I would like to brew a sour beer and I'm thinking I'll need to use my brew kettle as the mash tun instead of the 10 gallon cooler that I usually use. It's an 8 gallon kettle, so I'm assuming the matching false bottom (which I'm yet to purchase) fits pretty snug. My question is, should it go above or below the temperature gauge? Seems like it would make cleaning the kettle more difficult?
Not sure if I'm way off base here or not. Any suggestions are appreciated!