Beer & Brewery Pronunciation

One of my friends that got me into beer a few years ago gave me a schlafly. I said 'sch-laugh-lee' and he mocked me so hard, saying it's 'schlofflee'. I looked it up on their website's FAQ and he was wrong, I wasn't. I have had trouble with some of the Danish/Norwegian breweries, but I just found a site that breaks them all down.

http://lvbev.com/index.php?option=c...ce-nogne-o-haandbryggeriet-mikkeller-and-more

Mikkeller: Say "MIH-kull-er"
Haandbryggeriet: Say "HOND-brig-gair-EE-eh"
Nørrebro Bryghus: Say "nair-a-BRO BROY-ghoose"
Amager Bryghus: say "AHM-ahr BROY-ghoose"
To Øl: Say "TOE OOL"
Nøgne-Ø: Say "NOEG-neh OEH"
Ægir Bryggeri: Say "ah-GEAR brig-air-EE"

Edit: You should hear Orson Welles talking about champagne. He's hammer.

 

I always thought it was Des-shoot-ehs

 

It's not pronounced like the single eyebrow some people get?

Uinta.

I KNOW its not spelled Unita, but for the longest time I prounced it You-night-a, even though it is You-inta.

Beer still tastes the same though, so that's good.

 

Weighing in on the DIPA thing, my friends and I say "DUY-puh". That is, we pronounce the "I" more like the "i" in "light" or "sight", rather than a harder "i" sound like the "i" in "die" or the "y" in "cry".

 

And here I thought the "i" in "light" and "sight" IS the hard version...

 

http://www.forvo.com/word/westvleteren/#nl

I like this site for pronunciations in general, but I don't know how many beer-specific words are on it.

 

Yeah, and most phonetic guides will use the same symbol for all the words I mentioned. But to my ears - and I don't think this is just a midwestern thing - the first parts of "light" and "lye" aren't identical, because of the longer, harder "i" sound in "lye", versus the lower, sort of "uy" sound the "i" in "light" has.

I'm worried this is getting a little esoteric.

 

Why should you feel like a dumbass, he's the one who can't spell his name properly.

 

My buddy just told me a story the other night of how he pronounced Jai Alai when he first moved to FL.
For those who don't know, it's pronounced High Lie
He asked for a Jay Ah-Lay (Lay as in weigh)

 

Same as Cantillon. I saw above someone wrote "Cant-i-yon" but make sure that last syllable has the nasalized n.

 

If there is something I want at a bar that I can't pronounce, I usually just find the words in the name I know I can pronounce; however, if all else fails I just point as say I'll have one of those. Better to be thought of as a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt

 

Pliny? I say plin-ee but I don't actually know if that's right. Being in MA I don't hear it too often, but my friend just came back from CA with a bottle of PtE and was saying pline-ee.

 

or if you're from Wisconsin, Duh-shoots

like Ore-uh-gahn instead of Or-uh-gin

 

Sounded dumb at the bar the other day ordering a Helles Lager. Apparently it's pronounced "Hell-Us" and not "heels"

 

Always an awkward one for me because the American and British pronunciations differ on the historical figure, himself. I tend to hear Americans says pline-ee and it's an American beer. More likely plihn-ee elsewhere in the anglophone world. But I can't think of other Roman names where the i has the long sound, so I find it hard to say pline-ee. Except when drinking the beer with an American. And it's not as hard as not drinking the beer.

 

I'd run these by mother-tongue speakers. Belgian natives, weigh in! (I don't think that W becomes a v sound, but for the rest, they have subtleties that we don't just have in English.) But people are forgiving. I only recall once really cracking up a Dutch speaker, by saying the name of the town the way we say the cheese in English. I got a pretty good laugh out of it, too.

Otherwise, Trappist as a term exists in English, and you'll rarely have to order "a Trappist," so, that's one less problem.

 

Heck I've been known to just point or ask for the third tap from the left.

 

I ordered an Abacus at Barrel works with my buddy Skunkdrool. I said "I'll have a suck-you-buh" and he learned over and said "it's sue-KAH-buh" at which point I somehow didn't slap him.