Home-brewer busted for selling his beer.
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Home-brewer busted for selling his beer.
NONTHABURI -- A fresh law graduate hoping to build a bright career with his illegal homemade beer has been arrested by Excise Department officials on his first day of business and faces jail and a hefty fine under a recently passed law.
Department officials and police raided a three-storey shophouse in tambon Bang Krasor of Muang Nonthaburi district on Saturday night after being tipped off by residents that the place was being used to sell illegal beer to local teenagers.
The team found a roll-up door on the front of the building was closed but one at the back was open. Inside they found 28-year-old Taopipob Limjittakorn selling his home-brewed beer to a group of adult and teen customers for 150 baht per glass.
The brewer said he was a serious beer lover who had just graduated from the law faculty of an established university. He had bought equipment and tried to brew beer to his own recipe. He spent months fine-tuning it until he got good feedback from university friends and acquaintances.
“I decide to market test selling the beer at 150 baht per glass, but on the first day I was arrested,” Mr Taopipob said.
The maximum penalty for home brewing under the 1950 Liquor Act used to be 200 baht for making it and 5,000 baht for selling it. But a new law passed under the National Legislative Assembly last month raised the maximum penalty for illegal production to 100,000 baht or a prison sentence of six months, or both. The maximum fine for selling illegal beer was raised to 50,000 baht.
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Department officials and police raided a three-storey shophouse in tambon Bang Krasor of Muang Nonthaburi district on Saturday night after being tipped off by residents that the place was being used to sell illegal beer to local teenagers.
The team found a roll-up door on the front of the building was closed but one at the back was open. Inside they found 28-year-old Taopipob Limjittakorn selling his home-brewed beer to a group of adult and teen customers for 150 baht per glass.
The brewer said he was a serious beer lover who had just graduated from the law faculty of an established university. He had bought equipment and tried to brew beer to his own recipe. He spent months fine-tuning it until he got good feedback from university friends and acquaintances.
“I decide to market test selling the beer at 150 baht per glass, but on the first day I was arrested,” Mr Taopipob said.
The maximum penalty for home brewing under the 1950 Liquor Act used to be 200 baht for making it and 5,000 baht for selling it. But a new law passed under the National Legislative Assembly last month raised the maximum penalty for illegal production to 100,000 baht or a prison sentence of six months, or both. The maximum fine for selling illegal beer was raised to 50,000 baht.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/1 ... faces-jail
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Re: Home-brewer busted for selling his beer.
150 baht per glass, has to one hell of a brew.
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Re: Home-brewer busted for selling his beer.
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Good value for only 150 baht
Good value for only 150 baht
Re: Home-brewer busted for selling his beer.
This is the same nation that forces its own citizens who brew and want to retail their beer (some very fine brews, too) to export their product and re-import it, during which they must pay the two heavy tariffs on beer imports. It then becomes 250-400 baht a pint. Can you say CARTEL? A travesty.
Re: Home-brewer busted for selling his beer.
now that's what I call a glass.Username Taken wrote:.
Good value for only 150 baht
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