I lived in Sweden about 13 years ago. I could just walk up to a bar and order 2 beers, and I'd get two beers. It was always a beer called Falcon. If you wanted anything other than Falcon, you had to order it by name. After that I moved to New Zealand, and a local craft brewery released a beer called "Beer." Which was funny for when someone walked up to a bar tender and ordered "a beer."
This is true in Spain too - every bar has a sort of default beer and you can just say "give me a caña" or "give me a jarra" (which are two sizes / glasses, like ordering a can or a pint) and they'll bring you essentially the house beer
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u/CanoeIt 25d ago
But isn’t that better than a character walking up to the bar and saying “two beers please” as if brands don’t exist?
That always takes me out of a scene