AtlasThailand3 on record

Thailand

Southeast Asia

Thai brewing was protected for decades by licensing thresholds so high that only large producers could meet them, which is why a country of this size had so few breweries for so long.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1933

PlateThailand1 town

Fig. 2. Circle area is beers on record for that town. Labels appear as room allows, so zooming in reveals towns rather than enlarging them. Only towns whose coordinates could be sourced are drawn, so an unmarked town means a missing coordinate rather than a town without beer. Tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Towns as a table1

Towns in Thailand with beers on record
Town	Beers
Bangkok	3

The colour of these beersSRM 5–5 · median 5

Styles here

Pale Lager3

On the recordcounted from 3 beers

The record here

Breweries3
Towns1
Styles1

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Boon Rawd Brewery, 1933.

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is only as deep as its sources: 74% of everything it holds is American or Dutch, because that is what the bulk import reached, not because that is where beer is. So the styles most often recorded in Thailand are not necessarily the ones most often brewed there, and a country with few beers here has a thin record rather than a thin brewing scene.

3 beers

Phuket Lager

Bangkok, Thailand