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100

Is Guinness Stout an ale or a lager?

Ale.  Guinness Stout—to name just one dark brew consistently dismissed as engine oil by novices—is a actually a light-bodied, low-alcohol ale of around 4.2 to 5.0%ABV, depending on the version you're drinking.

100

The 4 main ingredients in beer.

A: Malt, water, sugar, hops
B: Water, hops, yeast and malts
C: Wheat, water, yeast, hops
D: Sugar, yeast, wheat, water

B. When it comes to beer basics, the combination of water, hops, yeast and malts is typically the place they’ll start

100

How many grapes does it take to make your average bottle of wine?

It takes about 2.5 pounds of grapes to make a bottle of wine.

100

What is the most popular (common) beverage for celebrating in Nigeria?


Palm wine, when fermented, is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree such as the palmyra, date palms and coconut palms. It is served chilled in many relaxation joints.

100

Which of these spirits contains the most carbohydrates?

Scotch, Bourbon, Vodka, Rum, Tequila

Distilled spirits don’t contain any cholesterol, carbohydrates, or fats of any kind.

200

How many craft breweries are there in the US May 2019?

1,500    3,000   5,000   10,000

3,000

200

Which is not a style of beer?
A: Roggenbier
B: Rauchbier
C: Grodziskie
D: They’re all styles of beer.

D
Roggenbiers are similar to hefeweizens with rye subbed in for wheat; rauchbiers are rich and smoky, thanks to the use of malts smoked over an open flame; and grodziskies are old-fashioned European brews made entirely from smoked wheat malts and bucket loads of hops.

200

How many calories are in a 4-ounce glass of red wine?

A 110
B 140
C 85
D 110  

A glass of wine has approximately 85 calories.

200

What is the best selling beer of Mexico?

Corona is the best-selling beer produced by Mexico, and the best-selling non-domestic beer in both the U.S., U.K and Australia. It is one of the five most-consumed beers in the world, available in more than 150 countries. It is a lager, and was created in 1925 to celebrate Cervecería Modelo's tenth anniversary.

200

What gives scotch whiskey it's unique smoky flavor?

Peat fires used to dry malted barley gives that distinctive character.

300

Name one of the six new categories of beer introduced for judging at The Great American Beer Festival 2019.

Six new beer style categories were added to the competition’s judging roster this year—fresh hop beer, India pale lager, Franconian-style rotbier, juicy or hazy strong pale ale, emerging India pale ale, and contemporary Belgian-style gueuze lambic

300

What does the term IBU refer to?

C
Though we think the International Beer University would make an awesome alma mater, IBU actually stands for “international bitterness unit” and measures the bitterness in a beer. Low-IBU beers tend to have a subtle hop profile, while beers with higher IBUs (double IPA, anyone?) tend to offer up a considerable hop wallop with every sip.

300

How much wine is produced from one acre of grapevines?  

About 800 gallons of wine are produced from one acre in a vineyard.

300

What is the best selling beer in Arizona?

Goose Island Bourbon County StoutGoose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev)2937 Score 100

300

What is the official distilled spirit of the USA?

Bourbon is the official distilled spirit of the United States.

400

Where did pale ale originate from?

Pale ale originated in England, as early as 1703, when it referred to beers made with coke, a processed form of coal, which produced an amber- or copper-colored ale. Today, though the term “pale ale” technically covers several styles of beer, including IPAs, bottles labeled as pale ales usually contain a lighter, brighter end of the spectrum.

400

Hops may be added at different times during the brewing process:
A: True
B: False
C: Stop with the quiz already, we’re ready for a beer!

A
Some hops are used for aroma, some for flavor and others for bitterness, and all may be added to the brew kettle at different times.

400

How many varieties of wine grapes exist in the world today?  

A 1,000
B 3,500
C 5,000
D 10,000


There are over 10,000 kinds of grapes.

400

Which country consumes the most rum?

Despite not being exactly world-famous for its rum, India is the biggest consumer of rum in the world, both in terms of rum drunk per capita and in terms of most rum drunk each year. Indian rums are molasses distilled, and dark.

400

 How much spirits were consumed during the 1830s including both men and women. 

A 4 gallons PP
B 9.5 gallons PP
C 15 gallon PP
D 45 gallons PP

B

The average US adult 15 or older drank 9 1/2 gallons of spirits per year

500

What is Ghost Faced Killah?

Ghost Face Killah is an extra-strength spicy beer, brewed with six kinds of chiles: Anaheim, Fresno, jalapeño, serrano, habanero, and ghost chiles. The ghost pepper is particularly notorious, and according to Twisted Pine’s website, the “brewers have to wear masks and gloves in the preparation of this beer, but people’s reactions to this one-of-a-kind concoction make all the hard work worth it."

500

A beer engine is:
 A: The motorized mechanism that powers an electronic brewing system.
 B: An experimental car motor converted to run on beer.
 C: A manual pump used to dispense cask beers.
 D: Beer engine? Good question, but I cracked open a beer three questions ago!

C
*Though if you answered D we’ll give you a pass. Cask beers are gravity-fed, meaning they rely on a beer engine to manually pump a beer from the firkin (aka: cask) through the tap and into your glass, as opposed to the more common practice of using gas to push a beer through the draft line.

500

Where does the vanilla flavor in wine come from?

If newer oak barrels are used in the winemaking process, the wines will often have a hint of vanilla in both the aroma and flavor.

500

Which country consumes the most hard liquor?


  • South Korea — 11.2 shots/week.
  • Russia — 5.0 shots/week.
  • Thailand — 4.8 shots/week.
  • Poland — 4.0 shots/week.
  • Japan — 3.6 shots/week.
  • Philippines — 3.5 shots/week.
  • Bulgaria — 3.3 shots/week.
  • Slovakia — 3.0 shots/week.
500

When first made, distilled spirits are completely clear with no color. What gives them color?

They get their colors and hues from the aging process in oak barrels.

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