Drinking beer is one of Spain's national pastimes. A caña, the smallish draft beer in Spain, is its protagonist…but beware of regional differences. In Madrid, a caña is 200 milliliters of draft beer. Order one in Bilbao and the glass holds nearly twice that. Same word, same tap, different drink. In this episode, Marti Buckley traces the caña from its name, borrowed from the metal pipe that carried pressurized beer up from nineteenth century bar cellars, to the two contradictory pouring styles that split Spanish bartenders into camps who each insist the other is wrong. Along the way: the job the foam is doing up there, the pre-pour water ritual, the Brussels lace test that proves a pour was done well, a regional dictionary that runs from zurito to cañón to the Madrid liter with a surprising name, and the numbers behind the glass, including the 31 céntimos every caña sends to the public coffers. Everything you need to know about the caña!
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