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Beer, Cider, and Mead Flashcards

1
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Who produces Nastro Azzuro?

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Peroni

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What is the traditional difference between a stout and a porter?

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stout is brewed with less water, making it stronger

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Torulaspora delbrueckii is the signature yeast strain of what beer style?

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hefeweizen

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Recommend a porter

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  • Fullers London Porter
  • Duck Rabbit Porter
  • Deschutes Black Butte Porter
  • Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
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Sohneider Weisse ‘Aventinus’ and Weihenstephaner ‘Vitus’ are both what style of beer?

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Weizenbock

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What is a Berliner Weisse?

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sour German wheat ale brewed with lactobacillus
(ex Hottenroth)

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When was the reinheitsgebot decree enacted?

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1516

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In beer fermentation, what is the name for bottom-fermenting yeast?

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saccharomyces Pastorianus

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What are the 2 main types of hops categories?

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  • aroma
  • bittering
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List 3 types of hops

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  • ahtaunum
  • amarillo
  • bravo
  • brewers gold
  • cascade
  • citra
  • delta
  • goldings
  • hersbrucker
  • magnum
  • pacific gem
  • perle
  • riwaka
  • saaz
  • sorachi ace
  • spalt
  • summit
  • target
  • tettnanger
  • willamette
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Recommend a witbier

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  • Allegash White
  • Hoegaarden Original
  • Hitachino Nest White Ale
  • Three Floyds Gumballhead
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What are the traditional beers of a black and tan?

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Guinness and Bass English Pale Ale

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What are the main beers of Yoho Brewing?

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  • Aooni IPA
  • Tokyo Black Porter
  • Yona Yona Ale
  • Wednesday Cat Belgian White
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List a brewery other than Blue Moon bottling a hefeweizen

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  • Ayinger (Brau-Weisse)
  • Franziskaner (hefe-weisse)
  • Brooklyn Brewery (Brooklyn Weisse)
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List 2 IPAs

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  • Brooklyn Brewery ‘East India Pale Ale’
  • Great Lakes ‘Commodore Perry’
  • Dogfish Head ‘60 Minutes’
  • Stone IPA
  • Ballast Point ‘Sculpin’
  • Lagunitas IPA
  • Bells ‘Two Hearted’
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What style of beer is Pliny the Elder (Russian River Brewery)?

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Double IPA

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17
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Recommend a quadrupel

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  • Trappistes Rochefort 10
  • La Trappe Quadrupel
  • Avery ‘The Reverend’
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What is a cask ale?

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unpasteurized and unfiltered beer left to develop in an unpressured cask
- develops gentle, natural carbonation

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What is Germany’s top selling Helles Lager?

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Paulaner Muncher Hell

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Duvel and Delirium Tremens are both what style of beer and what is their hallmark flavor profile?

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Belgian Golden Strong Ale
- spicy and peppery
- floral
- clean
- high avb

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21
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What style of beer is most closely related to Oktoberfest?

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marzen (lager)

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22
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What style of beer is Ayinger Celebrador?

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doppelbock

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Recommend a German Pilsner style beer

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  • Prima Pils (Victory Brewing Co)
  • Radeberger Pilsner
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24
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Recommend an amber ale

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  • Far Tire Amber
  • Caldera ‘Ashland Amber’
  • Summit ‘Horizon Red’
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What style of beer is Negro Modelo?

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Vienna lager

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26
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What is the regional beer style in Dusseldorf?

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altbier

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27
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What are the 2 methods for achieving color without bitterness in schwartzbier?

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  • use dehusked malt (dials down toastiness)
  • cold soak dark roasted malts (as opposed to boiling)
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Recommend a kolsch

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  • Gaffel Kolsch
  • Goose Island ‘Summertime’
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29
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List a barrel aged beer

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  • Fifty Fifty Brewing ‘Eclipse’
  • Dogfish Head ‘Palo Santo Marron’
  • Odell ‘Woodcut Series’
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30
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Recommend a dubbel

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  • Westmalle dubbel
  • La Trappe dubbel
  • St Feuillen ‘Brune’
  • Chimay Rouge
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31
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Recommend a tripel

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  • Chimay Tripel
  • Westmalle Tripel
  • Bostals ‘Tripel Karmelit’
  • Unibroue ‘La Fin du Monde’
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32
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What style of beer is known as a wee heavy?

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Scotch ale (min 6% abv)

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33
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Recommend a Brown ale

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  • Newcastle Brown Ale
  • Kona Brewing ‘Koko Brown’
  • Ithica ‘Nut Brown’
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Recommend an Oktoberfest beer

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  • Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest
  • Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest
  • Ayinger Oktoberfest-Marzen
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35
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What is the key ingredient in milk stout?

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lactose

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36
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What style of beer is Old Rasputin?

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Imperial Stout

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37
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Duchesse de Bourgogne and Rodenbach are both what style of beer?

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Flanders/Flemish Red Ale

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38
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Recommend a saison

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  • Saison Dupont
  • St Feuillen Saison
  • Brooklyn Brewery ‘Sorachi Ace’
  • Jolly Pumpkin ‘Bam Biere’
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39
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Pilsner Urquell and Lagunitas Pils are both what style of beer?

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Czech Pilsner

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40
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What defines a California Common?

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warm fermented lager

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41
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What role do hops play in beer production?

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  • add flavor and bitterness
  • act as a preservative to prevent bacteria
  • enhance beers head retention
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What is the typical abv of an IPA?

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5.5-7.5%

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43
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Old Speckled Hen and Bass are both what style of beer?

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English Pale Ale

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44
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What brewer claims to have released the first maibock?

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Hofbrahaus (1614)

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45
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List 2 American Pale Ales

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  • Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
  • Maine Beer Co ‘Pepper Ale’
  • Abita ‘Restoration Pale’
  • Ale Asylum ‘Hopalicious’
  • Firestone Walker ‘Pale 31’
46
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What style of beer is New Glarus ‘Spotted Cow?’

A

Cream ale

47
Q

Humulus Lupulus is better known as what?

A

hops plant

48
Q

What is the oldest Trappist brewery in the world?

A

Rochefort (1595)

49
Q

What does SRM mean in reference to beer?

A

Standard Reference Measurement (color chart)

50
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What is the typical abv of lagers and pilsners?

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4-5.5%

51
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What defines a Kolsch and where does it originate?

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cool fermented ale
- Cologne, Germany

52
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What 3 ingredients were authorized for beer production according to the 1516 Bavarian Purity Law?

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  • barley
  • hops
  • water
53
Q

Describe a Gueuze

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  • blend of one and two year old lambics
  • fermentation continues in bottle
54
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What is a Mars lambic?

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mild lambic produced by re-using the malt from a previous lambic

55
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What is a Faro beer?

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  • blend of lambic and lighter beer
  • Belgian candy sugar added for sweetness
56
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What legally defines a wheat beer?

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  • produced with min 60% what instead of barley (German law requires min 50%)
  • usually cloudy and unfiltered
57
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What is the difference between a wheat beer and a white beer?

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A white beer is a wheat beer with the addition of orange peel and/or coriander

58
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What is a Kristall Weizen?

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A clear, filtered wheat beer

59
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List 2 active Trappist breweries outside Belgium

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  • De Koningshoeven / La Trappe (Netherlands)
  • Abdij Maria Toevlucht (Netherlands)
  • Tre Fontane (Italy)
  • Mount Saint Bernard (England)
  • San Pedro de Cardena (Spain)
60
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What is Kvass?

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Russian rye beer usually fermented with fruit juices

61
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What town became famous for the production of Rauchbier (smoked beer)?

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Bamberg (Franken, germany)

62
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What is the only DO in Spain for cider?

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Sidra de Asturias DO

63
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What are the 4 AOPs in France for cider?

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  • Contentin AOP
  • Cournouaille AOP
  • Domfront AOP
  • Pays d’Auge AOP
64
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What are the 4 PGIs in England for cider?

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  • Herefordshire Cider PGI
  • Worcester Cider PGI
  • Gouchestershire Cider PGI
  • Traditional Welsh Cider PGI
65
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What is the min abv for Sidra de Asturias?

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5%

66
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What are the sweetness designations for Sidra de Asturias?

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  • Dry < 30 g/L
  • Semi Dry 30-50 g/L
  • Sweet > 50 g/L
67
Q

What percentage of the assemblage of Poire Domfront must be from white pears?

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40%

68
Q

Orchards in Pays d’Auge must be what percentage bitter apple varieties?

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70%

69
Q

What is the term for a mead and cider blend?

A

cyser

70
Q

What is the term for mead made with the addition of herbs and spices?

A

Metheglin

71
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What is the term for mead made with the addition of grains (usually malted barley)?

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Braggot

72
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Describe the process of making beer

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  • barley is milled to convert it to grist (crushed barley)
  • grist is steeped in hot water in a mash tun to convert starch to fermentable sugar
  • lauter tun allows grains to be separated from liquid (now called wort)
  • hot water is trickled through grains to get remaining sugars (sparging)
  • wort is boiled, hops usually added ad this point
  • hopped wort is spun to remove hops and proteins
  • wort is cooled
  • wort is transferred to fermentation tanks, yeast is added
  • beer is cooled for conditioning (allowing of yeast to settle and flavors to mature)
  • beer is filtered
73
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What are the two methods of carbonating a beer?

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  • forced carbonation
  • bottle conditioning
74
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What is the optimum serving temp for beer?

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34 - 39 degrees - mass produced lagers
40 - 45 degrees - pilsner, kolsch, wheat beer
45 - 50 degrees - pale ale, IPA, porter, stout
50 - 55 degrees - strong ales, sour ale, bitters
55 - 60 degrees - barley wine, double IPA, imperial stout

75
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Describe a Dunkel

A

German lager made with dark roasted barley

76
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Where does the Bock (Billy Goat) style originate?

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Einbeck, Germany (malted lager)
- Einbecker Bock
- Breckenridge Brewery Pandora’s Bock

77
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What is the standard abv of a Doppelbock?

A

7-10%

78
Q

Recommend a Marzen

A
  • Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest
  • Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest
79
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What are the hallmarks of a Vienna lager?

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  • lager brewed with paler malts
  • restrained bitterness
  • slight malty sweetness
80
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Describe schwartzbier?

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  • black lager that drinks cleanly and has roasty notes without the bitterness that accompanies stouts and porters
81
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What are the hallmarks of a Czech Pilsner?

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  • pale malt
  • aromatic hop strain (saaz)
  • clear, aromatic, light bodied, not “hoppy”
82
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What brewery was the first in Germany to specialize in pilsner?

A

Radeberger

83
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What style of beer is Anchor Steam?

A

California Common

84
Q

Gaffel and Goose Island Summertime are both what style of beer?

A

Kolsch

85
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What is a cream ale?

A

pale malted ale fermented and conditioned at cooler temps (like a kolsch) using a mix of ale and lager yeast

86
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What is an altbier?

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  • dark ale fermented with a special yeast strain adapted to cooler temps
  • extended cold conditioning
  • fruity and clean
87
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What is the main difference between an altbier and a kolsch?

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both are cool fermented and conditioned ales, but kolsch relies on pale malt while altbier relies on dark malts

88
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What is a dunkelweizen?

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Dark wheat beer - use of dark kilned malts

89
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What is a weizenbock?

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cool fermented wheat beer that is bottle conditioned

90
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What are the hallmarks of a Berliner Weisse?

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  • low alcohol
  • use of lactobacillus
  • tart
  • wheat beer
91
Q

What is a Gose?

A

beer brewed with salt

92
Q

Allagash White and Three Floyds Gumballhead are both what style of beer/

A

American Wheat Ale

93
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What is the main difference between a hefeweizen and a whitbier?

A
  • hefeweizens are unfilteres
  • whitbier/ white beer is filtered
94
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What is the difference between a pale ale and a bitter?

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Traditionally, a bitter was draft and a pale ale was bottled

95
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What are the 3 broad categories of Bitter Ale?

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Standard/Ordinary Bitter
- max 4.1% abv
- light and drinkable

Best/Regular Bitter
- 4.2 - 4.7% abv

Premium/Strong Bitter
- also known as Extra Special Bitter in the US (trademarked in UK)
- above 4.8% abv
- malty and hoppy

96
Q

what is the name of Great Lakes Brewing east coast IPA?

A

Commodore Perry

97
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In what year was the International Trappist Association formed?

A

1997

98
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What are the requirements to use the Authentic Trappist Product label?

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  • brewery must be within monastery and be brewed by or under the supervision of monks
  • brewing cannot be the main focus of the monastery
  • brewing income can cover the monks living and maintenance costs but profit must be donated to charity
  • quality must be monitored by the Assoc.
99
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Who produces Dark Lord Imperial Stout?

A

Three Floyds

100
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Describe Eisbock

A
  • a bock (lager) is frozen and ice crystals removed to remove water and concentrate the beer
101
Q

What are the main characteristics of a Scotch ale?

A
  • 6-10% abv
  • strong ale, very malty
  • not overly hopped
  • generally smoky (can be smoked)
102
Q

What is the highest selling beer in the world?

A

Snow lager

103
Q

What is a Grisette?

A

very low alcohol saison
- given to miners during the industrial revolution

104
Q

What are the reasons to boil wort?

A
  • deepen color and flavor
  • sterilize/stabilize
  • evaporate excess water
105
Q

What are the four noble hops?

A
  • saaz
  • spalt
  • hollertau
  • tettnanger (most used)
106
Q

Kingfisher is the most sold beer in what country?

A

India

107
Q

What is the oldest brewery in the world?

A

Weihenstephaner (est 1040)

108
Q

What is the name for the wild yeast strain in lambics?

A

brettanomyces lambicus

109
Q

What are the flavors for Berliner Weisse syrup?

A
  • raspberry
  • woodruff flower
110
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What is the name for the tall, thin traditional kolsch glass?

A

stange

111
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In what country would you find Stinlager?

A

New Zealand

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