The Constitutional Pilsener () was a beer brand brewed by

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in 2007, in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of Estonia's 1992

constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed. When these pri ...

and introduced in cooperation with the

Estonian Ministry of Justice The Estonian Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs () is the Ministry of Justice of Estonia, dealing also with digital affairs and its development. The Minister of Justice () is the senior minister at the Ministry of Justice and Digital Aff ...

. The beer was a bottom-fermented pale

lager Lager (; ) is a Type of beer, style of beer brewed and Brewing#Conditioning, conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be Pale lager, pale, Amber lager, amber, or Dark lager, dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially availab ...

with an alcohol content of 4.2% by volume. The competing

Saku Õlletehas Operating under the business name Saku Õlletehase AS, Saku Brewery is an Estonian producer of beer and other beverages. It was founded in 1820 by the local Baltic German landlord Graf . Since 2008 Carlsberg Group has been the sole owner of Sa ...

has denounced this approach, claiming that a

pilsener Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery. Histor ...

is too cheap a brand of

beer Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grain—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The grain is mashed to convert starch in the ...

to be associated with the

Constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed. When these pri ...

. The leader of the Estonian Beer Association (), Cardo Remmel, has expressed disagreement with

' position and approved the idea of promoting awareness of the Constitution using a beer brand. In its editorial,

Eesti Päevaleht (Estonia Daily) is a major daily Estonian newspaper, from the same publishers as the weekly '' Eesti Ekspress''. Another newspaper under the same name is published weekly in Stockholm, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is ...

pointed out the hypocrisy of

' position, as the latter has been producing a Presidential Pilsener for several years.

10 August 2007
REPLIIK: Silmakirjalik õlletööstur

References

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