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Super Bock
Super Bock
Location	Leça do Balio, Portugal
Active beers
Name	Type
Super Bock	Strong Pale Lager
Super Bock Stout	Stout
Super Bock Abadia	Wheat Beer
Super Bock Green	Pale Lager
Super Bock Tango	Pale Lager
Super Bock Twin	Non-alcoholic beer
Super Bock Sem Alcool	Non-alcoholic beer
Super Bock Preta Sem Alcool	Wheat Beer
Super Bock Pessego Sem Alcool	Peach flavoured non-alcoholic beer

Super Bock is a Portuguese brand of strong pale lager from the Unicer brewery which produces a range of beers under the same name. Established in 1927, Unicer is based in Leça do Balio, just outside the city of Porto, Portugal. Its Super Bock brand is the most popular beer in Portugal (42% market share, September 1998), especially in the North of the country, and competes well against Sagres and Coral (Madeira) in the rest of Portugal. It is the only beer to have won 23 consecutive gold medals in the "Monde Selection de la Qualite". It is sold in 90% of restaurants and markets in Portugal, and in 21 countries including Angola, Bermuda, Canada, Luxembourg, Mozambique, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

This beer has a cult status among English football (soccer) supporters; many discovered it during the UEFA Euro 2004 championship in Portugal. However, its history with the supporters of Manchester United goes back into the early 1990s thanks to games against the like of F.C. Porto in the UEFA Champions League. The fondness for "Bock" has even developed a chant for trips over in Portugal – "Super Bock, superstar, gets you more pissed than Stella Artois".

On one such trip to Portugal, Tom Lloyd commented "this is a truly heroic beer, that does justice to a truly heroic nation".

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Super Bock is available in several varieties, including:

Classic (5.6% ABV): A strong lager beer.
Abadia (6.4% ABV): A dark, wheat-based beer.
Stout (5% ABV): - A black beer.
Green (4% ABV): A sweet pils with lemon flavouring, marketed as "easy to drink"
Tango: Red in colour, similar to "Green" but with redcurrant flavouring. The tag-line reads "Serve with sensuality... Drink with passion".
Twin: - Non-alcoholic variant.

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