Finally bottled my brew today. As I feared originally, I lost about a gallon due to the woefully insufficient stand off on my autosiphon, and my cobbled together primary stand. These will be fixed for the next brew.
Final gravity ended at around 1.014 (really it was 1.0135ish), which put the final ABV at 4.6-4.7%. I was hoping for more, but I'm guessing I just didn't get good conversion of the specialty grains. This problem will also be fixed before the next brew. I also used the cheap dry yeast, which was probably the reason for the high final grav.
The flavor is outstanding, this turned out better than I could have imagined. Straight from the secondary it is already well balanced. Basically as soon as it's carbed, I'll be drinking it.
Final count was a close to 2.5 gallons in the pig and 18 bottles.
Next brew will be the McLuckey ale. I'll order the kit as soon as I get back from OSU, and try to get the brew done before I leave for MI. Timing will leave it in the primary for a touch longer than necessary, but nothing too absurd.
-J
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