The weizen glass is the prefered type for my least favorite beer season – summer. This is the vessel you should use for your wheat ales and hefeweizens, and much like the drink umbrella, there is no need to slap a silly wedge of fruit to accentuate the sexy curves of this glass.
A Bavarian weizen glass is what many would suggest for your favorite summer beers. These tall, thin walled glasses, usually 0.5L in size, are very thin at the bottom, and greatly widen at the top to facilitate for a great volume of head. The head retention is important in weizen styles to lock in the phenol aromas associated with the style. I don't suggest adding the wedge of fruit because the citric acids will kill the head, and ultimately result in the loss of head retention and aromas within the beer. Personally, I am not a fan of this style of glass. I usually tend to drink my beers closer to room temperature, where you will get the most flavor. As far as wheat and weizen style beers go where flavor doesn't tend to vary very often from brewery to brewery unless they are flavoring these styles with fruit, I drink these styles at a colder temperature. A cold, refreshing wheat beer is heaven after mowing the lawn, but the thin walls of these glasses don't do a very good job at insulating. Sure, these glasses are great for he head retention and examining the color of your brew, but they aren't going to keep your beer cold in the daunting heat of summer.
Suggested Styles:
Dark Wheat Ale
Dunkelweizen
Gose
Hefeweizen
Kristalweizen
Pale Wheat Ale
Weizenbock