Bavarian Wheat extract that's kimda dark

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I boiled for 76 minutes. All tastes fine but I thought it would be lighter! 2 cans of Breiss Bavaria Wheat LME and 1oz of hops.
 
6.6lbs LME (Briess CBW Bavarian Wheat)
Yeast: Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan
Yeast Started 3 hours
Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Original Gravity: 1.051 (Temp Adjusted for 60F Hydrometer)
Boiling Time (Minutes): 75
(After adding the malt it took 15 minute to return to boil - at which point I started the clock for 60 - maybe someone tell me if that's not the right way to do it.)
.75 Hallertau @ 50
.25 Hallertau @ 15
WORT chilled to 73F in 33 minutes with water bath.
Transferred to 6.5 gallon (bucket) primary and yeast pitched at 71F
 
My hefe came out dark like that. Same amount of Bavarian wheat extract (I think I added some dex to it to kick up the avb to almost 7%. This was for a family vacation last August and I wanted it to be lighter, for the fact that my brothers gf (now fiance) likes light beers. She absolutely loved it, even though it was darker. Hefe's are great beers. I got the recipe on here in the recipe forum. I used tettnang hops. I'll be brewing one again this summer.
 
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