wheat beer

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

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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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The consumption of non-alcoholic weissbier, or wheat beer, has a positive effect on athletes' health, according to a research study that gathered during the world's largest study of marathons, "Be-MaGIC" (beer, marathons, genetics, inflammation and the cardiovascular system).