Honey Pale Ale Update

Here is a quick run down of how the fermentation has gone with the honey pale ale:

• the airlock pressurized 20mins after being installed and was activity bubbling within 2.5hrs. The safebrew t-58 yeast really moves fast
• the next morning the airlock was going off like a machine gun and co2 was pumpin yeast gunk throughout the carboy
• by day 3 the airlock activity had reduced greatly and all the gunk settled out at the bottom of the carboy
• on day seven I racked to the secondary which you will see below
  

Before dinner I racked the ale from the primary into the secondary. It has been exactly one week since brew day so it was time. The ale went into my new 11.5L(3 gal) carboy. I decided on the small carboy for a few reasons, lower cost to brew, I can brew more variety in a shorter time and it still provides a case and a half of beer. In the future I would like to do full 18.9 L (5gal) batches through. My thought is the 18.9L carboy would be nice for lighter beers and the 11.5L carboy would be nice for bigger beers.

I took a gravity sample and it came out at 1.022. I am not sure how much lower it will end up but I am looking for 1.010 - 1.008 before bottling.

After racking I had about 2L (0.5gal) that did not fit in the secondary so it was chilled in the fridge and now is being tasted. It tastes just like beer! Pretty cool result for my first crack at beer brewing. Its flavor is quite nice and clean with a good hop bitterness. Alcohol content at the moment is about 3.75% so it has a little ways to go and it is still needs to clear out. So far so good though.

I will secondary for 2 weeks and then proceed to prime and bottle. I will then bottle age for a couple weeks before consuming.