Small breweries and local distilleries are hopeful of a bright future if the Move Forward Party forms a coalition government and pushes changes to liberalise the alcohol industry as promised.
Despite clear economic opportunities from diversifying craft beers and in the speciality spirits market, small businesses have been struggling to survive, let alone thrive, in Thailand’s heavily monopolised alcohol industry, due to harsh laws and regulations controlling production and retailing.
The party’s MP in Bangkok’s Constituency 22, and its leading liquor liberalisation campaigner, Taopiphop Limjittrakorn, told…
