Wheat beer

Label of the Kaiser Wilhelm Brewery from before the First World War

A glass of wheat beer from the Munich Augustiner brewery

Wheat beer , also white beer or just white , is a type of beer that was originally only to the demarcation to brown beer , red beer and black beer was referring. The term white is the ambiguous reference to the wheat used (as with wheat beer ) and the lighter color of the mostly top-fermented beers compared to the "brown" bottom-fermented barley beers. While in southern Germany wheat beer was mostly equated with wheat beer, in other places top-fermented barley beers are also referred to as wheat beer.

sorts

• Bavarian wheat beer
• Berlin wheat beer
• Grätzer wheat beer
• Yeast White beer
• Wheat beer pils

There is also wheat beer in the variants light, dark, "light" and alcohol-free.

literature

• Andreas Staudt: Style portrait of wheat beer , in: Braumagazin summer 2015

Web links

Commons : Weissbier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: wheat beer  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bier und Brauhaus, issue 35, p. 45