"Coldbreak 12.5"" False Bottom, Stainless Steel, Drop in Design, Easy Cleaning & Removal, Fits 10 Gallon Igloo/Lowes Beverage Coolers" (CBFB125)

I use a 10-gallon Lowes cooler as a mash tun. This false bottom fits perfectly and is very well made. I'm planning to use it tomorrow for the first time - it's definitely going to help with my mash and lautering steps.

I am using in a 10 gal Home Depot cooler and it works good. I would suggest using with a bazooka screen since there is a small gap on the sides. Good buy for the price.

Hardly anything gets past this, and the flow rate is great. I couldn't be happier. It fits my 10 gallon beverage cooler perfectly, as advertised.

I'm going to preface this with saying that it's not fair to assume that everyone's experience will be like mine. With that said, this item was instrumental in the worst brewing day I've had to date.First off, I purchased this item, hoping to increase efficiency over the domed false bottom I'd used previously. I assembled it after arrival and checked the fitting in my mash tun (a 10 gal Igloo container). It fit pretty well, but left around 1/8-1/4in gap on each side when in place. This didn't seem like much until I tried to clarify after my first mash using it, and found out that the grain, as it took on water and sunk to the bottom, got around the gaps in the sides, maybe through the holes too, and filled the bottom of the cooler, underneath the false bottom. This made it so that my dip tube was basically shoved into the grain bed. It clogged my ball valve and tube. My only possibility of saving the batch was to get the bottom out of there and try to stir up the mash to start releasing liquid. The issue is that the circular pulls on this unit are cheap key chain rings. When I tried to pull up on them, the liquid created a vacuum and the key rings both broke. It was a disaster.When all was said and done, I had to dump the batch. Though I can return this item for a refund, I'm unfortunately still out the $30-$35 for the grain and purified water that were wasted due to this item's dysfunction. Again, I'm not going to say that every experience will be like this, but I was completely dissatisfied with this item.

I love the design of this false bottom as it fits nicely in my Lowe’s blue Igloo cooler. However my first time using this false bottom compared to a homemade version I had been using yielded a stuck mash and thus longer brew day. I’ve never had a stuck mash with my homemade one so I’m up for any advice. I’m going to brew with this false bottom one more time and if I get another stuck mash I’ll be seeking the route of returning and getting a refund. (And I do use rice hills in every batch)

order COLDBREAK 12.5 "False Bottom, Stainless Steel, Drop in Design, Easy Cleaning & Removal, Fits 10 Gallon Iglooand I got one of 13.25 inches! terrible servicethis was the one that arrived Coldbreak Air Tool Parts & Accessories Brewing Equipment Cbfb1325 13.25" Falseterrible service

Encajó a la perfección y sirvió de maravilla

Es un buen producto, lo uso en una hielera Igloo de 10 galones, deja al rededor de 1.25 galones de líquido por debajo de él, por lo que hay que considerar eso en el cálculo. Lo usé en un sistema RIMS de dos ollas sin mucho problema (recirculado con bomba), de hecho es tan bueno y queda tan ajustado a los costados (hay que empujarlo con fuerza para que llegue hasta el fondo) que si drenas muy rápido se puede crear un vacío parcial. El mosto sale cristalino pero dependiendo tu molienda tendras que sacar uno o dos litros de líquido y regresarlos al macerado. La limpieza es super sencilla y no requiere más que agua y una esponja con un poco de tu limpiador, sin cepillos ni otras cosas. La única razón por la que le quito una estrella es por que las patas son de algún tipo de silicón de alta temeperatura y aunque no es un problema, lo ideal sería que también fueran de acero inoxidable. Buen producto a un excelente precio. Recomiendo usar un dip tube o codo de inox para obtener la mayor cantidad de mosto posible.