Country
Spain
A Mediterranean lager culture built by nineteenth-century central European brewers, and one of the largest beer producers in Europe.
Spanish brewing is an import. Alsatian and German brewers established it in Barcelona and Madrid in the later nineteenth century, and what they built adapted quickly to being drunk in heat: lighter in body, drier in finish, and frequently brewed with rice as well as barley.
That adaptation is routinely read as cost-cutting and is better understood as regional. A beer drunk outdoors in thirty degrees is being asked to do a different job from one drunk in a Munich cellar, and the recipes reflect it.
Beer outsells wine in Spain by volume, which surprises people who think of it as a wine country, and it is drunk overwhelmingly with food rather than on its own.
Breweries in Spain
Carried because a reference beer, a tradition or a historical event needs them. Not a directory.