good bag material

This is a voile curtain I found at Target. I made a brew bag out of it and it as been working well. Although it is already sewn and embroidered to be a curtain the voile is less than what you would spend on a raw sheet of voile at many places.

http://www.target.com/p/Simply-Shabby-C ... etailimage

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Good on you jr. If you have a strong magnifying glass, see if you can count the threads per cm. Be interesting to see what different porosities people are using. My bag is 40 threads per cm but my original bag was probably coarser as it drained a bit faster. (Gave it away before I thought of counting the threads ).

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How do you know that your using a food grade curtain...

Maybe before you use it in your beer, cut off a section and boil it for an hour. Taste the water at the end to make sure that there is nothing awful leaching out

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natural is the colour. It means no added colour

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Just got back from Target today and found an 84" Voile Window Sheer by RE (Room Essentials) for $4.99. Oddly enough, the smaller 63" one was $9.99.

It looks like this one, but it's only $4.99 compared to $17.99 like this one.

Looking forward to testing it out on a Maxi-BIAB recipe in the next week or two.

Do people just use it as is (is it tough enough for a 10#+ grain bill), or do they double it up and sew the halves together to make it more tough?

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