*Special thanks to the wise men at Beer Advocate for the source material.WEIZEN GLASS
With their thin walls and length, Weizen glasses emphasize a beer's color and allow for sufficient headspace to contain the foamy heads associated with wheat beers. Most Weizen glasses contain a bit more than a pint. Many people take their wheat beers with a circle of lemon or orange; don't do this! Citrus will ruin the head, and you want a nice foamy head, the trademark of a good wheat beer. Plus, in our humble opinion, a lemon in your wheat beer makes you look like a piker.
Which beer styles are suited to this type of glassware?
- American Dark Wheat Ale
- American Pale Wheat Ale
- Dunkelweizen
- Gose
- Hefeweizen
- Kristalweizen
- Weizenbock
Where can I find one?
These are a little tougher to find, but the Mikasa website has a set of 4 for around $40, which isn't terrible (or you might consider this cool assortment of glasses, including a pils glass, footed tulip glass and weizen glass, for the same price).
Next time: the ubiquitous pint glass. See you soon.
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