Does anyone use grundy tanks like these? Or are they more reserved for going pro?
https://pcmtanks.com/what-is-a-grundy-tank//
What are the advantages or disadvantages of these kinds of tanks?
At either 3.5 or 7 barrels in size, I don’t think they would be too popular with homebrewers.
this seems like a clever attempt at Spam…
I just can’t believe that, with all the well designed, purpose built brewing equipment available today, there’s somebody trying to make new Grundy tanks and market them. Maybe they’ll bring back the Yugo, too.
Trabant
I’ll see your Trabi and raise you a Skoda.
It’s not spam, I just can’t seem to find much info on them overall so I’m asking some people in brewers forums hoping they know more than what I can otherwise find out. There’s maybe 6 places on the whole web I can find anything and it’s not much. They seem kind of big for a homebrew setup.
They were made in the UK in the 50s and 60s as serving tanks to hold bulk carbonated beer in the pub cellar, a use that didn’t last when consumers demanded a return to “real” cask ale. In the early days of US brewpubs in the 80s, they were bought at scrap and repurposed for just about every imaginable use in the brewery, as were old dairy tanks and anything else a resourceful brewer could adapt, in the absence at the time of proper brewing equipment at that scale.
Thank you Robert. This is so much more detail on Grundy tanks than I seem to be able to find anywhere else!
No Warburg or Tatra?
Honest answer.
There are many of the old ones in use around the US in older brewpubs as bright tanks. I know of 3or 4 in my area. They are not loved. The price was attractive, and the fit nicely into a cellar with low headspace.
Thanks. It’s really hard to find info, I wasn’t even sure if all of you had anymore info than what’s barely out there. Crowdsourcing answers really does work. Sorry, I’m older!
It’s ok, most of us around here are. The younger folks don’t have time to brew or hang out on forums, they’re all camped out in line for the next $400 bottle release of blue glitter unicorn fart beer. [emoji38]
Or on social media talking about how good blue glitter unicorn fart beer is! :o
That’s very ungenerous of you Rob, have you ever even tried Unicorn fart beer, glitter or no glitter? I’ve heard it pairs well with toe jam and naval jelly.
They certainly aren’t walking on your lawn, that’s for sure. 
My apologies … It felt like a link to sell a product at first.
Actually Škoda is owned by Volkswagen. Trabant is long gone and almost forgotten.
I was surprised to learn recently that Škoda is still around, now owned by VW, and thriving (and respectable.) My memory is of the Cold War era cars that were ubiquitous but the butt of so many jokes in the UK in the 80s… (Man goes into a service station and asks, “Can I get a windshield wiper for a Škoda?” Attendant replies, “Sure, that sounds like a fair trade.” And so on… [emoji16] )
Yes. Škoda in english translation means pitty (even thou it was persons last name) and we used to call them pitty mobile.