Tried another new beer

[Getback]

Your next one will be cloudy, also.

Its the wheat used in the mash (lends itself to cloudiness) and the very nature of the beer you bought.  Yeast used to make wheat beer exhibits less flocculation (settling) , therefore stays in suspension more than a regular ale yeast ( DunkleWeisse is an ale and not a Lager).  

The hops contribute absolutely nothing to the body of the beer.  They only add bitterness, aroma, taste.  Although wheat beers are usually lightly hopped  as a rule, this is not why it has less body.

The lack of body is because it is a wheat beer and therefor there is (by traditional German standards) about 50-60% wheat malt in the grain bill.  This will give you less body resulting in a more refreshing, and not heavy (notice I didn't say light) beer.  

The color of a beer does not automatically dictate the body, mouthfeel, or bitterness.  It just means that the brewer used darker malts in the mash.   Most common are the highly kilned malts such as Munich or Vienna-type high-kilned barley malts. Some dark wheat malts may be used. Dark roasted malts are rarely used and then only in very small concentrations. Hops provide a mild bitterness only.

Ahhhh! okay. Thanks

[Xasthur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aqm9SLcVq8

Some yanks reviewing it^

They've got no idea what they're talking about.

They call it "Costriker" and "Costriber" and 'Schw-eye-ts' beer. *forehead slap*

It's more like 'Koe - strit - tser' and it's definitely something you would get a pint of if it was on tap at a bar you were at.

[Phaser11]

This a joke?

No, it really is not. Tried to find some last night, but the local store had not got any yet.

[Patches1]

Do any Stateside Folks remember the infamous, " Billy Beer " ?  Or, how about the white can with the black lettering
that spelled, " BEER " ?

[maddafinga]

My dad still has a 6 pack of Billy Beer.  It's just decorative though, as I have heard that stuff wasn't even drinkable when it was freshly brewed.  I've only seen those generic BEER cans in old movies and whatnot.  I've had some bad beers in my day (which was what pushed me to stop drinking cheapass beers actually)  but at my most highschool broke I would never have cracked a plain black and white BEER.  That's just too much in my book.  Pretty funny though.

[Baggy]

Now I'm biased because this is my local brew. Shepherd Neame is the oldest brewery in England. Master Brew is their standard ale - more of a session beer!

http://www.spitfireale.co.uk/spitfire_ale.htm

[TheZohan]

good beer.. the pale and red ale is good too

so it the private reserve

[Xasthur]

Ooooooooooh, Honey Hefeweizen? Yum.

[VonMessa]

Ooooooooooh, Honey Hefeweizen? Yum.

Gotta taste it first. 

A lot of beers have honey in the name, but that's about it.  Unless added after the primary ferment, it usually ferments out fairly completely, to include the taste. 

I made two Belgian witbiers last spring.  Both with honey.  One had it in the primary ferment and the other in the secondary.

That was the only difference between batches, but they tasted like two different beers.