Beers Brewed in Thailand

Thailand has a long tradition of brewing, with the first beer brewed in 1933. Thai beers compare well with some of the world's most popular lager beers. Recently, several Thai beers have won top honours at international beer festivals.

Thailand has a wide range of locally brewed beers. Some of them like Singha, Chang, and Phuket lager are uniquely Thai. Some are brewed under licence like Heineken and Tiger. The beers brewed in Thailand are mainly lager beers, that is largely because of the climate, with noon day temperatures often around 30 degrees Celsius. The relentless heat makes a lager a great thirst quencher.

Thailand has two major brewing companies, Boon Rawd and ThaiBev, plus two foreign controlled brewers, Asia Pacific (Singapore) brewers of Tiger beer and San Miguel Breweries who have a major share of the Philippines beer market.

Boon Rawd produces Singha, Leo and Thai Beer. Singha is Thailand's oldest beer, and until recently Thailand's most popular beer. Singha has a dry taste, with a slightly bitter after taste. Leo is more malty, with a slightly sweeter after taste. Thai Beer, a malt liquor, has a sweet taste and a slightly hoppy, sweet after taste.

ThaiBev produces Chang, Archa and Federbrau. Chang is quite different from Singha, its main rival. It has a more full bodied malty taste, with a slightly dry, slightly bitter after taste. A nice, well balanced beer, but less refreshing on a hot day than some of the lighter beers. It has a lower price and higher alcohol content (6.4%). Chang is now the most popular beer in Thailand. It's popularity due, at least in part to its sponsorship of Everton football team.

ThaiBev also produces Archa, a lighter bodied, lower priced beer. ThaiBev recently introduced a new brand Federbrau. It is one of only two Thai beers to be brewed under the German Brewing laws. ThaiBev has gone to great lengths to disguise the beer's origins, and create an image of a beer of German origin. The label does not mention ThaiBev, only mentioning the Cosmos Brewery where it is brewed. It is intended to compete directly with Heineken, in the premium beer category. It is a light tasting, German style beer.

Thai Asia Pacific, was formed in 1993 by Asia Pacific (Singapore) to brew Heineken under licence in Thailand. The company also brews the popular Tiger Beer under licence and recently launched a new beer for the Thai market, Cheers. It's a lighter beer, that has won some awards including the Monde Selection gold medal for full taste and high quality. The beer has received mixed reviews in Thailand.

San Miguel Breweries produce a range of lager beers. In particular, San Miguel Light has become popular in Thailand. It is light in taste and low in calories, although it is 5% alcohol. It has become the beer of choice among Thai women drinkers, with the promise of fewer calories!

Phuket Lager Beer is made by an independent Thai brewer, Tropical Beverage Company. It is produced with premium ingredients including German hops, and is an all-natural beer with no additive or preservatives. Phuket Lager received the first gold medal ever for a beer from Thailand, at the 2006 Monde Selection Awards. Phuket Lager has a malty, sweet, smooth taste, with a nutty after taste. It is brewed at the San Miguel Brewery under the supervision of Tropical Beverage Company.

There's a good selection of Thai brewed beers available to suit all tastes. You'll find them in supermarkets and 7/11 corner stores. Just remember the licensing hours in Thailand: alcohol sales are permitted between 11:00 and 14:00 (2pm) and from 17:00 (5pm) to midnight. The supermarkets abide by the rules, but you might find a corner store that will forget to check the time!

For more on beers available in Thailand, including imported beers and the results of a taste test of Thai brewed beers, check out my website at http://www.pattaya-discover.com/beer-in-pattaya.html.

Rick Gilmore has lived in Pattaya for the last 5 years.
Rick is a keen reporter on events in Thailand.
His particular interest is understanding Thai culture and how that impacts relationships between Thais and westerners. Rick can read and write the Thai language and is currently developing fluency in speaking Thai.

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Labeling and Consuming Your Home Brewed Beer

Brewing your own beer at home is a pastime which is gaining popularity at a rapid pace throughout the world today. If you were curious as to the ingredients which make up the favorite beers that you consume, brewing your own beer from home will give you all that information and more.

There are absolutely no harsh chemicals utilized in brewing beer from home, and all the natural ingredients are very easy for you to locate and purchase online as well as offline in order to brew your own beer. You can utilize virtually any basic beer brewing recipe and alter the process to adjust the resulting flavor and taste of the beer you brew - customized, brewed beer from home to suit your particular taste.

After perfecting the process of making your own beer, you will undoubtedly create a beer flavor that you can truly enjoy along with family and friends. All of us possess our own unique and personal taste preferences, and as you alter, adjust, and tweak the variety of available recipes, it is possible to brew a beer that is perfect for your taste. The amount of alcohol content can even be customized in home brewed beer, by changing the length of time you allow your home brewed beer to ferment and to 'transform' itself once you have added the proper amount of yeast to the mixture.

To begin your trek in brewing beer from home, it is highly recommended, if not absolutely necessary, that you purchase a home beer brewing kit as well as a home brewing guide. Once you have a good home beer brewing kit and home brewing guide, learning how all the professional home brewers make beer will become natural to you. Gradually, more tips and tricks for making your own beer will come to fruition, so that the beer you brew at home will be infinitely better from the get go.

Inevitably, you will discover that you prefer a particular type of beer to the degree that you may want to specialize in making your own beer all the time in your favorite, preferred category. This will also leave you with a dilemma in which you will need to make labels for your beer to denote one type of beer from the other. Also on the label, you will want to indicate the exact date you brewed the beer. The labels you buy and ultimately make for your cans, bottles or other beer containers - perhaps barrels - are going to be very important to your new found, enjoyable hobby.

Simple labels, such as those that you generally use for mailing letters that have a self-adhesive reverse, are great for making these notations on your first couple of batches of home brewed beer. As you continue and develop in brewing your own beer at home, paper labels are definitely going to work better, as you begin to put your home brewed beer in bottles, actually using caps to keep them air tight and prevent them from going flat. Putting labels on the bottles or containers before pouring the home brewed beer into them, as well as before you store them away, will obviously help you remember which beer you would like to consume first.

Brewing your own beer from home a worldwide phenomenon. As long as the earth is wide, a good majority of people are beginning to brew their own beer from home for a variety of reasons.

In making your own beer, you create the drink that your family and friends enjoy. Being able to master this talent is will take a little degree of effort, patience, and determination - but, continue in making batches of home brewed beer for your friends, as they continually drink it every time they visit your home!

Robert Ragsdale has been brewing his own beer and making his own wine from home for the last 12+ years.

For more home brewing tips, visit his blog for free online resources, videos, guides, kits and great beer recipes at [http://www.easybrewing.info]

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Home Brewed Beer - A Great Hobby

With the continuing rise in the price of beer, many people are turning to home beer brewing to save costs on one of their favorite beverages. When you consider that making beer at home could work out to costing you one dollar for each bottle of home brew you make, I'll let you figure out how much you can save versus going to your local beer retailer for a case of 24. There are definitely some monetary advantages to making beer at home. But there are definitely some other advantages as well and we will talk about some of those advantages in this article as you follow along.

When you first start making home brewed beer you usually buy a kit that contains all of the ingredients required to make a batch of beer. You get the malt, the fermentable sugar, the water and the yeast and you simply poured it all into a pail and wait for the processes to finish. Now, the product is probably not going to be the best beer you've ever tasted but it definitely is going to give you your start and that is the important aspect of all. Because once you begin to understand how beer is made you can then move on to experiment with various beer recipes and different ingredients. And that is probably the largest change to the home beer brewing hobby in the last decade. The simple fact that you can now get much better access and individual choice beyond the basic beer kits when it comes to the necessary ingredients of malt, hops, barley and yeast. That fact alone has drawn a whole lot more people into the hobby of making beer at home. And home beer makers are no longer limited by the water [a main ingredient of beer ] that comes out of your tap either. Nowadays you can find a large variety of bottled and distilled water that can make a great deal of difference in the resulting taste of your home brewed beer. You can now experiment to your hearts content with that one basic ingredient to get that exact beer taste you so desire.

Another great advantage to brewing your own beer at home comes in the form of much better beer recipes that have been developed over the past 10 years. The hobby has reached entirely new heights and you now have access to a wide variety of delicious, exotic beer recipes to try out. Some websites today have between 1000 and 2000 different home brewed beer recipes that you can try. And the important thing is, whether you are looking for an Alpine IPA, a Geordie Brown Ale or a Highlander Ale, these recipes are free! They list the ingredients, the time to ferment as well as the procedures to follow in making the beer. You no longer have to travel to a foreign country to get a beer you once experienced, all you have to do is come up with the recipe, the ingredients and you make it all at home. That alone is a compelling reason to get into home brewing your own beer, the fact you are no longer limited by the selection in your local beer store. You can travel the world through the use of the Internet to find an old beer you savored and or new beer you just can't wait to try!

As you can see, there are a number of great advantages to making your own beer at home. And while cost can be a major factor, a true beer lover is really looking for that unique taste in a beer that often only home beer brewing can give you. You can get started in this hobby today by simply visiting your local home brewing supplier or by visiting our website online. Either way, you are started on a unique journey in home beer brewing. Happy beer tasting my friend!

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