Talk:Pauwel Kwak

In keeping with the general beer entry styles, I'm thinking that this should be moved to a page for Bosteels brewery, with the specific beers (including Karmaliet) described there. The entry for Kwak can be a redirect. If there are no objections, I'll start on this. Riflemann 23:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I must say I did the relevant categories and I was wondering at the time if the categories Belgian beer and Belgian breweries should be the same or not. Now I think that each ("notable") beer should have its article mentionning the brewery in the first sentence.  So to me, you should create a new article Bosteels brewery (or Brouwerij Bosteels?) if you like to talk about the brewery. Julien Tuerlinckx 17:55, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * And, of course, an article Tripel Karmeliet if you feel like talking (read "writing") of this particular beer. Julien Tuerlinckx 17:57, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * This is something more wide-reaching than this one beer, so I'll bring up something on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Beer Riflemann 21:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Beer & brewery notability criteria discussion document
A discussion document has been opened up. WikiProject Beer/Notability Criteria. Please put in your views either on the main page or on the attached talk page. SilkTork 16:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation
An anonymous user (71.225.46.199) is constantly changing the pronunciation from kwɑk into kavack. I'm Dutch and I know for sure it's not pronounced this way.

The K is just a 'k' The W is the most difficult one, it's in between a 'v' and a 'w' like 'voice' and 'we'. In some parts of Holland/Belgium people say 'v' in other parts it's 'w' And the A is pronounced as in 'father' According to the GenAm IPA Chart kwak should be written as kwɑk or maybe kvɑk not kavack - Emmaneul 13:04, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Yep, agree here. Whilst not Dutch, I've lived in NL for 7 years and have gotten much confirmation from dutch and belgians that it's kwɑk. The anonymous user is in an IP range from the states - I think a local dutch-speaker is far more believable wrt pronunciation. Perhaps we need an audio clip here? - Riflemann 11:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Good idea, I've added an audio clip. I think it's better this way. - Emmaneul 13:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

This is not a Dubbel for any cents.... --Madame Choucroute 03:15, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Discussion relocated
I have relocated the beer discussion orphaned on the Talk:Kwak page as that has been a redirect for some time and is now a disambiguation page. - Dravecky (talk) 06:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

name an onomatopoeia?
Hello. Once many years ago on a drinking holiday in Bruges I read in a beer guide that Kwak takes its name from the sound made when you drink it from the special kwak glass and it's name is supposed to be an onomatopoeia of that. However, I cannot find a single source to confirm this. It could therefore be complete rubbish. Has anyone else read this mysterious beer guide? I'd really love this to be true! Coolug (talk) 09:54, 30 December 2010 (UTC)