just tasted my first homebrew in 15 years, tried a rogue brutal bitter kit from brewcraft, and it's not too bad it not great. The kit only used one aroma/flavor hop variety, crystal, and it's not nearly as floral, and hoppy and interesting as my favorite beers (stone ipa, lagunitas Maximus, dogfish 60 and 90). Beyond the relative lack of hops the biggest difference is the thinness of my brew. My kit used 5 lbs of dme which seems a bit light to me, and my final gravity was just under 1.010. So, my thoughts are to get closer to what I like I need to increase the dme to around 7lbs, add another late boil hop variety, and add more hops to the dry hop, maybe 2 oz instead of 1 oz. I'd love to hear your opinions, looking forward to enjoying the forum!