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Beers with higher OG's can take a bit longer to carbonate. I would give them another week. You might be surprised at how much difference a week in the bottle can make.

It's quite easy for bits of hop debris to clog up the poppets. Unfortunately the only solution is to take apart the post and clean it out.

My CO2 runs about $12 or $13 a refill. $35? Have you tried going across the border? :D The reverse osmosis water vending machines also sterilize the water so I use 5 gallons of that. I need to do some more experimenting, but this batch that I just kegged has been the first one in a long...

I just went through a months-long ordeal where kegged beers weren't tasting right. It turned out to be caused by not purging the keg adequately before filling it. IPAs were the most affected by this. What I do now is fill the keg with sterilized water (I guess star-san would work too but I...

I use Lagunitas/SN bottles all the time with my wing capper. No problems.

I would definitely recommend against using 5.2 stabilizer in the mash. From everything I've read on here, the stuff is useless. How is the hop aroma and flavor in the Bell's clone? I hope you find a solution, because I've been facing a similar problem for a few months now. Everything tastes...

It might be wise to think about the long-term health effects of drinking that much soda. You have to assume that her consumption is going to go up when it's so readily available. That much sugar is not good for a person at all. Weight gain and diabetes are two serious problems that come to mind.

$17 and change for a 5 lb exchange.

I've always wondered if that was true or not.

I don't think they would explode. The tanks have safety release valves that would vent the CO2 out. If anything, they would help extinguish the flames. Those two cylinders flying around at the end of the clip was pretty wild.

I would for the CO2 before you keg it. Fill the keg up with CO2 before you rack the beer into it.

That should be doable for a homebrewer. :)

Why do you think putting them in a pressure cooker will get them clean? I would try repeated soaks in PBW and hot (175*) water.

I'm such a *******. I left off the liquid side post o-ring.

So I opened up the keezer this morning to drop the PSI back down on a couple of kegs I was carbonating and I got a strong beer smell when I opened the lid. That's weird - beer is supposed to be in the kegs, right? Well, not today. There is about 2" of beer in the bottom of my keezer. I...

It won't affect carbonation. Just hook it back up and you'll be good to go.

In my corny kegs, the posts can be screwed on to either side. Also, the tubes themselves are interchangeable. If it weren't for the stamped-in "IN" or "OUT" in the black handle, it wouldn't matter which one went where.

Gas QD's and liquid QD's are not interchangeable. Just switch the posts and you'll be fine. Leave the tubes in place.

Secondary is definitely not necessary. At 10 days it may a little green yet. If it were me I would let it ride in there another day or two then burst carb it. It should be ready to drink by Sunday.

As for the carbonic bite/carbonic acid theory, we all know what beer tastes like, both flat and carbonated. If you're tasting something entirely different (and bad) about the beer I think you can safely rule this out. "It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I don't trust anybody."