Biab Materials

[user 10246]

This one Bribie http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...090&hl=biab ?

No Lab coats there though :wacko:

 

[Bribie G]

No, although that's an interesting thread and Screwtop never once refers to BIAB as brew in a jockstrap :lol:

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...amp;hl=lab+coat

 

[The_Duck]

Thanks to all that answered my post and volunteered your knowledge and experience.

Great to see I sparked a short but lively thread

I spent an hour or so on Saturday morning sewing a large grain bag and 2 smaller hop bags in readiness to brew however weather, kids, SWMBO and a few other things prevented me from my mission.

I plan to fix this as soon as I can.

What I did notice was that using all cotton did still produce a reasonably strong bag, especially since I doubled it over and did 3 rows of triple stitch down each side. I would have used the overlocker if I coulda worked it out.... but that thing scares me :blink:

As some people posted, if I use the cotton bag for a couple of brews and the durability is not there I can always switch. I really would like to avoid using synthetic fibres in my brewing system, mainly due to personal choice than anything else. After I washed the fabric in napisan and very hot water, I tested the fabric for water permiability etc. It was very good and quite easily absorbed water as well as squeezed quite dry .

I'll see if I can get some shots of the bags before their first use in brewing and then again after a couple of uses for comparison.

Like Pat says... Can't hurt to give it a go.

 

[PistolPatch]

Thanks for adding that link... I'm also impressed that you slipped in cognitive dissonance...

Glad you enjoyed the link LF. I remember that cognitive dissonance post . I think a fair bit of it goes on .

I'll see if I can get some shots of the bags before their first use in brewing and then again after a couple of uses for comparison.

Hope all goes well Duck and will look forward to hearing the results.

Cheers,
Pat

 

[pk.sax]

I was looking for voile at Lincraft today and they only had cotton voile.... I'm only planning to use it for a 19 Lt pot for now but would be interesting if the Duck got back here and told us how his cotton bag faired...

From what I read above, it should at least hold up for a few brews as long as I can keep it clean etc. And I can always go looking for a polyester bag later if this one fails, but why fix something that isn't broke! except that Lincraft didn't bloody have any nylon or polyester voile They had some other stretchy polyester stuff that looked a lot stronger but looked like a much denser weave.

So, yeah, I'll umm post again when/if I get to doing a brew with this but appreciate anyone sharing experience about "Cotton Voile" for BIAB.

 

[Rodolphe01]

topical, i too went to lincraft today to try and find poly voile without luck, and the lady tried to give me cotton. i was at spotlight earlier in the day and they had a metric ton of nylon voile, and 1 role of poly which also had a tag saying it was nylon... i didn't bother asking for help because i figured spotlight is the bunnings of the fabric world... tomorrow i will be going back to spotlight with my tail between my legs and getting the poly/nylon/? stuff since lincraft was worse