xlarge mesh bags

[brewsoda]

I am in search of large food grade mesh bags for steeping herbs. I need them to be big enough to hold roughly 5 lbs of dried herbs, with plenty of room for them to expand when in the kettle. Any ideas?
Thanks!!

[Ted]

head over to your local Porter Paints. They sell bags to strain 1 gallon and 5 gallon buckets of paint. Perfect for you me thinks.

[David Quinn]

are you dryhopping with whole leaves? or using these bags in the boil?

I have been thinking about getting a large stainless steel steeping ball made for this same purpose. what do you think?

[brewsoda]

I am using whole leaves in the boil...and have given much thought to the large stainless "tea ball" plan too. I think it would work well - just maybe pricey for me at this moment. My other issue is that I need to be able to squeeze the juices out after the steep.

I'm going to check out those paint strainer bags.

You may be thinking this is a totally odd process - but we actually brew all natural soda...using both dried and fresh herbs.

Thanks for the suggestions - and good luck with the steeping ball, I'd be very interested to hear about it!