Pardon me for being lazy - I'm usually a searcher and I'm sure there's threads out there on this but I'm loathe to sift through discussions about equipment flash + dough-in temp changes vs. just dough-in temp changes. Besides, everyone likes to talk about beer, right?
We'll be doing our first brew on our RIMS soon. I have some guidance on prior brews on other mash tuns and one brew on this one non-recirculating as far as a temp offset for strike/sparge water from stove to vessel + dough-in...but my goal with the RIMS is to get the strike water close to target temp, let the RIMS work a bit to equalize it out, and then dough-in. Best I can say is for strike water, it was about a 15-16*F difference from stove to mash target temp without pre-soaking vessel...but before, there was a good deal of difference (both initially and finishing) depending on where in the mash tun I measured the temperature.
Anyways...was curious what thoughts were on delta re: a starting target temp of water in the mash tun and target temp of mash after dough-in. I would think room temp & total amt of grain could affect this, but having a RIMS should help with any wiggle room (slightly undershooting being better). Thanks for any ideas!
We'll be doing our first brew on our RIMS soon. I have some guidance on prior brews on other mash tuns and one brew on this one non-recirculating as far as a temp offset for strike/sparge water from stove to vessel + dough-in...but my goal with the RIMS is to get the strike water close to target temp, let the RIMS work a bit to equalize it out, and then dough-in. Best I can say is for strike water, it was about a 15-16*F difference from stove to mash target temp without pre-soaking vessel...but before, there was a good deal of difference (both initially and finishing) depending on where in the mash tun I measured the temperature.
Anyways...was curious what thoughts were on delta re: a starting target temp of water in the mash tun and target temp of mash after dough-in. I would think room temp & total amt of grain could affect this, but having a RIMS should help with any wiggle room (slightly undershooting being better). Thanks for any ideas!