How to pronounce...

[OrvilleOrdinary]

Hey,

I was looking for a thread that dealt with general pronunciation problems, and was unable to find one, so I thought I'd start one up. If I'm undermining the integrity of an already-thriving "pronunciation thread" that I missed, forgive me.

So go ahead and put down any words the pronunciation of which you're not sure about, or go ahead and put down words you KNOW how to pronounce which other people often get wrong. I'll start with one I know, and one I'm curious about:

1. Wort (Pronounced WERT).

2. Tun (I heard some guy say TOON, but I've always said TUHN. Which is it?)

 

[talleymonster]

2. Tun (I heard some guy say TOON, but I've always said TUHN. Which is it?)

Actually it's pronounced backwards:

NUT

 

[OrvilleOrdinary]

Pickin' on all us poor impressionable noobs.

 

[John Beere]

depending on how many I've had, everything quickly becomes "that thing over there" as I point to it...

 

[Bernie Brewer]

2. Tun (I heard some guy say TOON, but I've always said TUHN. Which is it?)

I say TON, as in a ton of bricks.

 

[goodbyebluesky82]

how do I say "Saaz" hops without possibly looking like a ******?

 

[GolgiApparatus]

trub = troob
acetyl = (chemistry people) ae-see-tuhl (brew people) ass-uh-tuhl

and I've always heard tun = toon


Oh, and the W in hefeweisen is pronounced as a V.

 

[GolgiApparatus]

how do I say "Saaz" hops without possibly looking like a ******?

Personally, I say SAZE and never get a raised eyebrow...but not sure

 

[Edcculus]

I've always heard Mash Tun pronounced "Ton" also.

Saaz - I've always said (and heard) it as "satz" with a soft a. You dont really prounounce the "t" that hard.

 

[DUCCCC]

...Saaz - I've always said (and heard) it as "satz" with a soft a. You dont really prounounce the "t" that hard.

I'm with you, it's like the past tense of seek with an s at the end= soughts = sotz.
Does that sound right?

 

[BigKahuna]

Does that sound right?

That's the way I roll!

Oh...and for the mead Crowd:
Puh pAe zee un
Mel-O Mel.

It's a Mash TON (ton of Bricks)
I boil Wort...like what you get on your finger....(Call it Eastern Colorado Dialect!)
and we ferment on Trub like the Tub Like where you take a bath.

So when we meet in person, and I sound like a Hill Billy...just know that there are no hills where I come from...but there are also no other brewers to make me talk like you!

 

[Nurmey]

That's the way I roll!

Oh...and for the mead Crowd:
Puh pAe zee un
Mel-O Mel.

It's a Mash TON (ton of Bricks)
I boil Wort...like what you get on your finger....(Call it Eastern Colorado Dialect!)
and we ferment on Trub like the Tub Like where you take a bath.

So when we meet in person, and I sound like a Hill Billy...just know that there are no hills where I come from...but there are also no other brewers to make me talk like you!

Well, that's just great!
I pronounce everything just like you which means I'm an Alaskan living in Nebraska that sounds like a Eastern Colorado Hillbilly.

 

[talleymonster]

Willamette hops.

I always heard it in my head as "Will-uh-met"
But I recently heard another HBT-er call them "Wuh-la-mit".

I dunno.

Saaz I always hear in my head as "Saws" like jaws

Wort is "Wert", like Vert

 

[Edcculus]

I boil Wort...like what you get on your finger....(Call it Eastern Colorado Dialect!)

I've mostly heard it pronounced "wert". Breweries, tv documentaries, Jamil etc. I think it can really be said either way. John Palmer says "wort" (like what you get on your finger) all the time on the Brew Strong podcast.

 

[BigKahuna]

Willamette hops.

I think William...like Bill....But it's a girl...Ette.
William-Ette

Again...Not saying it's correct...but you'll know what I'm talking about.

 

[netjunk1e]

Willamette hops.

I always heard it in my head as "Will-uh-met"
But I recently heard another HBT-er call them "Wuh-la-mit".

I dunno.

"Wuh-la-mit" is correct. I live in the Willamatte Valley, right down the road from the FDA Hop Research farms.

 

[billtzk]

"Wuh-la-mit" is correct. I live in the Willamatte Valley, right down the road from the FDA Hop Research farms.

Where is the stress? First, second, or third syllable?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Will-a-met
Soughts
Ton
Foogle
Kroyzen
Am-i-laze
Heff-a-vight-zen
Broon
Vit
Vice
Troob

 

[carnevoodoo]

"Wuh-la-mit" is correct. I live in the Willamatte Valley, right down the road from the FDA Hop Research farms.

Yeah.

I think the rest of my pronunciations are inline with Big Kahuna, except for saaz. I say "saws".

I'm an American, I have no regional dialect whatsoever, and I think half of these words are silly anyhow. I don't actually say 'wort' or 'trub' out loud if I don't have to. or 'krausen' for that matter. I just sound like an idiot.

 

[gwood]

A good link I came upon for Belgian styles:

The On-Line Guide to Belgian Beer - Pronunciation Guide

 

[brewt00l]

Bodensatz Brewing - Pronunciation

saaz:
http://www.bodensatz.com/sounds/saaz.wav

 

[Grinder12000]

I find it funny (now that I know the correct way) how many people mispronounce draught. Like in Guinness Draught.

Draught = draft

 

[Bob]

Saaz = sahz
trub = troob
wort = wert
tun = ton
Fuggles = FUH-gulls. Seriously, "foogles"? WTF?
kräusen = KROY-sen
vorlauf = FOR-lowf
diacetyl = die-A-seh-tull
hydrometer = what you better buy and learn to use, silly buggers
protease = PRO-tee-ace
Reinheitsgebot = RINE-heights-gay-boat
hefeweißen = HEH-feh-wie-sen

That's all I can think of ATM.

Bob

 

[homebrewer_99]

Saaz = Sah-atz.

There are 2 "A"s in there that get pronounced seperately.

Reinheitsgebot = RINE-heights-gah-boat (is closer)

Hefe Weißen = HEH-fah Vise-sen

Hefe Weizen - HEH-fah Vite-tzen

 

[beergears]

..
Broon
...

What is "Broon"?

The French "brune" for amber / brown, perhaps..?

 

[Bob]

It's wha ye call Newcastle before ye poor it doon yer gob, man!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Fuggles = FUH-gulls. Seriously, "foogles"? WTF?

Yeah, when researching hop varietals to grow here I came across an article on Richard Fuggle of Benchley. He is credited as propogating the Fuggle in, IIRC, the 1870's.

Somewhere in that article it was written that his last name is pronounced Foogle, that is the U is long and the G's are very short.

I'll link the ref if I can relocate.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

It's wha ye call Newcastle before ye poor it doon yer gob, man!

Ha! Dahs de stoof dere ya knoo.

Bruin = Broon, based soley on one Craft Brewers pronunciation I heard at a fest.

 

[coolbeerluke]

saccharification
I've heard it as "sack-are-if-i-K-shun" and "saWk-Er-if-I-K-shun"??

 

[TeleTwanger]

Perle=Per-LAY