Beer fermentation tank size

Since no brewery can exist without beer fermentation tanks, I wanted to add them to my railway model layout as well. However, at first I didn’t find any plastic model kit that looked like what I wanted. I began to research the size of actual industrial fermentation tanks used by big breweries to build my own from scratch, and was lucky enough to come across a company that delivered beer tanks to the very brewery I was modelling. Fortunately the exact size was listed as well: the tanks have a height of 20.5 m and a diameter of 4.2 m. So that was something I could start with.

If you’re interested a bit more in how large beer fermentation tanks look in detail, and how they are engineered, another company offers an interesting brochure (PDF), where they show their products.

I figured since other people are also including breweries in their layouts, I share my findings.