Serving Beer
Beer Styles
Flavor and Evaluation
Beer Ingredients
Acronyms + History
100

The first thing you should do when pouring a beer for a customer 

What is check the glass for cleanliness?

100

This American beer style has big hop flavor  and aroma. It has an elevated ABV  range from 5.5-7.5%. 

What is an American IPA?

100

This ingredient adds color to the final beer

What is Malted Barley?

100

This device is used to measure original and final gravity when brewing.

Hydrometer


100

ABV

What is Alcohol by Volume?

200

This beer glass was designed with a handle, thick walls to insulate the beer, and shaped to maintain the beer's head and aroma. 

What is a Mug or Stein?

200

The English translation of the German word Dunkel

What is dark?

200

Aromas that might be dank, floral, or citrusy are likely to be derived from this ingredient.

What are Hops?

200

About 90% (or more) of the average beer is made out of this ingredient. 

What is water?

200

IBU

What are International Bitterness Units?

300

 This rinses away any remaining sanitizer or dust from the glass, allowing for  better head formation and retention. It also cools and wets the inside of the glass,  which could still be warm from washing.

What is a glass rinse?

300

Name of a pale lager commonly drank in the U.S. that contains 30-40% rice or corn and is light bodied.

What is an American Light Lager?

300

Bitter, salty, sweet, umami and sour are these

What are the five tastes?

300

This process is when the brewer adds hops to the beer after primary  fermentation has completed

Dry hopping

300

SRM is used to measure this in beer

Color

400

Proper way to tilt a glass while pouring draft beer is this number of degrees.

What is 45 degrees?
400

This beer style’s name translates to "season."

What is Saison? 

400

This is an off-flavor that smells and tastes papery.

 What is oxidation?

400

What is converted into sugar during the mash

What are unfermentable starches?

400

This acronym stands for the final measurement of sugar present after fermentation

What is FG (Final Gravity)
500

Number of pints in a half barrel of beer

What is 124?

500

This German lager has a moderate grainy-sweet malt aroma, medium yellow to pale gold. Clear. Was created by Spaten brewery to compete with pale Pilsner type beers.

What is Helles?

500

The physical sensation of beer is called this.

What is mouthfeel?

500

The original Germany Purity Law allows only for these three ingredients.

What are Malted Barley, Hops, and Water

500

NEIPA

What is the acronym for New England India Pale Ale

600

This glass has a wide bowl that enhances the beer's aroma and is often used for Belgian or IPA beer styles

What is a tulip?

600

This Belgian ale is amber to brown in color and has an elevated ABV between 6-7.6%.  

What is a Dubbel?

600

 When a beer is described as “skunky,” when this happens to it. 

What is light struck?

600

The scientific name for ale yeast.

What is Saccharomyces cerevisiae?

600

Known as the Goddess of Beer

Who is Ninkasi?

700

These types of beers are usually served warmer to allow the esters and phenolics produced during fermentation to express themselves

What are Ales?

700

This German beer style was created to compete with pale Pilsner-type beers and tends to be more popular in Southern Germany. It should be pale yellow to pale gold in color with a soft rounded malt flavor that is balanced but not too sweet. 4.7-5.4% ABV

What is German Pilsner

700

Aromas that enter through the internal nares via the back of the throat when food or drink are consumed are considered this kind of olfactory function.

What is Retronasal olfaction?

700

The scientific name for lager yeast. 

What is Saccharomyces pastorianus?

700

Number of craft breweries operating in 1980

8

800

This glasswear is appropriate for strong beers such as Barleywines and  Imperial Stouts

What is a Snifter?

800

This U.S. style has medium-high to high malt character with medium to low caramel character derived from roasted crystal malts and tends to be balanced between malt and hop profiles.

What are Amber Ales?

800

This off-flavor is typically described as similar to movie theater popcorn butter.

What is Diacetyl?

800

The part of the hop flower is responsible for essential oils and resins

Lupulin Glands

800

President who appealed the 21st Amendment

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

900

Most modern kegs use these valve types, but older keg designs may  have other tapping methods.

What is Sankey?

900

Which American beer style was invented in California’s San Francisco Bay  Area?

California Common (aka Steam Beer).

900

This substance in hops adds the majority of bitterness to beer.

What are alpha acids?

900

Yeast strain that typically ferments at 45-55 degrees F

What is lager yeast?

900

Dates of prohibition

What was 1920-1933?