Style: American Wheat Beer
All StylesStyle Profile based on 1,299 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
Typical Grain Bill
- 39%
- 36%
- 17%
- 4%
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
- 92%
- 74%
- 34%
- 33%
- 23%
% of American Wheat Beer recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Common Hops
- 18%
- 14%
- 10%
- 9%
- 7%
- 7%
- 7%
- 5%
- 4%
- 4%
% of American Wheat Beer recipes using each hop
Common Fermentables
- 16%
- 12%
- 12%
- 11%
- 10%
- 8%
- 8%
- 6%
- 6%
- 6%
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 24%
- 9%
- 5%
- 4%
- 4%
- 3%
- 3%
- 2%
- 1%
- 1%
% of American Wheat Beer recipes using each strain
Typical Water Profile
median across recipes with a declared water profile
Similar Styles
Ranked by similarity across OG, IBU, ABV, hop rate, and grist composition.