Getting Started with Brewing (6/17/16)

I started my first batch of beer, American Red Ale, just a few days ago. I got a 1-gallon homebrewing kit from My LHBS and a couple kits for different types of beer. I chose the 1-gallon kit instead of the normal and probably more cost effective 5-gallon kit because I hope to start automating parts of the process and will need to run many batches, so I figured I didn't need to make tons of beer at once.

I won't get into the details of the brewing, but we cooked the wort (unfermented beer) on the stove following the kit's instructions, pumped it into a fermenting jug using an auto-siphon, added the yeast, and it is now fermenting for 10-14 days in my basement. Here is a picture from the pumping process:

And here is the beer-in-progress after 3 days:

The foam is caused by the yeast consuming the sugars in the wort and producing CO2 and alcohol. In person you can see the airlock at the top bubbling slowly as the CO2 is released.