Shortage Of Beer At Many Stores In Bangkok: Thailand Flood

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Just back from Tesco OnNut... Nary a bottle or can of beer to be found, except for some straggler bottles of Cooper's Pale Ale, since it's pricey by comparison and the local folks probably don't know what it is anyway. Plenty of bottled wines, though.

Tesco probably didn't know what to do, so they've ended up filling up the normally spacious beer shelves in their alcohol section with all kinds of other stuff, cartons of milk and fruit juices and misc. other things.

Not much water that I saw, and the fruit juice section was only about half stocked. But packaged milk was pretty well stocked. And the Coke delivery guy was there, so the place was overflowing with the larger sized bottles of Coke.

The rest of the store, in terms of food and drink, looked pretty well stocked, especially compared to a week or two ago in the more panicky times.

[bigbamboo]

Must be nice if the biggest of your worries is if there is beer or not. There are loads of people with much bigger worries right now.

like what?

Don't tell me they're running out of bourbon too.

[ludditeman]

Went to a bar last night, Beer Chang Classic had gone up from 60bht to 70bht a large bottle.

Luckily the next bar were selling it for 139bht for 3 large bottles, so we moved.

(6 large bottles + ice = 308bht)

[IvanDobsky]

Go north my son, loads of it up here

Shoooooosh, He is lying people no beer up here. Nothing to see stay where you are.

Ha ha, it'll be gone by the time they get here

[Payboy]

Why bothering about booze when water is still a scarce supply?

Well, considering that beer is actually liquid bread......

[smotherb]

At the 7/11 shops here in Pattaya they have no more "Chang classic", instead they sell now "Chang Export"

Sato run out of stock as well...

Cloggie

Some of the local hamburger stands have only Lao Beer. If beer disappears so will many a tourist in Pattaya

Robokop, what a great idea. Do you think no beer would have the same effect in the rest of Thailand too?

[CantSpell]

Not Just Bangkok ! here in Khao sok Surat Takua pa all no singha beer ............wonderful if you are running a hotel!!

i haven't seen a bottle of Singha in a 7/11 for weeks here in phuket but Leo is full in every fridge which is odd because Leo and Sing are made in the same place

Not exactly: Leo and Singha are both Singha companiy brands; plus the plastic water bottle and other stuffs.

Singha beer factory north of Bangkok is flooded so no Sing anywhere.

Some Singha water factory (more than one) are flooded, some are not so one can still find Singha water, small bottles)

Leo Beer (from Singha Corporate) is far from flooded area and probably working at full capacity as we speak..

Edited November 15, 2011 by CantSpell

[HeavyDrinker]

It's only a crisis if your an alcoholic.

Odd thing to write...

I know may people who would be put out not being able to enjoy a few leisurely beers of an evening after a hard days work/golf/bumming around; none of them alcoholics.

[moskito]

It's only a crisis if your an alcoholic.

Since when BEER is alcoholHICKS ?

[APA]

Go north my son, loads of it up here

Shoooooosh, He is lying people no beer up here. Nothing to see stay where you are.

hee hee hee

[dezy1801]

Down to my last 5 cases of Chang.

[chooka]

Go north my son, loads of it up here

Shoooooosh, He is lying people no beer up here. Nothing to see stay where you are.

hee hee hee

I like it george. yep no beer up here. Please send more.

[frances]

Meh, no beer, white people problems as they say. 7-Eleven stocking up in Sathorn today big time..nothing liquid though...

[cdnski12]

OOHH!! Japanese Automobile Managers are committing Hari Kari in Lana Bar Complex in BKK!! Flooded car lot, no beer, bar girls not so attractive when man is sober!

[DickFarang]

At the 7/11 shops here in Pattaya they have no more "Chang classic", instead they sell now "Chang Export"

Sato run out of stock as well...

Cloggie

In 7Eleven's in Pattaya no Heineken either.

[DickFarang]

Saw a truck with Singha water the other day, completely full.

In my 7/11 they have Chang or Cheers (red can). No water, plenty of juices and other crap.

Indeed, lots of (sugared) "fruit" juices and other crap everywhere.

[DickFarang]

Funny to see the mention about some supposed effort with 7-Elevens in the article above.

At the 7-Elevens around my area in central BKK, they have NEITHER beer nor bottled water, and haven't had for weeks. No sign of improvement at all.

So I'm not quite sure what that supposed effort/progress is supposed to be.

BTW, maybe some of the bigger drinkers than me can comment on this:

When the wife and I do go out for some drinks lately in BKK, we've yet to run into a restaurant or pub where they didn't have the beer we wanted to drink. Maybe we're not going to enough different places to get a good sampling???

Yet most of the grocery stores have almost no shelved stocks of beer.

No beer at 7/11s? What will the Russians do?

At most 7Eleven's there is still Chang, Cheers and Leo.

So, no problem for the Russians.

[DickFarang]

Learn to like 'Sangsom' with coke - or whatever.........................

Sang Som, Hong Tong et. al. small bottles only.

[DickFarang]

I live Lat prao area still plenty of Leo here, just send your local Mafia motorbike out he will get you everything you need at normal price if you give him a good tip.

I drink Blend 285 no shortage on that,

if you live here for more then 5 years and have Thai friends you can buy everything. You have to invest before the bad time's i learned that from the thai's.

Even the 7/11 20 meters from me they know what i like to buy and the keep a small stock for me,

Thai like to drink bottled water but like a previous post say the water vending machine are good i did not get sick of it in the 5 years i am drinking it, i just get mauw from the Blend 285 do

This is a time to act like mafia to, just be inventive you will have all the food for your family you can eat.

The water from our kitchen filter (5 filters) is a lot better than what you get from those vending machines.

[MiG16]

y0u guys are s0 funny

in a cute way 0fc0urse

thanks f0r making me smiIe

[DickFarang]

Plenty of Beer Lao up here in Vientiane - Damned good stuff at around 30 baht for a big 'un

Is this the thread that never went away?

Here in Sukhumvit locale as mentioned above no beer in 7-eleven. Oh I guess there's some Leo. Local stores though have Heineken and Chang etc. Only water in supermarket was small bottles at 7 baht each.

What's up at Makro?

The only water I saw in 7Eleven in Jomtien last week was Nam Thip 50 cl, up from THB 7 to THB 12.

[DickFarang]

Why bothering about booze when water is still a scarce supply?

Beer is 95% water. Just as good!

Could actually be part of the answer. Throughout Middle Ages Europe beer was drunk (albeit at very low alcohol levels) as a substitute for polluted water, hence most villages had their own brewhouse.

it also doesn't half take the edge off a crappy day surrounded by floodwater.

In the Middle Ages being condemned to "bread and water" meant in fact a slow death sentence.

Edited November 15, 2011 by DickFarang

[dave1212]

Plenty of Beer Lao up here in Vientiane - Damned good stuff at around 30 baht for a big 'un

Yep, gettin out of BKK next week...Lao is the sensible option...bloody lovely beer!!

[cbc]

Go north my son, loads of it up here

Where ? Here in chiang mai many 7 - 11's only have small can's of leo and i was at a bar last night and he only had three small singha left , a few chang and leo.Today was downtown and people were starting to complain the bar's were running low.Tesco lotus none.Not even coke,milk,or other soft drink's.....shelves and coolers like mother hubbards cupboard.

[johan007]

Plenty of Beer Lao up here in Vientiane - Damned good stuff at around 30 baht for a big 'un

Is this the thread that never went away?

Here in Sukhumvit locale as mentioned above no beer in 7-eleven. Oh I guess there's some Leo. Local stores though have Heineken and Chang etc. Only water in supermarket was small bottles at 7 baht each.

What's up at Makro?

day before yesterday in MAKRO just about 10 boxes of big CHANG, no small beers in bottles nor in cans ..... hard times coming LOL ....there is no beer at Rawaiiiiiiiiii.... :lol:

I was just at Tesco San Sai, Chiangmai and the Linfox trucks were lined up to unload stores, there was a lot of beer being unloaded as I could see.

[Rinnam]

I think supply is back but not full on yet. For the worst, importing from neighbouring countries is an easy choice (if registration process doesn't spend too long time lol).

[Ijustwannateach]

Seems like in many stores the distribution system has really broken down; not only for beer and water but just about any bottled stuff. The only thing that's still on the shelves at the 7-11 next door is bottled tea, crab curry or seaweed shrimp tempura potato chips, and dried banana.

[KeyserSoze01]

Down to my last 5 cases of Chang.

You going to drink it or embalm yourself with it?

[mca]

Seems like in many stores the distribution system has really broken down; not only for beer and water but just about any bottled stuff. The only thing that's still on the shelves at the 7-11 next door is bottled tea, crab curry or seaweed shrimp tempura potato chips, and dried banana.

Popped into a 7 yesterday and the coolers were completely devoid of any coffee whatsoever apart from loads of that fairly new "diet" coffee. Not really a good selling point.

" Natural disaster- supplies running low - people desperate - and they still won't drink our shit "

[merlen10002]

We expect the shortage of our beer products at major retail outlets will last a month.

If the reliability of that prediction is anything like the reliability of their forecasts of when the flood waters will recede, then we'll still be short of beer at Songkran!

Wow that would be a really good thing, no beer at Songkran, maybe a few more people will live