After a small tweak, I was able to get my idea of RIMS+loop to work basically as I envisioned it in a water test. A ball valve controlling the loop flow rate more linearly (compared to the butterfly valve used in my first revision) proved to be essential.
Tag: RIMS
2019 Brewery Updates pt 1: The Concept
This year’s updates have been related to an idea I’ve been sharing for recirculating mash systems involving a high flow loop within a brewery’s plumbing
2018 brewery update
An update on my brewery is quite overdue. Many changes have been made in the year+ since my last post on this in early 2017.
Review of OBK’s “grain defender” false bottom
During the craziness of the holiday shopping season, one of my favourite homebrew equipment and ingredient suppliers, Ontario Beer Kegs put their false bottoms on sale… I’d been eyeing up one for awhile and couldn’t resist ordering one even though it wasn’t officially designed to fit my mash tun.
7 homebrewery designs and their rationale
The core of an all grain homebrewing system is arguably how the mash process is completed. Here I describe and compare 7 popular homebrewery designs based on this property, all of which are capable of making great beer.
A shiny new way of calculating PID parameters
Based on my previous post about specification of PID parameters, I developed a basic shiny web app to do all of the calculations for you.
Electric brewery setup: duty cycle length
What should you set your duty cycle length to be on your brewery controller, such as one based around StrangeBrew Elsinore software?