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I would take gravity readings again over the next 3 or so days to see if it is still fermenting at all.

From the amount of malt/hops, sounds like a 5 gallon batch to me. What is your reasoning behind transferring to a secondary?

Now I'm worried I skunked this beer already. It was kind of a cloudy day here in Portland, but there was definitely indirect light on it. The pictures look so bright mostly because I set it to high exposure.

Ack. Another newbie mistake. I put it in my closet, but it was in that spot for half of the day. Hopefully didn't skunk it anymore than it already may be. I will taste it when I take the first gravity reading.

I measured out 5 gallons and put a sticky on there with a line before I brewed. I didn't fill it all the way up to the line because I feared I had already added too much water into the little amount of wort I had. If I measured the 5 gallons correctly, then I would say I have around 4.7-4.8 gallons.

Yeah that is a 6 gallon carboy. Hopefully I'll move up to all grain in a year or so. This was my second batch.

Yesterday went to the LHBS to get ingredients for an IPA (Ninkasi Total Domination Clone, which I found off this site.) I realized at checkout that the recipe was for an 11 gallon batch instead of the 5 gallon I was planning on. I had 14 pounds of LME, 3.3 pounds of Munich Malt Extract, 3 pounds...

Hey all. This is my first post, but I have learned a ton from this forum. Here's my IPA Hop Madness story. Yesterday went to the LHBS to get ingredients for an IPA (Ninkasi Total Domination Clone, which I found off this site.) I realized at checkout that the recipe was for an 11 gallon batch...