Problems with a Home Page, PLEASE HELP!!

I am working on a site for a customer and he is requesting that I adjust the Home Page so it is not so long on the browser. He wants it set up so it does not scroll. I got the content down to a minimum, but the area he wants smaller is in a section which the theme does not allow me to make smaller, or so I think. I have tried to find out how to do it using the Custom CSS plugin by copying and pasting from the theme style sheet and changing it there. The site is brooksvillebrewing.com and the section he wants shortened is the large black background area that contains the three icons, the copyright, and the footer links. There are two sections here, the top one is “#main” and under it is “#clearfix”. I tried making these shorter but when I did the page itself did not get shorter, it just showed another layer of a different color behind it, and it also distorted the display on the phone view.
Is there a CSS fix or other fix for this to do what I want to do?

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