Brewing craft beer with Tiantai brewhouse system at your brewery. Maybe you would like the result of brewing process. Here we would like to discuss more about the mashing process. Mashing is the term given to the start of the brewing process, where crushed grains are mixed with water to form a porridge-like mixture called the “mash.”
It is in the mash that malt and other cereal starches are transformed into sugars and proteins and other materials are made soluble, creating the sweet fermentable liquid called the wort. Malt comes from the grist miller machine into the brewery and is then milled to form the grain mixture called “grist .” The grist is mixed with carefully controlled amounts of warm or hot water to form the mash.
There are three basic types of mashing process: infusion mashing, decoction mashing, and temperature-controlled infusion mashing. Different mashing processes are used in different parts of the world depending on local tradition, the quality of malt available, the equipment used, and the beer styles brewed.
Tiantai mash tun is no problem to be suitable for any mashing process. We can customize the brewhouse vessel accordingly.
Malt is made from specially grown varieties of malted barley. During malting, enzymes start to break down the main part of the kernel, which is called the “starchy endosperm.”
The starchy endosperm is made of a framework of cell walls, consisting of mainly hemicelluloses, which is full of starch granules held in a protein matrix. The process of malting and mashing breaks down the proteins, hemicelluloses, and starch into smaller fractions that are soluble and are washed out during sparging to produce wort.
Depending on how the barley is malted, a mashing process is designed to make as much soluble material as possible available in the wort, while avoiding undesirable characteristics.
For Tiantai beer equipment, the mash tun is with an agitator with VFD control to adjust the speed, and we also equip the grist hydrator on the top of mash tun to mix the milled malts with water. It also depend on the size of brewhouse vessel, usually above 5HL brewing system, like microbrewery system, commercial brewing system, it is necessary. We warmly welcome your proposal, Cheers!
Edited By Daisy Cai
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