How craft beer helped turn Thai politics

By closing the lid on brewing, Bangkok's elite may have unseated itself

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A customer holds a cup of a legally brewed beer at the United Peoples Brewery in Bangkok. (Photo by Papangkorn Bamrungmuang)

CRAIG SAUERS, Contributing writer

BANGKOK -- On one of the hottest days of a scorching Thai summer, Supapong Pruenglampoo stood outside in the sun. His arms covered with goose bumps, he watched hundreds of people pour into the United Peoples Brewery, a beer collective just north of Bangkok that he co-founded and quietly opened a year ago.

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