I think you guys need to start a new sub-category of recipes called “Hoppy Accidents” or some such thing. It seems that so often, you don’t quite achieve the brew you were hoping for, and yet you still come out with a fine quaff. And while I know this can be frustrating, just remember that so many wonderful things in this world were discovered by accident: those monks in Champagne, France didn’t intend to create sparkling wine, they just wanted to create a better wine than the monks in Burgundy; Percy Spencer didn’t set out to create the microwave oven, but thanks to a half-forgotten Hershey bar in his pocket, we can all now enjoy popcorn in a fraction of the time of traditional cooking methods; and those engineers were simply searching for a cheap artificial rubber, but they instead came up with that wonderous substance of childhood lore: Silly Putty.