Rubberband
Well-Known Member
I'm going to make the jump to AG and I already have a 5 gal. drink cooler with a SS braid. I have been playing with AG techniques with cooler to see how my temperatures react, how to vorlauf, etc... while brewing Partial Mash recipes.
The braid seems to work well enough but, again, I don't have enough experience to say it works better or worse than a false bottom. I was considering the false bottom because it seems logical that it would perform better and give me a good rinse of the grains. The money isn't really an object but I don't want to throw it away either. I will be batch sparging for the forseeable future, so is there a great benefit to be gained by using a false bottom instead of my SS braid?
I assume a FB will not prick my fingers with frayed ends when I am cleaning the kit, that may be enough for me.
The braid seems to work well enough but, again, I don't have enough experience to say it works better or worse than a false bottom. I was considering the false bottom because it seems logical that it would perform better and give me a good rinse of the grains. The money isn't really an object but I don't want to throw it away either. I will be batch sparging for the forseeable future, so is there a great benefit to be gained by using a false bottom instead of my SS braid?
I assume a FB will not prick my fingers with frayed ends when I am cleaning the kit, that may be enough for me.