Beer Trivia Questions
What is beer?
A: Beer is an alcoholic beverage.
How is beer produced?
A: By the saccharification of starch and fermentation of the resulting sugar.
The starch and saccharification enzymes are usually derived
from what?
A: Malted cereal grains
Most beer is flavored with what?
A: Hops, which add bitterness.
Hops also act as a what?
A: Natural preservative.
What is the production of beer called?
A: Brewing.
Beer is the world's most widely consumed what?
A: Alcoholic beverage.
Beer is the third-most popular drink overall, after what?
A: Water and tea.
Some of humanity's "what" refer to the production and
distribution of beer?
A: Earliest known writings.
The Code of Hammurabi included what?
A: Laws regulating beer.
"The Hymn to Ninkasi", is a prayer to whom?
A: The Mesopotamian goddess of beer.
The Hymn served as both a prayer and as a method of
remembering what?
A: The recipe for beer.
What is the usual strength of beer?
A: It is usually around 4% to 6% alcohol by volume.
Beer is associated with
social traditions such as what?
A: Beer festivals.
Beer is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages,
possibly dating back to what period?
A: The early Neolithic or 9500 BC, when cereal was first
farmed.
Many Archaeologists think that beer was crucial in the
formation of what?
A: Civilizations.
When was the earliest chemical evidence of barley beer date
to?
A: Circa 3500–3100 BC from the site of Godin Tepe in the Zagros Mountains of
western Iran.
Some of the earliest "what" contain references to beer?
A: Sumerian writings.
The Ebla tablets, discovered Syria, date back to 2500 BC,
and reveal that the city of Ebla produced what?
A: A range of beers.
A fermented beverage using rice and fruit
was made in China
around when?
A: 7000 BC.
Almost any substance containing "what" can naturally
undergo alcoholic fermentation?
A: Sugar.
It is likely that many cultures independently did what?
A: Invented beer.
Beer was spread through Europe by whom?
A: Germanic and Celtic tribes as far back as 3000 BC.
The beverage the early Europeans drank might not be "what"
by most people today?
A: Recognized as beer.
The early European beers did not contain what?
A: Hops.
In 1516, William IV, Duke of Bavaria, adopted the
Reinheitsgebot (purity law), according to which the only allowed ingredients of
beer are what?
A: Water, hops and barley-malt.
By the 7th century AD, beer was being produced and sold by
whom?
A: European monasteries.
One of the steps in brewing is to convert the starch source
into a sugary liquid called what?
A: Wort.
Then the wort is converted into beer in a process effected
by yeast called what?
A: Fermentation.
The wort is prepared by mixing the starch source (normally
malted barley) with hot water, which is known as what?
A: Mashing.
How long does the mashing process take?
A: Around 1 to 2 hours.
Beer is composed mostly of what?
A: Water.
Dublin has hard water well-suited to making what?
A: Stout, such as Guinness.
The Plzeň Region has soft water well-suited to making what?
A: Pilsner (pale lager).
The source of starch in a beer provides the what?
A: Fermentable material.
The starch source is also a key determinant of the strength
and what of the beer?
A: flavor.
The most common starch source used in beer is what?
A: Malted grain.
