They came with my kegs from Kegco but I think they're limiting the beer's CO2 intake. I'm going to swap them out for traditional ones today to see if they make a difference.
I have been plagued by poor carbonation and I have tried everything else.
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Yeah that sounds a lot like a clogged dip tube or poppet. My bet is on the poppet. You can clear a blockage fairly easily (at the downside of stirring up all the trub at the bottom of the keg) by switching the quick disconnects on your gas line to be liquid quick connects and blasting some CO~2~ down the liquid dip tube.
I was thinking the same. It's a hazy IPA and I had a floating dip tube on there which fell off after kegging and carbing, so I put the regular dip tube in.
I'm wondering if there's not even enough carbonation to force the beer up through the dip tube but I will see.
You basically don't need any real pressure in order to force liquid out of the keg it's just that if the pressure in the headspace is lower than the equilibrium pressure of the carbonation, then gas will come out of solution in the beer as it pours and it will go flat. If you pull the manual pressure relief and hear gas escaping then the beer should absolutely pour which again seems to suggest that something on the liquid side is clogged. Did you dry hop the beer in the keg?
Last note, here they are (liquid posts but they're identical in size to the gas ones) side by side.
The distance from where the lock on to the top of the post looks the same, so we'll see if this does the trick.