Recent content by poolteacher

My wife named mine for me. I teach billiards and am a bar manager inside a pool hall. The name was easy for her when she asked me why I called a coin-operated pool table a "bar box." The name and lable were created in a couple of hours. Hasn't changed at all. She even works in graphic design and...

Just racked an Irish Red into my secondary. Had been in the primary for 8 days. By day 3 in the primary it had stopped fermenting. Talked to the guys at the local homebrew shop and they told me to re-pitch. Did so and after day two in the secondary fermentaion has all but stopped... Anyone...

Woke up this afternoon to find my airlock was empty and crusted over with dried foam. Come to think of it everything is crusted over...

How does a blow off tube work? Dumb question I'm sure....

First I want to say that I am new to this. One might say that I started off sprinting instead of crawling... I started out about two months ago because a friend's father brews and I tried some of his. I was hooked. Since I have made four wines and seven beers. Also a mead caught my eye...