What Beer Name Butchering Have You Seen on Menus?

At Kulminator last year, I saw Drie Fonteinen Framboos on the menu. But it ended up being Hommage.

 

Is it pronounced cant e on ?

 

That is basically it. It's hard to give a the pronunciation of a French name with just text

 

St Bernardus
I have heard as St Bern A doo ?
no clue how that can be right

 

Another commonly mispronounced word: Hefeweizen. I usually giggle when a bartender/waitress says "Hefer-wise-in"

 

Hah! "Yingling" is my personal favorite, and I've read it listed after "Yanjing" under Chinese Beers on more than one menu.

 

I've seen Fat Tire listed under the country of Belgium...I mean, really?

 

Again, not a misspelling, but c'mon.



This was at a bar in Los Angeles. The establishment had a pretty decent beer list and broke the menu down by State. Somehow, Illinois' offering of craft beer was Smirnoff Ice.

And, yes, one was ordered because I have asshole friends who think they're funny.

 

Actually, now that I think of it, there was one more.

This was taken at a dueling piano bar in Fort Lauderdale.

Am I missing something here?

 

Snake River was written on two boards as being "Snake Chaser"

 

Not quite beer name butchering, but a couple of years ago while skiing at Alyeska in Girdwood, AK I saw a beer menu that included Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde brewed in "Attica, NY." Having spent most of my life in Upstate NY I know that the only thing in Attica is the maximum security Attica Correctional Facility. WTF I thought, then it dawned on me, Utica, NY not Attica, NY.

 

South Hampton

 

A Chinese restaurant opened near my work and dropped off menus to the local businesses. They did offer "Draft Deer" along with many other mis-spellings of food they offered.

 

Had a waiter tell me about this new beer they had called Jai Alai with big emphasis on the J and A. Pretty funny.

 

I can make a soundcloud clip of how to say it...

 

https://soundcloud.com/giovanni-gino-caffarella/audio-recording-on-sunday

 

Tough word! It is of course a Basque word and boy do I love my Basque people!

 

What bothers me the most is that few people can pronounce Cantillon properly...even after I subtly correct them.

 

My french friends are always pronouncing the J, too funny considering they rarely pronounce words with all of their letters...

 

Not a menu issue:

I don't know what's in the water in Massachusetts, but the two bottle shops (well-known ones I might add) I visited in the last two days pronounce 3F as "Dree Fon-TEEN".

Somewhere in Beersel, Armand just stubbed his toe.