This part throws me. The false bottom sits a couple inches above the spigot on the bottom of the cooler. I thought that the water seeps through the grains, leaving the grain bed on top, and filters out the water. Why do i need to connect a tube from the false bottom to the ball valve? Is the false bottom not perferated? I guess this question is more on how the false bottom works. I'm looking at this picture and it looks like the false bottom sits below the opening of the cooler.

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Posted by s14suspense

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Member since Mar 2007

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Posted on 6/8/12 at 11:01 am to BugAC

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I'm looking at this picture and it looks like the false bottom sits below the opening of the cooler.

Yep. It acts as a strainer and picks up the wort below the mesh and brings it up to the ball valve.

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Posted by Fratastic423

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Member since Feb 2007

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Posted on 6/8/12 at 11:03 am to BugAC

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e false bottom sits a couple inches above the spigot on the bottom of the cooler. I thought that the water seeps through the grains, leaving the grain bed on top, and filters out the water. Why do i need to connect a tube from the false bottom to the ball valve? Is the false bottom not perferated? I guess this question is more on how the false bottom works. I'm looking at this picture and it looks like the false bottom sits below the opening of the cooler.

Wort drains through the perforations in the false bottom and is pulled back through a "valve" in teh middle of the screen which is directed towards the ball valve. The false bottom does not connect directly to the ball valve, so you need that small piece of tubing to connect the two.

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