Brewing in Tartu goes back to the breweries of B. J. Hesse (1800) and J. R. Schramm (1826), joined as AS Tivoli. In 1912 the London firm A. Le Coq bought Tivoli; the company took the name AS A. Le Coq in 1913. Nationalised in 1940 as Tartu Õlletehas (from 1973 Tartu Eksperimentaalõlletehas). Privatised in 1995, owned by the Finnish Olvi since 1997; the A. Le Coq name came back in 1999. In June 2026 it completed the purchase of the mineral water maker Värska Originaal. unverified info