McTavish

Which part of 'unlicensed' did you not understand?

YaBa, meth, or something similar?

The Government's gotta do something about this heat ... 😎 Fix this and PM2.5 goes away too People die every day due to many causes, pneumonia, heatstroke, cancer or the #57 bus - it's not altogether avoidable, almost normal, although what does Covid has to do with heat? Vitamin D from sun exposure is a preventative, no?

It's '24 production and I decant into 1L glass bottles for storage in a cool/dark pantry. Never had a problem.

The main reason for supply shortages is Middle East troubles and shipping delays. Airfreight is expensive and not warranted for many 'luxury' food imports although some gets through to Bangkok specialty importers and retailers. The North gets little or nothing. 😞 Olive oil is in short supply anyway due to the past year of drought and disease in Euro growing regions. Prices have sky-rocketed for this 'liquid gold' and I stocked up with 5L bottles of Extra Virgin @ 2600Bt at Makro Hang Dong recently. Shortages will continue. Euro cheese imports are very slow, NZ Mainland and Anchor product in stock at Makro and Rimping PLUS you can buy JARTISAN specialty cheeses at GoWholesale or Rimping. Note: HoReCa cheese sold at Makro is garbage IMHO, buy Anchor large blocks of cheddar for most cooking purposes in preference.

Dont encourage trolls with a response old m8, ok na.

Tim Newton is a professional journalist who can write in-depth editorial without bias which unfortunately is not what social media companies want. The problem is, all us old fogies on these boards want real news not AI generated trash.

Spot on!

Water is best, no need for electrolyte drinks IMO unless you've been exercising or working extremely hard and sweating profusely.

12 weeks or less is about right for Thailand, depending on brew type, transportation and storage. Safe limit is 6 weeks for a hoppy brew, borderline for bottled Archa, Asahi or Bud.

Funny story about VB, which I never touched, 'orrible stuff. A friend bought 6 cartons of VB cans in Cairns to take on a boat trip. The stuff was well and truly off, tainted, obviously stored in a hot warehouse. Arriving back in Cairns he was unable to return for refund and rather than dump it he gave away, one case at a time, to Aborigine vagrants living in the waterfront parkland. He had to literally drop it at their feet and run as others would come chase him, expecting more.

Look up the meaning of sarcasm.

The IPA is very good.

One of my favourites from WA - https://littlecreatures.com.au/agegate/

Does it really matter what different people enjoy? The World would be a miserable place if we all married blondes and drank raspberry cordial. This thread was to enlighten, or advise BM's to take care when purchasing beer. Example in point: I've come across many who would never buy Archa, or Beer Lao again - chances are they've been put off by inadvertently drinking tainted stock. And tainted beer is NOT pleasant. When I come across it, rarely with Singha, a squeeze of lime masks the taint.

Me too.

Kiwis are spoiled for choice of some great craft beers and Vietnam also. It's sad that the good craft brews of Thailand are taxed so heavily and not widely available. I nearly bought some a few weeks back until I checked the date stamp (bottom of can). At least Aussies know how to store beer - in giant coolrooms. Thai's put potatoes and onions in cold stores which spoils them very fast, no such treatment for high yield beer stocks!

During the pandemic I noticed many food products on shelves were past their best-by-date (BBD), although none were as bad as bottled beer. After all, most dry packaged products, even cheeses, are perfectly ok beyond the BBD. Especially cheese, which was often discounted by up to 50%, win win! ☺️ Bottled beer however, goes off, becomes tainted, in about 6 to 8 weeks especially if it's transported and stored in high temperatures. Ever since Covid I've checked beer freshness prior to purchase at various stores and the results are alarming. Whilst my observations relate to Chiang Mai stores the same applies across the country to most stockists. BigC, Makro, Tops, GoWholesale and Rimping all have beer in stock which is well past 6 weeks old. I've bought Beer Laos by the bottle only to discard it before noticing each bottle is marked with a production date. The worst offenders are the major stockists holding many pallets of brew. Singha has either the highest turnover or freshest supply and with a local brewery perhaps the latter. I don't buy any beer unless it's within 4 weeks of production date as marked on the case. GoWholesale takes 1st prize for the oldest beer stocks I've seen since the pandemic with Archa beer at 6 months old! Some of the Chang stock was also 1923 vintage. Hops and alcohol are natural preservatives but AFAIK, Archa has a low hops to rice ratio which would make it susceptible to spoiling much faster.

Warren issued? NOT if you read the full story.

Will he leave on a Boeing or Airbus? 55

Payday coming for Baltimore lawyers? IMO it was the bridges fault🤠

New Zealand also as Asians make up a greater proportion of the population than indigenous folk.

WISE tfr from NZ to Kasikorn a/c in less than 5 seconds. Card use when traveling is simple. For extended visits to say, Vietnam or UK, I buy VND or GBP in advance when the fx rate is in my favour. I even converted Wise USD a/c funds to VND when it suited and won on the fx twice. Love it!

Kiwi's can enter Visa-Exempt for 30 days. Seems like the Thai embassy in Wellington is simply moving to online Visa's and jacked fees to pay the webmaster, among others.😎

I'm with AIS and receive OTP's from Aus and NZ banks no problem. ANZ both sides of the ditch, and WestPac. Likely an Aussie problem, not AIS, IMHO.