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I went ball lock because I got a good price on them. At least in Canada a good price. Now I'm going to have 15 of them so I don't feel like messing around changing it. my buddy down the road has pinlock.

That's largely how I do mine, about 36 hours or so. I run 10' beer lines too which allows for a higher pressure.

Pay attention to your boil off rate too, the higher the flame the more you will boil off. I bought a new KAB4 burner and boiled off 6L more than I expected to.

Agreed, this is definitely making me appreciate how easily I can get brewing equipment. Shine is technically illegal here but unless you're doing it commercially no one cares.

Yeah I'd have probably just left it in the keg and called it a lesson. I use masking tape and a sharpie to label all my brews though and I gravity read them when I transfer.

IT manager by profession but grew up on a farm. Brewing is a nice break from work.

I did January fairly well, I'm considering doing 2 weeks in March while my beers lager. I may have ulterior motives but I've dropped 13 pounds since Jan 1.

I just overbuild a starter and hang onto some of it for next time.

I haven't left anything as long as 2 years, but I left one for 4 months and it was fine.

That's pretty close to how I do it too, usually it only cold crashes for more than a day or two if I get distracted and forget it's in the fridge.

Oh man I remember the first time I dry hopped and all the hops floated. I thought I completely hosed the beer.

It might just not be a good seal either, I have a 7.5G Fermonster I use because it's easy to clean but it never seems to generate bubbles in the air lock. My assumption is the lid isn't properly sealing and the gas is going out through the threads, as that would be the path of least resistance.

The fact the instructions always look like 25 year old photocopies is what blows my mind.

That just made it more confusing to me.

I've had good luck with hopdawgs on stuff but they have a smaller selection so I tend to go to them for supplies rather than equipment.

If you order from their sister site Canuck homebrew supply the kegs are $160 for 4 pretty much all the time. I've bought 8 from them.

I use the local industrial gas supply store in Edmonton. $35 for a 10lb tank. Check around for something like Oxypro or any welding gas supply shop. Odds are they'll at least know where you can get CO2.

I've personally put about $300 into brewing equipment and about $600 into the keezer. I have a 16gallon brew pot, a bayou burner, a $20 coleman cooler mash tun and a corona mill I modded with a 5 gallon pail. It's probably all sorts of ghetto as it were but it works and works well. It doesn't...

I tossed 500ml of Bourbon in my vanilla porter and I have no idea what it did to the ABV but it tastes really good.

That would be nice if they have it sorted out. I'm intrigued by the idea, largely due to the variance of buckets and carboys I ferment in.