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From: spp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Stephen P Pope)
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Subject: Re: Wheat beers
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 12:17:22 EST
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> > Trevor's article never made it here.  You can get Anchor Wheat Beer
> > here in San Francisco...
> > ...it is made without barley here in what is supposed to be
> > the German fashion...
> 
> I doubt the "without barley" part.  Anchor's wheat beer seems (to me,
> without knowing their recipe) to be in the Weizen style, and without
> yeast--however, it is almost surely made with a significant amount of
> barley, as are the German wheat beers.  (Significant means at least 1/3

I recently went on the Anchor Brewery tour (which I really recommend)
and they claim it's all wheat.   They taste just about all their
beers at the end of the tour, and the fresh tap steam beer is
excellent.  Everything else in in bottles, unfortunately.

steve