Scotch Ale - Initial Activity

I noticed the first signs of fermentation yesterday morning and since then it's been happily bubbling away.



You can see that I sort of have a towel wrapped around the fermenter. This is because my closet ambient temperature is now about 68F so I am using a gallon jug of ice to try to keep the fermenter around 60-66F. If it gets much higher then the yeast start producing fruity esters, which aren't really desireable in a Scotch Ale.