What Beer Name Butchering Have You Seen on Menus?

cant remember the place, but it was after seeing Patton Oswalt in Knoxville, a bar had "Arrogant Bastard Ruination IPA"

 

Oooh- a three thread blend- I'd order up that sucker in a second! Gonna have to try doing it one of these days, too; it sounds genuinely awesome. Of course, in your situation you would just have been brought a bottle...but which one? At the bartender's discretion, I suppose.

 

I've seen that somewhere too.

 

Recently saw these two on a chalkboard taplist:

Unita
LongTrail Double Brown IPA

 

yeah, it was a $17 22 oz.... at that price i didnt really care enough to find out which one it was, and i didnt expect the server to know either.....

 

A suburban Philadelphia beer bar charged $8 for a 5oz pour of Hill Farmstead's collab with Cigar City that they had listed as "Nora."

Apparently they thought Shaun had misspelled one of great-aunt's name by labeling the keg "Nor."

 

I haven't seen any misspellings on any menus but I have heard waiters and waitresses absolute destroy the word "Weihenstephaner." I just point to the name on the menu to save the embarrassment for them.

 

The bar that my sister's friend works at in Brooklyn lists Founder's KBS on bottle and has for a while. My heart skipped a beat until I realized this has to be only Breakfast Stout.

 

I see this one all the time...

http://www.beerwoz.com/?p=727

and it makes me angry

 

One bar I went to about 5 years ago had just gotten a Weihenstephaner beer in for the first time. The bartender/manager said "we have no idea how to pronounce it, so we all call it "Weiner Stopper." I've jokingly called it that ever since.

 

stone lukcy basartd ale

 

Yes there is, it is a couple countries north of Yugoslavia...

 

I've seen Blue Moon & Shock top erroneously listed as craft elsewhere too.

 

Lemme check Granny's World Atlas* ... Oh, yeah, I see it now - kinda southwest of Prussia, right? Hey, wait a sec....what happened to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, anyway!

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* published by the New York Tribune, so you know it's accurate!​

 

No, you are thinking of the Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia was the combination of the territories of Czech and Slovakia, both separate countries now.

 

I see this one all the time, even correct beermenus.

 

It's a stupid pet peeve of mine but I can't stand it when people call Peeper "Peepers". It's creepy.

 

Not only did you not get the joke, but there isn't a Yugoslavia anymore, either.

 

Not on a menu, but I always loved how people mispronounce Cantillon.

 

Lol yeah I think I've heard about 5 different variations of it. I think that could be a nice litmus test to find out if people know what they are talking about, just ask them to pronounce it.