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I think I scorched the honey a little bit, the day before I brewed I boiled the jar because the honey had crystalized and I forgot about it and left the jar in a rolling boil for probably about 20 minutes or so....it had a slight burnt smell kind of like burnt/carmelized sugar

How do you mean?(sorry I'm very very much a novice)

Oh yeah, I should've included that in my OP, I discovered while I was brewing that I have misplaced my hydrometer so...I'm kinda SOL. The OG according to the kit should be ~1050 and FG should be ~1013

I decided I wanted to make a honey wheat ale, so I bought a kit at my local brew shop for an American wheat ale and I bought a 3 lb jar of local honey, I followed all of the directions for the American Wheat and then with 5 minutes left on the burner I poured in all 3 lbs of honey. Now I look...

I've never seen any kinda gunk that couldn't be knocked out quick by denatured alchohol

I hear that, I already bought a three pound jar of honey, gonna try and make a heffewiesen

but it's actually pretty damn good, not bad at all for my first time:rockin: , and yes I know, I need to clean my stove lol http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z234/Saleiri/DSCN0330.jpg?t=1263084713

I'm sure this is a dumb question that has been asked many times before but I figured I'd ask it anyway TIA

I brewed it last weekend, it fermented really fast and my hydrometer stabilized like ~4 days ago, but I went ahead and left it, and decided "today is the day" so I switched it, lol no didn't pour it, I did kinda fumble with the racking tube and stick it into the bottom of the bucket too far, but...

It's super super cloudy tho, like it looks like muddy:(....will this clear up?

I read the gravity at 1.020 again so despite everything I have apparently made "beer", but I want to see if I can get the gravity lower so I pitched some more yeast today and my valve is bubbling again(very very slowly though), figure at this point I'll give it like 2 weeks atleast and then...

I don't know what kind of yeast it was, it came in a little packet in my starter kit and I didn't get any information off it.....dumb on my part

It did last night, now it's basically flat with a bunch of green **** caked on the sides, I took a gravity reading and it was at ~1.020

80 degrees it's fermenting at about 68 steady Yeah I was trying to find one, but i couldn't Well I forgot to take one before pitching the yeast, so can I still do it? what should I look for? I did aerate pretty well....what is krauzen?

it started fermenting/bubbling in like an hour and half and was going pretty good until about 24 hours later when it suddenly just stopped bubbling....should I be concerned? is that normal? TIA