Fun Beer Mispronunciations or Misinterpretations

Unibroue is pronounced you-knee-brew. Though I've heard the wildly incorrect you-ni-brow more than a few times, as in "one eyebrow".

 

Yea, I'm with ya on that - I'm pretty sure it's Go-zuh and I have to make a real effort not to say "goes"

 

I got the best one of all time:

I was up at Founder's Brewery last month and butchered the pronunciation of Curmudgeon... The lady said it wasn't the worst butchery of the word; she told me she heard someone call it 'Cum Dungeon'. My buddy and I started cracking up big time.

Would make a great grindcore band name!

 

I would so not want to be in that band.

 

I had a fellow at my bar order a nah-RANG-ah-sette from me and it took me a solid 20 seconds before I realized he wanted a Narragansett.

Out of towners are fun.

 

Having been born and raised in WNC, I can assure you THAT is the only math they know. "Sir, is you sure you want two of them beers? Theys pretty strong. It's like my daddy's moonshine".

 

Nah, I'm definitely talking about the German style Gose. As far as gueuze, I've heard ger-zuh and gooze, and I usually say the latter. I highly recommend both styles if you haven't had either though. Anderson Valley makes a terrific Gose that's canned. Actually, that's part of my rationale for asking the pronunciation. Theirs is called the Kimmie, the Yink, and the Holy Gose, which is more or less Boontling (and a pun) for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost and pronouncing it go-zuh kind of ruins the joke.

 

When I first saw this thread, my first thoughts were Negra Modelo. A friend drinks it, and the jokes around the table at deer camp are endless! Nuff said! Then I read all of the replys and remembered this.

About 6 or 7 years ago, I worked an ice storm in Hazard Kentucky. We left out before Christmas and worked thru New Years. The last day, we were held over to catch odd trouble and they let us off early, maybe 3:00-4:00, with a promise of a nice meal around 6"00-7:00. I told my buddy that I was going to hang around the bar until time to eat. (You gotta remember, this was 2 1/2 weeks of 16 hr days in below freezing weather). Well, I got to the bar and ask the bartender what beer they had. She quoted Bud, Bud Light, Miller Lite, Michelob Light, Chrona, Blue Moon and Samuel Adams. I ask her which Sam Adams it was and she pointed to the tap and said "that one". I just smiled and said thats the one I want! She even had most of her teeth!

Edit to add, this was the most beautiful and rugged place that I have ever worked.

 

I thought it was more like uuu-knee-brow, with the first syllable similar to the ü in German "über" or the y in anything Finnish?

 

Wasn't that a video series ??

 

Glue Narus. But in my defence, I was fairly hammered.

 

I'm unaware, but a google search determined that is IS a donut / bagel shop... HILARIOUS!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cum-Dungeon/239819856156669

 

I was going around saying jai alai like it is spelled for a week until someone corrected me. I also used to call sucaba suck u ba. The other one that I am still confused on is mikkeller. I think everyone out here pronounces it wrong.

 

I slaughter Weihenstephaner every time

 

According to the brewers themselves, "The proper way to pronounce Sucaba is ABACUS."

I...I can't.....

 

I have a bad habit of seeing a word, and coming up with my own lazy interpretation. Sometimes it isn't even close to how the word is spelled or pronounced.

 

I'm pretty sure I pronounce every beer wrong that isn't american english. But I also don't really care. I drink beer for the taste, not to learn other languages.

 

Holy crap. That's a ballsy name!!
Don't order the glazed, Bro!!!

 

I butcher all of them,it took me seven months to say laqunitas right,I was saying la quint tas! Lol and people don't seem too concerned to correct you.

 

When I was at port brewing/lost abbey tasting room, people kept trying to order "mango." The beer's name is actually "mongo" and it is one of the best DIPAs I've tried. The bartender was definitely annoyed by patrons calling it mango and made sure to tell them there is no mango in the beer and it's named after a cat that used to hang out at the brewery that they called mongo. Great beer.