Definition of mash tun. Meaning of mash tun. Synonyms of mash tun

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Definition of mash tun

mash tun
Mash Mash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mashing.] [Akin to G. meischen, maischen, to mash, mix, and prob. to mischen, E. mix. See 2d Mash.] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.
Mash tun
Mash Mash, n. [Akin to G. meisch, maisch, meische, maische, mash, wash, and prob. to AS. miscian to mix. See Mix.] 1. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. 2. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. 3. A mess; trouble. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort.

Meaning of mash tun from wikipedia

- mash, raising the temperature. Mashing involves pauses at certain temperatures (notably 45–62–73 °C or 113–144–163 °F) and takes place in a "mash tun"...
- extracted during mashing) from the grains. This is done either in a mash tun out****ed with a false bottom, in a lauter tun, or in a mash filter. Most separation...
- bottom of the mash, and adding it to the top. Lauter tuns typically have slotted bottoms to ****ist in the filtration process. The mash itself functions...
- Level". Lynn Advertiser. 19 March 1870. p. 8. "The Mash Tun: Brighton's Beating Heart". Mash Tun. Retrieved 13 January 2024. Wikimedia Commons has media...
- Look up -tun, TUN, Tun, or tun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. TUN or tun may refer to: Tun s****, large sea snails of the family Tonnidae Tun, a tardigrade...
- Mash ingredients, mash bill, mashbill, or grain bill are the materials that brewers use to produce the wort that they then ferment into alcohol. Mashing...
- known as "mashing". Hot water (known as "liquor" in brewing terms) is mixed with crushed malt or malts (known as "grist") in a mash tun. The mashing process...
- extraction is done in a large kettle (usually made of stainless steel) called a mash tun. At first, the hot water dissolves the sugars (maltose) and enzymes (diastase)...
- practices triple distillation.: 16  The mash tun at the distillery is a modern stainless steel semi-Lauter mash tun, with a copper canopy.: 15  Generally...
- 000 bottles of beer a year. In the traditional lambic style, beers, with a mash bill of 2/3 malted barley and 1/3 unmalted wheat, are spontaneously fermented...