Where has all the Singha Light beer gone?

grs90 · March 10, 2019

A few months ago, concerned due to an ever expanding waistline, I found out that my favourite Leo Beer seemed to top the calorie charts amongst the beers readily available here. So I switched to Singha Light and shaved a good few hundred calories off my daily intake. I didn't particularly like the taste of the Singha Light at first but I stuck with it and have got used to it now and find it quite pleasant. Certainly much more pleasant than the alternative of drinking less beer on a daily basis.

In the past couple of weeks though the Singha Light seems to have disappeared from the shelves at my local Makro/Big C/Lotus stores. It has mostly been replaced by something called Singha My Beer. This usurper has a similar colour bottle and an identical price and alcohol content to the Singha Light.

Have trawled the internet to try and find out if the My Beer is just a rebrand of the Light. In particular I have tried to find out how many calories are in the My Beer as this doesn't seem to be listed on the bottles. So far I haven't been able to find out anything. I've emailed the brewery (boonrawd) contact email I found but have had no reply to that as yet.

Does anyone know what the My Beer is? Is it a lower calorie option?

A big attraction for me of the Singha Light & My Beer is the price, 550 baht for 12*640ml bottles versus the 820 baht I've just paid for the equivalent box of San Miguel Light.

Any info on the My Beer, or pointers as to where to find out more about it, would be appreciated.

Cheers

Pungdo · March 11, 2019

A couple of years ago I wanted to know the Carb content of Singha Light and like you got no answer to my email so I contacted them via their Facebook page and was answer there

Justin Side · March 11, 2019

Seems to have rebranded as My Beer.

Same % and same price.

steve187 · March 11, 2019

16 minutes ago, Justin Side said:

Seems to have rebranded as My Beer.

Same % and same price.

but is it the same calories

Caine · March 11, 2019

Being relabelled as MY beer, so will take a little time to filter through into shops and bars.

oznomad · March 11, 2019

I dont recall the exact figure but after much research I did find the carb content of Singha Light. It was bewilderingly high, up with non-light beers.

Yes, you might pay a bit more for San Mig light, but the lowest carb beer available here is Tiger Light. Just 3 grams per bottle.

CLW · March 11, 2019

I hope they'll replace or discontinue that awful U Beer with the new My Beer.

And hopefully bring back a real light beer with 2.5% as the old Singha light used to be.

Until now mixing beer with soda is a good alternative to enjoy beer on a long day.

Dionigi · March 11, 2019

4.5% according to the label on the tins

SunsetT · March 11, 2019

1 hour ago, CLW said:

I hope they'll replace or discontinue that awful U Beer with the new My Beer.

And hopefully bring back a real light beer with 2.5% as the old Singha light used to be.

Until now mixing beer with soda is a good alternative to enjoy beer on a long day.

Me too, but the original Singha Light was 3.6or8 not 2.5%.

Psimbo · March 11, 2019

Its all been bought up by those in shock over the '2 day alcohol ban', which is actually 24 hours. ????

LucysDad · March 11, 2019

2 hours ago, oznomad said:

I dont recall the exact figure but after much research I did find the carb content of Singha Light. It was bewilderingly high, up with non-light beers.

Yes, you might pay a bit more for San Mig light, but the lowest carb beer available here is Tiger Light. Just 3 grams per bottle.

research again........................ the 330ml bottles are 106 calories.......................LEO 165

SunsetT · March 11, 2019

I dont think most beer drinking Thais get the concept of drinking lower alcohol beer as they want to get drunk, and as beer advertising is banned the companies cannot promote it. Also most bars and restaurants are loath to change and so dont stock it. But they are missing a trick because I think most would be willing to pay the same as Leo which is more expensive wholesale so they could make more profit. I do know one Thai outlet that sells it at the same price as Singha which I think is greedy.

As an aside, I dont like the greedy trend of bars/restaurants charging the same price for Chang, Leo, and Singha. This is not much better than an outright scam. If I must buy from such, I always order Singha on principle even though I pprefer Leo. Even worse is such a Thai/Farang owned bar in my town which, when I ordered a Singha, can you believe tried to palm me off with the cheap and nasty U beer also made by Singha!