Brew_ny I know that, I've just never seen the gradient thing happen before. Half the beer changed entirely from the bulk color that it was before.
Though here it is in glass, looks quite pretty actually, albeit a bit dark for a blonde.
The color closest to the trub was what it was throughout for months. Clear and consistent. The darkness towards the top came sometime in the last month or so.
Recipe ingredients are 2-row (80%), cara-pils (10%), Crystal 10 (5%), and vienna (5%). Hops are centennial.
So 3-ish months ago I made a batch of blonde ale. Stuck it in primary glass carboy and life caught up with me, and I'm just now pulling it out to see how it's going. I put it in my closet, dark dark space. Temperature has fluctuated probably between 68-80 with the weather (I live in the PNW and...