Thai beer catalogue

Bang Na brewpub with its own kit since 2023. Same owners later opened Eight Days a Week in Ari. Drink it there.

12° Plato Brewing, Bang Na

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ThaiBev’s value lager. Functional, widely stacked, not a tasting note.

ThaiBev

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The Japanese dry lager that shows up in Tops, Villa, and a lot of Japanese restaurants. Silver can, karakuchi on the rim.

Asahi (imported / local contract)

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Hazy IPAs with a local following. No flashy taproom of their own; Haze in Chinatown is the usual home bar.

Baan Bangkok

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The Lao lager you drink the moment you are near the Mekong — and increasingly in Bangkok import fridges. Rice in the mash; gold foil neck.

Lao Brewery

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American adjunct lager in Villa and some Big C import doors. Not what the ice bucket is for.

AB InBev (imported)

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Green label, common on hotel lists and in mixed supermarket import bays. Probably not in the 7-Eleven by the soi.

Carlsberg (imported / regional)

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Green elephant. Cleaner and a touch sweeter than Singha. Was 6.4% until 2014. Still the ice-bucket default in a lot of tourist bars.

ThaiBev

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TAPB’s value lager, often the cheapest can in a 7-Eleven door next to Leo. Not a tasting-room beer.

Thai Asia Pacific Brewery

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Koh Kret pilgrimage tap and Chit Holes in the city. The name most people use when they explain how Thai craft started. Ask at the room, not the 7-Eleven.

ChitBeer (Wichit Saiklao)

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Clear bottle, lime theatre. Beach bars and Villa coolers. Priced as an import; the lime is not included.

Grupo Modelo (imported)

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Brothers’ project: hop-forward beer, Thai honey mead, and sato treated as a serious drink. Tasting room outside the city. Current packaging lives on their site.

Devanom, Nonthaburi

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Boon Rawd’s extra mass-market line. Same shop-hour rules as Singha; look for the blue-silver cans.

Boon Rawd Brewery

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Spanish lager that has colonised a lot of Bangkok tap lists and Villa doors. Not a 7-Eleven default.

Hijos de Rivera (imported)

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ThaiBev’s Reinheitsgebot-marketed lager. Easier to find in a mall cooler than at a plastic table.

ThaiBev

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Draught-can stout in Villa and some Tops. Heavy for April; a monsoon-evening beer. Widget cans, not a tap, in most shops.

Diageo (imported)

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The import most 7-Elevens actually stock. Priced above Leo. Green can, same shop-hour rules. Brewed in Thailand.

Thai Asia Pacific Brewery

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Belgian wheat that Thai restaurants actually stock. Cloudy, coriander, a slice of orange if the bar is trying.

AB InBev (imported)

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TAPB’s stronger German-styled lager. Green bottle, higher ABV than Leo, still a chain-fridge beer.

Thai Asia Pacific Brewery

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Boon Rawd’s volume brand. Leopard, lighter than Singha, usually the cheapest of the Big Three. What most 7-Eleven fridges actually sell through.

Boon Rawd Brewery

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Thai Myth art cans and a Music series (pilsner / NEIPA / fruit wit). The supermarket cousin of the scene: a Thai can that is not Leo.

Mardi Craft (TSI house brand)

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Island brand with national distribution. A sideways step from the Big Three, not a Bangkok taproom beer. Full Moon Brewworks beers are now produced with Singha and show up in supermarkets.

Phuket Beer / Full Moon (Singha production)

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Mango sticky rice is the can tourists photograph. Founder Chote is a festival regular. Easier to find in a fridge than Chit.

Samata Brewing

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The Filipino pilsner in mixed-import coolers and some Filipino restaurants. Brown bottle, gold label.

San Miguel (imported)

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Thailand’s original industrial beer (1933). Full-bodied, slightly bitter. Pronounced “sing”, gold label. The bottle you are handed when someone is trying to be polite.

Boon Rawd Brewery

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Lower-alcohol Singha. Same fridge, same gold family, less of a session headache in April heat.

Boon Rawd Brewery

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Chiang Mai taproom that tourists actually find. Cans show up at festivals and some northern fridges. Drink it there if you can.

Stone Head Craft Beer, Chiang Mai

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Tao Limjittrakorn: former illegal-homebrew defendant, now a legal producer and MP. Cans via TSI. Ask at craft rooms, not the ice bucket.

Taopiphop Ale Project (TSI)

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Bangkok’s long-running German brewpub on Rama III. House lager and weizen on tap with a show. Not a can in 7-Eleven.

Tawandang German Brewery

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Singapore-born lager, brewed here by TAPB. Blue can, common in 7-Eleven next to Heineken. A safe ask when Leo is all that is left in the bucket.

Thai Asia Pacific Brewery

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Among the easiest Thai craft cans to actually find. Head brewer Ben Chalach; lots of collabs. Look in Villa and some Tops coolers.

Vana Brewing (contract, TSI)

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