[Eric]

In #26, Stewart shows a bottle of exquisite shape. Don't be fooled by the bottle, the contents are rubbish. At a reception a couple of years ago run by the Estonian Embassy in The Hague (now known as Karadžicville), we took a few of the leftover bottles home.

Alas, I still have one of the three left unopened. Insipid LeCoq stuff. I love beer and wine, and Estonian beer at its best ranks just below Belgian. But it is an expression of my indifference to this particular beer that I still have this one unopened bottle in my garage.

In my opinion, there are far better beers available in Estonia, such as Saku Tume, a kind of Newcastle Brown. In Sillamäe, in the Russian zone, they also brew an excellent beer which was available a decade ago, but seems to be have been pushed out by the big breweries. If you can get hold of some of the less commercially hyped beers in Estonia, you'll discover real ale style stuff.