TSP EXAM
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Hydrolysis - Answers -What step of tequila production exposes pina to prolonged heat
to convert the aquamiel to fermentable sugar?
Oaxaca - Answers -Which of the following locations produces the majority of mezcal?
Anejo tequila - Answers -tequila that has aged 1-3 years in a small oak container
Oro - Answers -What would you call a blanco tequila that is mixed with an older tequila?
Mezcal - Answers -A sweet and smoky agave spirit?
Why use salt and lime with tequila shots? - Answers -Increased saliva from salt, lime
masks taste
Paloma - Answers -A customer likes tequila and grapefruit, what cocktail?
Mezcal wine - Answers -Which spirit led to the creation of tequila?
Yellow - Answers -What is not a color of rum?
Cuba Libre - Answers -rum, lime juice, and cola
The barrel - Answers -Where does the color of rum come from?
Malibu - Answers -Which brand could you use to make a pina colada?
Caphrina - Answers -Which cocktail contains brazilian rum?
, Navy Grog - Answers -Which rum cocktail has honey as an ingredient?
Don Facundo Bacardi - Answers -Who industrialized the production of rum in the mid-
1800s?
Virgin Honey - Answers -byproduct in the evaporation step in rum production
age statement rum - Answers -identifies the youngest spirit in the blend
white vs aged rum - Answers -White rum is light and sweet, aged rum has a smoky
taste
rum and coke - Answers -Highball glass, ice cubes
1 shot rum
Fill with coke
serve with lime
dunder (Jamacian rum) - Answers -dunder as yeast source, taken from the leftovers of
previous distillation
Mount Gay 1703 - Answers -The world's oldest documented rum brand
Puerto Rico rum - Answers -Delicate, clean, floral
Mojito, Caiprhina - Answers -Which 2 rum cocktails call for fruit or herbs to be muddled?
dark and stormy - Answers -Rum, ginger beer, lime wedge
Molasses - Answers -What byproduct of sugar production led to the creation of rum?
Russia and Poland - Answers -What are the two countries that are thought to be the
origin of vodka?
a. Absolut - Answers -What vodka was established in Sweden?
Fermentation, distillation, filtration - Answers -What are the three main steps to vodka
production?
Congeners - Answers -What are substances other than alcohol that are produced
during fermentation?
Potato and rye - Answers -What raw material for vodka production is associated with
Poland?
Baijiu - Answers -What vodka-like Chinese spirit is made with sorghum?
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Hydrolysis - Answers -What step of tequila production exposes pina to prolonged heat
to convert the aquamiel to fermentable sugar?
Oaxaca - Answers -Which of the following locations produces the majority of mezcal?
Anejo tequila - Answers -tequila that has aged 1-3 years in a small oak container
Oro - Answers -What would you call a blanco tequila that is mixed with an older tequila?
Mezcal - Answers -A sweet and smoky agave spirit?
Why use salt and lime with tequila shots? - Answers -Increased saliva from salt, lime
masks taste
Paloma - Answers -A customer likes tequila and grapefruit, what cocktail?
Mezcal wine - Answers -Which spirit led to the creation of tequila?
Yellow - Answers -What is not a color of rum?
Cuba Libre - Answers -rum, lime juice, and cola
The barrel - Answers -Where does the color of rum come from?
Malibu - Answers -Which brand could you use to make a pina colada?
Caphrina - Answers -Which cocktail contains brazilian rum?
, Navy Grog - Answers -Which rum cocktail has honey as an ingredient?
Don Facundo Bacardi - Answers -Who industrialized the production of rum in the mid-
1800s?
Virgin Honey - Answers -byproduct in the evaporation step in rum production
age statement rum - Answers -identifies the youngest spirit in the blend
white vs aged rum - Answers -White rum is light and sweet, aged rum has a smoky
taste
rum and coke - Answers -Highball glass, ice cubes
1 shot rum
Fill with coke
serve with lime
dunder (Jamacian rum) - Answers -dunder as yeast source, taken from the leftovers of
previous distillation
Mount Gay 1703 - Answers -The world's oldest documented rum brand
Puerto Rico rum - Answers -Delicate, clean, floral
Mojito, Caiprhina - Answers -Which 2 rum cocktails call for fruit or herbs to be muddled?
dark and stormy - Answers -Rum, ginger beer, lime wedge
Molasses - Answers -What byproduct of sugar production led to the creation of rum?
Russia and Poland - Answers -What are the two countries that are thought to be the
origin of vodka?
a. Absolut - Answers -What vodka was established in Sweden?
Fermentation, distillation, filtration - Answers -What are the three main steps to vodka
production?
Congeners - Answers -What are substances other than alcohol that are produced
during fermentation?
Potato and rye - Answers -What raw material for vodka production is associated with
Poland?
Baijiu - Answers -What vodka-like Chinese spirit is made with sorghum?
