Proper pronunciation in brewing

[bmellis]

So I just looked up most of these terms in a German dictionary and they're spelled very differently than the words we use in English. So I would just pronounce the words as you would using English pronunciations. But I still don't get why "wort" would be pronounced "wert". Maybe it's an accent thing.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

how come when the english create thier own pronunciation for foriegn things it's charming, but when 'mericans do it they're looked at as ignorant?

True dat!!

Maybe it's just because 'merica still has an empire, while Britain has gone all 'umble and ordinary these days.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

"Beer" is pronounced "bee-uh" (well, up hee-uh it is anyway).

Spent the first 21 years of my life in New England. It takes quite a few "bee-ahs" to start talikng like that. Never had the accent.
Its something people always comment on when they find out where I'm from.

 

[bmellis]

Spent the first 21 years of my life in New England. It takes quite a few "bee-ahs" to start talikng like that. Never had the accent.
Its something people always comment on when they find out where I'm from.

That reminds me of the first time I went to Massachusetts, Cape Ann specifically. When the guy who ran the bed and breakfast I stayed at first spoke to me I almost laughed because I guess I didn't realize people spoke that way outside of the movies.

I live in NYC now, but I'm from Arkansas originally (for the most part). Down there a lot of people talk about drinking "bear", like the animal but with a bouncy drawl. Somehow I never acquired the accent and people always try to get me to speak with a southern accent here, but i just can't do it authentically. Accents really are an interesting thing.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Going to go ahead and resurrect this just cause it seemed the most relevant place and I didn't want to start a new thread for it.

Been learning German over the last couple months, and I've learned that I (and probably most of the other folks on here) have been making a pretty big mispronunciation for a long time.

Pretty commonly used term: Brau. Commonly pronounced "brow" as in "eyebrow".

Problem is that the word "Brau" doesn't exist in that form in German, unless part of another word such as Brauerei (brewery) or Brauhaus (brewhouse). The "Brau" pronunciation is correct, but the actual word on its own is Bräu. And the pronunciation is really different because of that umlaut. It's pronounced "broy".

Common example: Löwenbräu being pronounced low-en-brow. When the correct pronunciation is closer to looer-ven-broy.

The other one is the boot glass. See lots of "Das Boot" on this forum and elsewhere (and in Beerfest). That means "the boat". Der Bierstiefel is the correct term.