How do you pronounce Rochefort?

I've personally heard "ROSH-FOR" in the vicinity of the abbey, but I wouldn't be surprised if others say it differently elsewhere in Belgium. Flemmish is just so different from French.

 

Have to claim my ignorance here. That's how she pronounces the cheese. I just assumed the beer would be the same. Didn't realize the spelling was different. My bad. Good thing she's not on here cause she'd kill me for soiling her good name.

 

Cripes!

How many people need to post rohsh-for?

Unlike English, French (and all other Romance languages) has rigid phonetic pronunciation rules. Rules is rules. That is how it is pronounced correctly.

Fin.

 

I always get caught saying these kind of names wrong too. I say it Roach -e-fort.

 

The cheese is roquefort (rock-for).

It is amazing though.

 

Roquefort: pronounced "toodamexpensive"

Rochefort: pronounced "getinmahbelleh"

 

Gordon Strong, president of the BJCP gives this pronunciation:

Rochefort = ROWSH-for (swallow the 't')

 

Roach - fort

 

From my personal experience, there is not consensus among French-speakers, even in Belgium. I haven't been to the abby, but essentially every bar I ordered it in, all over the country and in neighboring countries, had a different way of pronouncing it. I believe the difference in the Belgian v. Parisian accents of French really comes through with Rochefort. The Belgians I lived with mostly said Rosh-a-fare. The French people I stayed with generally said Roc-a-fare (soft, soft c).

 

Roak-eh-fore

 

agreed.

 

Google is hit and miss but here the French one is pretty much it. Here you can hear the monks pronounce it, touch more Wallonian than France French if you know what I mean. I suppose that one can argue with how they pronounce it:

 

Sounds totally anglicized to me.

 

My fiance visited the brewery in Belgium (unfortunately before I met her), and confirms those associated with the brewery pronounce it "Rosh-fort," with a long "o" and the emphasis on the first syllable.

 

ROSH-fore

Long first O, short second

 

The o is pronounced not like Oh!, but more like Uh. Rush-for is the best way if you roll your R's,

 

And yeah... its Rush not Rock... its ch not qu

 

You're confusing a type of cheese (Roquefort) with cheese made by the Monks of Rochefort. But, yes, roquefort is amazing.

 

PLY-KNEEE

 

Pronunciations are always tricky for some people.

I had a bartender at a craft beer bar (a really good one!) explain what his favorite mahrzin was, while someone else ordered a WEEN-steh-fan-er WHEEZE-in-bock and asked a question about gooz.