After 40 days leaving it sitting in primary, I racked the Red Rye Ale over to secondary today.  Normally I’d just go right ahead and bottle it, but a lot of crud came through from the primary that I want to settle out, and I am totally done with bottling.  This will be a keg experiment.  I figure I’ll dry hop it with Citra or Columbus while I wait on delivery.

I really like this beer.  The hydrometer sample I took has a beautiful, clear amber to copper color, with what anticipate to be a creamy head with good lacing.  It just about crawled up the side of the glass, and left filmy bubbles in down the length of the thief as it drained.  It has a smooth, almost syrupy body with rye notes forward, and a crisp bitter finish.  Almost no off notes that I detected, but it seemed a little lacking in the nose.  I’ll try to address this in secondary with dry hops.

Technical data:  FG is 1.012, lending 6.4% ABV.