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The kit was designed as a partial boil that I did as a full without adjusting the hop volume. I was off the recipe to begin with through better hop utilization. Just trying to achieve a drinkable beer on my first try. No infections and no major screw ups with the fermentation cycle.

And I'm not planning on transferring to a secondary. It sounds like 3-4 weeks left alone should clean up some of my mistakes.

I used the thermometer that came with the turkey fryer pot so the bottom end on the dial was too tight. I pulled my wort chiller out too soon when it was just below 80 degrees. I should have ran it another few minutes to get down around 65-70 degrees which would have helped. New thermometer in...

On Sunday I did my first brew as a home brewer beginner. I used a White House Honey Ale kit with Danstar Dry yeast (spelling?) I rehydrated the yeast per the instructions. I poured the wort from the kettle into the bucket fermentor through a us plastics fine mesh bucket strainer that should...