Germany

Erdinger Hefe Dunkel, Erdinger Hefe Weissbier, Erdinger Kristallklar, Erdinger Pikantus and Erdinger Schneeweisse

From Bayreuth - famous as the Wagner Festival city - a slightly stronger and darker wheat beer. Still made with 50% wheat and now thankfully back in fashion. Maisels is a spicy weissbier with clove aroma. Served in tall vase shaped glasses with the yeast poured in to give the characteristic cloudy appearance.

Paulaner is a large brewery making a full range of beers. Brewed at their brewery in Munich their wheat beer is well rounded in flavour.

Smoked dark unfiltered wheat beer.

The most majestic of wheat beers: Schneider Aventinus and Schneider Weisse Original.

Just to the north of Munich, the brewery which claims to be the oldest in the world is well known for its fruity tasting wheat beers. Weihenstephan is on a steep hill overlooking the river Amper at the small town of Freising. The brewery claims that there has been a brewery on site since 1040, and there has been a Benedictine settlement from before that. Weihenstephan Hefe Weissbier and Weihenstephaner Kristall Weissbier.