Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrüb comes from Munich's Franziskaner brewery. Its story goes back to 1363, when brewer Seidel Vaterstetter set up a brewhouse across from the city's Franciscan monastery, which is where the name and the friar on the label come from. That makes Franziskaner Munich's oldest civil brewery. It merged with Spaten in 1922 and later joined the Spaten-Franziskaner-Löwenbräu group. The brewery's wheat beer was first released in 1964 and took the name Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier in 1974.
This is a classic Bavarian hefeweizen. It pours a hazy copper-gold under a thick white head, and Naturtrüb means "naturally cloudy". Its signature Weissbier yeast brings aromas of ripe banana and citrus with a gentle spice. The palate is fresh, fruity and lightly spicy, with a smooth body, soft carbonation and a mildly sweet finish.
It's brewed from water, wheat malt, barley malt, yeast and hops, and it's top-fermented. The beer is left unfiltered, so the yeast stays in suspension. That yeast gives the beer its cloudy look, its fuller mouthfeel and its classic fruit and spice character.