Firebat138
Well-Known Member
Can someone give me a basic difference... a luater has some sort of stirring mech? thanx... found the wiki, but need a lamens approach.
Firebat138 said:so I have a mash tun, but when I am DRAINING it into a BUCKET, the bucket is my lauter tun? or they are one in the same...
I see that some lauter tuns, professionally, have mixing fins or blades... Do they run all the time... Thanx all
You're over thinking it man. There are numerous ways to make a mash/lauter tun, but they all do the same thing. Grain and water go in, wort comes out. Just like making vegetable soup. Water and vegetables go into the pot, vegetable soup comes out.
Its a little more like making a Stock. Water goes into a pot with a whole bunch of chicken parts, ya cook it up, and then strain out the broth with out all the chicken.
Your wort is a delicious sweet broth, but you dont want any of the stuff you used to make the broth in there, thats lautering
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(Edit - Dangit, Yoop. Sniped me again. )
Perhaps the confusion arose because for much of brewing history, on a commerical setting, it was more common to have separate vessels. This way the mash could be moved over to the lauter tun for sparging, and since the mash tun is now freed up, a new mash could be started. It is a very efficient way to get larger batches into bigger fermentors faster.
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