The Backyard Brewer

Today I get to say goodbye to my old brew bag that's full of holes! It served me well for 6 mashes but it's time to retire it as I've got a new bag to try out that's hopefully going to be the last brew bag I will ever need! My old bag cost me $8 and was advertised as a "Top Shelf" polyester brew bag with reinforced webbing but sadly I only got 6 brews out of and on my last brew day it leaked nearly a cup full of grain into my kettle, so much for top shelf! The bag I just purchased is called the Brew Bag and it has flown halfway around the world to be here, and it cost me a whopping $82! So why on earth would anyone spend that much money on a nylon brew bag? Well I could buy 9 of the cheap ones and get at least 54 brews from them for the same cost, but there's also another issue I was having with my old brew bag, and that was poor efficiency thanks to the very fine 65 micron mesh that it was made from. It had the tendency to trap in a lot of sugars and m