Beer Ingredients
BBC Product Knowledge
Beverage Industry Knowledge
Keeping and Serving Beer
Beer Styles
100

This beer ingredient makes up most of the volume in beer

What is water?

100

Rare, red-flesh apples from France are used to bring the unique color and flavor to this cider

What is Angry Orchard Rose?

100

The parent company of Vizzy Hard Seltzer

What is Molson Coors? (MillerCoors is acceptable)

100

Importers sell beer to this member of the three tier system

What is the wholesaler? (distributor is acceptable)

100

This best-known Irish beer style is made with roast barley

What is dry Irish stout or Irish stout?

200

This ingredient is responsible for the color and body of the beer

What is Malt?

200

Brighter and Smoother are used to describe this Samuel Adams product

What is Cold Snap White Ale?

200

This brewing company was purchased by Lion Little World Beverages in 2019

What is New Belgium?

200

This aspect of beer labeling is most useful in assessing its freshness

What is the date? (born-on, code date, freshness date, best by, et al are acceptable)
200

This amber lager is named for the capital of Austria

What is Vienna Lager?

300

These ingredients were recognized as traditional by the German Purity Law

What are Malt, Water, and Hops? (NOT YEAST)

300

This natural sweetener is used in Truly Hard Lemonade

What is Stevia?

300

This #2 cider brand in America was acquired by Artisanal Brewing Ventures in 2019

What is Bold Rock Hard Cider?

300

This device is attached to a keg to allow the input of gas and the output of beer

What is the coupler?

300

This well-hopped British ale was created for export but became popular domestically in the mid-1800s

What is India Pale Ale? (ask them to elaborate if they say IPA)

400

This German hop varietal is named for when it is harvested in the middle of the harvest season

What is Hollertau Mittelfrueh?

400

An electric football game was added to the Smithsonian for its contribution in creating this IPA

What is Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA?

400

Ballast Point was acquired by this Chicago area brewing company in 2019

What is Kings and Convicts Brewing Company?

400

This off-flavor in beer is known for its buttery taste

What is diacetyl?

400

Named for the month in which it's typically brewed, this German style beer was made popular at Munich's harvest festival in the fall

What is Marzen?

500

This is the scientific name for the yeast used in making ales

What is saccharomyces cerevisiae?

500

Dogfish Head Seaquench is a sour mash-up of these three beer styles brewed in sequence

What are Kolsch, Gose, and Berliner-Wiess?

500

This major sports bar and restaurant chain was purchased by the company behind Arby's and Cinnabon in 2018

What is Buffalo Wild Wings?

500

Beer lines must be cleaned every two weeks with this

What is a caustic solution? (Not Acid!!)
500

This beer style is often credited as the first unique beer style to originate in the U.S.

What is California Common?

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