Hello all. I did my first brew day on Dec. 30th with NB’s Deluxe kit. I started my Irish Red extract kit and everything has gone according to plan so far. I moved it to the secondary after 11 days, The foam was gone and there was no signs of bubbling for quite a few days. Anyway, when I transferring the beer into the secondary, it had a decent red color to it. It has now been in the secondary for 7 days and everything looks much worse. The beer is much darker, there is solid brown bits floating here and there which almost look like the dark residue of the foam from the primary. I am assuming this isn’t normal, so my question is, what is happening? I have a layer of tan on the bottom and then a layer of grey on top of that. What is the grey layer? My tap water is not very good in this house, could something be contaminating the batch this far into the process? The carboys have been sitting in my dark basement at a consistent 65-67 degrees from day one. Here are some pictures:
This is right after moving it into the secondary
http://s216.photobucket.com/user/mx3TT/media/IMG_20140110_103759_zpsc63edcfe.jpg.html
This is what is looks like now
http://s216.photobucket.com/user/mx3TT/media/20140117_163034_zpsbec2fc63.jpg.html
Here you can see where the solid bits have formed
http://s216.photobucket.com/user/mx3TT/media/20140117_163317_zps6d26a357.jpg.html
Grey and tan layers
http://s216.photobucket.com/user/mx3TT/media/20140117_163011_zpsdde9a7f3.jpg.html
Any ideas?