Mouth Feel - Beer tastes "Syrupy" What to do?

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AlanHarper

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I have made a few reasonable tasty beers (I think) but the best of them have a syrupy feel to them and nothing like the commercial brews in any of my microbrew houses. So I have a plan to make a brew as normal with a post boil SG of 1.075 ish but of half my normal volume of about 10 liters. Then I will water it down to about 1.034 before fermenting it out to about 1.007.
I am hoping this will still give me a reasonable brew of about 4% but, because there was more water in it, a more "normal" mouth feel.
What do people think? Will this work or am I being too picky?
 
The two most obvious factors to me would be 1) have they definitely fully fermented and got down to the expected final gravity? And 2) are they properly carbonated? An issue with either of those could give a syrupy feel. It’s also associated with some kinds of infection but you’d probably notice a sourness as well if that was the case.
 
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