Rims and Herms??

[suffolkbeer]

I keep seeing ‘RIMS’ and ‘HERMS’ being discussed but am in the dark as to wht they actually are.

Anyone able to explain them and how they work?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
You don't need a RIMS tube, of course - any of the "tea urn" type boilers can be used to heat the wort during the mash.
The RIMS tube was developed in the USA where many homebrewers use gas to boil.

 

[Smileyr8]

On the old site was there not a glossary for this type of enquiry?

 

[terrym]

Acronyms. Don't yer just love em.
Once upon a time, in another life, I sat in a meeting with lots of senior people from the rail industry who were bandying acronyms about very knowledgeably (the rail industry is littered with them). I hadn't a clue what many of them meant, and someone else clearly didn't because they asked what one particular acronym meant. No-one knew. :unsure:

 

[MickDundee]

One of them is where you lick your partner’s bumhole, and the other is a well known courier company.

 

[LarryF]

where you lick your partner’s bumhole,.

We've brought some managers into the equation then.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

One of them is where you lick your partner’s bumhole, and the other is a well known courier company.

:laugh:

 

[Clint]

MickDundee go and wash your mouth out....
That's proper funny! Only on the hbf. ...

 

[Slid]

RIMS is a recirculating immersion mashing system.

The Grainfather is a sort of model system. It works by using the same vessel to mash and boil and needs a mashing cylinder that sits inside main vessel to contain the grain.
A pump under the grains recirculates the mashing wort over the grain continuously through the mash.
At the end, the mashing cylinder is raised up to facilitate the sparging of the grain and then the grain gets dumped, the wort gets boiled and so forth.

There are quite a few RIMS system available now and I would recommend investigating the cost / benefits to personal circumstances to anyone who is serious about doing AG.

I don't know the "ins and outs" of HERMS, but the Hermes lorries are a right pain in the afore mentioned bumhole.

 

[Bigcol49]

MickDundee go and wash your mouth out...

I should think so, licking people's bumhole.
:laugh:

Apparently, scientists are so sick of schoolboy jokes about the name of the planet Uranus that it's been renamed Yabumhole.

 

[strange-steve]

Apparently, scientists are so sick of schoolboy jokes about the name of the planet Uranus that it's been renamed Yabumhole.

I thought according to Prof Farnsworth it was renamed Urectum.

 

[sdt7618]

How to "derail" a thread 101 right here:bla:

 

[MickDundee]

MickDundee go and wash your mouth out....
That's proper funny! Only on the hbf. ...

No need, I haven’t been rimming anyone!

 

[strange-steve]

To "rerail" the thread then and continue on from Slid, HERMS is heat exchange recirculating mash system, which is when the liquid portion of the mash is pumped out of the mash tun, through a copper coil which is immersed in a separate kettle, then back into the mash tun. The kettle is controlled by a PID which allows accurate control and quick adjustments of the mash temperature.

 

[Thumper]

MickDundee go and wash your mouth out....
That's proper funny! Only on the hbf. ...

I really hope not. There's nothing wrong with it, but that sort of thing should be done in the privacy of the bedroom.

 

[Slid]

To "rerail" the thread then and continue on from Slid, HERMS is heat exchange recirculating mash system, which is when the liquid portion of the mash is pumped out of the mash tun, through a copper coil which is immersed in a separate kettle, then back into the mash tun. The kettle is controlled by a PID which allows accurate control and quick adjustments of the mash temperature.

Thank you, strange-steve.