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.

An un-sweetened Pastis, but bottled at higher strength is

• Old Tom
• Drambuie
• Cocktail bitters
• Absinthe

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

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

A reposado Tequila must be aged in wood for a least

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

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

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

The first distillation in a pot still produces

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

Pisco is the spirit of?

• Guyana
• Brazil
• Peru
• Italy
• Armagnac

Starch in grain becoming sugar is

• Conversion
• Cogener
• Fermentation
• Distillation

Triple pot distilled spirits with unmalted barley is traditional for

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

The least volatile congeners are found in the

• Head
• Heart
• Tails
• Low wines

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