Thai Beer

Brewed by Boon Rawd Brewery
Style: Malt Liquor
Bangkok, Thailand

After samply various Thai beers whilst sitting on a beach in Thailand, you appreciate the requirement for a cold beer, not too gassy, one with soft flavours and one that you can drink all day in a humid climate. This is my pick from what I sampled, and at about 30Baht for a long neck, a bargain.

(Bottle 63 cl) No surprise, this is a strong, golden lager. Quite hoppy but the alcohol is a bit too predominant for my liking. 161103

(note: the picture given here is incorrect. This is not Singha) "Thai Beer" in a can, flown directly from Thailand, just for me. Hooray! Served extra-cold, as instructed. Bright yellow color, clear, with negligible head, soon departed. Aroma, sweet, almost corny, but not exactly...not bad. Taste is sweet as well, extra-malty, and inoffensive. Almost creamy. But increasingly cloying. Very light in body, with a lightly buttery finish. By and by, it tastes like drinking a boozed up Jolly Rancher. Before too long, the alcoholic content is creeping into the bloodstream, doing it’s business. When I’ve fallen to my depths of desperation, and you find me by chance in some Bangkok alley, this would be the beast in my brown-paper bag.

Can bought in Thailand. A dark yellow with a musty aroma with hints of fruit. A little tangy. My beer said it was brewed by the Pathumthani Brewery which is really Boon Rawd.

(Can) Mild, slightly pungent aroma of fruits, malt and maize (corn). Huge, a bit creamy, white, slightly lasting head with good lacing. Pale yellow colour and clear (some very tiny particles). Fruity and malty flavour. Metallic, softly carbonated, slightly alcoholic and light to medium-bodied palate. 30/12/06

Canned. Clear yellow coloured with a small off white head. Aroma of malts, corn and alcohol. Sweet flavour of malts, corn and hops.

Can. Pours a clear golden colour with a medium rather short lasting white head. Grainy bit sweet aroma with corn. Sweetish grainy and bit maltish flavour with a bitterish grainy finish. Served cold.

33 cL can. Pours clear yellow with a huge white head. Sweet cereal aroma. Quite sweet flavour, not cloyingly sweet but just more than average. Has a minor artificial note. No real bitterness nor malt flavour. Mild finish. Strange brew, not in anyway offensive though.