Columbia Bartending Agency
Exam/38 Questions and Solutions
Number of mL in 1 oz - - 30
- Number of bar spoons per oz - - 8
- What tequila is made from - - blue agave
- modifier - - alcoholic, potentially sugary liquids used in addition to a
cocktail's base spirit to supply more flavors that spirits alone cannot provide
- Amari - - Modifiers; Italian-made liqueurs that colloquially encompass the
most bitter tasting digestivos/aperitivos
- bitters - - Modifiers; like a bartender's "spice rack"; often added in dashes
- binders - - non-alcoholic substances that act to cohesively draw together
the components of cocktails
- Highball - - built using 1.5:4 ratio of liquor to mixer
- Old-Fashioned - - built using a base spirit, sweetener, bitters
- Manhattan - - built using a base spirit, fortified wine, bitters
- Negroni - - built using a base spirit, fortified wine, apertif
- reasons to shake drinks - - chilling; diluting; texturing/aeration by
texturizers like juice, milk, cream, syrup, egg whites
- Sour - - shaken using a base spirit, 1 sour ingredient, and 1 sweet
ingredient
- Shooters - - shots with shaken ingredients
- Martini - - Vodka or gin, shaken or stirred, varying level of dryness/amount
of dry vermouth
- Lager vs Ale - - Ales are top-fermented, lagers are bottom-fermented, in
terms of where the yeast sits in the fermentation vessel
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