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Wheat beer is a top-fermented beer which is brewed with a large proportion of wheat relative to the amount of malted barley. The two main varieties are German Weizenbier and Belgian witbier ; other types include Lambic (made with wild yeast), Berliner Weisse (a cloudy, sour beer), and Gose (a sour, salty beer).
Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...
Hoegaarden wheat beer in its characteristic hexagonal glass Wheat beer First brewed in 1445, Hoegaarden is a wheat beer spiced with coriander and orange peel. It is unfiltered and therefore has a foggy appearance. In many bars, it is customarily consumed with a slice of orange [5] or lemon. It has an alcoholic content of 4.9%. [6] Rosée
Berliner Weisse (German: Berliner Weiße, pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈvaɪsə] ⓘ; "Berlin White") is a cloudy, sour beer of around 3.5% alcohol by volume.It is a regional variation of the wheat beer style from Northern Germany, dating back to at least the 16th century.
Dunkelweizen is a dark wheat beer. Hefeweizen is an unfiltered wheat beer. Hefe is German for yeast. [6] Kristallweizen is a filtered wheat beer, characterized by a clear appearance as opposed to the cloudy look of a typical Hefeweizen. Weizenbock is the name for a strong beer or bock made with wheat. 16–17° Plato, 6.5–8% ABV.
Traditional gose beer bottle produced in Leipzig, Germany. Gose (/ ɡ oʊ z ə /) is a warm fermented [1] beer that is usually brewed with at least 50% of the grain bill being malted wheat (with the rest being malted barley such as Pilsner malt), fruit syrups- such as lemon, coriander- and salt - either added or a component of the water used. [2]
The Franziskaner beer was created in 1935, and its label (the Franziskaner monk) was designed by Ludwig Hohlwein. In 1964, the brewery produced its first wheat beer, and ten years later, all the Franziskaner brewed became wheat-based. In 1984, the brewery started a national distribution of its beers.
The brewery was founded in 1872 by Georg Schneider I and his son Georg Schneider II, after they acquired the Weisses Brauhaus in Munich, the oldest wheat beer brewery in the city. [4] In 1927 the owners, under Georg Schneider IV, expanded their brewing operations into Kelheim and Straubing .