Brew Builder Rims Tube

[lordstilton]

Folks anyone got any experience with these?? https://www.brewbuilder.co.uk/rims.html Thinking of pulling the trigger.

[johnrm]

Detail is quite vague on their site.
2 pumps and hlt needed?

[nigel_c]

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.

[johnrm]

Gotcha. Thanks

[DEMPSEY]

+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.

[lordstilton]

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?

[imark]

Mine is copper. Not an issue.

[DEMPSEY]

no mine was stainless steel