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I have diffusion stones / carbonation stones in all my kegs and they worked fantastic for several months. After the batch I would leave them in the keg while I Ovyclean. Now I am finding that they all are clogged and my beer isn't carbonating properly. Any advice or experience would be...

I just made one of the Festa Wort In A Bag kits called "Beer Belly" it is a Ltd. Edition run. The side panel states that it is "A finely blended craft beer using fuggles hops and a blend of lightly roasted grains yielding a light-coloured, easy drinking beer." With the tagline "Watch the Belly"...

Made a 10L Fontana Mixed Berry Cider Kit It had a low og so I dumped in the 50g priming sugar that came with it and fermented for 3 weeks. It had the pictured film on it. Racked to secondary and added biofine clearing to it. A week later it has a new scum on the top. When I did the transfer...

I have been making 23L (6 gal) canned beer kits and adding extra malt or sugar or enhancers to the canned goo to make the beer better then fermenting and splitting into 2 x 3 gal kegs for serving. So reading over John Palmer's site he states that the LME ratio to make beer is 1 - 1.5 lb per...

I recently started doing canned kits, prior to this I was doing wort in a bag kits. The guy at the brew shop told me to put ldme in the kit instead of dextrose to make a better beer. My first kit I added 2lb of ldme & 1lb of dextrose to the 1.8 kg canned kit og 1.044 and at 4 wks I had an fg...

The only information I could find is from their site: Two-row, premium Canadian and Bavarian barley. Hallertau and Saaz hops. Bavarian yeast. Pure water. We source only the finest, natural ingredients that are truly worthy of a beer that bears the name “1516”. No shops around here sell a...

I am trying to make a Rickards Red clone and the recipe calls for 1.2 kg hi-malt glucose, there are 6 different brew shops in town and nobody carries it. Any suggestions on a workaround? Here is the recipe that I wanted to use: Ingredients 1.9 kg Brew Canada Red Beer Kit 1.2 kg hi-malt...

I put a Baron's Cerveza & Redwood Ale into primary 3 weeks ago and within hours I got a lot of vent activity, 2 days later it was quiet. I am now 3 weeks past that and I wanted to put them in secondary, the Cerveza I believe is infected as it has a scummy film on top. I tranferred it anyway and...

Since my plan is to always have back up kegs ready to go does anyone know how much priming sugar to use for a 3 gal keg? I have 8 of them but can only fit 2 at a time in the kegerator. I don't want to keep going to the beer store while I have 20 gals of uncarbonated beer sitting around. It...

I left 26' of beer line in starsan for 3 days because I did not have time to work on my lines, when I took it out today my whole line is slimey like the pvc is melting... Took several washes to get it off of my hands. Could that be or is that just what starsan does??? Can this be rectified...

I have no freakin clue how to read my hydrometer... There is a big bold line for 1.000 then 4 ticks then regular bold line with a 10 then 4 ticks then regular bold line with a 20 and so on until 90 then 4 ticks Then another big bold line for 1.100 My Red Ale is at day 16 (11 in...