Weissbier vs. Lager — What's the Difference?

A Bavarian specialty beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat.

Lager is beer which has been brewed and conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be pale, amber, or dark.

A general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent

A beer of German origin that is fermented for a relatively long time at a low temperature. Also called lager beer.

A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.

Alternative spelling of laager

Lager beer.

A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons

A general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September