Thanks, yeah I've sewn some muslin cloth around the edge of the false bottom so hopefully should get a tight seal... and hopefully it won't soak up too much wort :? The false bottom stands 65mm from the bottom of the tun, which is just above the outlet, so that means about 16L of...

Here are pics of the tun and the false bottom. As you can see, the holes are the right size, too small for that kind of grain to fall through. There is a roughly 4-5mm gap all the way around the edge of the false bottom.

Hi all, I've upgraded from a 20L homebrew system to a 200L system and used it for the first time the other day. I previously did boil-in-the-bag but for my new system I have a false bottom. For my first test I decided to try a half-batch. The problem was that several kilos of grain managed to...