brite-tanks

Any thoughts on this? Any advantages over kegs? It's gorgeous and def gives the home brewer the ability to get closer to the production brewery process, but i'm not sure its needed at the home brew level.

Below is what SS is saying.

1 Cuts carbonation time down significantly with a carb stone, so users can fully carb in under 24 hours. In comparison, the low and slow method might take a Home Brewer 5-7 days to fully carbonate in a corny keg. Plus the brewers that try to burst carb at much higher pressures risk carb bite, which is over carbonated beer.

2. Allows for proper burst carbing, and head pressure monitoring. Commercial breweries do the same thing, they may set input pressure at their carb stones at 30 PSI, then monitor the head pressure until the desired limit is reached, typically 12-13 PSI. Then turn down the CO2 to typical serve pressures.

3. Allows for bulk conditioning/aging. This is seriously underrated, if a 10 gallon home brewer can store and serve their beer all in one vessel, it can age differently, plus you only have one vessel to clean and turn when it’s time to refill!

4. Has a larger center drain instead of a dip tube, so yeast is not drawn into the serving line. Just like a commercial brite tank, the large center drain allows for low velocity pickup, as opposed to a small dip tube in a Corny keg, which is a high velocity pickup. The high velocity of the corny dip tube results in more yeast and sentiment drawn into the draught line.

5. Has a larger bottom surface area for yeast to settle onto. For the volume of beer, corny kegs have a relatively small bottom surface area compared to the Brite Tank. This allows yeast to settle and harden throughout the lower surface area.

6. Can be used as a Firkin/cask ale device. Most home brewers go to a lot of expense for cask ales and firkin kegs, our Brite Tank allows a home brewer to hook up a beer engine, disassemble the PRV seal and use the small opening as the spile.

7. Integrated LCD/Thermowell. For the homebrewer that closely wants to calculate both serve or lager temp, alongside calculating exactly how many volumes of CO2 is going into their beer, a thermowell and thermometer is key!

8. Easier to clean/CIP. CIP has proven to be a popular feature and purchase decision driver for our BME Chronicals. We will be introducing a reducer were the end user can utilize their existing equipment investments in CIP on multiple vessels. Plus, cleaning kegs is awful, it’s much easier to throw in some caustics and then sanitizers and let the pump and spray ball work their magic!

9. Integrated legs with option for casters. Kegs need to be lifted, and by enabling the use of casters, it makes material handling throughout the home brewery that much easier, just roll it around!

10. Ability to serve and function externally, through the use of glycol. Kegs can’t function outside of a kegerator or some other sort of refrigeration device. With our optional BME coil and jacket upgrade, the brite tank can be rolled outside and served directly out of without the need for a refrigerator.

 

Yea, im def debating it, I'd probably only purchase one but its still a lot of money. I might wait a couple months to see how it evolves and what adds on they make for it. I know they said 1BBL, 1/2 BBL and 5 gallons ones will be coming down the line in the coming months.