Wow, the color is so different in smaller containers. Color properties of beer don't seem to have much in common with mead or wine, in large containers.
It's straw-gold when going through a siphon tube. Still some cloudiness in a 12oz bottle though. There was a 4oz remnant partial bottle that I put into a frosty mug from the freezer and cooled, then tasted. Mellow, smooth, mildly hopped, a yeast-bite aftertaste to be expected this soon after fermentation. It will be a very "safe" first brew, as I expected.
Finished at about 6.3% alcohol content.
Yield was 48 x 12oz bottles, which comes out to a little less than 4 gallons. I'm having a hard time believing I lost that much liquid from racking twice. I'd estimate that there is about 12-16 ounces in the bottom of my secondary carboy loaded with sediment, and there was about 3-4 ounces of waste product in the bottom of my bottling bucket. The first time I racked I probably had 24-32 ounces of leftover liquid in bottom of the primary, to avoid bringing the sediment up into the secondary.
Where'd the other half gallon go? There was some evaporation, I guess... but is actual volume of internal contents lost somehow when the yeast is producing CO2 and emitting it out the airlock?