First thanks to all the veterans that answer questions here, even the ones that aren't mine have taught me a lot.
Second, even after all the mistakes I made from spilling sanitizing water all over the floor to way too high fermenting temperatures I still made a decent beer. My first batch was a standard brown ale recipe and I fermented for three weeks and had it bottled for one week before my curiosity got the better of me. The malt and bitterness are pretty well balanced but I wish it had more of the hop spiceness. From what I can tell that comes from dry hopping which my recipe didn't do. Can't wait to see what this tastes like in a couple weeks but even if it doesn't get a bit better I would still put it in the Lienenkeugels and Michelob area but wouldn't quite put it into my next teir of Sam Adams/ Blue Moon yet.
As someone that hasn't done this before and without friends that homebrew this site has proven my best resource. So thanks again for all the help.
Second, even after all the mistakes I made from spilling sanitizing water all over the floor to way too high fermenting temperatures I still made a decent beer. My first batch was a standard brown ale recipe and I fermented for three weeks and had it bottled for one week before my curiosity got the better of me. The malt and bitterness are pretty well balanced but I wish it had more of the hop spiceness. From what I can tell that comes from dry hopping which my recipe didn't do. Can't wait to see what this tastes like in a couple weeks but even if it doesn't get a bit better I would still put it in the Lienenkeugels and Michelob area but wouldn't quite put it into my next teir of Sam Adams/ Blue Moon yet.
As someone that hasn't done this before and without friends that homebrew this site has proven my best resource. So thanks again for all the help.