BEER

The beer you'll find in the bars of PoA is mostly bottled light lager beer with an alcohol content of between 4-5%. The Brazilians like beer ICE cold, in some cases it freezes in the bottle! The word for bottled beer is cerveja as opposed to choppe which is draught lager beer. Something to take care of is, again it's a custom here, Brazilians like choppe with a lot of head, called colarinho, and the bars serve with perhaps 3 or 4 inches of foam which, if it's a tapered glass, uses up half the content. To avoid this you have to ask for "muito pouco colarinho", or very little foam.
In the Winter here they start to produce dark beers, bocks or cerveja escura. Something I can never understand is that they make a great advertizing for these dark beers for the Winter yet they still serve it ice cold!
The past few years or so has seen the emergence of more micro-brewery beers, you can find them in the supermarkets, which produce British type ale or German weissbeirs. These beers are very good but tend to be a little more expensive than the regular beers. A few bars have these beers on draught.
Very few bars in PoA (I think 3 at my last count) have draught Guinness.
Supermarkets stock beer in 350ml cans or 350ml bottles known as "long necks" (yes in English, is that an American thing?) or 600ml bottles, these you have to take empties in order to exchange for "fulls". Depending on the beer, supermarket prices vary from 25p - 50p for the cans or longnecks and 40p - 60p for the 600ml's.
Bars serve longnecks, 600ml's or choppe. Again bar prices vary: 50p - 80p for a longneck; 80p - 1.00 (pound sterling) for a 600ml; 50p - 80p for a 300ml glass of choppe (that's just over half pint), and around 1.00 pound sterling for a 500ml choppe, just under a pint.