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i often get debris in my rims system, even with a fine false bottom and no gaps, that’s why I’m going to try reversing my flow, to take wort from the top and reheated wort back in under the mash bed. Will report back once I’ve tried this.

I found this useful for calculating the theoretic capabilities of a rims. My rims is I believe 3kw so is capablé of increasing the wort temperature flowing through by 10c at 3lpm.

Hi chaps, what settings for Proportional (P) , Integral (I) and Derivative (D) are you guys using on your controlers?

If using rims to step up from 50c to 60c (122f to 140f) one would expect the wort returning to the mash to be at the desired temperature wouldn’t we? ie A 10c gain, the rims must be capable of delivering this I assume?

Thanks. From the hop hopper, the hops (leaf usualy) drop down a chute into the boiler. The problem was steam getting into the chute from the boil, so now i have an extracting fan sucking on another orifice on the boiler lid that sucks air down the chute, over the wort and out side with the...

Did you do a mash out to preserve you sugar profile? If you didnt and had a long sparge, the mash was longer that you planed, and more sugars were extracted. Steve

I was looking into measuring SG while sparging, to ensure sparge is stopped before tanin extraction. I was going to go down the digital refractometer route, using a simple 'drip feed' from the output of my mash tun to moitor the brix of the wort coming out. ie drop a drip of wort into the...

Like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvWo33soi_o Works well, but nede to remake in stainless, but perspex is good for see how clean the hopper is. I trigger the solenoids using a Digibee+ from my automated brewery software i wrote in VB.net. Steve

Its gonna cost me $4300 to hire a HD for 30 days, maybe it would be cheaper to buy one second hand then sell it the other end! I am at the early stage of planning, i want to experience being in the US and meeting the people more than being a tourist realy...i want to do it for the experience...

Hi chaps, i have for some years wanted to ship over my old HarleyDee and do a coast to coast trip across the US over a period of a month or two to see the what the gud'ol US of A is all about! I'd also like to visit some good beer emporiums on the trip and maybe vist a few homebrewers...

Still plan on building it, and maybe play around with contra flow, see what happens. No one has given their thoughts on the idea of doing the mash then topping up the MLT with the sparge volume at the slightly higher temp and then staring the mash out very slowly. Basicaly you would be...

Ok, so a sparge is a rinse in effect?...so it doesnt remove any more sugars from the grains just from the gaps around the grains? is that correct? Ok, there seems some sense in that. How about(still trying to stick with the 2 pot system here) mashing for an hour at 151degreesF with enough...

Hi all, many thanks for all the reply s, as i said, I'm a newbie and am just floating ideas about. I thought the revers flow would help keep the wort moving through the grain and help extraction by removing the sugar from in between the grains rather than letting it sit there. I thought that...

Hi all, I'm a newbie to brewing but have been doing lots of research on All-Grain brew systems so i can eventually build my own. I have come up with some ideas that should reduce the number of pots and therefore space required for the system to operate at the same time as keeping efficiency...