There is no legal craft beer brewed in Thailand. You might find some, but it’s probably black market beer brewed covertly by craft beer insurgents.
In Bangkok you can find covert bottles of hand-labelled craft beers in moving marketplaces, but you need to be careful if you purchase a bottle because even posting a picture of these illicit brews could land you in jail.
You see, beer operations in Thailand remain the domain of big producers like ThaiBev, which produces Chang beer, and the Boon Rawd Brewery, which produces Singha and Leo, majors who control 90% to 95% of the country’s domestic beer market.
And according to Channel News Asia they enjoy a dominance ensured by the government, and by laws that prevent “small homegrown operators from entering the fray.”
Thailand’s regulations demand that beer manufacturers must have a minimum production capability output of ten…
