How to reach your arm into a 155F mash....

[rico567]

My braid is connected to a shoulder fitting that screws into a nipple on the back of the valve in the MLT. I left it off once, and just did what several others have done- poured off the mash into a suitably sized container, attached the braid, put it back in, and mashed. Seemed to work OK.

 

[Hegh]

It is a domed screen, the wort has to make it from under the screen, up to the spigot. The barb on the falsie is open to the space under the falsie so allow the wort to travel up and through the tube to the spigot and out of the MLT

Ohhhh, okay. The mesh screen sits just above the bottom of the MLT, beneath the spigot, and the pipe brings the wort UP from beneath. I thought the pipe fitting went on the other side, hence my confusion.

 

[2nd Street Brewery]

Sure now I see this post. Just started to mash in, put in my strike water and as I was dumping in my second scoop of grain I notice the pickup tube from my manifold to spigot is disconnected. Luckely I was doing a Kolsch with a protien rest so I "only" had heated the water to about 135-140 when I had to stick my hand in.

 

[Hotspur]

Heh, I just had my first stuck mash, after only one gallon drained. So, I grabbed the old 10gallon Army kettle that used to be my Grandfather's. Dumped the mash into the kettle, blasted the braid with the hose, poured out that water, dumped the mash back in, and everything's golden!

See Pol, if you'd simply keep an extra large, good quality, spare kettle around, you wouldn't need to use Foodsaver bags that could store more hops!