so my experience is fairly limited in electric brewing. the little nano down in Baja has a colorado system with one vessel setup. there's a recirc arm to pull wort from the below the mash tun insert at the bottom of the kettle and then bring it up to the top of the mash bed for mixing and temp stabilization. thats as far as i know about electric systems.
we're looking to expand and get a new system ordered, and down here electric is alot cheaper to operate than gas (propane). so, the options i keep seeing are RIMs and HERMs.
i cant see rims tube doing much other than keeping stable temp during mash. am i missing something there?
and for HERMS, you're using the hot liquor as heat source, so the temp differential isnt that high (150ish vs 170 in HLT?) so not sure how much heating "power" you'll get from it.
other than better temp stabilization and step mashing, im not sure i see big reasons to go with either. anybody have some insights on these two features?
we're looking to expand and get a new system ordered, and down here electric is alot cheaper to operate than gas (propane). so, the options i keep seeing are RIMs and HERMs.
i cant see rims tube doing much other than keeping stable temp during mash. am i missing something there?
and for HERMS, you're using the hot liquor as heat source, so the temp differential isnt that high (150ish vs 170 in HLT?) so not sure how much heating "power" you'll get from it.
other than better temp stabilization and step mashing, im not sure i see big reasons to go with either. anybody have some insights on these two features?
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