Bright Beer/ServingTank

[spacebrother12]

I have a question about bright beer tank or serving tanks.. Why dont they use conical bottoms as fermenters do? Most pictures i see of these tank have a flat bottom or a very small conical as if it were a wine fermenter or vodka tank.

Anyone got any ideas?

THANKS!

 

[day_trippr]

I would expect it's a cost versus utility thing. Most of the yeast would have been dropped (and likely reused) in a conical primary vessel, and a flat bottom bright tank would cost less and hold more in the same footprint than another full-blown conical. And if they ring the bottom with carb stones, perhaps that works better with a flat bottom vessel than a conical...

Cheers!