What exactly is the use of a brite tank?

[perfection]

Is a brite tank used to hold already clarified beer for carbonation and then packaging
or is it a tank into which the cloudy green beer is held post fermentation for maturing, clarification, stabilization etc and the beer will become bright in this tank

What if the beer is centrifuged for clarification?

Is it the same as a secondary or conditioning tank?

 

[brandonlovesbeer]

Brite tank is solely used for carbonation.
Hence the name "Brite"
By definition, "Brite" means no yeast in suspension. Meaning filtered before sending to Brite Tank.

The. While in the Brite tank it is force carbonated.

No. This is not "Secondary"

All of this, I have elaborated on in some of your previous posts.

 

[Sadu]

I was talking to our local craft brewery about this.

They use theirs for clearing up beer, since they don't want to offend the vegans with gelatin. Apparently the brite tank has a flat bottom which doesn't get disturbed as easily as a conical when you rack the beer into kegs from the brite tank. So in their case they transfer beer into the brite tank to clear it up, I don't remember if it was carbonated before or after this point.

Whether other breweries use theirs for something else, I dunno.