Know what you're ordering in a Spanish bar!
- Agua - water
- Agua minerale (con gas) - (sparkling) mineral water
- Horchata - a milky (though it has no actual milk), sweet drink made from tiger nut. No, not real tigers’ nuts
- Zumo de...
- ...Naranja - Orange juice, freshly squeezed using Spanish fruit, even in the smallest bar
- ...Manzana - Apple juice
- ...Piña - pineapple juice
- ...Tomate - tomato juice
- ...Melocotón - Peach juice (often with ‘uvas’ (grapes)
- Cerveza - Beer. Don’t be put off by the gassy drink that passes for beer in Spain – most of it is horrible, but Mahou (made by the shrewd guys at San Miguel who export the bad stuff and keep the best beer for themselves) is a fair lager worth a try.
- Vino - wine
- Ginebra - gin
- Café (con leche) - Coffee (with milk)
- Ron - Rum
- Té - tea
- Limonada or Limón lemonade
- Vino blanco - white wine
- Vino tinto - red wine
- Vino rosé - rosé wine
- Sangria Red wine with fruit, lemonade, sugar and usually some other liquor.
- Tinto de verano - red wine and lemonade, like a poor man's sangria.
- Sidra - cider. Only really common in Oviedo and the surrounding region of Asturias.
- Cola Cao - hot chocolate (cola cao is a popular brand name)
- Chocolate - a thick hot chocolate, very different from the above cola cao – you might want to use a spoon!
- Cacaolat - chocolate milk drink. Rarely available outside Barcelona but worth a try if you can find. It somehow manages to be much better than normal chocolate drinks.
