Beerbelly mash filters

[Hugh Grierson]

Anyone got anything to say about these, they fit into mash chilly bins, as seen at craft brewer.
I am setting up a parallel nano brewery to run alongside handsome Vince's, he has a insulated plastic pail with gauze on the bottom. I have a chilly bin with a bent lid, thought I might use that.

[denimglen]

Can't see why they wouldn't work - their stuff looks well made.

But to me, I'd just go with a SS braided hose connected to a pickup tube so that it's collecting from the bottom. Unless you're dead-set on fly sparging the SS hose is much cheaper and should work just as well, if not, better.

[jt]

SS braided hose

The ss braided hose on Matthew or Tim's tun runs beautifully clear from opening the tap.
If I didn't already have a falsie and if I wasn't so lazy I'd go the braid

[Bambule]

I have a beer belly and I must say it works very well. If anything the mesh is not fine enough but I'm not a perfectionist. The base plate they sell with it is essential so make sure you buy that as well. That said, nothing wrong with a braided hose either.

[Chris Banks]

SS braid is my preference now its cheap and very effective just have to be sure to get a reasonably open weave braid the first one I got from bunnings $32 would NOT flow at all so I sabotaged an old mixer tap's hoses $4 and away she went awesome!

[jt]

the mesh is not fine enough

maybe the same here with my falsie, does it take a bit of recirculation before the grain bed sets and you get it nice & clear ?

[Bambule]

yes, but once the grain bed is set it runs nice and clear. I have toyed with the idea of putting a bit of braided hose on the intake beneath the mesh to get around this. but whats a bit for recirculation when you've settles in for a 5 hour activity.

[JoKing]

I stil recirculate for 10 - 15 mins even with my braided hose. Even though the flow may appear to be clear. The difference after 2 minutes and after 15 minutes looks the same going into the kettle, but after the boil - the difference is obvious!

[Dale]

Joking do you use a pump to recirculate for that 15min and then just gravity feed into the kettle after that?

[JoKing]

That's right.

[JoKing]

Be careful not to suck out of the mash tun too fast though because you'll set the mash. I adjust the flow to about 1 - 2 Liters per minute... it's been working well for quite a while now.

[Dale]

Cool I use a pump at mo but don't adjust the flow at all, do you just have a tap on the output side of the pump to reduce to that 1-2L?

When you say a set mash does that stop the flow of the runoff?

[JoKing]

Yeah - just a stuck sparge. The excessive flow pulls all the grain down to form an inpenetrable brick.

With my valve, I have it threaded straight onto the outlet of the pump.