Home Page

Diary

Pub News

Walking

Contacts

Map

Links

8^th Moreton Beer Festival Quiz Answers (in red)

North Cotswold Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale

1 What year was CamRA Founded? - 1971

2 What is a quarter cask also known as? - Firkin

3 Wadworth Brewery operates from Devizes in Wiltshire. Which is their best known tipple? – 6X

4 What is the name of the little wooden peg that is used in the hole of a cask once it is vented? - Spile – this peg I(sometimes plastic) is usually inserted into the spile hole in the shive after a cask is vented. While the cask is still evolving gas a porous, soft spile is then replaced with an impervious hard spile.

5 What was the Champion Beer of Britain in 2014? - Timothy Taylor’s Boltmaker

6 What does S.I.B.A. stand for? - Society of Independent Brewers

7 How many pints are there in a brewers barrel? – 144 (36 gallons)

8 Which Kent brewery uses quirky World War II advertising for its Spitfire Strong Ale? - Shepherd Neame

9 What is the name for the unwanted froth on a pint of real ale? - Fob

10 What does ABV stand for? - Alcohol by Volume

11What do you call the rings from the beer head left down the side of a glass? - Lacing

12 Hops are male and female but which are used for brewing? - Female as they are the only ones to produce flowers (cones)