Stainless Steel Mash Tun
Mash tun are specific mash mixer vessel, where in you add the malt to the water and run the mashing process to scarification. once complete you would transfer in to the lauter tun where the mash is settled recirculated and filtered through itself and the false bottom.
The agitator in the mash vessel is to stir the mash to allow uniform heating if step mashing is employed. the rakes in the lauter tun are to cut the mash bed to allow uniform run off, loosen the grain bed if too compact, and often act as a plow to remove the spent grain if a spent grain pump isnt involved.
Most Microbreweries use a single vessle for both, saving space and money. Alot of german made microbrewery systems actually mash in the boil kettle, step mash and transfer to the lauter tun, then filter the wort back to the kettle.
Larger breweries need to do multiple productions in a single day, will use a mash mixing tank, lauter tank, boil kettle, whirlpool all seperate vessles to have an on going process
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Materials:SS304
Size:2bbl-40bbl
Heating method:Direct Fire,Electric,Steam