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.

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

• Ancestral
• Artisinal
• Tahona
• pina

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

Which of the following is a legal term for an aged tequila?

• Gold
• Espadin
• Artisinal
• Reposado
• Joven

Calvados is

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

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

A reposado Tequila must be aged in wood for a least

• two months
• twelve months
• two years
• three years

Light marks are

• High strength, light flavored rums
• The result of the first pot distillation
• Light alcohol, heavy flavored rums from pot stills
• Caribbean term for unaged agricole rum

Heavy Marks aged in oak for long periods result in flavors of

• coconut, cream and orange peel
• dried fruit and almond
• bruised fruit, over-ripe banana and rancio
• smoky, earth vegetal flavors

Starch in grain becoming sugar is

• Conversion
• Cogener
• Fermentation
• Distillation

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

• Tennessee
• Straight
• triple pot distilled
• Canadian Rye