HELSINKI (AP) — A small brewery in Finland has introduced a NATO-themed beer to mark the Nordic nation’s bid to sign up for the Western army alliance.
Olaf Brewing’s OTAN lager includes a blue label with a cool animated film model of a beer-drinking medieval knight in steel armor emblazoned with NATO’s compass image.
The beer’s identify is a play at the Finnish expression “Otan olutta,” this means that “I’ll have a lager,” and the French abbreviation for NATO, which is “OTAN.” The North Atlantic Treaty Group has two legit languages, English and French.
CEO Petteri Vanttinen advised The Related Press on Thursday that the craft brewery’s advert hoc determination final weekend to start out generating the beer used to be motivated through “worries over the struggle in Ukraine” and its penalties for Finland.
He described the brand new lager as having “a style of safety, with a touch of freedom.”
Finland and Sweden on Wednesday submitted an utility to sign up for NATO on the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels.
Olaf Brewing mentioned its new beer additionally honors the jap Finnish the city of Savonlinna, the brewery’s base situated a couple of dozen kilometers from Finland’s border with Russia.
Savonlinna is understood for St. Olaf’s Citadel, a medieval construction from 1475 that serves as a venue for an annual world opera pageant.
“Our small place of origin Savonlinna has all the time lied within the borderlands between East and West. Many battles had been fought within the the city house and at St. Olafs Citadel” the brewery mentioned in a Twitter publish.
Finland stocks a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border with Russia, the longest of any Ecu Union member.
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