800L brewhouse

2-Vessel Brewhouse Introduction

Mash/Lauter tun

Mash tun is a vessel used in the mashing process to convert the starches in crushed grains into sugars for fermentation. The mash tun can be single function or can also have a false bottom and spigot so that the sparging 

process can be done in the same vessel.

The lauter tun is used for filtering and clarifying the sugar liquid (called wort) out of the heated water-malt mixture (called mash) that comes from the mashing tun.

Kettle/Whirlpool tun

After lautering, the beer wort is boiled with hops (and other flavourings if used)in a large tank known as a brew kettle. 

At the end of the boil, the hopped wort settles to clarify in a vessel called a "whirlpool" where there

is a tangential inlet of wort. Whirlpool can happen in the kettle because there is no obstacle inside the kettle.