Ok so I have been brewing for just about a year now and a lot of my beer seems to turn out tasting good. Obviously that seems to feed the hobby more i would not consider myself an expert but I think I know a lot more about beer then I did a year ago. But it seems that I get the confidence to try something new and instead of hitting or being close I make a stupid mistake that seems to be a novice mistake and screw the beer up. For example tonight I tried making a DFH 60 min. Clone and I think everything seems to be going well and my og was ridiculously high so I added more water to bring it down and sure enough I added to much water and made a o.g of 5.8 when I was aiming for 6.4.. So I guess my question is is there a point you stop making these stupid mistakes. I'm sure the beer will taste fine but I like matching the numbers I feel it's just such a hit at the ego you know, ESP when all I had to do was check HBT and its says don't water it down so it's a common new mistake.