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Here's a link which says it explains what's going on during Cantillon's mash.

[url:2181e2ox]http://bergsman.org/jeremy/lambic/making.html[/url:2181e2ox]

Well that explains all the transferring of wort and rising and falling of the mash tun level we observed.

I was reading Wild Brews[/url:1gtvho5e] and the author explains where these weird mashing regimes came from. At one time, breweries in Belgium were taxed according to the size of the mash tun, so if you could pack your tun with grain and then pump wort to other vessels, replacing it with more liquor in the tun, to make more wort, you could maximise the amount of beer you could make per brewday, with a minimum tax bill.

Here's the photos

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"sbillings":22nfs5j0 wrote: Well that explains all the transferring of wort and rising and falling of the mash tun level we observed.

I was reading Wild Brews[/url:22nfs5j0] and the author explains where these weird mashing regimes came from. At one time, breweries in Belgium were taxed according to the size of the mash tun, so if you could pack your tun with grain and then pump wort to other vessels, replacing it with more liquor in the tun, to make more wort, you could maximise the amount of beer you could make per brewday, with a minimum tax bill.[/quote:22nfs5j0]

this podcast from basic brewing is very informative indeed

Randy Mosher - Belgium Nobody Knows[/url:22nfs5j0]

Think that did not turn up

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hopefully that does

The only blacking up Dutch/flemish/French display i can find has to do with Spainards stealing naughty children at Christmas time

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Cantillon brew day pictures
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