Beer in Thailand

Boon Rawd Brewery also sold a global brand called Mittweida, but this was replaced by a beer brewed in partnership with InBev, Kloster.

Foreign beers are not very popular in Thailand, mainly because the government protects its domestic breweries by the imposition of import duties up to 60 percent.

it grew due to innovation amongst Thai beer companies such as Singha, Chang, and others in an attempt to attract new customers.

[citation needed] Thailand has two big companies: Boon Rawd Brewery and Thai Beverages, with the following turnovers.

[6] The finance ministry in 2000 ruled that, for either type of producer to be legal, they must be a limited company with capital of at least 10 million baht.

A new law passed by the National Legislative Assembly in December 2016 raised the maximum penalty for illegal production to 100,000 baht or a prison sentence of six months, or both.

Various brands of Thailand's craft beer
Label on a bottle of the well-known Thai craft beer Phuket says that it, indeed, was brewed in Vietnam , mostly due to strict laws on breweries