Beer & Brewery Pronunciation

How 'bout that! Thanks, and lol. (sorry)

 

The odds that I know who you are talking about are Fiddy Fyedee.

 

Ten for the ABV, FIDY being an acronym for "Fuck the Industry Do it Yourself". And as has been said, FIDY rhyming with "ditty" or "pity".

 

Also for its resemblance to 10W-50 motor oil.

 

Uerige?

 

Listen at the end, there soft r, not like the way Mayor Quimby says wat-uh.



Ayinger is Ay-in-gr in my experience.

 

Someone mentioned Unibroue. Is that brewery not pronounced You-nih-brow?

 

LOL. Actually there is more to the story... When the waitress said, "Oh.... Do you mean a Dipah?" It confused me.. and *I* paused for a moment...then my brother in law (who's from Boston) and I broke out laughing hysterically. He and I are always making lobstah, chowda, etc. jokes and this Dipah thing just fit right in.

 

I've been butchering "Drie Fonteinen" for years probably.

 

When I don't know how to pronounce something, I go through the following sequence:
1. Find it on a list or menu and point to it; or
2. Look it up on the phone and point to it; or
3. Hopefully have a picture with me and point to it.
4. If all three above fail, hope someone else I'm with orders one and say "I'll have the same".
5. If all four above fail, order something else.

 

or-VAL or OR-vul

du-VEL or DU-vul

I prefer the former pronounciations, but suspect it's the latter ones.

 

or-VAL and du-VEL is correct.

 

Funny, I thought it was DEE-shoots.

 

One of my brother's favorite beers is Sculpin. He always pronounces it Sculp-Tin.

 

...and on a similar note when did RBI become ribbies?

 

I believe it is pronounced Uni-Brew.

 

If you want to get into the nitty gritty linguistic details, the 'er' sound in Standard German is pronounced [ɐ̯] which to the untrained ear sounds a lot like [ə] (sofa) which is generally how most people would "phonetically" write how -er sounds sound in German at the end of words. So you're right, there is a very soft 'r' sound there, but it's really just a particular type of vowel. It's very different from the standard German 'r' at the beginning of syllables which is represented phonologically as [ʁ]. There's little debate that the first 'r' in Radeberger [ʁɑdəbɛɐ̯gɐ] is very, very different from the other two.

Generally I think that saying the -er sound as 'ah' is okay for non-German speakers who want to emulate a more authentic pronunciation. They definitely should not be actually saying "arr" as in English. I think we can both agree that "Weihenstephaner" should not be "why-en-steh-van-err" which is what I've heard before from some.

As a German speaker, both you and I know that 'uh' or 'ah' really isn't quite the case. But for most people, it'll do just fine.

Cheers.

 

dree fon-tine-uh

Means "three fountains" in Dutch.

 

Cellarmaker

sell-er-make-er

there ya go.

 

Thanks for the lesson. Yes, I know that the first R in Radeberger is the "rolled" R that I could never quite get down over there. You must be into linguistics more than I!

Which is pretty self evident when you see the fountain nearby. Fun little town to visit, and a great place for lunch.
Cheers.