CFM Carl Fritz Stainless Steel Honey Settling Tank / Honey Ripener – 25kg

Premium 25kg stainless steel honey settling tank and honey ripener from Carl Fritz, with sloping base, bottom-mounted 1½″ honey tap and loose stainless steel lid. A compact, professional-quality tank for settling, storing and bottling honey.

The CFM Carl Fritz 25kg Honey Settling Tank is a beautifully made stainless steel honey tank designed for beekeepers who want a durable, hygienic and professional solution for handling freshly extracted honey.

Also known as a honey ripener or settling tank, it allows strained honey to rest after extraction so that trapped air bubbles, foam and remaining fine wax particles can naturally rise to the surface before bottling.

Manufactured from stainless steel, the tank incorporates a gap-free welded base, sloping bottom and a large 1½″ honey tap positioned flush with the bottom of the tank, helping honey drain efficiently through the outlet.

With a capacity of approximately 25kg of honey, it's an excellent size for hobby beekeepers, smaller honey harvests or anyone wanting several manageable tanks rather than one very large settling vessel.

Why Use a Honey Settling Tank?

Even after honey has been strained, freshly extracted honey can contain tiny wax particles and trapped air bubbles.

Allowing the honey to rest undisturbed in a settling tank gives these particles and bubbles time to rise towards the surface.

The clearer honey beneath can then be drawn from the bottom-mounted honey gate ready for filling into jars.

A dedicated stainless steel settling tank also provides a clean and practical vessel for holding honey between extraction, filtration and bottling.

Sloping Base for Efficient Honey Drainage

A particularly useful feature of this Carl Fritz tank is its sloping tank bottom.

Rather than having a conventional flat base with the honey gate positioned above it, the bottom slopes towards the outlet.

The 1½″ honey tap is welded at bottom level, helping direct honey towards the outlet and reducing the amount left sitting beneath the level of the tap.

This is a small but very practical detail when you're trying to recover as much honey as possible from the tank.

High-Quality Stainless Steel Construction

The tank has an internal diameter of 30cm with a gap-free welded bottom, creating a smooth and practical interior for honey processing.

Stainless steel is ideally suited to honey handling because it is robust, hygienic and straightforward to clean.

Two drop handles make the empty tank easier to lift and reposition around the honey house, while the supplied loose stainless steel lid protects the contents while honey is settling or being stored.

Compact 25kg Capacity

The 25kg capacity makes this an excellent entry point into professional stainless steel honey handling equipment.

At just 31cm high with a 30cm internal diameter, it offers useful capacity without occupying the space required by larger commercial settling tanks.

It's particularly well suited to:

• Hobby and small-scale beekeepers
• Smaller individual honey harvests
• Separating different apiary or seasonal honey batches
• Settling honey after extraction and filtration
• Holding honey prior to bottling
• Small honey bottling setups
• Beekeepers moving away from plastic buckets into stainless steel equipment

What's Included?

• 1 × CFM Carl Fritz 25kg Stainless Steel Honey Tank
• 1 × Loose stainless steel lid
• 1 × 1½″ honey tap
• Integrated drop handles

Technical Specification

• Manufacturer: Carl Fritz / CFM
• CFM Product Number: 5009181
• Capacity: approx. 25kg honey
• Internal diameter: 30cm
• Height: 31cm
• Weight: 4.5kg
• Material: Stainless steel
• Base: Gap-free welded construction
• Tank bottom: Sloped towards outlet
• Outlet: 1½″ honey tap
• Honey tap position: Welded at bottom level
• Handles: Drop handles
• Lid: Loose lid included

Honey Settling Tank, Ripener or Storage Tank?

You'll often see this type of equipment described by several different names, including a honey settling tank, honey ripener, stainless steel honey tank or bottling tank.

Whatever terminology you use, the principle is straightforward: freshly extracted and filtered honey is held in the tank before bottling, allowing it to settle while providing a convenient bottom outlet for filling jars or transferring honey.

Premium CFM Honey Processing Equipment

Carl Fritz specialises in professional honey processing equipment, with its stainless steel tanks, extractors, creamers and filtration equipment designed around the practical requirements of working beekeepers.

The 25kg CFM Honey Settling Tank combines a manageable capacity with professional features such as the sloping base, gap-free welded construction and bottom-level 1½″ honey outlet.

For beekeepers looking for a compact, durable stainless steel honey settling tank that can become part of a wider professional honey processing setup, this is an excellent choice.