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BCA Wheat Beers in Italy

Just come back from a week at Lake Garda where I expected that the only drink I would get would be the local Bardolino wine but to my surprise I found that most of the cafes and hotels had at least one BC wheat beer on offer.

I managed to find Schneider, Franziskaner, Maisel's, Erdinger, Hacker-Pschorr and Lauterbacher also Erdinger dunkel and Lauterbacher dunkel. There was also a cafe on the coastal path between Garda and Bardolino that sold Weihenstephan from a pump, probably keg, but it tasted fine to me - very refreshing.

Now a question. Is there a difference between "Hefe Weisse" and "Stephani Weisse"? The first is on the neck label of a bottle of standard Lauterbacher, the second on a bottle of Lauterbacher dunkel.

Thanks, Dave

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Dave Exton
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This particular bit of Italy is notoriously popular with german tourists, and has been since the 1950s at least, if that may constitute the beginning of an explanation... ;o)

[Not too sure what you mean as "difference" ...]

Looking up the website to the brewery (http.//

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Lauterbacher do seem to brew quite a few Weizenbiere. The name of each individual product does not appear on teh main lable, but on the neck label, which indeed is not a very common practice.

Hefe Weisse seems to be the bog-standard, pale, unfiltered wheat beer, not an indication of style (which would probably have been "Hefeweizen").

Then there's the Edel Weisse ("noble white", plus a pun on "edelweiss"), filtered, the Schlanke Weisse ("thin white"), low-cal, etc.

And then there's Stephani Weisse, a dark unfiltered/BC wheat beer... Stephani Weisse means "Stephen's white" and must IMHO be linked to some dedication to St. Stephen (Bavaria being a very catholic region).

Cheers !

Laurent

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The Submarine Captain

Thanks,

I assumed that it was a description rather than the name of the beer.

Regards, Dave

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Dave Exton
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