so ive brewed all grain quite a few time before but since my equipment was defunct i havnt in awhile. since then i bought a 10 gal. 3 tier all grain setup with a false bottom.(in mashtun) i have always used a homemade "false bottom" made out of copper and i have never had any problems. yesterday i brewed an ipa and made a few mistakes. to start i did bad math and mashed with twice amout of water i meant to. i was brewing 5 gals in a 10gal mashtun. using 8lbs grain and meant to use 1.5qts/lb. which would be 3 gallons.... I used 6 gallons, and didnt realize it was wrong until i went to sparge. my target boil volume was 7 gallons and i barely got to sparge at all. another problem i had was that the grains kept coming through the false bottom. (i started to recirculate again) and i got a stuck mash. (the valve was only open a small amount) i stirred it up and recirculated again until clear. and then again some grain came through. ive never had this on my homemade equipment. i was thinking maybe it was because i used way too much water in the mash but idk. any thoughts? will if effect the beer if you cant rinse the grains?. i didnt measure the o.g so im not sure how that went(just assumed it was lower then i wanted). but it is fermenting now and i will find out soon enough how well it turned out. this is my first brew with this system and its been a couple years. so im not sure what was going on ha. another thing is since this is kind of up in the air. i took the spent grains and made bread and dog treats and milling it into flour (just incase the beer dosnt turn out)