wheat beer

wheat beer

n

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) any of various beers brewed using a mixture of wheat malt and barley malt

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wheat beer - a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent Weissbier, white beer Weizenbier - a general name in southern Germany for wheat beers Weizenbock - a German wheat beer of bock strength ale - a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990