mash-tun

Around mid-day, Jean Van Roy starts drawing tumblers of wort from the mash-tun, passing around samples in plastic cups.

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The mash-tun -- the heart of the brewery, where wheat and barley are mixed and cooked -- is a 19th-century model in heavy iron.

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If the malt is ground too fine, difficulties arise in regard to efficient drainage in the mash-tun and subsequent clarification.

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The malt, in this method of brewing, is ground quite fine, and although an ordinary mash-tun may be used for mashing, the separation of the clear wort from the solid matter takes place in the filter press, which retains the very finest particles with ease.

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From the mash-tun the clear wort passes to the _Copper_, where it is boiled with hops.

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The germ of maize contains a considerable proportion of an oil of somewhat unpleasant flavour, which has to be eliminated before the material is fit for use in the mash-tun.

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The mash-tun (fig. 2) is a large metal or wooden vessel, fitted with a false bottom composed of plates perforated with numerous small holes or slits (C).

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-- From the mash-tun the wort passes to the _copper_.

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Just sufficient of the _Dickmaische_ is returned to the mash-tun proper to raise the temperature of the whole to 111-125°

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In other words, quality may be controlled on the kiln or in the mash-tun, or both.

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