First batch question

It might lighten up a little bit as it clears, especially if it's a lighter shade of brown, but if it's dark brown, there's not much chance of it turning red. If that's the case, best you could hope for would be a dark ruby brown.

when you checked the clour was it in a graduated cylinder when you were checking the SG or was it in a carboy? Volume makes a beer look darker than it is. Light has a harder time penetrating through the larger volume (ie a test tube of beer would look lighter than a pint). But if there is no redness and you are judging from a carboy it would probably be amber in colour at best.

It's when I first put it in the primary that it shows up as brown. I don't really care about the color, as long as it tastes good. Thanks to all for the input.

Greg