BANGKOK, Nov 2 (TNA) – New regulations of the Finance Ministry which took effect today allowed people to make alcoholic beverages for own consumption but the household production capacity is capped at 200 liters per year.
According to the new ministerial regulations, people aged 20 years and over and juristic persons can apply for a license to make alcoholic beverages for their own consumption, not for sale or barter. However, the production capacity is limited at 200 liters per year and such producers must send the samples of their alcoholic beverages to the Excise Department for quality checks.
In addition, each community-based distillery is permitted to use machinery with 5-50 horsepower and up to 50 workers. The capacity was capped at five-horsepower machinery and seven workers.
Moreover, compulsory minimum production capacities and registered capital were lifted for breweries. The mandatory capacities were set at 100,000 liters per year for brewpubs and 10 million liters per year for large-scale breweries. (TNA)
