ale vs Weissbier

ale and Weissbier both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ale	Yes	No	No	No
Weissbier	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Weissbier is a hyponym of ale; that is, Weissbier is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ale:

ale: a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
Weissbier: a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent

Other hyponyms of ale include wheat beer, white beer, bitter, Burton, pale ale, porter's beer, porter, stout.

ale (noun)	Weissbier (noun)
a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume	a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent