Q 01/05

What are the four basic ingredients of beer?

A) Water, Corn, Barley, Hops

B) Water, Barley, Hops, Yeast

C) Water, Rice, Yeast, Spices

D) Water, Wheat, Hops, Sugar

Answer · why

B) Water, Barley, Hops, Yeast

Water, Barley, Hops, Yeast: water makes up most of the drink, and its minerals matter so much that soft water suits pale lagers and hard water dark st...

Q 02/05

Which ancient civilisation left some of the earliest beer-brewing records, including a hymn to Ninkasi?

A) Roman Empire

B) Sumerians

C) Ancient Egypt

D) Ancient Greece

Answer · why

B) Sumerians

Sumerians: the Hymn to Ninkasi, written down around 1800 BC, praises the beer goddess step by step through the brewing and is often read as a recipe; ...

Q 03/05

Besides limiting beer's ingredients, Bavaria's 1516 Reinheitsgebot also capped what?

A) Beer strength

B) Beer prices

C) Barrel sizes

D) Brewery numbers

Answer · why

B) Beer prices

Beer prices: the decree opens by capping a measure of beer at one pfennig in winter and two in summer, and only afterwards turns to the ingredients ru...

Q 04/05

What sets a 'session' beer apart from other beers?

A) Shorter brewing time

B) Lower alcohol

C) Summer-only release

D) Smaller serving size

Answer · why

B) Lower alcohol

Lower alcohol: the idea is that you can enjoy a few over one long drinking session and still have your wits about you, a habit the name probably owes ...

Q 05/05

In brewing, what is the sugary liquid run off the grain called, before it is boiled and fermented?

A) Grist

B) Lees

C) Trub

D) Wort

Answer · why

D) Wort

Wort is boiled, which sterilises it and stops the enzymes working, and then cooled so that yeast can be added to turn its sugars into alcohol.