Brew day! Disregard the mess, just bought a house and in this, too small, rental til June. New house means I get to build a garage and brewery!! Until then enjoy my brew stand.
I stopped tasting my green beer, I would always develop these ideas about off flavors and then stress about it. When the beer was finally done conditioning and ready to drink I had already decided it was bad beer. Now that I dont taste my green beer I enjoy everything I brew.
kp, the best part of brewing is that it is very forgiving. Even when it seems like everything went wrong (I have had those brew days) you still get beer. I have found that rewriting all the steps and times on a notecard helps me keep everything in order. Wheat IPA dry hopped with cascade sounds...
I always use this.
(Desired preboil volume)-(First Runnings volume)= (Sparge Volume)
That being said dont toss it, just boil it, hop it, and make a surprise beer.
Dont worry about a secondary unless you are adding something too it. Leave it in primary for atlest 2 weeks (I leave all beers for atleast 3weeks.) The only way to know it is ready for bottle is two gravity readings 3 days apart that are the same.