Wheat beer taste after primary

Hello everyone, just bottled a wheat beer. First time brewing actually, it was an american wheat with DME and a little bit of camomile and sweet orange peel that i made in to a tea and added at the same time as the priming sugar (both were cooled to room temperature and covered to keep sanitized) . I tasted the sample I used to take the FG. It was very ’thin’ ’watery’ and had no alcohol taste. My FG was 1.010, OG was 1.050 which was very close to the recipe giving me an ABV of about 5.1. The color was also very close to what the recipe said it would be 6.2 SRM (which is dark for a wheat in my opinion, more like a dunkelweizen color).



Fermented for 8 days, Krauzen wasn’t there when I took lid of bucket off. Average temperature during fermentation was about 68 degrees F.



So in conclusion, I feel like I followed the recipe well, got the right ABV and color and let it ferment long enough…. so is it normal to taste thin and watery like it did?



Bless you, to anyone who read this whole rant.



Thank you!

It might be pretty tough to tell exactly what a beer is going to be like when it is cold and has carbonation. I know it was for me for the first dozen or so batches...or more, and I still don’t know for sure when it’s the first time with a recipe, etc.

I’d get it into bottles, relax for a few weeks, toss ’em in the fridge, and then pass judgement.

Oh, and when you taste after adding the priming sugar, you can really get fooled. That sugar is going to add a lot of sweetness that wont be there in the final product.

Originally posted by CLevar
Oh, and when you taste after adding the priming sugar, you can really get fooled. That sugar is going to add a lot of sweetness that wont be there in the final product.

Originally posted by TirpChirp
It was very ’thin’ ’watery’ and had no alcohol taste. My FG was 1.010, OG was 1.050 which was very close to the recipe giving me an ABV of about 5.1.

Originally posted by TirpChirp
the recipe said it would be 6.2 SRM (which is dark for a wheat in my opinion, more like a dunkelweizen color

These guys know a lot more than me but I agree. Relax, don’t worry, have a homebrew.