Panty hose

[justbrewit]

i know its an off the wall question, but has any one ever used panty hose for maybe a hops bag or grain bag?? i'm kinda cheap and kinda limited as to what i can order. i figured that this would be a good idea, unless someone else has other ideas??

what say you??

 

[david_42]

Yes, I've used them. If they are not new, boil them for about 20 minutes before use. Athlete's foot spores are tough. They also do a great job filtering hops and cold break out of the wort.

 

[justbrewit]

the ones i'll be using are brand spanking new!! i'm not about to put foot funk into my beer!! haha

 

[Tony]

Aha...over there robbing some jung frau of her beinschlauch????

 

[justbrewit]

nope, i'm married!! only thing i'm robbing is her chance to spend all my money buy spending it on home brew stuff!!!! LOL

 

[sudsmonkey]

They also work great as filters when racking. Rubber band one to the downstream end of your siphon hose, and it will catch a lot of stuff. Cool thing is, they're cheap. I use the short ones. You can get them about 20 to a pack for around two bucks. That's a lot of filtering for your buck. I, too, had wondered about using them as grain bags. Was gonna do a boil test. Seems someone already has. Good enough for me !

 

[homebrewer_99]

nope, i'm married!! only thing i'm robbing is her chance to spend all my money buy spending it on home brew stuff!!!! LOL

Don't be surprised if one day she's followed home by a bunch of beeraholics because the panty hose you've been using smells like homebrew!

 

[justbrewit]

shoot, once they get used, their stayin with my homebrew gear, no funky foot in my batches!!!

 

[gibfried]

I'm think I'm getting sick...

 

[Walker]

I was going to make a sick joke about being careful of wild yeast strains in used pantyhose, but since gibfried is getting sick from this, I think I'll pass on the joke.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I was going to make a sick joke about being careful of wild yeast strains in used pantyhose, but since gibfried is getting sick from this, I think I'll pass on the joke.

Yeah, I was going to expand on that sick joke with another one involving a play on words with 'lambic' and an anatomical term, but this is really going too far.

 

[BlightyBrewer]

Yaaarggh, you guys are really freakin' me out!

 

[justbrewit]

ok ok, lets try and get this thread back on track. enough with the nasties, any one else tried using them??

 

[homebrewer_99]

Only when I ski....

 

[HopSong]

Old thread.. but, winemakers had no issue tramping grapes with feet.. and they don't boil the "wort"

 

[HopIowa]

Ok, seriously. I use them when I mash, but not during the boil, and only in my garage. I like the long ones, the darker the better. just make sure you don't get too close to your burners becuase they will melt to your legs, and it really hurts.

 

[phoenixs4r]

This forum is so amusing with the thread resurrections.