How much do you HONESTLY know about beer (part 1 of 5)?!
1. Name 3 types of stouts.
2. Name a flavor found in a Belgian witbier.
3. If a beer label says "trappist" on it, what does that signify?
4. Hefeweizens, Dunkels, and Pilseners all came from what country?
5. What type of beer is also referred to as "farmhouse ale"?
6. What type of flavor and strong aroma can you expect if you open a rauchbier?
7. If you took a doppelbock beer, froze part it and removed the ice what style of beer would this produce?
8. If you were given a Rodenbach Grand Cru or a Panil Barriquée, what is the main taste you are going to notice?
9. There is a style of beer that sissies can't drink unless they mix fruit syrups with it due to the sourness and high acidity. What style is this?
10. If you smell a beer and the aroma is yeasty with a strong sense of bananas, what style is this (hint it's not a fruit beer)
First to get all right, 10pts
Answers: Be honest. If some of the Beer Elders answer before you don't read their answers. Today's quiz is on beer styles.
1. Name 3 types of stouts.
2. Name a flavor found in a Belgian witbier.
3. If a beer label says "trappist" on it, what does that signify?
4. Hefeweizens, Dunkels, and Pilseners all came from what country?
5. What type of beer is also referred to as "farmhouse ale"?
6. What type of flavor and strong aroma can you expect if you open a rauchbier?
7. If you took a doppelbock beer, froze part it and removed the ice what style of beer would this produce?
8. If you were given a Rodenbach Grand Cru or a Panil Barriquée, what is the main taste you are going to notice?
9. There is a style of beer that sissies can't drink unless they mix fruit syrups with it due to the sourness and high acidity. What style is this?
10. If you smell a beer and the aroma is yeasty with a strong sense of bananas, what style is this (hint it's not a fruit beer)
First to get all right, 10pts
1-Stouts: milk stouts, London porter (though stout came from London porter) and Baltic Porter and Oatmeal stout.
2-Flavour in witbier: citrus flavour, smilar to bitter orange
3-Trappist signifies one of the Trappist breweries made the beer:
Bières de Chimay
Brasserie d'Orval
Brasserie de Rochefort
Brouwerij Westmalle
Brouwerij Westvleteren
Brouwerij de Achelse Kluis
Brouwerij de Koningshoeven
All are Belgian except the last which is Dutch
4-Pilseners are from Czecholslavakia, town of Pilsen in Bohemia. Dunkel and Hefeweizen(unfiltered wheat bear) are both German. Pilsener IS NOT German, though they often claim it.
5-Lambics are sometimes called farmhouse beers as are Pale Ales in some cases.
6-Rauchbeir: Smokey malt aroma. The grains are smoked prior to making the wort.
7-Frozen distillation of doppel-bock leadfs to Eisbock
8-Rodenbach Gand Cru/Panil is vinous in nature, like wine, being a Flanders Red Ale
9-Berliner Weiss often has fruit syrups added for the listed reasons, and for different flavours.
10-Gueze (aged Lambic) can have the aroma of yeat and bananas.
1. Sweet(Milk) Stout, Dry Stout, Imperial Stout
2. Orange Peel
3. It was brewed by Trappist Monks
4. Bavaria
5. An open fermented belgium ale
6. Smoke
7. Eisbock
8. Almost champagne like
9. BerlinerWeiss
10. Most belgium Tripel or Biere de Garde styles
Interesting idea...
I'm going to put this Q on my watch list and wait for a day to give my answers...
Very interesting indeed...