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Model: MashTube - $18.99 +
We spent way too long trying to come up with a clever name for this thing. Mash Tube, Any Height Recirulation Port, Sparge Height Thingy. A lot of people use a piece of hose or copper tubing on the inside of their mash tun recirculation (or sparge) port but it's not as cool as this. This assembly is made from parts from "Loc-Line". You can adjust the output from the same height as the port all the way down to 12" below the port to adjust for five or ten gallon batches of varying grain bills. It's a exponentially easier to use than laying a hose on top of the grain.
 Options:
- Plastic Only - You can buy just the loc-line assembly including the 1/2" male connector, 90 degree elbow, and 14 flexible segments and thread it into your own bulkhead.
- Weldless Kit - with all piece shown to the right. After drilling a 7/8" hole in the top sidewall of your mashtun, use the SS washer on the inside and silicone flat gasket on the outside just behind the Camlock Type A Fitting. Of course this only works if you're subscribed to the use of Cam Locks for your disconnect system.
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Bill, I understand the confusion. There's a huge group of people out there with the impression that sparging requires some kind of shower head or spinning spray mechanism because the term "rinsing" probably paints that picture. A proper fly sparge requires a foundation of about 1-2" of water on top of the grain bed. Once that is there, it doesn't matter how you deliver new water to that mass other than two requirements: Don't slam the grain with a high pressure stream and the new water should integrate with the current layer. The mash tube is bent/manipulated such that the exit is turned sideways as shown in the pic, just below the water line. In effect, it is barely sitting on top of the grain but also covered by the foundation water. It's angled so that the incoming water creates a gentle swirling of the foundation water. The whole point of this device is to be able to set the height over a large range of grainbeds and is an alternative for those folks who simply lay their ouput hose on top of the grain (which doesn't really stay put anyway).
I promise you, there's no need for showering the grain.
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