{"id":42155,"date":"2022-03-04T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/04\/bangkoks-illicit-craft-brewers-risk-arrest-under-draconian-laws"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T05:00:28","slug":"bangkoks-illicit-craft-brewers-risk-arrest-under-draconian-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42155","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok\u2019s illicit craft brewers risk arrest under draconian laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big brewers maintain monopoly as smaller operations incur huge fines for even sharing photos of their beer<\/p>\n<p>Naamcial\u2019s craft beers often have distinctly Thai flavours, as he experiments with the country\u2019s native produce, boiling the pulp of jackfruit and mango to mix into different creations. Yet his homemade products are forbidden in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to the Guardian under a pseudonym, Naamcial says he would like to operate a legal brewery, but Thailand\u2019s laws around alcohol production make this ambition almost impossible for newcomers. Current laws restrict brewing licences to manufacturers that have capital of 10 million baht (\u00a3230,000), while brewpubs must produce at least 100,000 litres a year and only serve their beer on their premises. The legislation effectively blocks new, small breweries from opening, and tips the market firmly in favour of two powerful companies \u2013 Thai Beverage, which produces Chang beer, and Boon Rawd Brewery, which produces Singha and Leo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/04\/bangkoks-illicit-craft-brewers-risk-arrest-under-draconian-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big brewers maintain monopoly as smaller operations incur huge fines for even sharing photos of their beerNaamcial\u2019s craft beers often have distinctly Thai flavours, as he experiments with the country\u2019s native produce, boiling the pulp of jackfruit and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1016,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-beer","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42156,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42155\/revisions\/42156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}