wheat beer

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wheat beer

Beer made with malted wheat, usually in combination with malted barley, or from unmalted wheat and malted barley.

wheat beer

(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

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Clouded Yellow is a bottle-conditioned wheat beer, golden yellow in colour and pours with a white, foamy head.

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We definitely stayed true to Shock Top's wheat beer essence, while crafting a new flavor for adults to enjoy this summer.

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Wheat beer Bramley Wit has a higher level of carbonation that lends itself to Thai or fish dishes, said Britton.

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Camden Gentleman's Wit is a wheat beer brewed with lemon and the herb bergamot.

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The company says the beer is also dry hopped for several days "to give the beer the smoothness of a wheat beer and the crisp, hoppy bitterness of an IPA.

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The German beer category in the UK is dominated by two sectors--the major lines, such as Beck's, and the specialist bottled beer category dominated by wheat beer, one of the few growing beer segments in Germany which is also seeing a surge of interest from the UK.

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Stars and Stripes is an American wheat beer which differs from the German style as there are no clove flavours as it is fermented with American yeast.

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If A-B InBev tries to bring area-code-specific Urban Wheat beer to Toronto, they will be out of luck, at least until the lawyers get involved.

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Managing director John Dunsmore said the company hoped to release a bottled version of the wheat beer by next summer.

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A Hefe Weiss is a wheat beer served cloudy with the natural yeast; the sediment in the bottom of the bottle should be poured in with the beer and not left in the bottle.

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It's unfiltered, but it's not a hefe or a wit in the traditional sense, it's an American wheat beer with yeast, in the Widmer vein.