Thread: Drink stall operator busted for selling beer popsicles in Lumpini night market

A seller makes a drink at the Neon Fest Bkk night market in Lumpini Square. (Photo by Nattapol Lovakij)

A drink stall is facing prosecution for selling beer popsicles at a city night market following an inspection by authorities that found more than a dozen businesses breaking alcohol laws.

The Office of the Alcohol Control Committee said it was seeking criminal charges against a stall owner at the Neon Fest Bkk night market in Lumpini Square for selling the beer popsicles to customers.

The law prohibits the sale of the popsicles as authorities could not be certain whether the beer used to make them was legally produced or obtained.....

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National Boozebuster Notifies Thailand Pre-Mixed Cocktails are Illegal

After going dark for some months, the nation’s top alcohol regulator is back with more bad news.

Lao pan, those ubiquitous iced cocktail jugs sold at every festival and night market in Thailand? Illegal since 1950, Samarn Futrakul, the renowned prohibitionist who heads the alcohol control board, pointed out to reporters Sunday.

Samarn made the comment two days after he led a raid Friday on a night fair near Lumpini Park, in which officials busted cocktail stands and confiscated a number of alcoholic beverages said to violate the law, namely beer popsicles.

According to Samarn, the 1950 law specifically bans vendors from mixing large batches of alcohol to be sold in cups to customers. The law also outlaws giving out samples of cocktails to passers-by, he said.

Under Section 23 of the Liquor Act, no one is allowed to mix alcohol with other substances put it in a different container “unless the customer specifically requests the alteration of the liquor for immediate consumption.”

Because of that passage, Samarn warned, vendors are not allowed to prepare cocktails in large quantities, and they can only mix cocktails in small portions for customers who specifically order them, Samarn said.

He gave no indication whether he would next go after the tanks of mojitos and other pre-mixed cocktails commonly found in places which sell alcohol.

In the raid at the former site of the Suan Lum Night Bazaar, officials arrested vendors selling beer popsicles, which Samarn determined were an “alteration” of alcohol and therefore an offense under the 1950 law. The vendors face fines for these violations, he said.

The raid signaled Samarn’s return to the spotlight four months after he was chided for going too far with an overzealous campaign targeting increasingly mainstream activities, such as open-air beer gardens popular during the cool season (Illegal, he ruled).....

National Boozebuster Notifies Thailand Pre-Mixed Cocktails are Illegal

popsicles

please....

They are called lollipops (or icepoles if they are encased in a plastic tube.)

It sounds a good idea, though beer is always best served cool, not teeth jarring cold,

There's indeed an issue about the composition of such pre-mixed drinks, it's not simply a matter of how much alcohol, but as we all know, sellers always try to maximise their profit so who knows which substances may be used to replace part of the alcohol of the recipe (poor quality, alcohol not made for drinking, medicine, chemicals products that smells/tastes like alcohol for a part of its price ...)

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

In the raid at the former site of the Suan Lum Night Bazaar. l

First time I have heard of the Lumpini night Bazzar and I live a fart away from it.

I'm off to check it out.

Originally Posted by terry57

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

In the raid at the former site of the Suan Lum Night Bazaar. l

First time I have heard of the Lumpini night Bazzar and I live a fart away from it.

I'm off to check it out.

Our TD roving reporter on the scene shall report back with the mother of all hangovers

Why would you freeze beer? The alcohol would separate out, as it has a lower freezing point, leaving you with a 0% strength beer flavor ice lolly.

for the same reason kids eat them - to make their tongues and lips multicoloured ?

Australians like cold beer, Brits like warm beer, Thais like ice in beer.