Beer in Estonia

It housed Viru Brewery until 2020 and is now the main production site of Finland's Pyynikin Brewing Company.

[11] The Association successfully lobbied the Estonian government into reversing rises in alcohol excise duty in 2019.

[3][12] The production of once popular former Soviet Žiguli (Zhigulevskoye) beer was discontinued in Estonia by the end of 20th century.

[15] Pihtla farmhouse brewery on the island of Saaremaa was originally established in 1907 and describes its beers as "cloudy, yeasty and unpredictable.

[18] In 2021, one of the country's larger craft breweries, Tanker, was acquired by the Danish company Royal Unibrew.

Producers brewing up to 300,000 litres a year pay just half of ordinary excise duty rates.