also, does Portugal ban foreign beers from entering the market? why can't you get import beer from anywhere else?
You can of course but most people don't drink em. If you go in any corner shop you got a fridge full of Sagres and Superbock with minis, imperial, ltires, two different sizes of cans.... and maybe there will also be a couple of cans of, I dunno, Heineken, stuck at the back of the fridge where they have been for two years, untouched. But certainly if you go in a decent big supermarket such as LeClerc they will have a load of import ones, but then, even there, it's still one shelf with maybe twenty different beers, but really they only have a couple of bottles of each. And the other day we were at MixMart which is a small supermarket with mainly Slavic stuff, I think it's Ukrainian owned but Liza always stocks up on Russian beers ther
Also Lidl and Audi both have their own brand ones which cost 50c for a small can and I actually like those much more, it's nice to get a six pack of those and they just slip down without you noticing.
But the main thing, if you're out with people, say you just wanna have a beer at one of the miradors or something like that and someone nips off to the offie they always come back with Sagres, if you go to someone's house after a club then everyone loads up on those litre bottles of Sagres or Superbock, fair enough they are good value if there is a load of you.
In fact there is one called Coruja which means Owl in Portuguese and it's kinda like a craft beer I guess, they are pushing that quite aggressively with loads of adverts in bars and sponsorship. Plus in Beato there is a brewery bar called Musa which has craft beers I think. So all these things exist but I bet they make up about one percent of what is drunk. Don't quote that statistic because I just made it up but that is how it feels.
Obviously that's not a red one but it's THE craft lager they have.