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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.

Which one of the following spirits is used to make a Daiquiri?

• Vodka
• Rum
• Gin
• Whisky
• Tequila

Light to medium intensity, from Cuba, Panama or Venezuela, predominately light marks are features of

• Spanish style
• British Style
• French Style
• Brazilian rum

Triple pot distilled spirits with unmalted barley is traditional for

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

Which of these is not a Scotch Whisky region?

• Highland
• Chivas
• Speyside
• Campbeltown
• Lowland

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

• Ancestral
• Artisinal
• Tahona
• pina

ABV after fermentation is usually around

• 9% ABV
• 20% ABV
• 26% ABV
• 80 Proof
• 92% ABV

Hors d'Age for Armagnac 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

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

Starch in grain becoming sugar is

• Conversion
• Cogener
• Fermentation
• Distillation

Mexcal made in a roasting pit, crushed by mechanized mill, distilled by direct heat in a metal still can be called

• Ancestral
• Artisinal
• Tahona
• pina