I recently received a false bottom for my brew pot and was thinking of changing up my brewing system. Can I simply use the false bottom in my pot for mashing (with some insulation wrap), let it sit and then continue to use it for lautering & sparging. Short question, can the same pot be used for mash & lautering? Any cons to this method?
You don’t mash and sparge in the same vessel? I’d say that is the exception, I don’t know any homebrewers who transfer from a mash tun to a lauter tun.
Yes, you absolutely can, just make sure you have another brew pot to complete you boil as you would in an extract batch. I can’t help but get the idea that you are new to all grain brewing? I apologize if I am wrong, but you might check out dennybrew to get some ideas about doing it: http://hbd.org/cascade/dennybrew/
What I do sometimes is mash in my brew kettle so I can step mach and or decoct, then I transfer the mash to my cooler mash/lauter tun (in these cases it’s just a lauter tun) then lauter as normal in the kettle I just used for mashing (after rising is to get any grain particle left behind after transferring the mash to the lauter tun). I don;t know if this helps.
Cheers,
Richie
I mash and lauter in the same vessel.
Production breweries have seperate vessels so that when they are lautering mash #1 that has been transfered over, they can start mash #2 in the mash tun. They keep that sequence going over multiple shifts to maximize production.
Not an issue for me, as I have seldom done more than 1 batch per day.