Spirits

Question 1

Should you swirl spirts to smell?

Answer 1

No, will release alcohol making it harder to smell the aromas.

Question 2

What should you add to spirits to evaluate them?

Answer 2

Still water

Question 3

Two categories of stills

Answer 3

Pot

Colum

Question 4

How is Alcoholic liquid made

Answer 4

By boiling off the alcohol, collecting and cooling it and then condensing it back into higher strength alcoholic liquid

Question 5

Are the heads and tails used in the final sport?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

As a general rule spirits that are distilled to a lower alcoholic strength, like those produced in a pot still, contain more?

Answer 6

Impurities and flavour characteristics

Question 7

Do spirts produced in a pot still generally require to be matured?

Answer 7

Yes- the impurities can make the spirt harsher

Question 8

Spirits distilled to a higher alcoholic strength, like those in a column still, are

Answer 8

Lighter in flavour and character

Question 9

Do spirits distilled in a column still require a period of maturation?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

What affects the flavour of the spirit the most?

Answer 10

Distillation strength (not the still type)

Question 11

What colour are spirits when they come off the still?

Answer 11

Water white

Question 12

How is brandy made?

Answer 12

Distilled wine. Aged in oak and/or coloured with caramel before bottling so it is brown or amber in colour.

Question 13

How is cognac made?

Answer 13

Oak-aged grape brandy

Must be double distilled using a copper pot still

Question 14

Where does cognac come from?

Answer 14

A delimited region to the north of Bordeaux

Question 15

Where does Armagnac come from?

Answer 15

Delimited area to the south of Bordeaux

Question 16

How is Armagnac made?

Answer 16

Colum still

Question 17

What is an important part of the production of cognac and armagnac?

Answer 17

Oak maturation

Question 18

In cognac and Armagnac, what is used to indicate the age of the spirit?

Answer 18

VS, VSOP and OX

Question 19

What are whiskies made from

Answer 19

Grains

Question 20

For whisky, the grains must go through a conversation process. What does this do?

Answer 20

Turns insoluble starch into fermentable sugars

Question 21

What must happen for a whisky to be scotch whisky?

Answer 21

Must be both filters and aged in oak casks in Scotland for at least 3 years.

Question 22

What is malt whisky?

Answer 22

Made using only malted barley. Distillation must take place in copper pot stills.

Question 23

What is a single malt scotch whisky

Answer 23

Malt whisky which comes from one distillery

Question 24

Grain whisky is made from

Answer 24

A mixture of grains including corn, wheat and malted barley

Question 25

What is Irish whisky made from

Answer 25

A mixture of malted and unmalted barley along with other grains

Question 26

Two key American states for Whisky?

Answer 26

Tennessee | Kentucky

Question 27

What must bourbon contain

Answer 27

A minimum of 51% corn

Question 28

How is rum made?

Answer 28

Must be made from sugar cane product (molasses most common)

Question 29

Run is divided into the following categories?

Answer 29

White, golden, spiced and dark

Question 30

To be called tequila, the sport must be

Answer 30

Produced from 51% blue agave

Question 31

Tequila flavours

Answer 31

Grass, citrus, Earth and pepper with sharp alcohol

Question 32

What is joven/oro/gold tequila

Answer 32

Images that have had caramel added to alter colour and soften flavour

Question 33

What does Resposado mean

Answer 33

Rested tequila | Aged in oak for a short period

Question 34

What does Anejo mean?

Answer 34

Aged tequila

Question 35

Vodka is made with

Answer 35

Raw materials such as grains, potatoes, grapes etc

Question 36

Vodka must be distilled to a strength of

Answer 36

95-96% abv

Question 37

Vodka can be flavoured in the following ways

Answer 37

Maceration: soaking the flavouring ingredients Re-distillation: re-distilling with the flavour ingredients Essences

Question 38

To be called gin, what must the main flavouring be?

Answer 38

Juniper

Question 39

London dry gin must be

Answer 39

Produced by re-distilling the neutral spirit in a pot with juniper and other botanicals. No other flavourings may be added.

Question 40

What is a liqueur

Answer 40

A distilled spurt that has been flavoured and sweetened.