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Witbier is top-fermented beer that is brewed not only with malted barley, but also with wheat malt and sometimes also with oats. More

Witbier is top-fermented beer that is not only brewed with barley malt, but also with wheat (malt) and sometimes also with oats. The beer is usually unfiltered and therefore cloudy and the alcohol percentage is usually between 5 and 6 percent.

Today, there are three main categories of wheat beer:

Belgian white beer, such as van Hoegaarden,
Berliner Weisse from Berlin,
South German Weizenbier or Weißbier.

This section includes non-German white beers.
These Belgian (and Dutch) beers use unmalted wheat. The wheat content is also a lot lower than in the weizen beers. The beers also look a bit paler than the German beers. Coriander and citrus peel may also be added to the white beers. This is not allowed with the weizen beers by order of the Reinheitsgebot.

The South German Weizenbier can in turn be subdivided into: