[robb]

I recently received a false bottom for my brew pot and was thinking of changing up my brewing system.  Can I simply use the false bottom in my pot for mashing (with some insulation wrap), let it sit and then continue to use it for lautering & sparging.  Short question, can the same pot be used for mash & lautering?  Any cons to this method?

[tschmidlin]

You don't mash and sparge in the same vessel?  I'd say that is the exception, I don't know any homebrewers who transfer from a mash tun to a lauter tun.

[jayoun]

Yes, you absolutely can, just make sure you have another brew pot to complete you boil as you would in an extract batch.  I can't help but get the idea that you are new to all grain brewing? I apologize if I am wrong, but you might check out dennybrew to get some ideas about doing it: http://hbd.org/cascade/dennybrew/

[resto3]

What I do sometimes is mash in my brew kettle so I can step mach and or decoct, then I transfer the mash to my cooler mash/lauter tun (in these cases it's just a lauter tun) then lauter as normal in the kettle I just used for mashing (after rising is to get any grain particle left behind after transferring the mash to the lauter tun).  I don;t know if this helps.

Cheers,

Richie

[hopfenundmalz]

I mash and lauter in the same vessel. 

Production breweries have seperate vessels so that when they are lautering mash #1 that has been transfered over, they can start  mash #2 in the mash tun.  They keep that sequence going over multiple shifts to maximize production. 

Not an issue for me, as I have seldom done more than 1 batch per day.