Chang Beer Draught and Red Horse beer

Tried Chang Beer Draught - it has all the virtues of Beer Chang (cheap, tasty) but none of the differences to American (too sweet).  Very pleasant session beer.  It's basically like drinking American beer in Thailand.

Reading up on wikipedia, Chang Draught is a full malt beer with no rice in its fermentable sugars - this makes it 5% abv instead of 6.4% abv.  So you give up kick for familiarity, if you're American.  Also, since Thai beer is typically drank with ice (and spend a few minutes in the Thai climate to understand why) the Beer Chang sweetness doesn't matter so much.  

Conclusion: both Beer Chang and Beer Chang Draught are very pleasant beers.  In the Thai heat they're a great fit.  And at 33 baht or so for a double bottle (two American size bottles) they're a great value compared to ~50 baht a double bottle for Singha, Tiger, Asahsi, or Heineken.

Red Horse was also a cheap double bottle, but as the light local version of San Miguel (from Philippines), it doesn't really qualify as local per se.  At 7% ABV, it rates with the local brew.  There is nothing in particular to distinguish it.  Not bad, not great, just beer.  I'll stick to the local brews.