I'm a beginning homebrewer. I am on my second Brewers Best Kit (Vienna Lager) before I move on to doing it without kits. Long story, but I completely misread the instructions. Brewing day was Feb 6. The beer went into an ale pail, the yeast was pitched, and it went into my garage which happens to be exactly within the range they suggest for primary fermenation 48-58 F.

For some idiot reason, I thought I was supposed to rack to the secondary glass carboy TODAY (Feb 9). There was bubbling in the airlock so I know fermentation was proceeding. I siphoned the beer into the secondary and placed it in my fridge. AFTER I had done this and sat down for a while I realized what I did and re-read the instructions.

I was supposed to have left the beer in primary for 2-3 weeks before racking to a secondary, which goes in the fridge for at least another 3 weeks or so before bottling.

I have read the threads titled "Do not dump your beer" so I'm going to proceed. I've transfered the carboy back to the garage and will see if any more bubbling occurs. Any other suggestions?