2023-01-10 Most craft brew houses use a false bottom on their mash tun to filter spent grains from the wort. To increase production throughput, a brewery will often look to double and triple batching in a brew day, adding a dedicated lautering tun to free up their mash tun for the subsequent batch. Both method
Read More 2023-01-09 Mashing Defined. Mashing is the brewer's term for the hot water steeping process which hydrates the barley, activates the malt enzymes, and converts the grain starches into fermentable sugars. There are several key enzyme groups that take part in the conversion of the grain starches to sugars.So wha
Read More 2023-01-09 Lautering is a method of separating sweet wort from spent grain. Historically, especially in British ale brewing practice, mashing and lautering often took place in a single vessel, a combination mash–lauter tun. But brewers soon realized that optimizing separate vessels for each part of the process
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