Safale are good yeasts. It depends on the yeast as some will leave a malt flavour to a beer and others will ferment a lot cleaner. But all of them need to be brewed within the recomended temp range otherwise you do get a fruitiness come through. Could also be a kit beer thing. I used to get the same results when I did kit beers. Could even be the kilo of adjuncts like dextrose and maltodextrin.
I was recently given a kit of coopers mexican cerveza as a gift. I had brewed this before with the bag from the HBS (mixture of dextrose, maltodextrin and LME) and was not impresed with the results. It was OK and most of my friends enjoyed it but it definately had that kit beer taste. Anyway this time I decided to get a kilo of pale liquid extract and do a quick boil with it.
Sanitise a pot
Add the Pale liquid extract with 2 litres of water
Stir and bring to the boil
Added 15g of Pride of ringwood hops
waited for 10 mins
Added 15g of Pride of ringwood hops
waited 5 mins and turned off
Stired in Cerveza kit
added 200g of dextrose to up the alcohol
chucked it into the fermenter
toped up to 23 litres water
Pitched some WY2633 octoberfest yeast when it had cooled to 20C
Its cold conditioning now, but from my hydrometer sample I thought it tasted great with no hint of the kit beer flavour I used to get. With no strong malt or hop flavour this will be a great beer for summer, and it was dead easy.
Before I had a temperature fermentation fridge I used to put the fermenter in a large tub filled with water. Every morning throw in some frozen bottles and away you go
Kabooby
Edit: Try and get along to a local beer meet. Im sure there will be some local brewers that will happily try your beer and offer advice.