Fun Beer Mispronunciations or Misinterpretations

Sounds like it should be the origin story for Duffman.

 

I didn't scroll through all thirteen pages yet, but my college friends and I got quite a kick out of ordering the "Ass Bock" at Clancy's in Bloomsburg... probably a decade before I found out the proper pronunciation...Aass is a darn good bock, though.

 

We at Beer Advocate need the beer equivalent of this:

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/pronounc.html

Very helpful for us scotch drinkers!

 

Definitely not just an American thing, people in all cultures do it. A professor I had in college who was a Francophile always complained about how the British would pronounce Ypres as "wipers."

 

That is who it was.

 

I would't call someone who gets a job as a beer guide for rich young ladies a moron. The rest of us are the morons.

 

He must have been pretty smart, assuming he was the one with the ability to travel you all far enough into the future to make a beer that won't come out for nearly 4 more years old and rare.

 

lol.

XII, not XXII.

I'm now the moron who is bad at math!

 

Ordered a genny cream once and the bartender pulled out a ginger beer. Luckily I noticed it was wrong before he opened it. Still don't know how that mix-up happened

 

I also heard someone order a "Founder's head hunter" once. All the bartender said was "we don't have that".

 

'Oud Bruin' is flemish, not french. Oud is indeed pronounced owd, but ui is definitely not pronouced as ow ! The 'ui' is not known in english. The best way to correctly say it is ouy (the 'u' sounding like in rOUgh, the 'i' sounding like 'y' in You).
So 'oud bruin' is best pronounced as 'owd brouyn' (with rolling RRRRRRR).

 

Heaven forbid i'm not fluent in every language ever spoken....

 

The first time drinking with my parents in Belgium, i orderd a La Chouffe. But I pronounced it the french way, and the Server laughed at me and corrected me.
Now everytime i crack open a La Chouffe at my parent's home, my father makes fun of me for back then.....
And this was like 10 years ago, and I've been having several chouffes in the presence of my father since then, so yeah...

 

It's a French name.. I wouldn't know how to pronounce it in Dutch

 

OK i pronounced it french, but wrong....just realized it.
I pronounced it like there was an accent aigu on the final e, so not "La Chouff", but "Chouff-e" if that makes any sense.

 

Ah I get it, that does sound kind of funny

 

This one probablly isn't very popular, but mythos lager is a greek beer. Being greek anytime I'm at a greek restaurant I always hear people order it as "mithos" in reality it's "meethos"

 

Sadly it is not a sound that English speakers can really make, and I definitely have trouble differentiating it from the ou sound, especially considering that there is also a differentiation between ui in Flemish and in Dutch. I didn't mean to offend, I just knew that it was about as close as I could get without confusing everyone.

PS: You would know much better than me, but I'm sure there are plenty of Belgians who would prefer to pronounce the style with a Walloon pronunciation despite it being a Flemish beer style

 

No offence taken.
The ui sounds the same in Flemish as in Dutch.
And I honestly think the only Belgians that pronounce it in French, will be Walloons. Apart from that, and knowing that there are in Flanders as many dialects as there are towns and villages, pronounciations tend to differ...