You got somethin' to say?
Did you take an initial reading before throwing it in the carboy? What was the OG? What kind of beer is this anyway? Looks like a pale ale. You'll have to bring some to Amy's Brew Day.
hey,
thanks for the nice words at TKC. they were followed by some jackass being a jackass. but your nice words mean a lot 
You might consider just bypassing secondary fermentation. Unless you have a specific purpose for secondary (namely, adding sugar or fruit to restart fermentation), you don't NEED to do it and are just opening up the potential for more bacteria to get into it as well as for oxidation. You can choose to do it, of course, but that just means more waiting for little benefit. :-D
I assume you're bottling - as long as you've achieved the TG you were looking for (or around there), bottle 'er up!
KCHopHead - It is an Extra Pale Ale. I edited the post to note gravities so far.
pensivegirl - You are mighty welcome. Ignore the jackasses. They do what they do.
amy - I am shooting for some "filtering" effect, since it's still pretty junky in there. Any other suggestions on how to do that without the secondary? I am thinking about dumping this straight to keg, to avoid MORE waiting.
Well, you could cold crash it - that just means putting your beer somewhere cold (40ish degrees if possible) for a few days so the yeast goes dormant and falls to the bottom of the fermenter. I don't suppose you have a fridge you could put it into? Where is the beer now? Is it in a basement? What temp is it at?
Barring that, you have 2 choices - rack into secondary or keep it in primary another week. A lot of people just leave their beer in primary for ~3 weeks then rack to a keg - typically that makes it pretty clear.
Hope that helps.
OG was 1.020? or was that your first hydrometer reading for FG? I hope it was your first reading because 1.020 is extremely low for an OG Anyway I agree with Amy about leaving it on the yeast cake for a little longer. This will allow the beer to clear more, and it will let the yeast take out funky stuff like diacytel. RDWHAHB
I think the secondary thing is a matter of preference. I've always done secondary and never had bacterial problems. I think your right to say that clarification is a good reason to rack to a secondary. It also gets the beer off the expended trub and allows the beer to mature a little better while not letting the yeast start to seep the undesirables back out. I'm also with the last comment...if your OG was 1.020, that's a bit of a problem. I'm hoping that you were talking about your first FG reading.
Nice Willy Wonka (Gene WIlder) reference, by the way. I think the encouragement from others and your attitude about the whole process is great. If you mess up there's always another brew. It truly is a learning experience; and a joyous one at that. Cheers!
Well? Have you tasted this thing yet? It seems like you would have bottled and maybe even had some carbonation. DId you taste it before secondary? I'm anxious to see how your first one went.
Answers in most recent post, sadly.
Mmmmmm... I realy need to sterilize my old gear and get to brewing again!
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