Exam Answers Flashcards
What 3 things are needed in fermentation?
Yeast sugar and water
What is the fermented liquid called
Mash
how do we separate alcohol and water?
Distillation
What is the temperature for distillation?
78.3 degrees C
Why was alcohol originally developed?
Medicinal purposes
Name two potstilled spirits
Whisky and Brandy
What happened in 1831?
Aeneas Coffey designed the Column still
What are pot stills normally made from?
Copper
Name two types of pot still
Alambic Charentasie
Alambic D’Armagnac
Two column distilled spirits?
Vodka and light rum
Maximum percentage in a column still?
96%
What is another term for alcohol?
ABV Alcohol by Volume
What does Vodka mean?
Little Water
What does Zizhnennia Voda mean?
The water of life
Which two countries have the main historical links to vodka?
Poland and Russia
How is Vodka distilled?
Column distillation
Who discovered charcoal filtration?
Theodore Lowitz
Which brand of vodka dont use charcoal filtration?
Absolut
Where was Theodore Lowitz from?
Russia
Who appears on all bottles of Absolut?
Lars Olsen Smith
What was Absolut known as before it became vodka?
Brannvin
Who made Vodka successful in the Western World? (and how?)
John Gilbert Martin (Moscow Mule)
What percentage of vodka is made from grain?
90%
What are the two categories of vodka?
Eastern European and Western World
Two examples of Eastern European Vodka?
Belvedere
Smirnoff
Two examples of Western World Vodka?
Skyy
Grey Goose
Who first made gin in the 1570s?
Prof Sylvius de Bouvre
What two countries can genever only be produced in?
belgium and the Netherlands
Who named genever ‘gin’?
The british
How much gin was drank in the gin craze?
approx 53l per person per year
What does EU law state about the production of gin?
Juniper berries must be the predominant ingredient
What are the two main botanicals in hendricks?
Cucmber and rose petals
3 methods of making gin
Cold compounding
Pot distilling
Flavour extraction
Where does the name rum come from?
Rumbullion - righteous old time
What year did columbus discover the carribean and what did he bring with him?
1492 - sugar cane
What caused an increase in rum production?
reduction in price of sugar as prodcution levels increased
and column distillation reached the carribean in 1848 thanks to the spaniards meaning more rum could be produced
What is the difference between rhum agricole and rhum industrielle?
Agricole = pressed sugar cane Industrielle = molasses
What is molasses?
byproduct of sugarcane production
What was the nickname for the people who smuggled rum into the US in the prohibition?
Rum runners
How would you get a more aromatic rum?
pot distill it
When was bacardi founded?
1862 by Facundo Bacardi
What is the percentage of spirit lost in the aging process known as and how does it differ in different climates?
The Angel’s share
- Change in temperature encourages a more drastic expanding and contracting = more spirit lost = 3x faster aging in a carribean climate
How much cachaca is sold per year on the brazillian market?
2 billion bottles
What is cachaca
made from sugar cane, similar to rhum agricole
Who was drinking the pulque over 3000 years ago?
The Olmecs
what does Mescal mean and how does it differ from tequila?
Agave heart and tequila is essentially region specific mescal - must be made from agave in a particular region whereas mescal has less laws
What are 3 types of tequila?
Blanco (unaged) Reposado (rested) and Anejo (aged)