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Most commonly, larger breweries use lauter tuns to separate wort from the malt solids (in addition to the use of mash filters). Commercial lauter tuns utilize a rake that moves slowly through the grain bed to separate the wort. Smaller breweries sometimes use infusion mash tuns for wort and mash separation, where they use a mash paddle to spread out the mash and then a rake to manually separate the wort.