Hopping rates are low, effervescence is high, alcohol is in the normal range (4.3 to 5.6% abv), and the body is light. Some degree of tartness is almost always present. These beers are usually pale or straw colored, with aromas and flavors of clove, bubblegum and bananas. In Bavaria, the southern German style of wheat beers are known as weizen (wheat), hefeweizen (yeast-wheat) or sometimes simply as weisse beers.
Another Berliner Weisse we sell is Dogfish Head Festina Peche.” This beer is described by the brewery as a “neo-Berliner Weisse fermented with honest-to-goodness peaches”. “This low alcohol beer, just 3.1%, has great flavor. “Hottenroth Berliner Weisse from The Bruery in California is an excellent beer,” said Joe Santos of Julio’s Liquors in Westborough. It’s often served with raspberry syrup or woodruff to offset the sourness. This beer is pale in color, intensely tart and sour, sparsely hopped, low in alcohol (2.8 to 3.6% abv), quite effervescent, light in body, and contains yeast in suspension, producing a cloudy beer. In Berlin there is a style of wheat beer known as Berliner Weisse (white). What they all have in common is some proportion of malted or unmalted wheat mixed with malted barley (anywhere from 3O to 7O% wheat), and they are top-fermented beers, putting them in the ale family. Then there is the style known as American Wheat Beer. The Germans brew two distinct styles of wheat beers, as do the Belgians. Domestic and international brewers brew astounding variations of wheat beers. Wheat beers confuse many beer drinkers not familiar with the style.
“We definitely sell more wheat beers in the summer,” said Dan Demuth, Manager of Yankee Spirits in Sturbridge. Increased levels of protein also create a larger than usual frothy, foamy head. If handled correctly by the brewer, this tartness is wonderfully refreshing to the taste buds on a blisteringly hot summer day. Wheat contains more protein than barley, and this extra protein tends to lighten the beer’s flavor and add an ever-so-slight tartness to the overall taste. These are almost always top-fermented ales in which a certain percentage of wheat malt is added to the normally present barley malt. Wheat beers are the champs of the summer beer category. Wheat malts go into the most popular types of summer beers, with the wheat adding a light crispness to the overall taste. Hop additions are mild, so there’s no big burst of flavor or bitterness from hops.
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No dark malts here, so the color is golden and the taste is free of toasty, roasty flavors. Anything light and refreshing, the customers go for.” The party line on what constitutes a summer beer is that such brew is “light, refreshing and easy to drink”. “Everyone loves this season for beer,” echoed Nick Gregory of Redbones in Somerville. “It’s so huge and there are so many to choose from that it’s difficult to figure out which is best for our place.” “Everybody is loving the micros,” said Deb Flynn of the Eastside Grill in Northampton. If, on the other hand, you want to actually taste something at the same time, a good choice might be one of the many craft-brewed seasonal beers offered by the hundreds of American microbreweries.
If you’re so thirsty that all you want to do is “refreshingly” wet your whistle, a glass of water will do just fine. It’s crazy.” Beer ads from the big players permeating the media in the summer would have us believe that the only possible refreshing beer is one that’s just above the freezing point. “The summer beer season outsells all others because it’s so long,” said Kristie Faufaw of Ryan and Casey Liquors in Greenfield. There’s no need to pigeonhole certain beers as being just for summer. What better way to quench that thirst than with an ice-cold beer? Maybe one served in a well-frosted mug.
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