Pyynikin Brewery (Haljala)

The Haljala brewery is an industrial monument of Estonian beer: born in 1975 out of a collective farm, turned into AS Viru Õlu at independence and Danish-owned for three decades, it was long the country's third-largest brewery, with a total capacity of thirty million litres. In 2021 Finnish house Pyynikin, one of Finland's biggest craft players, bought the site to host its production of award-winning craft beers — porters, ales and lagers decorated at international competitions. A taproom and shop complete this Haljala 'beer estate', which ties Lääne-Virumaa's industrial heritage to the new Nordic wave.