Hops Bags

[DandyMason]

For those who use them, How do you clean your hop bags?

Can I just toss them in the washer?

[Jake]

I'm yet to wash them in the washer. I usually just rinse them by hand without soap, and just make sure there are no particles in there. Then just lay them out on the rack to dry. I figure they're going to be boiled for an extended period of time, so that'll kill just about anything on there that I can't rinse off.

They seem pretty delicate, so I don't bother adding them to the wash ... but I'm sure yuou probably could and it wouldn't hurt anything.

[DandyMason]

Yeah true good points... Probably not needed

[Kyle]

Yeah, I use the same method as Jake.

[brew]

Yeah, I use the same method as Jake.

+1

[fakr]

To add a spin to this...I'm going to be using a hop bag with whole leaf hops in my secondary keg when pressure fermenting...this is to avoid issues like Jake faced with a stuck pressure transfer becasue of hop pellet particles.  Throw the hops in a bag and throw it in the secondary keg before pressure transferring.

I had the ideal of hand washing the bag, rinsing, then soaking in starsan.  After that fill the wet bag with hops and throw it in the secondary....anyone see a problem with that method?

[Richard]

Nope.

[sdixon]

Nope - 2

[fakr]

geez, I had to read my post again to see how I worded my question...thought you guys were just saying no with no explanation!