
Tanker Brewery is an
Estonian
craft brewery founded in
Tallinn in 2014.
[Tanker Brewery](_blank)
Accessed on 28 November 2021. The brewery's best-selling product is Sauna Session, a beer flavoured with
birch whisks.
In 2019, Tanker Brewery opened a new factory in the town of
Jüri south of Tallinn, nearly two times bigger than their existing factory. This allowed the brewery to package beer in cool tin cans instead of glass bottles.
In 2021, Tanker Brewery was acquired by the
Danish company
Royal Unibrew, which also owns the
Finnish brewery
Hartwall. Tanker's CEO, Jaanis Tammela, said the cooperation would be beneficial to both parties and would enable further growth, expansion into new markets and wider product availability.
In 2022 the Estonian Agriculture and Food Board initiated proceedings against Tanker's owner for submitting false information about the origin of some Tanker beers. It had become apparent that they were produced not in Estonia but by Royal Unibrew's
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
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Kalnapilis
Kalnapilis is a Lithuanian brewery, established by Albert Foight in Panevėžys in 1902. A landowner of German origin, Foight named the brewery Bergschlösschen, meaning a small castle on the hill. In 1918, the name was changed to a Lithuanian eq ...
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Suspicions confirmed: Tanker sells Lithuanian beer for Estonian production
''Postimees news'' 23 May 2022. Accessed on 17 June 2022.
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Breweries in Estonia
Food and drink companies established in 2014
Royal Unibrew subsidiaries
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