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Ron PrattWelcome aboard, Paul! 4 days is way too early to expect any significant color change. By chance did you take an initial picture to compare? Bark is a very subtle change. How long do you plan to age it? With sirloins I have gone 45 days as the shortest and to date 60 days the longest. There have been several posts about sirloin aging here so you might want to look back. One major suggestion I will make now is before the bark does start to mute the grain direction of that meat you should take a permanent marker and draw lines on the outside of the UMAi bag denoting the two distinct pieces that make a sirloin what it is. Then after aging you will have an idea how to separate the two sections. Believe it or not a sirloin is 2 pieces with perpendicular grain. Steaking it out across the grain with both pieces will be better than cross grain in one and along the grain with the other! Again…welcome aboard! Ron