Need False Bottom Ideas Please

[Enerjex]

Hi all, need some practical thinking here please. I need to get a cheap skate false bottom working for tomorrow. I've set up my mash tun with braid but i'm concerned about bits of it getting in the mash from where i trimmed the ends. I'm thinking about something along the lines of a strainer or a collander, a shallow one. I dont wanna have to drill 1200 holes though before tomorrow. Does anyone have any ideas? :unsure:

edit, it's a rectangular esky

 

[Justin]

How badly did you trim the ends?? What are we talking, great big holes? If not I don't think I'd lose too much sleep over it. Even if you do draw in a few particles of grain after a few hundred mls the grain bed will be settling into a filter and you'll start drawing clean wort. Just return the runnings to the top for that first draw.

I'd tip that you won't have a problem, lots of people using braid with great effect even in recirculating systems. It seems to work well. As long as you have reasonaly sealed the ends it should be fine.

If you are really worried I'd just wrap the problem areas with a bit of cheese cloth or just bunch up the ends better, retrim or use a liberal amount of hose clamps to block the holes.

 

[Steve]

just fold the end over and pinch them with pliers....she'll be right.

 

[enoch]

Hi all, need some practical thinking here please. I need to get a cheap skate false bottom working for tomorrow. I've set up my mash tun with braid but i'm concerned about bits of it getting in the mash from where i trimmed the ends. I'm thinking about something along the lines of a strainer or a collander, a shallow one. I dont wanna have to drill 1200 holes though before tomorrow. Does anyone have any ideas? :unsure:
edit, it's a rectangular esky

I don't see the issue with the braid. In the event that a few bits get into your mash they aren't going to go anywhere hazardous. To put your mind at rest give it a good squirt with a hose, run some water out the tun via the braid manifold and its gone from both outside and inside the braid.

Any bits that come lose later aren't going to make it into your beer as they will have to make it through the mash, inot the boiler, into the fermenter,.... Relax.

 

[Enerjex]

thankyou for the replies but I think my post was misinterpreted. the ends aren't butchered in such a way that i'm worried it'll let grain thru, after cutting the fittings off and trimming the ends of the braid i'm concerned about a small cutting that may have got inside the braid getting into the wort and into the final product... only takes one to get lodged in you somewhere and ur in trouble

 

[Steve]

thankyou for the replies but I think my post was misinterpreted. the ends aren't butchered in such a way that i'm worried it'll let grain thru, after cutting the fittings off and trimming the ends of the braid i'm concerned about a small cutting that may have got inside the braid getting into the wort and into the final product... only takes one to get lodged in you somewhere and ur in trouble

But it wont get into the final prouct. Cant you give it a shake....or to ease your mind make a new one?

 

[sqyre]

I agree i wouldnt be overly concered..just keep circulating the wort through your tun untill there are no bits..

The grain bed will do the filtering for you.. the braid is just there to assist with even downward flow of wort through the bed..

as long as you dont get a stuck sparge or for some reason have to disturb the grain bed you will be fine..

even then... circulate some more untill no more bits and continue..

Even if you get a few use a flour sive or a fine mesh like a hop bag to collect them out of your kettle..

I have had to do this lately as my grain mill is still producing a little too much flour and i keep getting stuck sparges towards the end and have to disturb the grain bed slightly to get the rest of the wort out...

But its still all good..



Sqyre..

 

[DarkFaerytale]

i'd wager it'll sink in the liquid and would never reach the bottle, i'd also wager that something that small wouldn't do you to much harm in the unlikely event that it happened to make it out of the mash tun, pass re-circulation, get out of the boiler, out of primary, out of secondary and then into the bottle. i wouldn't be to worried enerjex IMO.

-Phill

 

[sqyre]

thankyou for the replies but I think my post was misinterpreted. the ends aren't butchered in such a way that i'm worried it'll let grain thru, after cutting the fittings off and trimming the ends of the braid i'm concerned about a small cutting that may have got inside the braid getting into the wort and into the final product... only takes one to get lodged in you somewhere and ur in trouble

Oh ok...being stainless its heavy, even if it actually makes it to your fermenter which i dought.. it will sit on the bottom of the fermenter when you tap off..just dont disturb your fermenter when you tap off..

All good..(actually i would be more worried about the grain husks getting through.. :lol: )

(But stranger things have happened. h34r: )



Sqyre...