I currently use a cooler as a mash tun and it works great. I'm step my step upgrading my equipment until I eventually build a brutus stand so I will be, at that time, using a kettle with false bottom as a mash tun. Here are my questions:
1.) Is it ok to just use a burner under the mash tun (kettle w/false bottom) to regulate the heat? I know a lot of people recirculate wort through tubing in the HLT (it think thats called HERMS?) but would just a burner under the mash tun work?
2.) Would recirculating the wort from the bottom and back into the top of the mash tun work (I can do this as i'll have 2 pumps at that point)?
1.) Is it ok to just use a burner under the mash tun (kettle w/false bottom) to regulate the heat? I know a lot of people recirculate wort through tubing in the HLT (it think thats called HERMS?) but would just a burner under the mash tun work?
2.) Would recirculating the wort from the bottom and back into the top of the mash tun work (I can do this as i'll have 2 pumps at that point)?