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I would have to agree with most of you...Beer in Thailand are terrible...Singha can really turn your stomach sour, andHeinekin is brewed in Thailand and not very good. When I am in Thailand I drink Thai Whisky, which I like, but it is sweet...
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:47 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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Sauron
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Thai Beer, Leo, SuperLion, are all half assed attempts to crack into the beer market here now completely dominated by Chang.
What you must understand is that Chang is popular because it is strong and cheap, but f_ck the taste.
The brewing process is very sensitive to congeners that affect taste, and congeners increase rapidly (particularly fatty acids) when degree of alcohol is upped.
Chang was supposed to be Danish Elephant (from Carlberg) under license. Charoen is of course the Carlsberg licensee. Now Elephant is a strong beer but the Danes have the taste under control. Charoen told Carlsberg he wanted to up the degree (% alcohol by 1-2 percent MORE than Elephant. They quite correctly pointed out that the result would be a beer with a bad taste, they were perfectly correct. Charoen got out of the license deal (for Elephant only) and went aheasd with the souped up strength beer on his own -- and it has been a huge success.
This just proves that this market knows nothing about beer!
I used to drink Chang, for 5 years I drank almost nothing else. But eventually I decided the extra kick just didn't justify the shit taste, and I now don't buy Chang.
Anyone who likes the taste of Chang is welcome to it!
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 4:47 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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Sauron
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Not all Thai beers are foul. Some are very good.
Thai whiskeys on the other hand are rot gut swill make from rice and tapioca, unaged, raw, full of congeners. and good only for producing fierce hangovers and killing your liver.
The same goes for a lot of the cheap supposed scotch labels being sold here. Charoen is taking advantage of legal loopholes that allow him to blend cheap lowland scotch in minimum quantity with his Thai whiskey and call is scotch whiskey.
As he owns Inverness House in UK he controls about 150 Scotch whiskey brand names. So, don't kid yourself into thinking that 100 Pipers (for example onloy) is Scotch whiskey, it;s only in name only, can't be real at the retail price, and only the lower class Thais are fooled.
You really drink Mekong etc? Gawd, man, only thai laborers drink that stuff, it's one step up from Lao Khao and it will hurt you.
I'm in the liquor business. And I'm a chemist. Trust me, I KNOW.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:55 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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seubeu
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Sauron, thanks for all the intriguing background on the Thai alcoholic beverages industries. What are your recos for bevvies when one is visiting LOS?
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 4:57 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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Bigin
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Ooohhhh how I wish there were a better selection of those fine german bier in LOS. Sure does bring back memories of some fine keg parties in St.Leon...
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:19 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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Sauron
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Bigin, there's a German draught beer available at Fooldland etc in 5 liter kegs and sold refrigerated with a spigot kit. I had a keg of this about 5 years ago, it was good. I kept the empty for years but recently chucked it out, still have the spogot though.
Can't remember the name, but lots of Germans came through CJ while I still had the keg, and invariably all agreed that this is a GOOD beer. And who knows German beer better than the Germans?
I bet one of our German forumites can tell us which brand this is we are talking up.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:29 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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Bigin
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Oh well then it's on now, party in my room April everybody. German Keg bier party that is, but bring your own TG's lol!!! I will go and see when I get there in April...
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:35 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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seubeu
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Maybe it should be bring your own mini-keg. That's definitely one of the best tips I've got here. I hope that they still sell them. Now we just need a thread on which hotels are MK-friendly.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 5:37 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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Bigin
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Of course i'll be in the infamous Boom Boom Hotel so I bet I wont have any problems. Booked a suiete this time so there should be plenty of room c'mon les get it ooooooonnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!
P.S. bring a keg if you like also, but deffinately your own TG's
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:41 pm on Jan. 22, 2003
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