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Well thank God that I’ve got to the bottom of this. Every time I visit Spain I like to end the evenings with one or two (or three, or four . . .) bottles of Corona lager. And every time – really, I mean EVERY time – after I’ve returned to Blighty I end up getting into a debate with someone or other about what said beer is actually called.

In the UK and elsewhere in the world it’s labelled as Corona Extra, but I’ve always been convinced that in Spain it’s called Coronita, even though it’s the same bottle, drink, taste, etc.
Well you can bugger me sideways if it isn’t indeed labelled differently in Spain. I knew I was right, of course, I always am, but now I have the hard evidence to prove that it goes under a different name on the Iberian Peninsular, and that my claims as such weren’t just down to drunken ramblings.

You see it turns out that the Mexican beer in question, which is, incidentally, one of the best selling lagers in the world, can’t legally go by its usual name (Corona Extra) when it’s sold in Spain. The Spanish Royal family, headed by King Juan Carlos – the dude who may have accidentally shot and killed his brother back in the 1950s, though that was always nothing more than a rumour, and we mustn’t speculate on such things – own the word ‘Corona’ (Crown) as a trademark. Thus when sold in Spain it’s called ‘Coronita’ (Little Crown) instead.

Ah, who cares. Tastes good with a wedge of lime or lemon in it no matter what it’s called . . . .