Beer News: Most Mispronounced Beer Names / Healthiest Non-Alcoholic Beer Styles

American Craft Beer|June 25th, 2025|

It all started with a TikTok video capturing drinkers at an English pub struggling to pronounce “Asahi” but that was just the beginning …We’ve that, “Words to Drink By” and more

Most Mispronounced Foreign Beer Names

It all started with a TikTok video capturing drinkers at an English pub struggling to pronounce “Asahi” that went viral, racking up well over 830,000 views and counting. Clearly the clip, titled “POV: no one knows how to pronounce Asahi,” resonated with thousands, like us who struggle with the correct pronunciation of imported beers.

Now, food and beverage payment experts at Dojo have shared a list of the beers most commonly mispronounced by English-speaking customers – and how to pronounce them properly.

Beer	Brewing Country	Correct Pronunciation	Commonly Incorrect Pronunciation
Birra Moretti	Italy	“Beer-ra Mo-ret-tee”	“Mor-ett-ee”
Weihenstephaner	German	“Vy-hen-shtef-an-er”	“Wee-hen-steff-aner”
Heineken	Dutch	“Hi-neh-ken”	“Hen-iken”
Hoegaarden	Belgian	“Who-garden”	“Hoe-garden”
Grolsch	Dutch	“Khrolsh”	“Grolsh”
Bitburger	German	“Bit-boor-ger”	“Bit-bur-ger”
Kronenbourg	French	“Kro-nan-boor”	“Kro-nen-burg”

Words to Drink By

““It is not the strongest nor the most intelligent of species that survives, but the one that is most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin

Healthiest Alcohol Free Beer Styles

The non-alcoholic beer sector has never been hotter and now scientists in Germany have looked at the impact that different styles of non-alcoholic beer have on people’s health..

And now researchers at Ruhr-University Bochum have compared the effects of three styles — pilsner, mixed beer and wheat beer — on the physical health of 44 young men.

The study looked at how daily consumption of different alcohol-free beer styles impacted metabolism, health and gut microbiome.

The study observed three different alcohol-free beer style

Pilsner, one of the most popular lagers in the world
Mixed fermentation beers that are blended or use multiple yeast strains
Wheat beer, where a substantial amount of the grain used in brewing is wheat, rather than the traditional barley

In the month-long study, young men between the ages of 18 and 30, all non-smokers with a BMI below 30, were split into four groups and asked to consume 660ml (That’s just a bit more than a standard bomber bottle (22 oz) in the US beer world of either Pilsner, mixed beer, Wheat Ale or water on a daily basis . And yes, that is a lot more beer than we drink daily.

According to the study “researchers found that while mixed and Wheat Ales had an “unfavorable metabolic impact on glucose and fat” and that Pilsners were “more favorable from a metabolic perspective”.

As the Drinks Business reported “the study suggests that when it comes to alcohol-free alternatives, drinking non-alcoholic wheat or mixed beer has a similar impact on health to sugary, high-calorie soft drinks. Pilsner, on the other hand, was found to have minimal impact on metabolic health.”