^In the second list.

I was musing about what the 9 'others' could be (taking into account that this does not necessarily mean 9 other beers, just 9 people whose beer is not listed). So according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_beer_...ies_in_Thailand, these are purportedly the beers brewed or available in Thailand (I have slightly modified the list as noted and also removed some listing inconsistencies):

Amarit Lager

Amarit NB

Archa

Bangkok Beer

Beer Lao (Ping: added - was not in the Wiki list)

Black Beer

Black Tiger

Carlsberg (Ping: added - was not in the Wiki list; possibly no longer available in Thailand [formerly a popular beer])

Chang Beer (Draught)

Chang Lager

Chang Light

Cheers Beer

ES Beer

Isaan Beer (Ping: added - was not in the Wiki list; n/k if actually yet distributed or whether the opposition to it has been resolved one way or the other)

Klassik Lager

Kloster Beer (Ping: thought this had gone off the market - certainly not widely available in Phuket anymore)

Leo Beer

Mittweida (production discontinued by Boon Rawd brewery as of late 2002)

Phuket Lager Beer

Red Horse

San Miguel Thailand

Singha

Singha 70

Singha Draft

Singha Gold Light

Singha Light

Super Lion

Tiger Beer

Excellent list their Ping - I have updated the list in the poll and put it in some thing similar to alphabetical order.

I am interested to receive notice by PM or in the open forum from the voters of the 9 "other" and will add them in the poll.

CB

Spotted one in the ex-pat bar the other night called 'Blue Ice' ...... don't know if it is imported or local.... I'll check it out later.

But, one import missed off is Weihenstephan....... the oldest brewery in the world, it's a weissbeer, very popular and also very nice.

^Well spotted Thad - served at the German bar at Jung Ceylon in Patong, but a bit like the rest in the second list - you usually have to go out of your way to get one in.

Ping, the beers I miss in LOS are black beers.

Guiness the only one.

I have heard of a beer from LAOS, I think, that is a dark brew.

Dunno wot 'tis tho'.

So many dark beers brewed in Aotearoa.

Even OZ has only a few, Coopers......and Abbots

Heinecken Dark is a good beer, but closest place I find it is in FIJI or HAWAI'I

REAL MEN drink dark beers

Some of the post above are interesting but sorry to say not relevant to the topic at hand which is beer and which one is our favourite tipple.

I have added a new option especially for Humphrey in the poll

CB

I didn't know the Adelaide authorities were so tough?

^Well spotted Thad - served at the German bar at Jung Ceylon in Patong, but a bit like the rest in the second list - you usually have to go out of your way to get one in.

I know quite a few people of Germanic origin, my favourite is the one legged German butcher (I keep meaning to get him a parrot, I think the Norwegian Blue would suffice) he makes a mean schnitzel and imports great beer.

P.S. checked out 'Blue Ice; ..... the label on the back is written only in Thai apart from the last line .... it's brewed in Thailand by San Miguel..... allegedly

SAN MIGUEL BLUE ICE. A pale amber lager characterized by hints of delicate hop oil aroma and mellow palate which blends with moderate body and mild, balanced bitterness. A pure brilliant beer that is exceptionally smooth and refreshing. Alcohol, 5.00%

Sizes in bottle: 330ml

Sizes in can: 330ml, 500ml

Well, that's according to one site. A lady's drink, perhaps, or maybe one for the young crowd?

E: Meant to ask whether your Norwegian butcher had a paddock full of three-legged sheep?

This thread has just got silly, have not chuckled on the web so much for quite a while.

SAN MIGUEL BLUE ICE. A pale amber lager characterized by hints of delicate hop oil aroma and mellow palate which blends with moderate body and mild, balanced bitterness. A pure brilliant beer that is exceptionally smooth and refreshing. Alcohol, 5.00%

Sizes in bottle: 330ml

Sizes in can: 330ml, 500ml

Well, that's according to one site. A lady's drink, perhaps, or maybe one for the young crowd?

E: Meant to ask whether your Norwegian butcher had a paddock full of three-legged sheep?

Well, there have been six bottles of Blue Ice sitting in the ex=pat bar fridge for quite a few weeks now just gathering dust, so it could be just for ladies or youngsters ...... a bit like that Cheers beer, none of us will touch that either.

P.S. the butcher is German, it's the parrot that comes from Norway, no sheep, but a few one legged chickens, they can be fun to watch

Looking for black beers, I found this.......

Black Tiger Beer, I have not had the "pleasure" yet, but it is a local dark stout. There is only a slim chance that I might try it though! It is brewed by the same company that used to brew Guinness under licence, (T.A.B. Brewery) I wonder if there is any significance there............ Yes, it's probably the same muck under a different name!

8% Guiness made and sold in S.E.A, is foul muck, disgrace to the name.

Imports from Ireland containing a gidget, yes, good.

All Thai beers and beers sold in LOS, may be found at this site.

http://www.bangkokbob.net/beer.htm

Some of the post above are interesting but sorry to say not relevant to the topic at hand which is beer and which one is our favourite tipple.

I have added a new option especially for Humphrey in the poll

CB

I didn't know the Adelaide authorities were so tough?

When I was at school my grandfather (Mother's side) who lived in Adelaide had a penchant for home brewed beer. In those days it was illegal to brew your own but many working class men "rolled their own" to save money. He had a brew pot setup in his garage which consisted of a metal garbage tin lined with plastic sheeting and made a reasonable beer which he bottled and drank at home. One day we were talking about it and I asked him about making spirits which he said was too difficult. I did some research at school and the state library and discovered a copy of a US magazine with an article on Prohibition Stills including diagrams. I modified one and instead of using a naked flame substituted a 600Watt soldering iron that was used to solder guttering. Using a home made rheostat to control the amperage and consequently the heat output I had a neat little still. At metalwork class I "borrowed" some copper tubing with two different sizes. The smaller diameter one was for the actual alcohol and the larger one I reverse wrapped to make a recirculating water jacket. With a small pump and a reservoir of water in a tank I could control the temp of the distilled alcohol. I was a border at school and over a couple of weekends in the woodwork shop I made a cabinet with locking door and mounted the still inside. One weekend I caught the tram to my grandfather's house and we built it into a space under his work bench. It stayed their for many years and he used it regularly. When he died at 90+ my dad and younger brother were clearing out the garage in preparation to selling the house. The opened up the cabinet and found it - right next to my name and date and designer and builder Dad wasn't amused but I know for a fact that my younger brother "scavenged" it and it is now in his garage where I have it on good authority is still in use.

CB

Some of the post above are interesting but sorry to say not relevant to the topic at hand which is beer and which one is our favourite tipple.

I have added a new option especially for Humphrey in the poll

CB

I didn't know the Adelaide authorities were so tough?

When I was at school my grandfather (Mother's side) who lived in Adelaide had a penchant for home brewed beer. In those days it was illegal to brew your own but many working class men "rolled their own" to save money. He had a brew pot setup in his garage which consisted of a metal garbage tin lined with plastic sheeting and made a reasonable beer which he bottled and drank at home. One day we were talking about it and I asked him about making spirits which he said was too difficult. I did some research at school and the state library and discovered a copy of a US magazine with an article on Prohibition Stills including diagrams. I modified one and instead of using a naked flame substituted a 600Watt soldering iron that was used to solder guttering. Using a home made rheostat to control the amperage and consequently the heat output I had a neat little still. At metalwork class I "borrowed" some copper tubing with two different sizes. The smaller diameter one was for the actual alcohol and the larger one I reverse wrapped to make a recirculating water jacket. With a small pump and a reservoir of water in a tank I could control the temp of the distilled alcohol. I was a border at school and over a couple of weekends in the woodwork shop I made a cabinet with locking door and mounted the still inside. One weekend I caught the tram to my grandfather's house and we built it into a space under his work bench. It stayed their for many years and he used it regularly. When he died at 90+ my dad and younger brother were clearing out the garage in preparation to selling the house. The opened up the cabinet and found it - right next to my name and date and designer and builder Dad wasn't amused but I know for a fact that my younger brother "scavenged" it and it is now in his garage where I have it on good authority is still in use.

CB

hey...right on, great story. I wuz thinkin' of building a still at home in Thailand so that I wouldn't be captive to the vagaries of vodka availability here in small town Suphanburi but our row of shophouses is too close into the center of town (just behind the tessaban premises) so that the smell would get us busted eventually...

I asked him about making spirits which he said was too difficult. I did some research at school and the state library and discovered a copy of a US magazine with an article on Prohibition Stills including diagrams. CB

Tell me about it!

I have worked for many years with Swedish construction firms. In Libya we had specially fabricated equipment - stainless steel bins and condensing columns, with specifically temperature controlled heating elements, activated charcoal filters - the lot!

The guys told me that up in the North of Sweden, where there are long distances to any local hostelry, deep winter snow and a ban on the sale of alcohol between Friday afternoon and Monday lunchtime, it is very common for houses to have their own stills.

The product was cut to about 55% before filtering, then put in the freezer for six weeks and the result poured into very small glasses. Went down like silk, but I learnt to avoid it after a few years, having sent at least a dozen guys home in the meantime.

But this is a thread about beer, and that is far more difficult to make of a sufficiently high quality and taste. I miss my Marston Pedigree (from the barrel).

hey...right on, great story. I wuz thinkin' of building a still at home in Thailand so that I wouldn't be captive to the vagaries of vodka availability here in small town Suphanburi but our row of shophouses is too close into the center of town (just behind the tessaban premises) so that the smell would get us busted eventually...

I made my own home brew in Thailand for over two years having been assured that it was legal for home consumption. Supplied my friend who is a police sergeant down the road and he came to my house with a couple of his work mates. Then after a thread in TV about it I discovered it is ILLEGAL here. So being a responsible member of the farung community and in no way promoting an illegal act I have ceased and desisted from making my own beer

CB

hey...right on, great story. I wuz thinkin' of building a still at home in Thailand so that I wouldn't be captive to the vagaries of vodka availability here in small town Suphanburi but our row of shophouses is too close into the center of town (just behind the tessaban premises) so that the smell would get us busted eventually...

I made my own home brew in Thailand for over two years having been assured that it was legal for home consumption. Supplied my friend who is a police sergeant down the road and he came to my house with a couple of his work mates. Then after a thread in TV about it I discovered it is ILLEGAL here. So being a responsible member of the farung community and in no way promoting an illegal act I have ceased and desisted from making my own beer

CB

Illegal to brew, or illegal to distribute to others (whether by selling or by giving it away)?

I have not seen brew kits available in Thailand, although I know of friends that would sometimes bring them in. So maybe it is even illegal to brew.

hey...right on, great story. I wuz thinkin' of building a still at home in Thailand so that I wouldn't be captive to the vagaries of vodka availability here in small town Suphanburi but our row of shophouses is too close into the center of town (just behind the tessaban premises) so that the smell would get us busted eventually...

I made my own home brew in Thailand for over two years having been assured that it was legal for home consumption. Supplied my friend who is a police sergeant down the road and he came to my house with a couple of his work mates. Then after a thread in TV about it I discovered it is ILLEGAL here. So being a responsible member of the farung community and in no way promoting an illegal act I have ceased and desisted from making my own beer

CB

Illegal to brew, or illegal to distribute to others (whether by selling or by giving it away)?

I have not seen brew kits available in Thailand, although I know of friends that would sometimes bring them in. So maybe it is even illegal to brew.

It is illegal to brew, consume, give away or sell. All of these activities are covered in different parts of the Act. That same act also covers home made Lao Khao so you can tell how stringently it is enforced

The law is mainly enforced by making it very difficult to source the components here in Thailand. My last limitation was finding Hops for the bittering and preserving of the brew. I could grow my own but I don't really want a 30 foot trailing plant growing on poles and strings around the back of the house. Hops can be found and purchased legally in Singapore but not imported unless you can persuade the customs officers you use them for a health tonic Would look very suspicious if you also had a half dozen cans of malt extract, some yeast and a couple of bags of crown caps at the same time.

CB

It is illegal to brew, consume, give away or sell. All of these activities are covered in different parts of the Act. That same act also covers home made Lao Khao so you can tell how stringently it is enforced

The law is mainly enforced by making it very difficult to source the components here in Thailand. My last limitation was finding Hops for the bittering and preserving of the brew. I could grow my own but I don't really want a 30 foot trailing plant growing on poles and strings around the back of the house. Hops can be found and purchased legally in Singapore but not imported unless you can persuade the customs officers you use them for a health tonic Would look very suspicious if you also had a half dozen cans of malt extract, some yeast and a couple of bags of crown caps at the same time.

CB

Ah, well, back to the commercial stuff when I get home, then.

Off to Southern Vietnam next month, so I'll be able to ring the changes there.

In a resthome in Auckland, 3 guys pooled their dosh

$NZ680.00 for a still and all the makings.

Now they have their own Voddy, Whisky, Brandy and Rum.

Saving heaps and loving it.

Great fun making the stuff, no need to go buy or get pssssst out and drive.

Suddenly they now have sooooo many new friends......... PMPL

It is illegal to brew, consume, give away or sell. All of these activities are covered in different parts of the Act. That same act also covers home made Lao Khao so you can tell how stringently it is enforced

The law is mainly enforced by making it very difficult to source the components here in Thailand. My last limitation was finding Hops for the bittering and preserving of the brew. I could grow my own but I don't really want a 30 foot trailing plant growing on poles and strings around the back of the house. Hops can be found and purchased legally in Singapore but not imported unless you can persuade the customs officers you use them for a health tonic Would look very suspicious if you also had a half dozen cans of malt extract, some yeast and a couple of bags of crown caps at the same time.

CB

Ah, well, back to the commercial stuff when I get home, then.

Off to Southern Vietnam next month, so I'll be able to ring the changes there.

Vodka Hanoi...good, and cheap (<dong equiv. USD3.00 for 70cl bottle 2 years ago). However, just like Thailand, hard to find nice packaged fruit juices to mix it with (they all have added sugar) unlike the Middle East which is packaged fruit juice heaven...