6:17 PM, Nov 23, 2004
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Transfer
I tranferred the wort-slash-beer from the original, six-gallon carboy, over to the secondary, five-gallon carboy today. Before actually firing up the siphon(which, by the way, is one of the coolest single pieces of all this new equipment), I made sure to get a shot or two.
![carboys.jpg](https://x.bahua.com/bbs/041123211729/carboys.jpg)
This is the primary fermenter, in which the first stage of fermentation took place. A couple of days ago, the bubbling and head party came to an eventual end, signalling to me that it was time to get busy a-transferrin'. I sanitized the equipment I would be using, with the OneStep powder supplied in the brewing kit, and pulled the airlock off the original carboy. I expected a stench of gameday portopotty proportions to frantically emanate from the glass container, but instead was met was a pleasant odor. Beer! I actually smells like beer! I made something that smells like beer, besides a Friday morning expense report.
![siphoning.jpg](https://x.bahua.com/bbs/041123211729/siphoning.jpg)
I enthusiastically began siphoning the beer from the carboy to the other. I took about twenty pictures, but the above shot is all you get. It was at this time that I realized how much sediment had been created in the running of the primary fermenter. I had no idea what I was in for. The transfer finished cleanly, and I sealed up the secondary fermenter.
![fullsecond.jpg](https://x.bahua.com/bbs/041123211729/fullsecond.jpg)
The transfer took about five minutes, and revealed the extent of the sedimentation, as you can see in the picture down into the carboy.
![intocarboy.jpg](https://x.bahua.com/bbs/041123211729/intocarboy.jpg)
For your viewing pleasure, I submit
this and
this, as a reminder of what I had to clean. All things considered, it wasn't really that bad, except to look at.