DemonEagle
Active Member
I’m new to home brewing with just three brews done so far. I jumped right into the deep end of the pool with all grain brewing. I read a lot about the subject before buying my equipment and doing my first brew. One of my biggest concerns was disturbing the grain bed while fly sparging. After giving it some thought I came up with this Cake Pan Strainer. So far it seems to work really well and was pretty darn cheap and simple to make.
As you can see in the picture it’s a 9” cake pan that I have drilled a number of random very small holes with a drill bit in the bottom of the pan. I then added 3 carriage bolts through the sides of the pan that are long enough to reach the lip of my mash tun cooler to support it.
Its nothing really special but it works and it’s simple.
When I vorlauf I pour the wort though a larger strainer that I put in the cake pan sparge strainer. This keeps any debris from clogging the small holes in the cake pan. When sparging with clean water the added strainer is not needed.
As you can see in the picture it’s a 9” cake pan that I have drilled a number of random very small holes with a drill bit in the bottom of the pan. I then added 3 carriage bolts through the sides of the pan that are long enough to reach the lip of my mash tun cooler to support it.
Its nothing really special but it works and it’s simple.
When I vorlauf I pour the wort though a larger strainer that I put in the cake pan sparge strainer. This keeps any debris from clogging the small holes in the cake pan. When sparging with clean water the added strainer is not needed.