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| has gloss | (noun) a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent wheat beer, Weissbier, white beer |
| has gloss | eng: Weissbier (German: "white beer", usually spelled Weißbier; see ß), also known as Weizenbier ("wheat beer"), is a Bavarian specialty beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat: a wheat beer. By German law, Weissbiers brewed in Germany must be top-fermented, making them ales. Specialized strains of yeast are used which produce overtones of banana and clove as by-products of fermentation. |
| lexicalization | eng: Weissbier |
| lexicalization | eng: wheat beer |
| lexicalization | eng: white beer |
| subclass of | (noun) 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 ale |
| has subclass | (noun) a general name in southern Germany for wheat beers Weizenbier |
| has subclass | (noun) a German wheat beer of bock strength Weizenbock |
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| German | |
| lexicalization | deu: Hefeweizen |
| lexicalization | deu: Weißbier |
| lexicalization | deu: Weizenbier |
| lexicalization | deu: Weizen |
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| similar | e/Weissbier |
| similar | e/Wheat beer |
| Media | |
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| media:img | Hefeweizen and kristallweizen.jpg |
| media:img | Weizenbier.jpg |
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