is aromatic malt very sweet? or have i made a mistake somewhere else?

[martinworswick]

i read that it was malty but i didn't think that meant sweet...
i recently brewed a belgian enkel,its only been in the bottle for 2 weeks but i couldn't resist and tried one last night, its a nice beer but its particularly sweet.

i used-

75% pils
15% vienna
5% carapils
5% aromatic

hopped to 35 ibu

belgian abbey 1762

mashed at 149

my first thoughts were that fermentation had stalled and i misread the refractometer and bottled early, i double checked with the hydrometer and refractometer and it had definately finished at 1.009 og was 1.045.

i then wondered about hopping rates and wondered if i just didn't use enough to balance out the sweetness of the malts

any thoughts?

 

[Oldsock]

Certainly doesn't sound like it would be too sweet. Was carbonation complete? it may just be that you still have some priming sugar in there, it doesn't take much sucrose/glucose to make a beer taste sweet.

 

[HI_SALENITY]

Give it some more time. I recently brewed an amber that started out malty but after 2-4 more weeks it's on the hopy side.

 

[Ølbart]

Try holding your nose when tasting it. Aromatic can be sickeningly sweet smelling, but it fades over time.

 

[martinworswick]

cheers for the replies, i'll try another tonight and try holding my nose, also it isn't fully carbed so hopefully its better when its a wee bit older.