Mike Dugdale - The Big Quiz Book of Beer

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THE BIG QUIZ BOOK OF BEER

By

Mike Dugdale

Publisher Information

The Big Quiz Book of Beer

published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited

www.andrewsuk.com

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Copyright Mike Dugdale 2013

The right of Mike Dugdale to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Questions

1. How many pints constitute a firkin?
2. What are the mystical numbers of 562 and 2043 formally called?
3. Which is the only trappist brewery in the Netherlands?
4. Who discovered yeast?
5. Hops contain two main acids: alpha and beta. Which provided the bitterness?
6. What traditional brewing method is still used at Samuel Smiths brewery?
7. Which abbey is part of the group that produces the Authentic Trappist Product certification, but who are not currently producing beer?
8. What type of fruit is used in framboise beers?
9. Approximately how many pints are tested for the Cask Marque scheme, each year?
10. Who said, Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy?
11. George Lorimer Jr and Robert Clark founded which famous Scottish brewery?
12. Who first wrote about the hop plant in Naturalis Historia?
13. Where did the brewer Shepherd Neame begin life?
14. What is the formal name for the collection of beer bottles?
15. When was CAMRA founded?
16. What beer process forces the protein to clump together, making them large enough to be filtered by larger grain sheet filters?
17. Whats the formal name for the old German purity law?
18. Who invented both the beer pump, and the beer engine?
19. The Slavic words of piwwo and Pivo (meaning beer) originate from what foodstuff?
20. For how long did Prohibition in the United States last?
21. What type of fruit is used in kriek beers?
22. What style of beer is made by adding candy sugar to a lambic?
23. The word ale has become l and olut in what geographical area?
24. When was the Affligem abbey built?
25. When was Stout first mentioned?
26. Where are the numbers of 562 and 2043 usually found?
27. Who is the patron saint of beer?
28. Why was yeast not mentioned in the German purity law?
29. Which brewery produces the amusingly named beer, Fursty Ferret?
30. What is the full name of the brewer known as Fullers?
31. What is the formal name for the collection of beermats?
32. What four parameters are tested by the Cask Marque?
33. What does CAMRA stand for?
34. What is Cenosillicaphobia?
35. What what family of flower does hops originate?
36. To what does the beer name, Bishops Finger, describe?
37. Name either of the two breweries vying to claim the title of oldest active brewery?
38. One unit is how many milliliters of pure alcohol, by volume?
39. What bible of beer drinkers goes by the initials GPG?
40. To whom was Gales brewery sold, in 2005?
41. Which organization has introduced the enjoy responsibly tag?
42. How many pints constitute a gallon?
43. Other than a beer, what is a Waggledance?
44. Isinglass is produced from the swim bladder of which fish?
45. What is the latin name for the primary strands of top-fermenting yeasts?
46. What is the formal name of Rochefort?
47. What brewery did Charles Allen Young and Anthony Fothergill Bainbridge purchase to become Youngs?
48. Who said He was a wise man who invented beer?
49. Which brewery has produced beers called Iceberg, White Star, and Steerage?
50. Which people drink the most beer, per capita-head, in the world?
51. In what year was the first Oktoberfest?
52. At what temperature are top-fermented yeasts added to the wort?
53. Which brewery, started by Martin Dickie and James Watt when they both 24, produces many brands including Punk IPA?
54. What main four ingredients where banned from beer in Nurnberg from 1290?
55. What is claimed to be the first beer flavoured with peat-smoked whisky?
56. Which is the only trappist brewery in Austria?
57. Old and new lambics are combined to form which style of beer?
58. Bush Ambre from Duboission is one of the strongest Belgian beers. At what ABV?
59. When was the German purity law dropped?
60. Which of the hops two main acids provide aroma?
61. In the brewing industry, what do the initials S&N stand for?
62. What establishment is generally credited as inventing the term gastropub?
63. Which is the only trappist wheat beer?
64. Which Irish moss, a type of red alga, is sometimes used as a veggie-friendly version of Isinglass?
65. When was yeast discovered?
66. What is the Latin word meaning a drink or beverage?
67. Which country has the largest number of beer brands?
68. Who is the patron saint of brewing?
69. What (approximate) shape is the Hoegaarden glass?
70. Which of the hops two main acids is used as an antibiotic?
71. When was The Brewers of Europe founded?
72. When, and where, was the first tax on beer introduced?
73. Zymurgy is the scientific name for what?
74. What do the initials BII stand for?
75. What style of beer was often given to nursing mothers?
76. What does the BBPA stand for?
77. Which brewery, makers of Grottenbier, where taught the art of brewing by the monks of the St Sixtus monastery?
78. The Black Sheep brewery, at Masham, was founded by the owner of which other north England brewery?
79. When, and where, did the German purity law become law?
80. Which is the oldest brewery in North America?
81. Who produces certification for all breweries who wish to have a beer labelled as organic?
82. Where was the oldest beer recipe discovered?
83. Which brewery from Stockport produces the award-winning, liquid licorice-tasting, beer called Old Tom?
84. Which is the oldest brewery in the United States?
85. Belgian lambics are fermented with spontaneous yeasts from which valley?
86. What does SIBA stand for?
87. Name all the trappist breweries in Belgium?
88. Which beer contains the oldest trade mark?
89. Who is the Sumerian Goddess of Brewing and Beer?
90. Describe the yeast in bright, or filtered, beer?
91. How many bars are in the Palace of Westminster, the UK parliament?
92. In what paper was the discovery of yeast announced?
93. Egyptian pyramid builders were paid in a type of beer, what was it called?
94. What type of animal is the logo of Youngs Brewery?
95. What causes a beer to become lightstruck?
96. Oenophobia means a fear of wine. What is the fear of beer?
97. Malt is the shortened term for what foodstuff?
98. Which beer used the advertising slogan that it is was good for you?
99. When was Youngs founded?
100. What does the word lager mean?

Answers

1. 72
2. Stamp identification numbers
3. De Koningshoeven (makers of La Trappe)
4. Louis Pasteur
5. Alpha
6. Yorkshire square method
7. Mariawald
8. Raspberries
9. 27,000
10. Benjamin Franklin
11. Caledonian
12. Pliny the Elder
13. Faversham, Kent, in 1698 by Richard Marsh
14. Labeorphilist
15. 16 th March 1971
16. Cold filtering
17. Reinheitsgebot
18. Joseph Bramah
19. Barley
20. 13 years, from 1920 to 1933
21. Cherries
22. Faro
23. Scandinavia
24. 1074, on the border of Brabant and East Flanders
25. 1677
26. On beer glases
27. King Gambrinus
28. It hadnt yet been discovered