Wheat beers | EBCU - beer styles

Wheat beers

Lighter wheat beers

Most wheat beers are of session strength. This is in part because their intense graininess when young interferes with their drinkability when they are stronger. It is also in part a reflection of the difficulty handling wheat mashes in the brewery, which can behave like soggy pasta.

Stronger wheat beers

Wheat beers

Heavier wheat beers must be carefully designed. Not even the Belgians have established a reliable style of wheat beer, much above 6% ABV, unless you count Oude Gueuze – which many would consider cheating, in this context.