The Spanish bar
Essays on beer in Spain: the small glass, the free tapa, two breweries of the nineteenth century and the cold, sober habits of the long lunch.
- Una sin
Alcohol-free beer is an ordinary order in Spanish bars, and has been for decades.
- A brewer from Alsace in Barcelona
August Kuentzmann Damm founded a brewery in 1876, and a Bavarian-style lager took root on the Catalan coast.
- The free tapa
In Granada and León a drink still comes with something to eat, and nobody agrees on how the custom began.
- Una caña, por favor
The standard serving of beer in a Spanish bar is small, and each region has its own name for it.