During fermentation yeast create alcohol and co2 gas.
Red wine fermentation tanks.
Ideal for fermenting small to medium parcels of red wine.
Traditional barrels cannot be used because you can t get the skins in and out of the bunghole.
When making red wines two basic criteria need to be taken into account.
The manway opens along the top edge rather than the side edge as well.
A few wineries use barrels with a small door installed in the head of the barrel.
This is designed to help with the evacuation of red wine solids after fermentation.
The top tank is an open top primary fermentation tank.
Grapes go into a fermentation tank with their skins seeds and all.
Large skin contact area for better color extraction.
Customize the fermenter you need for your winery.
We can also provide a complete line of pump over wine fermenters and wine storage tanks for both red wine and white wine.
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The combi tank is excellent for use in the red wine fermentation process known as delestage or rack and return.
Every part is well designed and unique.
Features of open top wine fermenter.
Our variable capacity wine tanks are constructed using high quality virgin 304 stainless steel.
The superior quality and craftsmanship of our wine fermentation tanks and stainless steel fermenters is unsurpassed.
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Red wines are fermented using the entire grape skins and all.
16 red wine fermentation tank top manway with relief valve racking valve.
Fermentation tanks fermentation tanks can be food grade plastic wood or stainless steel.
As the co2 bubbles up through the wine a portion gets trapped in the skins and causes them to float on the surface of the wine in a mass called the cap.
The lower tank acts as storage for the fermented wine.
We are now stocking a year round selection of variable capacity wine tanks also known as stainless steel variable capacity tanks with floating lid.
Red wine is made like white wine but with one major difference.
Generally it ferments with the grape skins and juice combined in a tank or vat.
A fermentation manway is a special upgraded manway that includes a beefy sloped channel being installed into the base of the tank.
By the way some red wine varieties like pinot noir do well fermenting with whole clusters.
No need to go to tank inside when dropping pomace.
The top tank can be used as additional storage during the off season.
Sometimes the crushed grapes are chilled called cold soaking so flavor and color in the skins transfer into the juice.
White wines are pressed before fermentation.
