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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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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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What style of beer is most closely related to Oktoberfest?

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marzen (lager)

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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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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?
Vienna lager
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What is the regional beer style in Dusseldorf?
altbier
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What are the 2 methods for achieving color without bitterness in schwartzbier?
- use dehusked malt (dials down toastiness) - cold soak dark roasted malts (as opposed to boiling)
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Recommend a kolsch
- Gaffel Kolsch - Goose Island 'Summertime'
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List a barrel aged beer
- Fifty Fifty Brewing 'Eclipse' - Dogfish Head 'Palo Santo Marron' - Odell 'Woodcut Series'
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Recommend a dubbel
- Westmalle dubbel - La Trappe dubbel - St Feuillen 'Brune' - Chimay Rouge
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Recommend a tripel
- Chimay Tripel - Westmalle Tripel - Bostals 'Tripel Karmelit' - Unibroue 'La Fin du Monde'
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What style of beer is known as a wee heavy?
Scotch ale (min 6% abv)
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Recommend a Brown ale
- Newcastle Brown Ale - Kona Brewing 'Koko Brown' - Ithica 'Nut Brown'
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Recommend an Oktoberfest beer
- Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest - Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest - Ayinger Oktoberfest-Marzen
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What is the key ingredient in milk stout?
lactose
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What style of beer is Old Rasputin?
Imperial Stout
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Duchesse de Bourgogne and Rodenbach are both what style of beer?
Flanders/Flemish Red Ale
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Recommend a saison
- Saison Dupont - St Feuillen Saison - Brooklyn Brewery 'Sorachi Ace' - Jolly Pumpkin 'Bam Biere'
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Pilsner Urquell and Lagunitas Pils are both what style of beer?
Czech Pilsner
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What defines a California Common?
warm fermented lager
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What role do hops play in beer production?
- 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?
5.5-7.5%
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Old Speckled Hen and Bass are both what style of beer?
English Pale Ale
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What brewer claims to have released the first maibock?
Hofbrahaus (1614)
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List 2 American Pale Ales
- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - Maine Beer Co 'Pepper Ale' - Abita 'Restoration Pale' - Ale Asylum 'Hopalicious' - Firestone Walker 'Pale 31'
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What style of beer is New Glarus 'Spotted Cow?'
Cream ale
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Humulus Lupulus is better known as what?
hops plant
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What is the oldest Trappist brewery in the world?
Rochefort (1595)
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What does SRM mean in reference to beer?
Standard Reference Measurement (color chart)
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What is the typical abv of lagers and pilsners?
4-5.5%
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What defines a Kolsch and where does it originate?
cool fermented ale - Cologne, Germany
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What 3 ingredients were authorized for beer production according to the 1516 Bavarian Purity Law?
- barley - hops - water
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Describe a Gueuze
- blend of one and two year old lambics - fermentation continues in bottle
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What is a Mars lambic?
mild lambic produced by re-using the malt from a previous lambic
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What is a Faro beer?
- blend of lambic and lighter beer - Belgian candy sugar added for sweetness
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What legally defines a wheat beer?
- produced with min 60% what instead of barley (German law requires min 50%) - usually cloudy and unfiltered
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What is the difference between a wheat beer and a white beer?
A white beer is a wheat beer with the addition of orange peel and/or coriander
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What is a Kristall Weizen?
A clear, filtered wheat beer
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List 2 active Trappist breweries outside Belgium
- De Koningshoeven / La Trappe (Netherlands) - Abdij Maria Toevlucht (Netherlands) - Tre Fontane (Italy) - Mount Saint Bernard (England) - San Pedro de Cardena (Spain)
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What is Kvass?
Russian rye beer usually fermented with fruit juices
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What town became famous for the production of Rauchbier (smoked beer)?
Bamberg (Franken, germany)
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What is the only DO in Spain for cider?
Sidra de Asturias DO
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What are the 4 AOPs in France for cider?
- Contentin AOP - Cournouaille AOP - Domfront AOP - Pays d'Auge AOP
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What are the 4 PGIs in England for cider?
- Herefordshire Cider PGI - Worcester Cider PGI - Gouchestershire Cider PGI - Traditional Welsh Cider PGI
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What is the min abv for Sidra de Asturias?
5%
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What are the sweetness designations for Sidra de Asturias?
- Dry < 30 g/L - Semi Dry 30-50 g/L - Sweet > 50 g/L
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What percentage of the assemblage of Poire Domfront must be from white pears?
40%
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Orchards in Pays d'Auge must be what percentage bitter apple varieties?
70%
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What is the term for a mead and cider blend?
cyser
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What is the term for mead made with the addition of herbs and spices?
Metheglin
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What is the term for mead made with the addition of grains (usually malted barley)?
Braggot
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Describe the process of making beer
- 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
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What are the two methods of carbonating a beer?
- forced carbonation - bottle conditioning
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What is the optimum serving temp for beer?
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
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Describe a Dunkel
German lager made with dark roasted barley
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Where does the Bock (Billy Goat) style originate?
Einbeck, Germany (malted lager) - Einbecker Bock - Breckenridge Brewery Pandora's Bock
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What is the standard abv of a Doppelbock?
7-10%
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Recommend a Marzen
- Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest - Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest
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What are the hallmarks of a Vienna lager?
- lager brewed with paler malts - restrained bitterness - slight malty sweetness
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Describe schwartzbier?
- black lager that drinks cleanly and has roasty notes without the bitterness that accompanies stouts and porters
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What are the hallmarks of a Czech Pilsner?
- pale malt - aromatic hop strain (saaz) - clear, aromatic, light bodied, not "hoppy"
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What brewery was the first in Germany to specialize in pilsner?
Radeberger
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What style of beer is Anchor Steam?
California Common
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Gaffel and Goose Island Summertime are both what style of beer?
Kolsch
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What is a cream ale?
pale malted ale fermented and conditioned at cooler temps (like a kolsch) using a mix of ale and lager yeast
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What is an altbier?
- dark ale fermented with a special yeast strain adapted to cooler temps - extended cold conditioning - fruity and clean
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What is the main difference between an altbier and a kolsch?
both are cool fermented and conditioned ales, but kolsch relies on pale malt while altbier relies on dark malts
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What is a dunkelweizen?
Dark wheat beer - use of dark kilned malts
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What is a weizenbock?
cool fermented wheat beer that is bottle conditioned
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What are the hallmarks of a Berliner Weisse?
- low alcohol - use of lactobacillus - tart - wheat beer
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What is a Gose?
beer brewed with salt
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Allagash White and Three Floyds Gumballhead are both what style of beer/
American Wheat Ale
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What is the main difference between a hefeweizen and a whitbier?
- hefeweizens are unfilteres - whitbier/ white beer is filtered
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What is the difference between a pale ale and a bitter?
Traditionally, a bitter was draft and a pale ale was bottled
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What are the 3 broad categories of Bitter Ale?
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
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what is the name of Great Lakes Brewing east coast IPA?
Commodore Perry
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In what year was the International Trappist Association formed?
1997
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What are the requirements to use the Authentic Trappist Product label?
- 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.
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Who produces Dark Lord Imperial Stout?
Three Floyds
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Describe Eisbock
- a bock (lager) is frozen and ice crystals removed to remove water and concentrate the beer
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What are the main characteristics of a Scotch ale?
- 6-10% abv - strong ale, very malty - not overly hopped - generally smoky (can be smoked)
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What is the highest selling beer in the world?
Snow lager (China)
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What is a Grisette?
very low alcohol saison - given to miners during the industrial revolution
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What are the reasons to boil wort?
- deepen color and flavor - sterilize/stabilize - evaporate excess water
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What are the four noble hops?
- saaz - spalt - hollertau - tettnanger (most used)
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Kingfisher is the most sold beer in what country?
India
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What is the oldest brewery in the world?
Weihenstephaner (est 1040)
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What is the name for the wild yeast strain in lambics?
brettanomyces lambicus
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What are the flavors for Berliner Weisse syrup?
- raspberry - woodruff flower
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What is the name for the tall, thin traditional kolsch glass?
stange
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In what country would you find Stinlager?
New Zealand

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