Reports of a Beer Lao shortage are flying around the Thai blogosphere with two of the brew’s main distributors warning of a few months of no supply or limited supply.

It appears that the brew’s successful but low key entry into the Thai market may have led to more demand than the brewery in Laos can handle.

Previously when Beer Lao entered into other regional markets this kind of undersupply was commonplace with expats in Cambodia watching the brew appear and disappear from bars like a cheap trick from an alcoholic magician (or sadist?).

There are no reports of this problem happening anywhere else apart from Thailand though so it may be a case of the distributors having trouble getting the beer over the border and into the country.

After all, the dominant and monopolistic Thai breweries are not known for their friendliness to competitors of any size and have used their political muscle to cause supply and distribution problems in the past.

Source: beerasia.blogspot.com/