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Estonian A.Le Coq:

The A.Le Coq company was founded by Albert Le Coq, a Belgian tradesman, in London in 1807. The company was in the business of bottling the output of local breweries and marketing them to Russia. The so-called Russian imperial porter, a dark and strong porter, specially brewed for export that attained especially excellent quality while maturing during the long marine route, became the best-known of the beers. During the Russian-Japanese War the A.Le Coq company made generous porter donations to the Russian military hospitals and as a reward was granted the right to supply the imperial court with its beer. Naturally, there were abundant forgers for these top-selling products. Moreover, the forgers started to use the A.Le Coq trademark on their bottle labels. Finally, the owners of the company decided to establish their own porter brewery in Russia to be able to better compete with the unfair competition