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We.re a brewery of the world and like to show our international-ness wherever possible. That.s why one of our earliest and most popular T-shirt designs is in French (or a version thereof). Well, turns out our French grammar is even worse that our English.
This is what the shirt looks like:
Pretty, huh? It means “Show us your hops!”
We’d like to say a big thankyou to whomever (I.m really making a grammatical effort here) left this note for us, we love that you care so much to set us straight – believe us, we.re taking this the right way! We got some great tips on French grammar including the use of exclamation points, and past participles (whatever they might be).
Non-French speakers take heart, look at the note – especially page 2, see how hard it is to speak French? The cross-outs, false starts, ragged tearing of the page out the book, and
then spilling beer all over it! The stress of it all. Too hard. No wonder the world is moving to a simple language like English.
Anyway, we’re not going to change it, we kinda like that its close enough for rock-n-roll. We were only one letter off afterall!
And also, anyone who can speak English properly, we’ll take feedback on this (or any other) blog.
Thanks for
listening,
Goats.
Vis os dine humle!
did I go overseas and eat some hummus?
no dave…you showed us your hops in danish (or a version
thereof)!
any chance of sticking that on a tshirt?
G’Day Australia,
Don’t worry too much about this
mistake, most of the french do worst in english!
If you make other goodies in french, you can use:
“Faites péter vos Houblons!”
I think it’s closer to your way of mind.(casual,
with some slang)
See you in the pub,
The funny little french man
G’day,
Don’t worry too much
about your french, most of french are not able to make a correct sentence in english.
If you make other stuff with french on it, try this sentence:
“faites péter vos
houblons!”
It’s a really casual way to say “show your hops”, probably closer to the Mountain goat spirit,
Cheers.
Thanks guys, makes me feel better.
Send cheese!!!
If French is a difficult language then Indian must be as
well. As much as we love your other beers your Indian Pale Ale seems to need a little more taming. We unleashed this beer on our bull terrier and dobermann and they couldn’t even drink it (our
bull terrier always drinks anything!!!) Sorry!!!! Please notify me via email of any follow up.
Its a good effort, even with the little mistake, after a few beers, no one
will know the difference – cool site -