Beer

Question 1

Name the four essential beer ingredients

Answer 1

malt, water, hops, and yeast

Question 2

What are three ways malt impacts beer?

Answer 2

determines beer color, contributes to the beer aroma and flavor, creates sweetness and body

Question 3

What is the most important cereal grain used for beer?

Answer 3

Barley

Question 4

Describe the sensory impacts of hops on beer

Answer 4

contributes aromas/flavors, imparts bitterness

Question 5

Hops are the flowering ‘cone’ of which plant?

Answer 5

Humulus Lupulus (hyoo·myuh·luhs·loo·pyoo·luhs)

Question 6

Which places/regions of the world are ideal for hop-growing?

Answer 6

Germany, England, Belgium, and Czech. Slovenia, Alsace, Pacific North West of USA, Washington’s Yakima Valley

Question 7

Name a style of beer that uses herbs instead of hops in beer production:

Answer 7

Gruit ale

Question 8

What are IBU’s?

Answer 8

International Bitter Units, an indicator of a beers bitterness. This number could be found on a beers packaging or on the brewers website.

Question 9

Which bacteria are essential in the brewing of sour beer?

Answer 9

Lactobacillus and Pediococcus

Question 10

Which beer styles are lightly hopped? List a few breweries:

Answer 10

Früh, Gaffel, Reissdorf (Kölsch)
Heineken, Corona, Buidweiser (Intertational Lager)

Question 11

Which beer styles are moderately hopped? List a few breweries:

Answer 11

Pilsner Urquell, Firestone Walker Pivo Pils (Pilsner), Spaten München, Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold (Helles), Bass Pale Ale, Fuller’s London Pride (English Pale Ale), Fuller’s ESB (Extra Special/Strong Bitter (ESB)

Question 12

Indian Pale Ale originated in which of the following countries?

Answer 12

England

Question 13

Stouts, milds, bitters, and pale ales are classic styles that originated where?

Answer 13

England

Question 14

The Dubbel, triplet, and Quadruple are examples of what type of beer?

Answer 14

Trappist beer styles

Question 15

How many fluid ounces are in an American Pint?

Answer 15

16 oz

Question 16

What is a ‘session’ beer?

Question 17

Of a Belgian Dubbel, Porter, Czech Pilsner, Brown Ale, which would you expect to be lightest in color?

Answer 17

Czech Pilsner

Question 18

What is the proper serving temperature range for a lager?

Answer 18

48-52 degree F

Question 19

Trappist beers must be brewed by or under the supervision of who?

Answer 19

Monks

Question 20

Beers spontaneously fermented in open-top containers with native wild yeasts are known as what?

Answer 20

Lambics

Question 21

At what pointing the brewing process are hops most likely added?

Answer 21

at the ‘Boiling’ phase

Question 22

In beer brewing, what is the Wort?

Answer 22

A sugar-rich liquid extracted from the mashing process

Question 23

Which ‘yeast’ strain is most active in the fermentation on a ‘stout’?

Answer 23

Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Question 24

German Kolsch beers are traditionally associated with which of the following cities?

Answer 24

Cologne

Question 25

Cascade, Simcoe, Saaz, and Hallertau are all examples of?

Answer 25

Hop varieties

Question 26

What were the 3 original ingredients permitted in the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516? (Reimheitsgebot)

Answer 26

Barley, Hops, Water (major shift away from the unhopped gruit beers)

Question 27

Name the country where each beer comes from: Peroni, Guinness, Chimay, Red Stripe, Heineken, Labatt:

Answer 27

Peroni(Italy), Guinness(Ireland), Chimay(Belgium), Red Stripe(Jamaica), Heineken(Netherlands), Labatt(Canada)

Question 28

What is the name of the dark German lager style whose name literally translates as "Black Beer?"

Answer 28

Schwarzbeir

Question 29

What style of beer is produced by blending one year old lambics with beers that have aged for two or three years?

Answer 29

Gueuze

Question 30

Who produces Two-Hearted Ale

Answer 30

Bell's Brewery

Question 31

Who produces 'Old Rasputin'

Answer 31

North Coast Brewery

Question 32

Who produces 'Union Jack'

Answer 32

Firestone Walker

Question 33

Who produces 'Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale'

Answer 33

Boulevard

Question 34

What is a craft beer descried as 'High Gravity?'

Question 35

'IBU' in beer stands for what?

Answer 35

Internation Bitter Units

Question 36

Flanders Red Ale would be most influenced by what yeast strain?

Answer 36

Lactobacillus

Question 37

What is the IBU range for an IPA?

Answer 37

65?

Question 38

English Bitter, Weizenbock, Irish Dry Stout, Belgian Dubbel are examples of what beer style?

Answer 38

Ales!

Question 39

A 'Framboise' is a spontaneously fermented Belgian-style ale brewed with?

Answer 39

Raspberries

Question 40

After the barley is germinated, the enzyme amylase is released, which converts the starchy carbohydrates into which two of the following sugars?

Answer 40

Dextrin and Maltose

Question 41

After the wort liquid is drawn off the grains and filtered into the brew kettle, additional sugar and flavor may be extracted from the spent grains by rinsing them with fresh water, a process known as?

Answer 41

Sparging

Question 42

Which hop varieties are known as 'Noble Hops'?

Answer 42

Hallertau, Sazz, Tettnang

Question 43

Name the correct glassware for the following beers: Pilsner, English Bitter, Begian Dubbel, Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout, Saison:

Answer 43

Pilsner(Flute), English Bitter(Pint), Begian Dubbel(Goblet), Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout(Snifter), Saison(Tulip)

Question 44

The Saison beer style is synonymous with which beer style?

Answer 44

Farmhouse ale

Question 45

The American Adjunct Lager commonly includes small amounts of what ingredients?

Answer 45

Rice/Corn

Question 46

ESB acronym stands for what in relation to English-style pale ale

Answer 46

Extra Special Bitter or Extra Strong Bitter

Question 47

Putting a bottom fermented beer through an extended secondary aging at temperatures near freezing is known as?

Answer 47

Lagering

Question 48

List the city of origin for the following beer styles: Alter, Rauchbier, Export lager, Gose, Hellas Lager:

Answer 48

Altbier(Dusseldorf), Rauchbier, Export lager, Gose, Hellas Lager:

Question 49

A 'Wee Heavy' is a nickname for which beer style?

Answer 49

Scotch Ale

Question 50

Name the Franken specialty beer, where malted barley is smoked before being brewed:

Answer 50

Rauchbier

Question 51

How many ounces of beer does a British, or 'Imperial' pint hold?

Answer 51

20 oz

Question 52

Dos Equis AMber and Negra Modelo are both examples of which beer style?

Answer 52

Vienna Lager

Question 53

What style of beer would have these standard statistics? IBUs: 65 SRM: 40 OG: 1.095 FG: 1.020 ABV: 9.84%

Answer 53

Russian Imperial Stout

Question 54

What beer characteristic do the SRM or EBC scales measure?

Answer 54

Color Density

Question 55

Place the following beer styles from lowest to highest alcohol content: Barley Wine, California Common, Berliner Weisse, Doppelbock

Answer 55

Berliner Weisse, California Common, Doppelbock, Barley Wine

Question 56

Name the beer style that is produced by freezing a doppelbock base and removing a portion of the frozen water in order to concentrate the final product.

Answer 56

Eisbock or Ice Bock

Question 57

Ayinger Celebrator, Paulaner Salvator, Spaten Optimaler, and Birra Moretti La Rossa are all examples of which of the following styles?

Question 58

What is the function of a hopback chamber?

Answer 58

To introduce fresh hops to the beer after the boil in order to retain fresh aromas lost from boiling

Question 59

Add the aromas associated with the following compounds: Dimethyl Sulfide(DMS) Acetaldehyde Diacetyl Trans-2Nonenal 4-vinyl Guiacol

Answer 59

Dimethyl Sulfide(DMS): cooked corn/cabbage Acetaldehyde: green apples Diacetyl: butter/popcorn Trans-2Nonenal: wet cardboard, oxidation 4-vinyl Guiacol: cloves/smoke

Question 60

Who makes the beer 'Pivo Pils'?

Answer 60

Firestone Walker (Paso Robles)

Question 61

Who makes the beer 'Prima Pils'?

Answer 61

Victory (Downingtown, PA)

Question 62

Who makes 'Dortmunder Gold'?

Answer 62

Great Lakes (Cleavland, OH)

Question 63

Explain the effect of yeast-derived flavor and aroma differences between ales and lagers:

Answer 63

ales- hundreds of distinct strains of yeasts, meaning lots of combinations of different flavor/aroma derived from yeast. lagers-only two closely related groups of lager yeasts, with minor variations of different flavor/aroma derived from yeast.