Secondary

Moved the fine smelling ale to a clear better bottle for secondary fermenting. This is my first time with this step so it will be interesting to watch how it clears. There was about 3/8" of trub on the bottom of the bucket and quite a caking on the lid and inside from all that fermenting. It smells absolutely fantastic. Taste was much better than expected, great even especially given the yeasty, flat and warm state of things. I am getting excited.

SG was 1.016. Still a little higher than I would expect but the next week or two should see that go down right? Perhaps should have waited a few more days, but wine needs to be racked tues at Bob's house and I didn't want to let this go until wed.

This project kicked a desperately needed side project of basement cleaning and organizing off and it is amazing how much nicer thing are already.

After only 5 hours in the secondary, some clearing occurred at the top with a layer of sediment forming at the bottom. Color went from a reddish to almost black.

Added a fair bit of leaves to Pyle, along with trub mixed in with approx 4 gals of water. It is supposed to rain tonight, I can't believe after all the rain we had over the last couple weeks how dry it is in the center. Smells pretty earthy, but no temp raised that I can see. I am not going sit back there with a hose to get it started..