Just wanted to share these bags. I think they are a good option for reducing the weight of an alcohol storage device. I waited to post on this topic until a had a few years of experience with these bags. They are ironically designed for sneaking alcohol onto cruise ships in your luggage. Because of that they are light weight, tough, and designed to withstand alcohol and have a very controlled pure from a narrow spout. I’ve done a few unscientific scenario tests – like leaving HEET in the bag for weeks, putting in the freezer, leaving it out in the sun – and other then the bags changing texture and becoming opaque I haven’t noticed any failures. They’ve been on about 10 trips now without failures using the 8 and 16 oz version.
So anyway, I’d like more folks to try these and see if there are failures in situations I haven’t accounted for because for 9 grams I think this is the lightest reasonable alcohol carry use case and it might be worth adopting as a goto option for the UL community. One limitation is I only use the yellow HEET for cooking – I have no experience with other alcohols interacting with this bag and that would be helpful to know for early adopters
Benefits
– 9 grams, light enough to ship extras in your through box.
– forms and shapes when full to fit inside a 1.3 liter evernew pot with the caldera and starlyte stove components, saving bag space.
– very controlled narrow pouring spout has been easy to use with accurate stove filling, does not spill.
– appears reusable for 3-4 trips at the least, likely more
– cost 1 dollar per bag
– comes with a filling funnel which works great.
Here’s the amazon link:
Hope this is helpful!
