in Greeley, Colorado. “Hefe means yeast, and weizen means wheat.” In the 1500s in Bavaria, weizenbiers, or wheat beers, were popular, with the hefeweizen falling under the subcategory ...

Turns out, the “authentic” yeast he was employing to ferment both a lager and an altbier was of the hefeweizen family. While an admittedly extreme example, that was largely the extent of the ...