Whoops! Wheat Brew

My wife loves wheat beers.  When I say she loves them, I don't think that really does her love for wheat beer justice.  She really loves wheat beer.

At least a couple times a year, I brew a wheat beer for her.  In August, I wanted to get a wheat beer fermenting for her, since we were running dangerously low on homebrew.  I decided to do an extract for the simplicity and because I was doing it during the week, it's much quicker and easier to cook and clean up.

The recipe that I was planning to brew is one that I have used before and I know it is well liked by my bride:
6.5 lbs of liquid wheat extract
0.6 oz Amarillo Gold hops
0.33 oz Vanguard hops
Boil 60 minutes with all hops
(not part of the original recipe, but I have typically added 0.5oz of orange peel to the last 5 minutes of boil for a decidedly orange flavor)

However, that straightforward recipe is not written as straightforward as I've written it here, and includes the all-grain version of the recipe within the same list of ingredients:
6.0 lbs wheat malt
3.0 lbs Simpsons Golden Promise pale malt
0.5 oz Amarillo Gold hops
0.25 oz Vanguard hops

This lack of straightforwardness was my undoing when I went to the shop to pick up supplies.  While I am not sure how exactly it happened, I purchased a highly convoluted mix of these two recipes:
6.0 lbs of dry wheat extract
3.0 lbs pale liquid malt extract
0.75 oz Amarillo Gold hops (leftovers)
0.4 oz Vanguard (more leftovers)
0.5 oz Lime peel (just for a twist)

This confusion resulted in a very high gravity and high alcohol beer that took substantially longer to ferment than I expected. The end result is enjoyable, though not as drinkable as the wheat I usually brew. While the 8.5% ABV wheat is sort of fun, it's also probably not likely to be a beer I'll brew again, since it doesn't go down as smooth as a traditional wheat and has a much darker color than the typical wheat.  Oh well, that's just part of the joys of homebrewing, I guess.