FerrodayCarbonation Keg Lid for Corny Keg Lid Carbonation Stone Beer Force Carbonation Keg Lid Diffusion Stone Carbonating Keg Lid Carbonator Stainless Steel 304 Keg Lid for Cornelius Keg - 20" Tube

Turned my local brewer onto these for his 5gal batches. Works great, no leaks, and can carb up 5gal in a few hours!

This is a fantastic device for force carbonating beer and other beverages in corny kegs in less time than it would normally take. The first one that came had a faulty weld so air leaked out from around the collar where the pressure release valve is threaded into, but a quick complaint to Amazon had a new one sent to me two days later that was in perfect shape. Carbonated 20 gallons of different kegs of beer for an event in 4 days. Very pleased and the next best thing to a carbonation stone on my fermenter.

When we started with carbonated water from a kegerator, to replace store-bought, we were carbonating the keg-way - hook it up, every now and again rock it around, rinse/repeat for 3 days or so, then it's fizzy.But since we're both physically disabled, this way was difficult, painful, and took a lot of effort. Then I discovered the micro posous stones thing from a YouTube video, came to Amazon to research, found this.The price was good, it looked easy, and the brand seemed fine, so we pulled the trigger and got one.Best. Purchase. Ever. for the kegerator project!Two days to carbonate a corny keg, we could probably do it in one but we like to be certain. But for us, not having to manhandle a 5 gallon keg and slosh it around for 3 days is a real benefit!If there is *one* criticism I could have about the lid, it's how the relief valve ring sits - it ends up underneath the seal arm, so unless you remember when you put the assemblage together to life the relief valve ring up and clear before pushing the seal bat closed, you can't vent the keg.Other than that, this has made life easier, produces carbonated water quicker than just sloshing the keg around for a couple of days. It's easy to clean, easy to use once you figure out the trick to getting it into the hole to rotate it (2 posts - try to get the pressure relief valve to go under the edge of the keg's entry rather than the gas post). Comes with everything you need (which isn't much). Recommend this 100%!

GARBAGE!!! I purchased two of these units, and when I connected them to my tanks, the tanks pressurized as they should have, so I left them alone. I came back about 30 minutes later only to find that both of them had blown the pressure valves (at 20psi) and leaked out an entire 20-pound bottle of CO2.

Just used for the first time yesterday. Put together sanitized and is connected as we speak. Will remove today based on other comments in reviews for time needed. Worked fine with the usual fussing around to get seals to seal like any lid. So we will see if it beats the shaking around and extra time I used to do.

I normally force carb with the set it and forget method, over the course of 2-3 weeks. I've never had great luck with the burst carbing methods where you crank it to 30 PSI and shake it, etc. They always end up either way over carbed, or way under carbed. Anyway, I wanted to get a beer carbed for a competition quickly, so figured I'd spend the $25 to get this. With Prime shipping, I got it the next day. The nice thing about it is it carbs fast and there's no way to overcarb, because you never set the PSI higher than you normally would. You just hook it up, and set the PSI at like 4, then turn it up 2 PSI every 2 hours. I had great luck with my first beer over night, so I ended up moving the lid to 2 other kegs I had sitting in my keezer, slow carbing. I just carbed to 2 PSI over my normal serving pressure, 1 PSI for the "wetting pressure", and 1 to account for the small loss when swapping the lid. If you don't want to swap the lid, these are cheap enough you can just buy one for each keg.They come with the lid, hose, stone and a worm clamp to connect the hose with the lid. I didn't find the worm clamp to be necessary, since the lid post is about an inch long. The lid itself seems pretty high quality, I don't really forsee any issues with it. The silicone tubing was nice. It wasn't super sticky like most silicone tubing usually is. Between moving it from keg to keg, I would simply put the whole kit and caboodle in my 1 gallon pot and boil it. Fits nicely in a 1 gallon bag for storage (you don't want to touch the stone or get anything on it, or you can clog the tiny pores).If you are a careful observer of my photos, you will notice that I use pin lock kegs. It's somewhat unfortunate that these only come in ball locks, but that seems to be all any of the different brands support. I played around with trying to swap out the ball lock, with a pin lock, but it didn't seem like I'd be able to unscrew it. There's nothing on the bottom to hold on to, except for the post. However, every pin lock user should have at least one quick disconnect that screws on/off, so they can swap it with a ball lock, since that is what the new gadgets seem to support. I like to go one step further and have a luer lock disconnect installed on one gas line, so I can hook whatever I want up to it. It makes it very handy for easily attaching stuff. You can see it in action in one of the images, search Google (luer lock beer keg) for more info on setting one up. I recommend them for ball lock users too!

it worksstill trying to dial in the proper sequence.quality is Meh. the relief valve wiggles and will not close sometimes and all that co2 gone.If there is higher quality one out there, consider trading up, especially, once again, as the relief valve is a very poor fit.(sorry for comma splices)