Thai brewing: Rebel microbreweries thirst for change in the law

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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)The droning buzz saw of a motorized longtail boat travelling up Chao Phraya River drowns our discussion, so Wichit Saiklao stops mid-sentence, smiles, and raises a glass of his homebrewed weizen, a crisp, golden-hued ale that decreases simple on pleasant afternoons like this one.

From Bangkok I've taken a train, then a bus, then a ferryboat, then a motorcycle taxi to reach Koh Kret, a little island situated about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Thailand's capital city in Nonthaburi province.

It's where Saiklao-- good friends call him P'Chit-- established Chit Beer , his al fresco, riverside microbrewery and the de facto home of a growing resistance to enduring laws restricting Thai individuals from developing and dispersing their own beer.

As laid out in the nation's 1950 Liquors Act, those captured doing so deal with a small fine of 200 baht (about $5.50) for developing, and another 5,000 baht ($140) and/or 6 months in prison for offering it.

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