False Bottom, Maybe ?

[spog]

g,day all. recents posts regarding false bottoms and biab got me thinking,(bloody hurt too).
would using a grain bag stuffed with stainless steel scourers then tied to the outlet of the mash tun(internally)work as a "false bottom"/wort filter. :huh: just something that popped into my head at work last week and could'nt get it of my mind.
hope this spurs more ideas as i reckon it will work and cost bugger all..........cheers.......spog.....

 

[Pumpy]

Spog a brilliant idea .

you just may need something to weight them slightly so they dont float .

From the man that bought you the gravel FB

pumpy

 

[Effect]

and maybe make a frame for them...like a dim sim strainer or something - would also stop the bigger bits getting through as well

 

[eric8]

I think thats what Duff does. He mentioned it to me one day and said it was a good way to filter out the crap. I use the tea ball method.
I did a brew yesterday with my new teaball, and wasn't left with much wort in the bottom. It just seemed to be what the flowers had soaked up.

 

[brettprevans]

make sure they are actually stainless steel scourers though. a few guys have mentioned that not all 'stainless' scourers are full stainless and can leave a bad taste. if you do a search you can probably find the thread. I think they were thinking of using them as a makshift hop stopper.

 

[Thirsty Boy]

I've definitely heard of people just using a single stainless scrubby jammed on the end of a pick-up tube as their false bottom. There's no reason at all that it shouldn't work. A bag full of them just gives you more surface area and a faster run off/less chance of sticking.

Pumpy - you need to stop putting yourself down for the gravel false bottom. Despite all the closed mindedness it was a good idea and it also works really well. Just to continue on spog's theme, when Spills and I were discussing the gravel false bottom he put together for a BIG brew. The notion of putting the gravel in a bag got a good talking through and I still think it would work. Stainless scrubbies just being the exact same sort of thing, maybe a little better though.

 

[Pumpy]

Pumpy - you need to stop putting yourself down for the gravel false bottom. Despite all the closed mindedness it was a good idea and it also works really well. Just to continue on spog's theme, when Spills and I were discussing the gravel false bottom he put together for a BIG brew. The notion of putting the gravel in a bag got a good talking through and I still think it would work. Stainless scrubbies just being the exact same sort of thing, maybe a little better though.

Thanks for your support TB

Over the years of 'heckling and jeering and empty VB cans thrown at me' for the suggestion ,I was beginning to believe I was wrong, until you proved all the 'Doubting Thomas's' wrong and made it work .thanks .

Pumpy

 

[gap]

I've definitely heard of people just using a single stainless scrubby jammed on the end of a pick-up tube as their false bottom. There's no reason at all that it shouldn't work.

I have used a stainless steel scrubby on the end of the kettle pick up tube since I started AG
over 10 years ago. It was a very common practice then. Also people would use a scrubby on the end of
a racking cane to syphon wort .

Regards

Graeme

 

[bconnery]

I use a combination of a now slightly flattened oval strainer that sits over the outlet and a round flat strainer that just fits in my mash tun over that.

Here's a pic of the old design, with the round strainer over the braid, but I've removed the braid altogether now, but I don't have a pic of it yet...
EdiT: I had to replace the braid with an additional level because 5+ kilos of wet grain was squashing the strainer down onto the braid and causing some stuck run offs...

The whole thing cost about $6 from the dodgy kitchen supplies stall at the market...

Supposedly both stainless, they don't appear to be rusting anyway...

I'm thinking about trying with the braid back in the bottom to introduce extra level. I get the odd bit of grain coming through but it really is very minor.

 

[spog]

I use a combination of a now slightly flattened oval strainer that sits over the outlet and a round flat strainer that just fits in my mash tun over that.

Here's a pic of the old design, with the round strainer over the braid, but I've removed the braid altogether now, but I don't have a pic of it yet...
EdiT: I had to replace the braid with an additional level because 5+ kilos of wet grain was squashing the strainer down onto the braid and causing some stuck run offs...

The whole thing cost about $6 from the dodgy kitchen supplies stall at the market...

Supposedly both stainless, they don't appear to be rusting anyway...

I'm thinking about trying with the braid back in the bottom to introduce extra level. I get the odd bit of grain coming through but it really is very minor.

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bc i grabbed 4 of these strainers when in adelaide last xmas, with the idea of some how joining 2 of them together with the outlet tube of the tun between them.
but being s,steel they were hard to work with (not my thing) and i ruined 2 of them.
still have 2 left and might try again some day, at $4.00 each it was worth a try......cheers..........spog.......

 

[kook]

I use a combination of a now slightly flattened oval strainer that sits over the outlet and a round flat strainer that just fits in my mash tun over that.

Supposedly both stainless, they don't appear to be rusting anyway...

Is that a strainer or one of those cheap "stainless" fat-splatter guards?

I had one of those attached to the base of my false bottom with wire - to prevent grain from getting under the FB. It rusted through after a couple months