Taste Test: Hefeweizens

Late spring can be an uncertain time for beer drinkers. We’ve long since moved on from the robust beers of winter, but it’s not yet time to shift into summer session-beer mode. Hefeweizen—golden, hazy and unerringly delicious—was made for spring-and-summer sipping. Unfiltered and full of flavor, this German-born, wheat-based beer style has a singular banana-citrus-spice bouquet. Click through the slideshow above to get the scoop on seven good bets.

This story originally appeared in Issue 55, May/June 2015.