In Belgium, the wheat beer is often flavored with orange peel and coriander. But in Bavaria, brewers developed a particular kind of ale yeast that imparts a most unusual flavor to the beer: clove, citrus, smoke and, you’ll taste for yourself, banana and bubblegum. As odd as it sounds, it’s tremendously refreshing and goes well with a wide variety of spicy foods. The beer is called hefeweizen; weizen for wheat and hefe for yeast. It is almost always unfiltered, which gives hefeweizen its characteristically cloudy, hazy appearance.
— From a review in The New York Times
They liked the Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyner Weisse the best (3 stars) and the Flying Dog In-Heat Wheat Hefeweizen, Samuel Adams Hefeweizen and Magic Hat Hocus Pocus next (2½ stars).