A beer.
The friendly everyday word for beer. *¿Nos tomamos unas polas?* is the standard invite. Bogotá and the interior use it most; the coast leans toward *fría*.
From an old Bogotá brewery beer named for *La Pola*, the nickname of independence heroine Policarpa Salavarrieta.
Casual. In a restaurant, *una cerveza* is the safe order.
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