Mr Miller said he planned to put ice in the casing and use it to hold beer at the barbecue he rescheduled for Sunday. "I had to take the sensible approach and had to call the police," he said.

[Paul] is sick and tired of his homemade root beer being flat. He analyzed the problem with his carbonation techniques and ended up with a method of force carbonating beverages using dry ice.

“I’m going to polish it up and use it as a beer cooler,” Mr Miller said. The casing is around five inches in diameter and 10 inches tall, so Mr Miller plans to put ice in it and use it to ...