home built RIMS system overview

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gnelson

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Hi All,

I built this 10 gallon system towards the end of last year and have now used it twice. It is half home built. I bought a mash tun from Angel Homebrew and then built the rest myself. The link below should go to a google doc that I wrote covering the bits I used and the general layout as used for mashing and sparging.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...-llDQF8XObQLI1963h589-J6SaO5m432cadCtx0Wx/pub

or if the link is too long, this is the same:
https://tinyurl.com/yy2nvo9n

Except the link doesn't keep the formatting very well for some reason.

Overall, I've been quite pleased. Only adjustment I required after the first brew was my false bottom needed something to hold it in place, so I cut up some old shelf supports to make a trivet-like thing to sit on top of it. That worked well this time round. I don't use a bag for the mash, just direct in the tun- I much prefer it this way. So far I've made an IPA and a bitter with it. Interested to see how well it deals with wheat when I do a hefeweizen in 2-3 months.

Anyone with ideas of better ways of running the system, I'd appreciate the comments.

Cheers,

Glyn
 

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