Winery & Brewery Tank Fabrication in California's Central Valley

Most California wineries and breweries buy fermentation tanks one of two ways: imported stock tanks from overseas catalogs, or custom stainless vessels from coastal fabricators with long lead times and heavy freight. There's a third option many Central Valley producers overlook — a custom tank fabricator in their own backyard.

What we build for wineries and breweries

Custom Tank Fabrication Inc. in Sanger, California fabricates food-grade stainless steel vessels to order:

• Wine fermentation tanks — open-top and closed-top, with cooling jackets, sloped bottoms, and racking valves positioned for your cellar workflow

• Brewery fermenters and brite tanks — sized to your brewhouse, with sanitary fittings and finishes

• Storage and blending tanks — for bulk wine, juice, and finished product

• Process vessels for food and beverage — mixing, holding, and CIP-compatible sanitary tanks

Every tank is built up to 14 ft in diameter and 60 ft long, polished to a sanitary interior finish, and pressure tested before delivery.

Custom vs. catalog tanks: what you actually get

Fittings where you need them. A catalog tank puts the racking valve, sample port, and manway where the factory decided. A custom tank puts them where your hoses, pumps, and catwalks actually are.

Sized to your space. Cellar height, door clearance, catwalk spacing — custom dimensions mean no wasted floor space and no compromises on capacity.

Cooling designed for the Valley. Fresno-area fermentation happens in serious heat. Glycol jacket sizing and placement can be designed for Central Valley harvest temperatures instead of a generic spec.

No container-ship lead times. Imported tanks quote attractive prices until freight, tariffs, port delays, and crane time are added. Local fabrication means you can visit your tank mid-build and take delivery without an ocean crossing.

Why local matters at harvest

When a valve fails or a jacket leaks during crush, an overseas manufacturer can't help you. A fabricator 30 minutes away can. Custom Tank Fabrication serves wineries and breweries across the Central Valley — Fresno, Madera, Clovis, Visalia, Paso Robles, and the Sierra foothills — with repair, modification, and consulting on existing tanks as well as new builds.

The fabrication process

1. Consultation — capacity, dimensions, fittings, jacket zones, and finish requirements

2. Design — drawings for your approval, engineered to sanitary standards

3. Fabrication — stainless sheets cut, rolled, precision welded, and polished in-house at our Sanger facility

4. Quality control — weld inspection and pressure testing on every vessel

5. Delivery — coordinated freight, with local delivery across the Valley

Experience you can verify

Custom Tank Fabrication Inc. is family-owned with more than 25 years in tank manufacturing. Our sanitary and industrial clients include Wonderful Pistachios, Wilbur-Ellis, Arcadis, Anderson-Pacific, and Rotschy. We fabricate exclusively in stainless and carbon steel, and every stage — design, fabrication, finishing, QC — happens in-house.

Get a fermentation tank quote

Call (559) 546-0070 or request a quote — we respond within 24 hours. Financing is available through Beacon Funding, which many wineries use to spread tank costs across several harvests.

Custom Tank Fabrication Inc. — 697 S Quality Ave., Sanger, CA 93657. Custom stainless steel fermentation tanks, built in the Central Valley for the Central Valley.