Hefeweizen came out really sweet

[vashthestampyd]

Recipe:
2gallon batch
3# Briess wheat dme
.4oz aromatic malt (20min steep)
.3oz tettnang 60min
.1oz tettnang 5min
WL300 (full container added)

2 weeks primary. 1 week bottle.

Tasting it today. Came out great flavors. Smells like banana. The thing is it's really sweet. Not overwhelming but it's quite high. Why is it so sweet?

 

[dk21]

Do you know what your final gravity came to? 3 lbs of extract for a 2 gallon hefe sounds a bit high, so maybe the yeast didn't fully attenuate.

 

[vashthestampyd]

OG 1.065 fg 1.016

 

[Yooper]

OG 1.065 fg 1.016

Do you know the AAUs of your hops? Sometimes a too sweet beer is simply under bittered.

 

[Subdivisions]

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1.016 is a decently high gravity and will taste sweet if there's not sufficient hops to balance it. I put your recipe through some software and your OG and FG comes out exactly as you stated. Your IBUs using 4.5% tettnanger, which is an average AA% for that hop, comes out to 14.7 IBUS. This is a little low for a 6% beer. I'd go for 20-25 on the next batch.