American Craft Beer’s audience is a diverse one. Yes, we’ve our share of troubled hopheads and possible drug dealers -but we also attract plenty of upwardly mobile and fairly well-socialized craft beer lovers. And many of them (and possibly you) travel abroad. And if you’re like us, one of the first things that you’ll want to do upon touching down in some strange new country is order a beer. Well, we’re here to help you with that.
So now (in no particular order) – Here’s how to order “One Beer Please!” in a whole bunch of different countries.
Portuguese – Cerveja, por favor!
Japanese – Biru onegai shimasu.
Dutch – Beir alstublieft!
Swedish – En øl tahk!
Arabic – Waheed beera meen fadleek!
Basque – Garagard bat, mesedez!
Chinese – Ching gay who ee bay pee joh!
Esperanto – Unu bieron mi petas!
Greek – Mee-a beer-a paraka-loh!
Icelandic – Ay-dn byohr tahk
Yiddish – A beer, zeit a-zy goot!
Spanish – Una cerveza por favor
Polish – Yed-no peev, proshe!
Norwegian – Ehn url tahk!
Pig Latin – One-ay eer-bay ease-play!
Korean – Mayk-joo Hahn-jahn joo-see-yoh!
Italian – Una birra per favore!
Hungarian – Edj pohar shurt kayrek!
German – Ein Bier bitte!
Turkish – Beer beer-ah luht-fen!
Latin – Cervisiam sodes!
Romanian – Oh beh-reh ver rohg!
Hindi – Eka biyaara krupaya!
French – Une bière, s’il vous plait!
Estonian – Ooks ur-loo, pah-lun!
Czech – Pee-vo pro-seem!
Kurdish – Da min yek bire!
Hawaiian – Pia ho’olu!
Finnish – O-loot moolek kee-tos!
Danish – Jeg vil gerne have en øl
Catalan – Una cervesa si us plau!
Lithuanian – Pre-shau vie-na, al-lows!
Swahili – Moja prombe rafadhali!
Thanks to etiquette systems for their help with this compilation. Map images are courtesy of PureTravel.com.