600L Ice Water Tank / Glycol Tank for Beer Brewing and Fermentation

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q1: What’s the difference between a glycol tank and a cold liquor tank?
A: A glycol tank uses a glycol-water mixture to reach lower temperatures for fermentation control, while a cold liquor tank holds chilled water used primarily in wort cooling.

Q2: How much glycol should I mix with water?
A: We recommend a 1:3 glycol-to-water ratio. This provides freeze protection down to –20°C while maintaining efficient heat exchange.

Q3: Can I use this with other brewing systems?
A: Yes, this tank integrates easily with most beer brewing systems, including 2-vessel and 3-vessel brewhouses, fermenters, and BBTs.

Q4: Is it suitable for small breweries or home use?
A: Absolutely. While designed for commercial use, it's also ideal for advanced home brewers or nano breweries requiring temperature precision.

Q5: Do you offer custom sizing or configurations?
A: Yes. We manufacture glycol and water tanks from 100L to 30,000L with options for coil jackets, mixing motors, or control panel integration.

Customer Benefits

• Fast Cooling Performance: Reduce fermentation start time and cut cooling cycles

• Flexible Setup: Suitable for start-up breweries and established production lines

• Space-Saving Vertical Design: Minimal footprint in tight brew houses

• International Standards: CE compliant, export-ready with optional UL/CSA components

• Customized Engineering: Choose fittings, insulation thickness, pressure rating, and finish

Designed for Temperature Stability

Temperature fluctuations during fermentation can ruin entire batches. That’s why our tank uses professional-grade insulation (up to 100mm thick) and SUS304 stainless steel construction to ensure precise control. With proper glycol mixture, you can safely maintain temperatures as low as -20°C without freezing.

Built for Scalability

• Compatible with 2-vessel, 3-vessel, or 4-vessel brewhouses

• Integrates seamlessly into automated glycol loop systems

• Easy to connect with fermenters, brite beer tanks, and plate heat exchangers

• Ideal for use with breweries brewing 600L–2000L per batch

Use Case Example

A craft brewery running 2 brews per day with 4 x 1000L fermenters and a 600L brite tank needs quick turnarounds between batches. With this 600L glycol tank connected to a high-efficiency chiller, brewers can:

• Chill wort rapidly after boiling

• Maintain stable fermentation temps during active fermentation

• Crash-cool beer before transfer or carbonation

• Reduce energy usage with thermal efficiency

Ice water tank is made of stainless steel 304 material, the tank itself has good corrosion resistance, to ensure that the tank will not cause corrosion in use, and the equipment will be tested before leaving the factory, to ensure that each batch of equipment can reach the national level. 

A Complete Set of glycol water System will include below components:

1.Glycol water tank

2.Cold water tank (for brewhouse capacity upper 1000L/batch)

3.Industrial Chiller

4.Glycol water Pump

5.Cold water Pump (optional with item 2)

6.Glycol water pipeline

Chilled water tank specifications:

Capacity: from 100L to 30000L, SUS304; Insulation material: polyurethane, insulation layer thickness 80~100mm; Inner liner thickness: 3mm, outer package thickness: 2mm, Oil polished wire drawing board on outer surface, sanding belt at weld.

When will you need the glycol system?

1.Wort production:  
Going through the plate heat exchanger could be one of your glycol loops or a line from a cold liquor tank that is chilled via your glycol chiller.

2. Fermentation:
During this step, yeast will begin to consume sugars and release heat as a result.
Like an anxious driver flooring the gas pedal, this can lead to overheating during the process.
TONSEN glycol system will help put on the brakes, letting you have better control of internal temperatures and fermentation as a whole, and giving you more quality control over your beer.

Glycol and Water Proportion:

To save on costs, you’ll want to make sure that you use a proper mix of glycol and water when setting up your cooling system.

Too much glycol will leave you with a freezing point far below what’s necessary while wasting funds on refrigerant.

Too little, and you risk the entire system freezing, leaving the fermentation process to proceed unchecked!

Generally, depending on the total effective volume of tank, we recommend the propotion of glycol and water is 1:3, which can ensure the lowest temperature going to -20 degree without freezing.

Brewing beer is both rewarding and fun, especially if you enjoy designing systems that work at peak efficiency.

Make sure you follow proper procedures when working with cooling systems, and use TONSEN glycol system to keep your equipment working at top performance.

This will have you worrying less about the process and focusing more on brewing your best craft beers!

*Tonsen Brewhouse System

Brewhouse is various in combinations of vessels, of course to achieve the same four steps mashing, lautering, boiling, whirlpool, by special brewing intentions of brewer including wort output, wort gravity, sparging water, brews in certain time, brewing method etc. Tonsen accepts special design for these variations.

Heating Methods: Electric, Steam, Gas fired
Vessels: 2/3/4/5 Vessels;
Regular: MLT+BKW+HLT

Plate Heat Exchanger
Motor: CE/UL Listed
Pumps: CE/UL Listed

Oxygenator
Working Platform
Brewhouse Pipelines and Valves

Optional:
Grist Case
Wort Buffer Tank
Hop Back
Platform with Sink
Flowmeter

*Tonsen Fermenting system:

according to our standard configuration, the complete beer brewing equipment with 6pcs two batches beer fermentation tanks or with 12 pcs one batch fermentation (based on 12 days fermenting period).
The inside and external of tanks are adopt international standards 304 stainless steel material, mirror polished up to ≤0.8um≤0.6um≤0.2um polishing quality standards, fully meet the PLC automatic cleaning and disinfection of the controlled system requirements. Cone 60° resist compression design, with sample valve, CIP arm, racking arm, pressure gauge, solenoid valve, safety valves and so on.

 
*Tonsen Bright beer tank/Serving Tank:

Effective volume: 100L-10000L/1BBL~30BBL/1HL~100HL
Type: veritical type, easy cleaning; horizontal type, space saving
Design pressure: 0.3Mpa
Working pressure: 0.2Mpa
Materials: 304 Stainless Steel/316 Stainless Steel Option
Control System, CIP arm and 360° spary ball
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