Equipment

[pricelessbrewing]

Clear wort=!clear beer. I love the simplicity of my setup. I'd want to go electric with some low density heat sticks, a ceiling mounted pulley and a ball valve on my kettle. But for now im in an apt and don't have the luxury of a pulley.

 

[copper2hopper]

So....Couple questions....I just installed my false bottom mash tun kit with the 5/8 diptube from brewhardware.com on my converted keg. I have no pump yet so my draining method from the mash tun at this point will be just opening up the ball valve and letting gravity do the work. With that being said and doing my leak testing last night after it was all installed I let the water drain out through the ball valve and it initially was extremely slow and left a lot of water behind above the FB and I thought to myself "well that blows and will be leaving behind a ton of good wort". So I made some adjustments on the diptube and shaved some off the bottom and re-ran a drain test and that solved my slow trickling drain (it was pressed to far down and close to the bottom of the keg) however I'm still left with what appears to be roughly the same amount of liquid behind. Question 1: Is that normal with just letting gravity do the work???? And question 2: Will a pump solve this problem since I assume it will suck all it can through the diptube like a straw? Any help and input would be great. Thanks guys

 

[FuriousE]

Try putting a piece of tubing on the output of the drain and making sure the end is below the level of the keg. That should create a siphon and draw off more wort/water.