What to drink instead of Singha
Singha is sold as Thai and brewed in Britain, at Faversham, Kent, at 4.8%. If you were buying it for a Thai lager, these are the beers on the same shelves that are brewed in the country on their label, or are British and say so, within a point of its strength.
Where Singha is really brewed, with the pack wording and the sources.
From the country on the label
- Chang ClassicImported from Thailand · 5.0% · sold as ThaiGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Cosmos Brewery Co., Ltd, Ayutthaya in Thailand. 5.0% here, the same as at home.
The same style, genuinely imported from elsewhere
- Sapporo Premium BeerImported from Japan · 5.0% · sold as JapaneseGenuine import Verified
Brewed in Japan. 5.0% here.
- Tsingtao Premium LagerImported from China · 4.7% · sold as ChineseGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Qingdao, Shandong in China. 4.7% here.
- Budweiser Budvar OriginalImported from Czech Republic · 5.0% · sold as CzechGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic. 5.0% here, the same as at home.
- Peroni Nastro AzzurroImported from Italy · 5.1% · sold as ItalianGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Rome, Padua and Bari in Italy. 5.1% here, the same as at home.
- Pilsner UrquellImported from Czech Republic · 4.4% · sold as CzechGenuine import Verified
Brewed at Plzen in the Czech Republic. 4.4% here, the same as at home.
How this list is made. Nobody here has tasted these side by side, and no beer pays to appear. A beer is listed when the record says it is the same kind of beer, is either imported from the country on its label or British and sold as British, is not itself brewed under licence in Britain, has at least one source we trust, and sits within a point of the strength of Singha. Beers from the country on the label come first, then the same style from elsewhere, then British beers. Where an import is weaker in Britain than at home, the card says so.
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