Beer

Question 1

What is the sugary rich liquid derived from malty grains to make beer called

Answer 1

Wort

Question 2

What are the 4 key ingredients to a Beer

Answer 2

Water, Yeast, Hops and a starch source

Question 3

What are hops

Answer 3

Dried flower structures that provide bitterness and flavour to Beer

Question 4

What is the reason for adding hops to beers, beyond taste

Answer 4

Hops act as preservative and have antiseptic, anti bacterial qualities

Question 5

When was Bavarian Purity law (Reinheitsgebot) established

Answer 5

1516

Question 6

What were the three ingredients proscribed in Reinheitsgebot

Answer 6

Barley, Water and Hops

Question 7

Which enzyme coverts the starch to sugar during malting

Answer 7

Amylase

Question 8

What does amylase breaks the starch into

Answer 8

Fermentable sugars - Maltose and Dextrin

Question 9

How do you suppress further growth in Green Malt

Answer 9

By drying and roasting using hot air

Question 10

What determines the degree of roasting in Beer Malt

Answer 10

The style desired for the finished beer; light for Pale Ale, highly roasted black malt for porter

Question 11

What is the name given to the milled ground malt

Answer 11

Grist

Question 12

What is the name of tank where grist is combined with hot water

Answer 12

Mash Tun

Question 13

What is the name of the liquid produced by drawing off from solids from the mash tun

Answer 13

Wort

Question 14

What is Sparging

Answer 14

Risnsing the spent grains used to make wort with fresh water, to draw out flavours and sugars still left

Question 15

Why is sparging not extensively used

Answer 15

It may cause unwanted bitterness in the finished brew

Question 16

Why is the wort boiled for over an hour

Answer 16

To stabilise and sterilize, darken the colour and reduce excess water. Also extract bitterness from hops

Question 17

What is hopback chamber

Answer 17

The wort is passed through hopback chamber after boiling to regain hop flavours lost during excessive boiling

Question 18

Which wort is cooled to a lower temperature, Lager or Ale

Answer 18

Lager wort is cooled to lower temperature

Question 19

What is the name of the yeast used for Ales

Answer 19

Saccharomyces cerevisiae - top fermenting yeast

Question 20

What is the name of bottom fermenting yeast in a Lager

Answer 20

Saccharomyces pastorianus

Question 21

What is the old name of Saccharomyces pastorianus

Answer 21

Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis

Question 22

What is the difference in fermentation temperature of Ales and lagers

Answer 22

Ales ferment at higher temperature, lagers are lower.
Ales finish fermentation in about a week, lagers take longer

Question 23

When are the beers pasteurised

Answer 23

In the conditioning tanks, before bottling

Question 24

What are bottle onditioned beers

Answer 24

Beers that undergo partial fermentation in the bottle. Unfiltered and unpasteurised

Question 25

What are cask Ales

Answer 25

Unfiltered beers transferred to casks, unpasteurised, to be used as draught beers

Question 26

What are lambic beers

Answer 26

Beers fermented in open tanks with wild yeast, sour and aged for upto three years, usually blended

Question 27

What are the yeasts active in fermenting Lambic beers

Answer 27

Brettanomyces bruxellensis and Brettanomyces lambicus

Question 28

What is a Geuze

Answer 28

Beer produced by mixing 1 year old lambic with 2 to 3 year old lambics

Question 29

Which beer is called Brussels Champagne

Answer 29

Geuze, due to the refermentation in bottle because of sugars from 1 year old lambics

Question 30

What are Kriek Beers

Answer 30

Fruit lambics fermented with morello cherries

Question 31

Name two noteworthy producers of fruit lambics

Answer 31

Lindemans Cantillon

Question 32

What is the optimum serving temperature for lagers

Answer 32

48 to 52 degree F

Question 33

What is the optimum serving temperature of Ales and draughts

Answer 33

54 to 57 degree F

Question 34

What style of beer is Burton, abbey and stout

Answer 34

Ale

Question 35

What style of beer is Dortmunder, Boch, Munich Helles and Marzen

Answer 35

Lagers

Question 36

What kind of beer is Mars

Answer 36

Mild lambic produced by reusing the malt from previous lambic

Question 37

What kind of beer is Faro

Answer 37

Lambic mixed with lighter brewed style, added belgian candy sugar

Question 38

How much Wheat is typically there in Wheat Beer

Answer 38

50% minimum in Germany, usually 60%

Question 39

What is a Kristall Weizen

Answer 39

Filtered wheat beer

Question 40

What is Hefe Weizen

Answer 40

Yeast - Wheat, unfiltered wheat beer

Question 41

Where would you find Mount St Bernard trappist beer

Answer 41

England, Leicestershire

Question 42

Where would you find Tre Fontaine trappist beer

Answer 42

Italy, Rome

Question 43

Name a Austrian Trappist Beer

Answer 43

Stift Engelszell

Question 44

Name 2 Trappist Beers of Netherlands

Answer 44

Koenigshoven, Abdij Maria Toevlucht

Question 45

Name few Belgian Trappist Beers

Answer 45

Orval Chimay Westmalle Rochefort Westvleteren

Question 46

Where do you find Mont des Cats Trappist Ale? What is special about it

Answer 46

French Trappist ale, produced in Chimay Abbaye now

Question 47

What is Biere de Garde

Answer 47

Bottle conditioned Ale from Northern France

Question 48

What is California Common

Answer 48

Lager beers fermented at higher temperature that usual. Anchor Steam

Question 49

What is Kolsch

Answer 49

German Ale fermented cooler than normal

Question 50

What is Kvass

Answer 50

Rye based Russian beer, fermented with fruit juice

Question 51

What is Rauchbiere

Answer 51

smoked German Beer produced in Bamberg

Question 52

What are Saison Beers

Answer 52

Belgian Farmhouse Ales from Hainaut province