Know Your Liquors

Question 1

Know Vodka

Answer 1

Made by distilled potatoes and some fruits or sugar

Question 2

Know Gin

Answer 2

It’s a spirit made from Juniper berries

Minimum alcoholic strength in Europe is 37.5% ABV the US has 40%

Question 3

Know Rum

Answer 3

Made from sugarcane such as molasses or from sugarcane juice is fermented and distilled

Question 4

Light RUMs (Silver or white)

Answer 4

Have very little flavor from general sweetness

Question 5

Gold RUMs (Amber)

Answer 5

Medium bodied Rums that aged made from White Oak wooden barrels that’s how they color

Question 6

Dark Rums (Brown black or red)

Answer 6

Generally age longer and charred Barrels giving them strong flavor hints of spice can be detected along with Caramell or molasses overtone

Question 7

Spiced Rum‘s (Gold Rum)

Answer 7

Has gold Rum spices typically cinnamon Rose Mary absinthe/aniseed or pepper

Question 8

Know Tequila

Answer 8

There are two types of tequilas mixtos and 100% agave and calm and five categories Blanco, Jovan, reposado, Anejo, extra Anejo

Question 9

Tequila Blanco (White)

Answer 9

Not aged bottle right after distillation process

Question 10

Joven (young, gold)

Answer 10

Mix of Blanco and reposado

Question 11

Reposado (rested)

Answer 11

Aged at a minimum of two months but less than a year old in any size oak barrels

Question 12

Anejo (aged)

Answer 12

Aged at a minimum of a year but less than three years in small oak barrels

Question 13

Extra Anejo (extra aged)

Answer 13

Aged at a minimum of three years in small oak barrels

Question 14

Know Whiskey

Answer 14

Distilled alcohol beverage made from fermented grain mash

Gain means malted barley, rye, malted rye,wheat and corn

Question 15

Single malt whiskey

Answer 15

Single distillery made from mash that uses one particular multi grain

Question 16

Single cask whiskey

Answer 16

Blended whiskey

Question 17

Blended malt whiskey

Answer 17

A mixture of single malt whiskey‘s from different distilleries if it’s labeled pure malt or malt it’s most certain to be blended more whiskey also called vatted malt whiskey

Question 18

Cask strength

Answer 18

Made by specialist independent bottles, such as Dukan Taylor Gordon and McPhail and Kentucky bourbon distillers