hefeweizen94
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Hey Everyone, I got into home brewing because a buddy of mine got into it a few months back and I wanted to take a shot at it. So I ordered a beer making kit through northern brewer, I got a plastic bucket from a local brewing shop (I didn't know about after I ordered the ingredients) and made my very first batch. As the title says I made Bavarian wheat. I followed directions, checked the temp often and poured my soon to be beer in my bucket to ferment for two weeks. However I ran into a few things that concerned me. So I used a 3 piece airlock and what the directions said in my kit, fill it with the disinfectant water you use for sanitizing all your supplies. Which I did but I believe I filled it a bit too much. I filled it to the top fill line and over the course of two weeks I didn't see any bubbling activity but maybe a small bubble here and there in the centerpiece of the airlock. 10 days in I still didn't see any activity so I opened up the bucket for a split second and my beer looked pretty normal, it smelled pretty hoppy too. Day 14 was bottling day and it did go smooth, I used stubby brown bottles I got from Great Fermentations and yielded 10 bottles. another two weeks my beer was done, I put one in the fridge to try for later on and it looked perfect, had a good amount of foam but there was one issue. It tasted similar to a Belgian white or a very mild IPA. I was told Bavarian wheat was supposed to tasted yeasty and not hoppy and I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong in the process. Was ti the Cascade hops they provided me with the kit? Was it from me opening the bucket to look at my beer to see if there were signs of infection? And right now I upgraded toa 5 gallon kit and I ordered a 6.5 gallon bucket and a 8 gallon kettle and I picked up a cherry wheat kit so I'm starting to feel i'm going in too fast. Overall I'm not sure what I did wrong to make it taste hoppy and I would liek to know so I wont mess up my 5 gallon batch. That was the main issue with my beer. the alc content was around 4.5-5% as well