Adding Weight to Muslin Bags

fayderek14 · Apr 12, 2013

We are adding ingredients to our secondaries tonight in muslin bags and we want to add weight to them to have them sit on the bottom. I was thinking about using those clear stones that you can get at pet stores and put them in the bags. Would this work or can anyone recommend a better method?

day_trippr · Apr 12, 2013

I used to just liberate some of the wife's stainless silverware for such missions. The gravy ladle worked best to sink a muslin bag of cones in a serving keg

But I no longer bother sinking hops in serving kegs, and just toss a bag in and let it do whatever for the duration of the batch. And I always use free-swimming pellets for dry hopping in carboys, so no weight required there, either...

Cheers!

fayderek14 · Apr 12, 2013

One batch is gerting apples, cinnamon and vanilla bean and the other is getting orange peel, cardamom, coriander and ginger root. We want the bags to stay on the bottom for the entire duration of the secondary process. Thats why I was considering using marbles or those stone from a pet store.

m_stodd · Apr 12, 2013

Have a shot glass, or shot glasses? No need to go buy stuff

fayderek14 · Apr 12, 2013

Not sure if a shot glass will fit through the neck of the car boy....

mpcluever · Apr 12, 2013

Marbles. However, just know that anything you put through the neck of the carboy is a PITA to get back out. Marbles will all bunch up and you end up cutting the bag to get them out. I do all my additions in a keg now.

fayderek14 · Apr 12, 2013

Yea we were thinking when we bottle we would siphon out the beer then cut the tops off the bags and dump everything out.

Spartan1979 · Apr 17, 2013

I just bought a couple of large stainless steel nuts from Lowe's for that purpose.

ChshreCat · Apr 17, 2013

+1 on stainless steel nuts. Just put the nuts in the sack and then gently lower your nutsack in your beer.

mjohnson · Apr 17, 2013

ChshreCat said:
+1 on stainless steel nuts. Just put the nuts in the sack and then gently lower your nutsack in your beer.

So that is what that "dank" flavor is from...

mrklueber · Apr 17, 2013

Check out Arbor Fabricating at arborfab.com. They make some neat SS dry-hoppers for carboys and kegs. I just purchased one of each yesterday. Expect them delivered tomorrow or the next day. I did this to avoid hop junk in my beer while still getting the flavor. If you don't like this solution, I agree mpcluever about the marbles. That's what I used to use.

ZombieBrew83 · Apr 18, 2013

ChshreCat said:
+1 on stainless steel nuts. Just put the nuts in the sack and then gently lower your nutsack in your beer.

+1. I also have a SS eye bolt that serves the same purpose. Although a bolt bag is not as funny as a nut sack.

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