Style: American Wheat Beer
All StylesStyle Profile based on 1,343 recipes
BU:GU
0.45
Hops
4.2 g/L
Mash pH
5.61
Dry Hop
0.2 g/L
Description
Refreshing wheat beers that can display more hop character and less yeast character than their German cousins. A clean fermentation character allows bready, doughy, or grainy wheat flavors to be complemented by hop flavor and bitterness rather than yeast qualities. History: An American craft beer adaptation of the German weissbier style using a cleaner yeast and more hops, first widely popularized by Widmer in the mid-1980s. Style Comparison: More hop character and less yeast character than German weissbier. Never with the banana and clove character of German weissbier. Generally can have the same range and balance as Blonde Ales, but with a wheat character as the primary malt flavor.
Examples: Bell’s Oberon, Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer, Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale, Widmer Hefeweizen
- 93% Wheat (45%)
- 74% Pale (50%)
- 34% Crystal (5%)
- 32% Pilsner (47%)
- 24% Toast (8%)
% of American Wheat Beer recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
g/L · median with IQR range
- 18% Cascade
- 14% Citra
- 10% Amarillo
- 8% Centennial
- 8% Saaz (CZ)
- 7% Willamette
- 6% Magnum (GR)
- 5% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- 4% Hallertauer Hersbrucker
- 4% Simcoe
% of American Wheat Beer recipes using each hop
g/L · median with IQR range
dated American Wheat Beer recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
- 15% American - White Wheat
- 13% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 13% White Wheat Malt
- 12% Rice Hulls
- 9% American - Wheat
- 8% American - Pale 2-Row
- 8% US - Pale 2-Row
- 6% Wheat, Flaked
- 6% American - Pilsner
- 6% Flaked Oats
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
- 24% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 8% American Wheat Ale (1010) Wyeast Labs
- 5% Safbrew Wheat (WB-06) Fermentis
- 4% California Ale Yeast (WLP001) White Labs
- 4% American Hefeweizen Ale Yeast (WLP320) White Labs
- 3% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 3% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 2% SafAle German Ale (K-97) Fermentis
- 1% Voss Kveik (OYL-062) Omega
- 1% Hefeweizen Ale Yeast (WLP300) White Labs
% of American Wheat Beer recipes using each strain
- 82% Single Infusion
- 13% Step Mash
- 5% Decoction
239 recipes with mash data
- 75 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 10 ppm Na⁺
- 75 ppm Cl⁻
- 80 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 100 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
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