Pandemic brews resistance in Thai craft beer sector

Social distancing brings insurgency against beer duopoly to a head

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Festivalgoers sample craft brews at the People's Beer event near Bangkok in March. (Akira Kodaka)

MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR, Asia regional correspondent, and APORNRATH PHOONPHONGPHIPHAT, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Down a quiet street in Nonthaburi, just outside Bangkok, a Thai couple in their 30s turned the self-isolation imposed by COVID-19 social distancing rules into a cocktail of opportunity, spending their idle hours creating new craft beers.

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