

The cloudy beer has won several beer awards. Being a weizen, it’s a 50/50 it’s half 2-row barley malt and half wheat malt. (Which differs from a hefeweizen because hefe’s have yeast and weizens don’t.) This unfiltered ale has an ABV of 5.1% and an IBU of 11. We’ve looked at an American hefe and a Canadian witbier. Drink it in a footed flute to inhale the aroma and retain the effervescence. Blanche de Chambly is named after a stone fort from the 17 th and 18 th Centuries. It has won close to forty global beer awards (and counting) and is Quebec’s best-selling beer, both locally and abroad. This top-fermented beer has notes of honey, citrus, and spicy bread. It’s a cloudy beer ‘with bubbles like champagne’ and an IBU of 10. The beer has a medium body, a pale gold hue, and a creamy white head. Taste notes include orange peel, coriander, and a touch of pepper at the back. This Canadian 5% ABV won the 2020 award for Best Belgian-Style Witbier. Let’s look north for the best wheat beer. Flavors include ginger, apple, carrots, and beets with Belma and Citra for hops. The beer is a collaboration with a ska band named The Aggrolites. It’s a magenta-colored sour ale flavored with root veggies and canned all-year-round. So if you want a wheat beer to explore, try the gorgeously-named Pink Vapor Stew. Including local restaurants, bars, and breweries. After lunch on launch day … everything got shut down for Covid. After years of work and planning, they opened their own facility in Boulder, Colorado. They opened in 1995 and operated from a shared space in an Industrial Complex.

The malts are German Two-Row and Munich (plus wheat) while the hops are Sterling and German Perle. And yes, Kellerweiss is a wheat beer, but it uses barley malts in addition to wheat. If you’re watching the Balling Scale, this is a 12.3 beer (so it counts as a 12). This makes it an ‘ American hefe’ and gives the hazy ale a fruity scent with a mix of banana and clove. This American craft beer is brewed the Bavarian way in open vats. It’s a 4.8%ABV beer that announces itself with the legend ‘untamed, unfiltered, unafraid’. That’s what you get from Sierra Nevada’s wheat beer. In Europe, beer bottles mostly come in half liters (roughly 16 fl. And while the base brew is the same, there are differences in proportion, brewing temperature, fermenting position, and more. That’s why there are so many varieties, from witbiers to hefeweizens.
