Ready to bottle but beer has a very sweet smell

[Hemi]

True Brew Oktoberfest:

Ok it's been some time now and I had my first brew. The brew has a really nice light hoppy smell to it. The color is light amber and the carbonation seems to be good.

The taste is fairly good, with maybe a slight overload of floral towards the end of the sip (gulp).

This floral gives almost a flat type taste to it, but I am too new to be able to describe it perfectly.

Has anyone else done this brew before?? One thing I didn't do is strain the hops after the boil. They stayed in the fermenter the whole time. Also the bad of grain that cam with it was not crushed. I crushed it before I steeped the grains.

It's not bad, but not the best I have had either. I need to go get a commercial Oktoberfest and compare!

Being an Octoberfest it really should have more of a malty aroma and flavor then bitter or floral. Keeping the hops in the fermenter isn't the problem. What did the recipe use for hop additions and boil times? Did you follow the hop scheduling to a "T"? Honestly if it tastes ok I would be happy with that but I wouldn't brew this again based off of your OG and the other person above that brewed this with the same results. Sounds like this extract kit is put together incorrectly and possibly used cheap ingredients as both of your OGs and FGs are off. I would say the floral taste you are getting is the lack of maltiness to correctly balance this beer style.