At the height of the civil war that ravaged Angola for 25 years after its independence from Portugal in 1975, grades de cerveja (crates of beer), became a popular medium of exchange in the absence of a stable local currency.
More than 30 years on, Unicer, Portugal’s largest drinks group, is building a €100m ($126m) brewery in Luanda, the Angolan capital, in a project that highlights the former colonial power’s position as the biggest foreign investor in Angola outside the oil industry.
