Tried to buy some beer today but everywhere seems to be sold out. 7/11, Tesco even Macro. Only top end brands like Carlsberg/Heineken available. No Chang, Leo, Singha.

Own up who's hoarding all the beer.

Expecting a price rise soon?

Shades if the Pepsi Max crisis of awhile back.

The tax increase has made people hoard.

Expect 5 baht more / bottle now in 7/11.

same thing in Buriram

I'm staying home tonight. There'll be Falang rioting in the streets if the Bar Beers have run dry.

Oh wait, no beer, no drunk Falang? It's a chicken and egg sort of situation.

Nuh, I'll stay home.

My Thai wife tells me that her aunt's country store has beer & that the storage room behind has cases of recently purchased (before the price hike) in reserve.

The tax increase has made people hoard.

Expect 5 baht more / bottle now in 7/11.

Remeber the floods last year, beer was at a premium price, supply and demand, if the Thai's can hoard it now and get a better price in the near future then they'll do it, 5 baht x 24 = 120 per box..

Guess I'll have to make do with my stash of Coronas, Carlsbergs, Budweisers and Hoegaardens.

mom and pop store next to me is packed to the rafters with all the assorted flavours.

Guess I'll have to make do with my stash of Coronas, Carlsbergs, Budweisers and Hoegaardens.

Why would you stash Bud, run out of drain cleaner?

I am only here for the beer!

Are you trying to tell me

that the beer is not

here for

me?

BS

It's probably due to the government's beer pledging scheme, introduced after the huge success of the rice pledging scheme.

There has been an increase in the tax on beer, as well as on red and white liquor. Most middle-man suppliers are still uncertain as to how much they will be selling each product. Until the mom and pop minimarts are told what the new selling price will be, they don't want to sell their old product, bought prior to the tax increase, because they view that as losing money. When they sell older, cheaper beer at the new, higher prices, they will make much more profit per bottle. So they sit on that older product until they know the new price. It looks from where I am that Leo will sell for 50 baht per bottle, Chang at 48 baht per bottle, and Singha at 60 baht per bottle.

Where's the beer gone? The usual place.

Right after the tax increase announcement I bought the last 5 Chang Classic big bottles on the shelf at BigC Central Rd at the old price.

A few days ago I bought same at Friendship at new price : 48b.

My Thai wife tells me that her aunt's country store has beer & that the storage room behind has cases of recently purchased (before the price hike) in reserve.

Where you live?

Quit drinking, don't care!

I'm staying home tonight. There'll be Falang rioting in the streets if the Bar Beers have run dry.

Oh wait, no beer, no drunk Falang? It's a chicken and egg sort of situation.

Nuh, I'll stay home.

gonna be weird when foreigners start drinking laokao instead of beer

Quit drinking, don't care!

Never ever drank alcohol, don't care either.

perhaps the God of beer is trying to tell you something--don't drink that cheap horse piss.

If you have a Makro close to you try them our one still have plenty beer at the old price.

Guess I'll have to make do with my stash of Coronas, Carlsbergs, Budweisers and Hoegaardens.

What time shall we come round?

This tax hike is very confusing, on the 10th of this month I ordered new wine stock for my wife's shop from Siamwinery.

They do the Mont Clair range, the local rep. said I can't have it until next month and he has no idea what the price will be.

Surely large companies like this can work out the tax, or maybe the government are still unsure.

Drink whiskey ......

I noticed my local Family Mart was low last night, also people were buying as much as they could. Now I know why

Best supermarket has put up their prices already. LEO before was 46 baht a big bottle, now 54 baht. That is an 18% increase in prices!

Mine is coming over the Mekong tonight, Yea Beer Laos

Last I heard, the government had announced the tax increase and the date it is to start, but it is yet to go through parliament. (I could be wrong here.) So the problem is no one knows if the tax increase is going to happen. This would explain the confusion in the supply chain as to the cost.

If you have a Makro close to you try them our one still have plenty beer at the old price.

Makro Samui run out of beer last week.