Happens all the time by the nuclear plant Im sure.
In the Malt book by Mallett, he talks of some malts converting almost instantaneously. Maybe a short mash works with a “hot” malt at the right temperature. If you stir in adjust the temp and take a pH reading the party is over by then, how do you adjust to hit the optimums? I can see this working if you do the same beer over and over and have the mash in temp and water chemistry dialed in so it works every time (well not colt 45 that I am talking about).
Well that’s what a nuclear power plant really is, don’t you know… a heater for the Lake. In Pennsylvania where there is no lake, they have the big fancy cooling towers and they call it a “cloud generator”.
You guys are playing Battleship from the same side.
Feast your eyes on Rancho Seco Mash Tun Recreation Area. The lake was originally made to act as an emergency reserve for the power plant using gravity for water pressure in the case of complete power loss. The plant experienced a near meltdown situation in the late 70’s due to loss of power to the control room. Power plant has been closed since the late 80’s but the towers remain giving the vista an ominous feel.
Sweet.
To those of you who don’t know, I could literally walk 50 feet right at this very moment, and snap a picturesque photo of Lake Michigan and the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, where I work as an engineer. However security might frown upon this behavior. And I’ll also say that it’s really nothing very special to look at. We don’t have the awesome cooling towers.
Yeah, that’s a little higher volume blue mash tun than my Coleman. 
I’d need one of these to hoist my BIAB bag:
Are you a former Navy “Nuke?”
Woah! What the heck happened to this thread? It took a turn for sure! :o
Cooling towers are cooling towers. They are used in some coal plants to cool the water in the turbine loop. They are also used at chemical plants and refineries.
I pointed out to another American who came over to work in Germany that the “Nuke Plant” he drove by was not a “Nuke Plant”. It had a cooling tower, but had no containment dome, and a big black pile of coal and the conveyor to take it to the furnace, and very tall smoke stacks. 
You can say that again. Here, I’ll help you out:
To answer Mr. Yeast guy, no, I am not a Navy nuke, but I work closely with dozens of people who are. 
i am not a Navy Nuke either…but i did stay at a Holiday Inn Express
Wait…what were we talking about? Why am I here?
Sorry, man. I’d like to tell you it won’t happen again, but with goofball engineers in here… it probably will.
not to mention-when you drain a thread to death…they will turn.
Right, you start to extract some tannins at that point
nice…well played
I didn’t know tannins were nutty.
Homebrew humor - if it’s too corny, try boiling for 90 minutes ;D