Fermenter jacketing

[parfizzini]

Does anyone have experience with conical fermenters that have no jacketing on the cone? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks

[DowneastCider]

Our Letina tanks have no jackets on the cone (and the first jacket starts about 5' up the sidewall).

[TGTimm]

We have 9 fermenters with cone jackets. Basically, we don't use them.

When we had a miserably inefficient HX, we would use the cone jackets while filling to cool the wort, then not at all during the ferment.

The cone jackets are very good at establishing stratification within the ferm, if you can think of any reason you'd want to do that.

[parfizzini]

Thanks for the quick replies!

[Todd Hicks]

On 10-30 bbl fermenters, I have seen no difference in performance without having a cone jacket.

That assumes that you aren't storing yeast in the tanks for extended periods. Buy that isn't a good practice anyway.

On unitanks with cone jackets, I usually have cone and lower side jacket plumbed in series with the top jacket in parallel using a single solenoid on tanks up to 60 bbl.