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Brewing Discussions => Equipment & Chemicals => Topic started by: lordstilton on November 03, 2017, 04:38:02 PM

Title: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: lordstilton on November 03, 2017, 04:38:02 PM
Folks anyone got any experience with these?? https://www.brewbuilder.co.uk/rims.html (https://www.brewbuilder.co.uk/rims.html) Thinking of pulling the trigger.
Title: Re: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: johnrm on November 05, 2017, 02:27:36 PM
Detail is quite vague on their site.
2 pumps and hlt needed?
Title: Re: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: nigel_c on November 05, 2017, 07:28:42 PM
Not HLT. The heating is done in the tube.
Looks like you'll need a low density element.
Thing about rims V's HERMS is the wort has direct contact with the heat source and may get a lot
more localised heating / scorched as it's in contact with element.
Did a lot of looking into it before building my setup and HERMS has a lot better results.
Title: Re: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: johnrm on November 05, 2017, 07:30:54 PM
Gotcha. Thanks
Title: Re: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: DEMPSEY on November 06, 2017, 10:10:52 AM
+1 on that. RIMS has the risk of overheating the wort passing through it  where as HERMS only has the wort passing through it at the desired temperature of the mash.
Title: Re: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: lordstilton on November 06, 2017, 12:09:49 PM
Dempsey you used copper for your coil if I remember correctly.. I take it that's OK to use with wort.. Is cleaning the coil an issue?
Title: Re: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: imark on November 06, 2017, 01:08:13 PM
Mine is copper. Not an issue.
Title: Re: Brew Builder Rims Tube
Post by: DEMPSEY on November 06, 2017, 01:54:56 PM
no mine was stainless steel