Famous German Beer Brands Pronounced Correctly

Finally watched through the whole vid.

Yay for the shout-out to Wernesgrüner -- boo for having never heard of it.

And boo to the Miller bastardization of Löwenbräu -- in so many ways.

 

A favorite memory in Germany was being offered direction help by an elderly woman -- who explained we were looking for the "Pow-LAH-ner Keller and the Sal-VAT-or (Sal-VAH-tor?) Keller.

One time "The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich" failed me.

 

Yeah, when Miller started brewing Lowenbrau in the US (circa 1977) it was not the same beer. But perhaps 'better' than US premium beers like Michelob?

I seem to recall having a Lowenbrau sometime (maybe in the 80's?) and thinking it was an OK beer but not worthy of the price.

Cheers!

 

Sometime in the 90s we were getting German imported Löwenbräu for a while (@jesskidden can probably verify dates). It wasn't anything like the Miller recipe, but I still liked Spaten better.

Of course, it can't be beat at the Löwenbräu Keller proper -- fun place for an evening.

 

In the early 70s, Lowenbrau was excellent. I preferred Pschorr dark and Ritter Dortmunder light and dark, but I'd chalk my opinion up to personal taste.

 

I recall Löwenbräu being imported from Canada for a little while back in the 90's. My only experience with it was skunky bottles that had probably been sitting in my Winn-Dixie for years. Those bottles combined with green bottles of Heineken (yes, I know it's Dutch) and Beck's made me think German beer was horrendous for years and years.

 

IIRC, it was brewed in Canada right after Miller lost the right, but was soon brought in directly from Munich.

Canada may still have it brewed in-country as they have Spaten.

Calling @jesskidden again.

 

That was my early experience with St. Pauli Girl and Becks. They always seemed to have that skunky smell like Heineken, so I dropped German beers for a long time until I discovered Weihenstephaner and Hacker Pschorr Gold

 

I like this video, thanks for sharing. Funny how off all of my preconceived notions of these pronunciations were.

Side note. I want to live in a place where fresh Weinstephaner is meh.

 

Same. My conversion beers were from Ayinger in the very early 00's. My local Old Chicago had just started carrying them and was offering tasters/discounts. I was shocked to find out they were German. After thinking Beck's Dark was about as good as German beer got, Ayinger's dunkel, weiss, export, and doppelbock changed everything. I got a chance to visit Munich in 2005 and that sealed the deal.

 

Enlightening and humbling video for Americans. Yet, I still think our American pronunciations are acceptable within our state lines. I'll definitely have to brush up a bit before a trip to Germany though.

 

Yeah, the contract for US market was moved to Labatt (w/all malt recipe restored) in '99, eventually we got the Munich-brewed version a few years later (w/InBev owned Labatt USA still the importer - see Oktoberfest rear label below), right into the AB/Import Brands Alliance era before AB-InBev stopped it. (I guess 25 years of Miller's version ruined it for the US market).





Coupon deal from 10 years ago, for 3 AB/Inbev Import Brands Alliance brands. As I recall it, Lowenbrau was difficult to find in many markets - don't know if that was AB's decision or the local AB houses.

 

Oh you lucky so and so! Ayinger is fantastic. I'd kill to get to drink some over there. Maybe someday. The Kroger store down the street from me used to stock the Ayinger Dunkel in the pint bottles. Then they suddenly stopped and added more hard seltzers and ciders. Ugh.

 

So it was the early 2000s that the German import hit shelves? I always remember buying it at a spot where I lived before 2000 -- and I don't think it was Canadian-brewed, but maybe?

 

Here's a Labatt-brewed keg label which seems to be dated Feb. 2001.

As I remember it, that Oktoberfest was the first Munich-brewed Löwenbräu to hit the US shelves, followed by the regular beer (or, as the label shows, "Malt Liquor" for our Texas friends).

EDIT - Some sources put the Munich version back in the US in 2001 and others say 2003. Maybe it took a while and was region by region?

 

I speak German (natively), though "Hacker-Pschorr" would have been an unsolved mystery to me. Such an odd name.

 

Their are to many people that do that.

 

And let’s not forget the response to zickezackezickezacke:

Hoi hoi hoi!

 

Hi there. I was living for 54 years in Germany and drank a lot of beers there. ALL the mentioned breweries are pronounced correctly...! Btw: Bitburg was my hometown Now i live in Vermont

 

LBCO (Ontario Provincial store) carries Spaten and Lowenbrau, both brewed in Canada.

 

As far as beer styles go, is it Shwartzbeer or Shfartsbeer? I'm cool with either one.

 

Really cool video. I guess I never understood what the umlauts sounded like. Subbed as I am always looking for cool cultural channels. I am going to go over to Germany within the next couple years, and I was thinking about learning German for fun. PS the sound mixing with the singing in the beginning made my ears blow up

 

Heck, I have a hard time spelling Weihenstephan, as well as others, let alone pronouncing them.
I still order a Jyro, at Greek restaurants, even though I know how it's supposed to be pronounced.
I bet if you ordered the beers the way they were supposed to be pronounced in most U. S. establishments people would be very confused. It's easier to say them in proper American.

 

Shvartzbeer -- phonetically, anyway.

 

We learned the correct pronunciation of Löwenbräu in our German 101 class when I was at THE Ohio State University back in 19(mumble). How this came up in class remains a mystery.

 

Aka Bitburger from Vermont

 

Are you a professional football player!?!

Cheers!

 

Yes, LAGUNITAS is a good example for that

 

I was at a brewery and the bar maid corrected a German man. He started talking German to her. She didn't get it. It was so funny. He ordered again and she corrected him again. She didn't know what was so funny.

 

Nice thread.

I'd think Schvartszbeeyuhr, with accent on "bee"...but whadduIknow?

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A couple things I noticed that made me wonder if they're consistent throughout Deutschland?
When “s” is followed by a hard consonant is it normally pronounced “sh”, as in how she pronounced Weihenstephaner.
And she pronounced a trailing “er” as almost a cross between “uh” and “ah” with a barely perceptible “r” to finish, as when she said both Weihenstephaner and Paulaner.

I agree with others about her comment on Hofbräu. ??She doesn't know anyone who would buy it at the store, but it's still better than American brands??.....needs klarheit (courtesy Google Translate).

 

An accent free German is spoken around Hanover (Lower Saxony), all other states have their own rules. If i would talk to a guy who speaks "friesisch" (close to the danish border) i couldn´t understand 1 word (at least not enough to follow a conversation)

 

My wife´s name is Claudia, pronounced like in Italy. Most americans say: Clodia like in "closet". It´s like in cloudy(a). Americans can pronounce it for sure

 

Woohoo nice thread! German names quite hard to memorize to me That's why I can't pronounce correctly!

 

Not surprisingly, that's not unlike regional differences in the US. There are areas, especially in the Midwest, or the Rocky Mountains, that an accent/dialect is essentially undetectable.
Go deep into south Louisiana, the Gullah country of South Carolina, Brooklyn NY (etc., ad infinitum), and there are more than just differences in pronunciation. Sometimes it sounds like a completely different language. Especially in south Louisiana (because it is in certain areas, there ).

 

OMG thank you so much for the video. Now i know i have pronounced wrong my whole life

 

being able to pronounce names of different beers is truly the best use i get out my six years of high school german

 

It's good to be able to ask correctly for a specific German made beer. Nothing worse than being at an American bar and asking for a German beer and being handed a Budweiser.

 

I was born in Bitburg (or as my family called it Beabosh)! I lived near by in Huttingen (Heting'n) for a few years before moving to the states. I currently live in CT. Still go back to visit family often.

 

Maybe she's living in Brooklyn?

That's the way a friend in Germany told me... Vian-SCHTEF-anna.