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Unlike a Mash/Lauter Tun where concerns for channeling in the grain bed may require a sparge arm manifold; in BIAB with full volume liquid, the grains are suspended in the wort and simple circulation seems effective or at least “good enough”. Thus, this rig does not use a manifold...

laughingboysbrew, can you share your experience with the beer engine too please, and how you handle the beer (cask conditioned?). Beer engines are fairly rare in these united states; and doubly so that there would be two in one thread, (obviously because these are two of the best bars!)

Thanks for sharing this. Happy St. Pats Day to you! -- Wish I was there. Do you serve cask condition ale, or have you instead converted the taps to CO2?

Fair question that needs to be asked and answered, and thank you for taking the role of “Devil's advocate”, as I am envious that you get to play with all that equipment at BrewHardware.com. Indeed there are more serious and compelling reasons for this rig, beyond just playing with...

Thank you for both your enthusiasm and question of “just mashing in a cooler”. BIAB offers 1) producing beer 2) simply and 3) inexpensively – a winning hat-trick for sure. As for the case of adding the additional technology of RIMS and HERMS (no longer as simple or inexpensive)...

RE: “the risks of something”. Indeed it’s all about relative risks, but lets put those into ranked order perspective. Alcoholic consumption, in appropriate quantity, is in fact positively associated with good health, including specifically increased cardiovascular health...

You are asking about two important safety questions that the home brew community has seemingly not fully addressed. 1) The electric heating element is sold for domestic hot water heaters. Is it safe in home brew applications? As a general statement hot tap water is not optimal as potable...

RE: " I want a way to consistently maintain mash temps" A RIMS or HERMS system works well for this application. This system has similarities to your proposal and is posted here: www.homebrewtalk.com/f244/biab-herms-via-outboard-rims-tube-build-458429/ You likely can adapt it using the...

RE: “would love to add a tower of power controller, RIMS tube, an element or a control panel to my setup, but it just isn't in the budget unfortunately - and I can't find any low-priced alternatives. …” The 72,000BTU output burner quickly heats the water to temperature for strike and boil...

RE: just want to control my mash temperature with RIMS ... or HERMS Why not do both? Recently built this temperature control of the mash with a modified HERMS approach comprised of an outboard RIMS-tube heater that maintains the temperature. A feature of this system is that the RIMS-tube...

Employing a RIMS tube just to maintain the the temperature works well, and can be done at 120V/15Amp. The heater element can be kept out of the wort circulation, thus avoiding the potential disadvantages of the RIMS-tube heating element directly contacting the wort, and it does not add to...

haeffnkr, I too have struggled with these same aspirations and limitations: My goals are - to have un attended mashes for an hour to have mash temps contstant for an hour with no temp stratification issues in the kettle to not scorch the wort and make good beer -- although I am lucky in...

Brew In A Bag: BIAB with HERMS via Outboard RIMS-Tube Pictured is an alternative mash recirculation system for Brew In A Bag. Temperature control of the mash employs a modified HERMS approach comprised of an outboard RIMS-tube heater that maintains the temperature of the mash recirculation...