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Yes sorry I meant 1.015, thank you for the help...I will let it sit for a bit and just accept it. Next time I will have to monitor my water and boiling better.

The gravity reading was just beginning to enter the range recommended on the kit's instructions (1.05 I believe) when I transferred to secondary. At the most recent tasting the beer should be fully fermented.

Its already done fermenting out, APV is where it should be (5.25). So I am wondering if I should even bother keeping it in secondary for 2 weeks or just bottling it now and having a sweet beer. Unless I am wrong leaving it long in the secondary might clear it up but not effect the sweetness?

It was in primary for a week.

After a tasting you are correct, it does taste much sweeter then I think it should. Could I even this out by adding more water or having a longer secondary ferment time? Or at this point should I just accept what it is and bottle it (the flavour is not bad, just not that of an American cream ale).

Hello, I am currently brewing my first batch which is 5 gallons of American cream ale through a Brewer's Best kit. However, following the initial boiling of the wort I made one mistake and encountered multiple problems as a result. 1) I forgot to add 1 lb of dry malt extract until I already...

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