GARYSMIFF 'S SYSTEM (RIMS)

[bramswell]

Gary
how about this for a hop strianer?


it is made from a SS sieve, i removed the mesh and rolled it up crimped it and secured to an equal T, it only leaves around 150mm and i only use loose leaf hops, it does a great job.

[delboy]

[quote="bramswell"]Gary
how about this for a hop strianer?


it is made from a SS sieve, i removed the mesh and rolled it up crimped it and secured to an equal T, it only leaves around 150mm and i only use loose leaf hops, it does a great job.[/quote

Thats a nice simple solution, i might copy that idea, have you tried it with a hop heavy brew ie (100g of hops) or with any pellets yet??

[bramswell]

Delboy
i have used it with 100g of hops, actually just a litle more,only had about 4 seeds pass through it, I haven't used pellets yet but dont think it will have much problem with them.
i based it on this http://www.zymico.com/bazooka/

[GARYSMIFF]

People,

if you need to make a mesh strainer go here, I use this at the ends of all my outlets its fantastic and a little goes a long way.

and it is so strong you can not crush it and if you do it springs back to shape and you can adjust the mesh size,must say though it realy does your head in when you try to cut it as your focus goes right out, you will see what i mean if you get some, the strange thing is, I never managed to see how if a mesh strainer extends past the copper pipe's T like in "delboys" pics what use it would be when the liquid level is below the T? surly it would not act as a pipe and channel up the wort so does it need to extent as far as they do, or did I miss something?

any how.

The Site link

http://www.themeshcompany.com/acatalog/ ... istry.html

what I use, it fits a 15mm pipe nice with a SSteel Jub clip.

[GARYSMIFF]

as requested



Sorry for all the questions.....If this is your mash tun, where is the grain?

Hi Gary, where did you get this plate?

I've tried the splatter guard in my copper but it rides up during the boil allowing hops into the tap so am planning to use this idea?

Excellent set up; tinkering a plenty!

Rick,
sorry to say £1 shop tray, was intended for lids for the kegs but American forums said "no" bad things to covering the boil, so needed to source a false bottom, and I see that people where using a tank connetor for keg walls so put the false bottom and tank connector together and drilled a few holes in the SSteel tray.

that said I did have a prob 1st with suction so solved that by adding 4 rivits in the LIP of the tray, that kept the tray off the bottom of the keg say 2mm thus creating less suction and enough to stop grain and hops getting past and still to this day use in copper.

I did once use it for a mash false bottom, I then had a lightbulb moment with a splatter screen which I now use, I'm sure it would have been ok, maybe a few more holes but the rivits help loads.
BR,
SMIFFY

[GARYSMIFF]

Chris
Wow, that is soo clear, I want to try that m8ty, don't care what is, it looks FAB.

Am I missing something every one has 2x 2.7 kw elements, forgive me, I only deal ( at the moment) with 25ltr brews and my 1st run with electricity rather than gas was a tad scary as the boil was nutty,better than gas ever did for me albeit outside in winter, now you chaps have 2 elements I'm thinking Pompei and Vesuvius or are you only running on 110v and thus 1/4 the value of the element but dont think so as you are from good old UK 240V?

and in plastic......ahhhh

Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to
this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has
fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its
lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength,
come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.


What, behind the rabbit?
It is the rabbit!
You silly sod!
Ahhhhhhh

[GARYSMIFF]

OIC,
else
Beer every where.


Now I am the owner of a £10 ebay bargain Electrim bin and also the owner of 3 elements from a booty to fit said item for the grand sum of 50p each, the best bit is ( even though at the moment I'm not using them) when I was looking to see if the chap had any more elements a stranger said to me if you want the leads to fit that I have some on my stall 10p each.

I'm not into the Bible but "seek and you will find what you need at a boot sale if you look hard enough and are lucky" I am sure I read that in there at some point along with melting down golden cows and crossing rivers and floods?

[HantsGaz]

Chris - seeing how clear your wort is from using a hop strainer -that has convinced me to stop whirl pooling and siphoning and to fit a strainer to my Burco. Your wort is impressively clear, do you re-circulate any of the initial runnings like when sparging (or set aside first runnings until the end)? It may also help me to improve efficiencies as I frequently end up with about 4 to 5 litres of trub in the bottom of the boiler, so if I can filter that then I start to use what I might normally throw away.

[GARYSMIFF]

Chris-x1
Again, I learn more,
at the end of my Boil I'm all rush rush hurry hurry in an effort to cool and get it inside a FV to yeast pich temp so I don't get any nastys in my brew.

My Counter Flow (Battersea power station or Kraftwerk as I now call it) takes about 20 mins in a single run to get down to 21 ish but today ( it's second use) I returned wort to copper on a higher pump speed so to get some more out of my Flame out hops.

I hop soon (pun) to change my copper tray base to a SSteel screen like my MT so I can get rid of using my Hop bags as I'm sure free range (loose) hops are best and might get closer to your Mighty fine clear runnings.

IYI: today was a bit of a Frankinstein brew session: "Hungover me thinks, it was good mates 40th B'day party and too much cider"
Shoot me down, but as follows:
25ltrs
4kg M O
200gm Torry
300gm Crystal
20gm Bramlin Cross 5.5% αa @ 60
20gm Nelson Sauvin 11.5% αa @ 30
20gm Hallertauer Mittelfrüh 3.9% αa @ FO
SO-4
OG 1046

It's Fruity. and have you ever cracked open the top because you can see froth and just enough to get your nose in and smell nothing so you draw harder then "BANG" Co2

[edit1now]

Good one Gary, fantastic to see it in use. What are those wire-reinforced hoses you have in the pictures - PVC or silicone, and where did you get them?

[GARYSMIFF]

Good one Gary, fantastic to see it in use. What are those wire-reinforced hoses you have in the pictures - PVC or silicone, and where did you get them?

Silicone I wish, looked into what they use in a dairy and found to be V expensive.

It is PVC called Armorvin, now I can't remember the name of the website but do remember seeing it on another website for 1/2 the price.
The stuff I have is Taint free foodgrade PVC and think can go to 65 ish degrees but I have run 80's through it and its fine no more bendy then at mash out temps.
The Pipe was a major part of how I was going to build my system when I found out cost of Silly I had to look for another option.
This was the insparation for the tube setup http://hbd.org/discus/messages/366/33903.html and LOL if i can I get the pic of my MK1 system that should have been left as a pipe dream..

Here you go (what was I thinking)

Pump test and the only test this ever had R I P

[GARYSMIFF]

Just Added a Mesh to my Copper
Just giving it boil clean.

[GARYSMIFF]

Rims in action you can see the Clockwise swirl of the wort, very mesmerizing should get the magic roundabout to play when I do it next, Sod it, tomorrow I'll will mostly be making a Wheat beer type of thing like almost but not quite ish beer.I'm sure I have what I need.

Me thinks a:

1.5 KG Lager malt
1.5 KG Wheat
1kg Rice Flakes
20 gms Hallertauer Aroma 6.4 AA @ 60
10 gms Spalt 4.2 AA @ FO
WB-06
and Some Time.
below is my Rims running.


Video Link here
http://www.btinternet.com/~garypetersmiff/RIMS2-1.wmv

[WishboneBrewery]

so will that turn out about 4% then?

[GARYSMIFF]

Sorry for tardy reply,

I'm hoping as my mash efficiency is around 80+ so about 4.5% but defo above 4%.

Summer Fizz I named it.