Where can I find locally made Thai craft beer?!?!
This is the question asked while enjoying a nice night out in Bangkok while having a couple glasses of imported craft beer at Hair of the Dog, in Phloen Chit. While there are bars that excel and specialize in offering imported craft beer, some beer lovers need some help to find the locally made brews.
So we checked in with Craig Sauers of Critical Drinking, and if we could go back and show our fellow beer pilgrim this post, we made a list with links.
TL;DR: finding thai craft beer in Bangkok:
- Eight Days a Week (Ari / Saphan Kwai),
- Haze (Chinatown),
- the Fat Cow (Ladprao),
- Jaang Warehouse Bar (uhh… Phloen Chit?),
- The two Chit locations are all good bets
Where would you recommend for someone in Phloen Chit looking for local Thai craft beer?
.Jaang Warehouse Bar (pictured) just off Soi Polo – across the road from Lumpini Park – is like Chit Beer on land. It’s a good spot, albeit in an odd location, and it always has unique Thai-made beers on tap.
Don’t miss the Fat Cow Lat Phrao. Manuel, the owner (NOT pictured), has his finger on the pulse of the Thai beer scene. You’ll find loads of fresh Thai-made beers here, including Maalstroom, which might be the best homebrewed beer in the country. (I highly recommend a trip to Chiang Dao to visit their bar, Mikrokosmos, if you haven’t been yet.)
Chit Hole and Chit Beer are solid options, but for better and more accessible beer, I’d say Eight Days a Week and Haze.
Eight Days is one of my favorite places, because Bo, the owner, is so awesome. And his beer is always legit – he has high standards.
And obviously Puma and Baan Bangkok (the Haze guys in Chinatown) make awesome IPAs and sour beers.
Underdog Microbrewery is also pretty easy to reach
But you can also get Brewing Project beers at Duke of Beerington and sometimes Hair of the Dog, too.
Beervana just doesn’t have its own bar yet, so you have to go to others to get the beer they produce.
