WEI

You will have an hour to answer 50 questions in multiple choice format.  You can also download the LVL 2 Spirits Systematic Approach to Tasting (SAT).

Below you will find a sample of questions similar to what you'll find on the LVL2 Spirits exam. WEI students have access to many questions with grading and scoring in their student portal.

The primary raw material for Scotch is

• Barley
• Wheat
• Rye
• Corn

Calvados is

• made from apples and pears
• fermented twice
• never aged in oak
• made from Folle Blanche

Triple pot distilled spirits with unmalted barley is traditional for

• Irish Whiskey
• Scotch Whisky
• Tennessee Whiskey
• Japanese Whislkey

Mexcal made in a roasting pit, crushed by stone, distilled by direct heat in a clay still can be called

• Ancestral
• Artisinal
• Tahona
• pina

A jigger is

• the name of the worm in a Tequiola bottle
• the tube leading into the condenser
• Another name for new make spirit
• A measuring tool

Starches cooked in water can be converted to sugar by the use of

• pot stills
• low wines
• light marks
• enzymes
• agave fibers

Pisco is the spirit of?

• Guyana
• Brazil
• Peru
• Italy
• Armagnac

Cask strength is

• only a marketing term
• undiluted with water
• the highest ABV possible from a pot still
• the same as small batch

What happens during distillation?

• Water boils at a lower temperature than alcohol
• Yeast eat sugars to produce alcohol
• Ethanol and water are separated
• Ethanol is added to raise the alcoholic strength

Ethanol vaporizes at?

• 66.6°C
• 70.3°C
• 78.3°C
• 85.3°C
• 100°C