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.

Hors d'Age for Cognac means

• all contents at least 3 years old
• all contents at least 6 years old
• all contents at least 10 years old
• unaged and clear in color

Rhum Agricole would most likely come from?

• Columbia
• Martinique
• Brazil
• Barbados

Which one of the following statements is true?

• Wheat, rye and corn are commonly malted
• At the end of malting all of the starch has been converted to sugar
• Cooking a grain converts its starches to sugar
• Malting barley releases enzymes inside each grain

The first distillation in a pot still produces

• low wines
• pomace
• the highest proof spirit
• malts

Sour Mash is

• adding the residue from a column still back into the fermenter
• allowing the grains to ferment slowly in a warm, wet environment
• adding acetic acid to the wort
• a marketing term with no legal definition

The least volatile congeners are found in the

• Head
• Heart
• Tails
• Low wines

A high strength, light flavored, corn whiskey blended with more pronounced rye whiskey would most likely be

• Tennessee
• Straight
• triple pot distilled
• Canadian Rye

Which one of the following can be used in rum production after distillation?

• Adding sugar
• Adding caramel
• Removing color
• All of these
• None of these

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

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

Blanche is

• Unaged Armagnac
• Unaged Tequila
• another word for Agricole
• Low quality mezcal