COLUMBIA BARTENDING AGENCY 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Age: - ✔✔How long a spirit, wine, or beer has been stored since distillation. Aging
changes the flavor and aroma greatly
✔✔Aperitif: - ✔✔A drink that stimulates the appetite before a meal
✔✔Bar spoon - ✔✔Small spoon, long handle. Used to stir cocktails, pour liquor to layer,
and scrape bottom of the blender
✔✔Base liquor: - ✔✔The main ingredient of a drink
✔✔Blend: - ✔✔Use a blender
✔✔Brewing: - ✔✔The production of malt beverages from malt and hops by grinding and
boiling the result with yeast
✔✔Call brand: - ✔✔A brand name of liquor that is usually more expensive
✔✔Church key: - ✔✔A term used to describe the traditional waiter's corkscrew
✔✔Dash: - ✔✔A smidgen, or a couple of drops. 1/16 of an ounce.
✔✔Distillation: - ✔✔The process of heating the fermented substance to the boiling point
of alcohol and condensing/collecting vapors
✔✔Fermentation: - ✔✔The conversion of sugar to alcohol using year under anaerobic
conditions
✔✔Flamed: - ✔✔A drink is topped with a high proof alcohol and lit on fire
✔✔Float: - ✔✔layer one ingredient on top of another to keep them from mixing together
✔✔Free pouring: - ✔✔A method of pouring the correct quantity of liquor without the use
of a physical measuring device
✔✔Frozen: - ✔✔Drink is blended with crushed ice or ice cream
✔✔Jigger: - ✔✔Double sided measurer with 1 oz and 1/2 oz sides
✔✔Grenadine: - ✔✔A flavoring for drinks. It is made from pomegranates or red currant
,✔✔Hawthorne Strainer: - ✔✔Wire gadget with a spring around it that fits over the top of
a mixing cup for straining mixed ingredients into a new cup of ice for serving
✔✔Hops: - ✔✔Flower cones added to beer as bittering agent, a preservative, an an
aromatic
✔✔Liqueur: - ✔✔Came as cordial. An alcohol that has sugar added to it after distillation.
✔✔Mist: - ✔✔To pour a drink over crushed ice
✔✔Mixer: - ✔✔The non-alcoholic beverage you mix with spirits
✔✔Muddle: - ✔✔To mash or grind fruits or leaves for a drink
✔✔Muddler: - ✔✔A mortar and pestle used to muddle leaves and fruit
✔✔Neat: - ✔✔Room temperature
✔✔Nightcap: - ✔✔A wine ro liquor taken before bed
✔✔On the rocks: - ✔✔Served with ice
✔✔Pony: - ✔✔A one-ounce shot
✔✔Pour top/Speed Pour: - ✔✔Used to control the flow of liquor from the bottle. This
prevents you from over pouring. Flows at 1 oz per second
✔✔Shake: - ✔✔Add ice and ingredients into a shaker set and shake vigorously
✔✔Sherry: - ✔✔A fortified wine made from white grapes and aged in the solera system
✔✔Simple Syrup: - ✔✔Sugar water. 1:1 Sugar:Water
✔✔Soda Gun: - ✔✔A device used in bars that dispenses various types of sodas and
juices
✔✔Speed rack: - ✔✔The liquors you use most frequently
Vodka
Gin
Rum
Tequila
Triple Sec
Whisky
Bourbon
, Kept behind the bar in that order
✔✔Splash: - ✔✔A small amount of liquid, less than one count
✔✔Top Shelf: - ✔✔The best (most expensive) spirits in house
✔✔Twist: - ✔✔A peel from the rind of a fruit (usually lemon/lime) used to flavor the rum
of a glass, then dropped into the drink
✔✔Virgin: - ✔✔Non-alcoholic
✔✔Well: - ✔✔Bar stock of non-name brand liquors. These are the ones in the speed
rack
✔✔Wort: - ✔✔The sweet liquid that is created from mashing and boiling process. When
wort is cooled and fermented, it's called beer
✔✔
Skrewdriver - ✔✔1.5 oz Vodka
Fill orange juice
✔✔Greyhound - ✔✔1.5 oz Vodka
Fill with grapefruit juice
✔✔Salty Dog - ✔✔Salt the rim of the glass
1.5 oz Vodka
Fill with grapefruit juice
✔✔Cape Codder - ✔✔1.5 oz Vodka
Fill with cranberry juice
✔✔Orange Blossom - ✔✔1.5 oz Gin
Fill with orange juice
✔✔Paloma - ✔✔1.5 oz Tequila
Fill with grapefruit juice
✔✔Bocce Ball - ✔✔1.5 oz Amaretto
Fill with orange juice
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Age: - ✔✔How long a spirit, wine, or beer has been stored since distillation. Aging
changes the flavor and aroma greatly
✔✔Aperitif: - ✔✔A drink that stimulates the appetite before a meal
✔✔Bar spoon - ✔✔Small spoon, long handle. Used to stir cocktails, pour liquor to layer,
and scrape bottom of the blender
✔✔Base liquor: - ✔✔The main ingredient of a drink
✔✔Blend: - ✔✔Use a blender
✔✔Brewing: - ✔✔The production of malt beverages from malt and hops by grinding and
boiling the result with yeast
✔✔Call brand: - ✔✔A brand name of liquor that is usually more expensive
✔✔Church key: - ✔✔A term used to describe the traditional waiter's corkscrew
✔✔Dash: - ✔✔A smidgen, or a couple of drops. 1/16 of an ounce.
✔✔Distillation: - ✔✔The process of heating the fermented substance to the boiling point
of alcohol and condensing/collecting vapors
✔✔Fermentation: - ✔✔The conversion of sugar to alcohol using year under anaerobic
conditions
✔✔Flamed: - ✔✔A drink is topped with a high proof alcohol and lit on fire
✔✔Float: - ✔✔layer one ingredient on top of another to keep them from mixing together
✔✔Free pouring: - ✔✔A method of pouring the correct quantity of liquor without the use
of a physical measuring device
✔✔Frozen: - ✔✔Drink is blended with crushed ice or ice cream
✔✔Jigger: - ✔✔Double sided measurer with 1 oz and 1/2 oz sides
✔✔Grenadine: - ✔✔A flavoring for drinks. It is made from pomegranates or red currant
,✔✔Hawthorne Strainer: - ✔✔Wire gadget with a spring around it that fits over the top of
a mixing cup for straining mixed ingredients into a new cup of ice for serving
✔✔Hops: - ✔✔Flower cones added to beer as bittering agent, a preservative, an an
aromatic
✔✔Liqueur: - ✔✔Came as cordial. An alcohol that has sugar added to it after distillation.
✔✔Mist: - ✔✔To pour a drink over crushed ice
✔✔Mixer: - ✔✔The non-alcoholic beverage you mix with spirits
✔✔Muddle: - ✔✔To mash or grind fruits or leaves for a drink
✔✔Muddler: - ✔✔A mortar and pestle used to muddle leaves and fruit
✔✔Neat: - ✔✔Room temperature
✔✔Nightcap: - ✔✔A wine ro liquor taken before bed
✔✔On the rocks: - ✔✔Served with ice
✔✔Pony: - ✔✔A one-ounce shot
✔✔Pour top/Speed Pour: - ✔✔Used to control the flow of liquor from the bottle. This
prevents you from over pouring. Flows at 1 oz per second
✔✔Shake: - ✔✔Add ice and ingredients into a shaker set and shake vigorously
✔✔Sherry: - ✔✔A fortified wine made from white grapes and aged in the solera system
✔✔Simple Syrup: - ✔✔Sugar water. 1:1 Sugar:Water
✔✔Soda Gun: - ✔✔A device used in bars that dispenses various types of sodas and
juices
✔✔Speed rack: - ✔✔The liquors you use most frequently
Vodka
Gin
Rum
Tequila
Triple Sec
Whisky
Bourbon
, Kept behind the bar in that order
✔✔Splash: - ✔✔A small amount of liquid, less than one count
✔✔Top Shelf: - ✔✔The best (most expensive) spirits in house
✔✔Twist: - ✔✔A peel from the rind of a fruit (usually lemon/lime) used to flavor the rum
of a glass, then dropped into the drink
✔✔Virgin: - ✔✔Non-alcoholic
✔✔Well: - ✔✔Bar stock of non-name brand liquors. These are the ones in the speed
rack
✔✔Wort: - ✔✔The sweet liquid that is created from mashing and boiling process. When
wort is cooled and fermented, it's called beer
✔✔
Skrewdriver - ✔✔1.5 oz Vodka
Fill orange juice
✔✔Greyhound - ✔✔1.5 oz Vodka
Fill with grapefruit juice
✔✔Salty Dog - ✔✔Salt the rim of the glass
1.5 oz Vodka
Fill with grapefruit juice
✔✔Cape Codder - ✔✔1.5 oz Vodka
Fill with cranberry juice
✔✔Orange Blossom - ✔✔1.5 oz Gin
Fill with orange juice
✔✔Paloma - ✔✔1.5 oz Tequila
Fill with grapefruit juice
✔✔Bocce Ball - ✔✔1.5 oz Amaretto
Fill with orange juice
