Will my Wilser brew bag work for making jelly?

[z-bob]

I think it should, unless the mesh is too tight and it will clog up immediately with cooked fruit pulp. I cooked some crabapples tonight to make some jelly tomorrow (or the next day if it takes too long to drip) and the brewing bag seems like an ideal tool instead of messing with cheesecloth. But I could be overlooking something. The juice will probably stain the bag but I don't care about that.

 

[Agent]

I use 5 gallon nylon paint strainers for hops, as well as jelly or nut milk straining. Usually that's the perfect size for those projects.

 

[z-bob]

I use 5 gallon nylon paint strainers for hops, as well as jelly or nut milk straining. Usually that's the perfect size for those projects.

Thank you! I have used 1-gallon and 5-gallon paint strainer bags for making jelly before, but I forgot about them. I probably have a few already, if I can just find them...

 

[wilserbrewer]

I prefer jam, but you do you lol….never made jelly but give the bag a try….thx

 

[z-bob]

I prefer jam, but you do you lol….never made jelly but give the bag a try….thx

I generally like jams and preserves better too, but crabapples just scream to be made into jelly. I've made crabapple jelly, plum jam, and grape jam this year. (I still need to make a small batch of peach preserves just to have something on the shelf that's not red, LOL)

I used a 1 gallon paint strainer bag. I squeezed it hard to get all the juice out, then cleaned the bag and ran the juice thru again and just let it drip w/o squeezing. I should have used the Wilser bag for the second pass because it's a finer mesh; when I ordered my brewing bag, you included a couple of free small bags (hops socks?) and those would have worked perfectly. I put the juice in the fridge overnight and decanted the clear juice off the little bit of sediment. It made a lovely jelly, and I got almost twice as much juice as the recipe called for. So I made 3 batches of jelly instead of 2, and had juice left over to make some grenadine-like syrup.