Is Kirkland the Best Store Brand Beer?

Kirkland Helles Lager 12-pack pic by Rad Stacey

We have been talking regularly on the Perfect Pour about Costco’s store brand beer Kirkland. Joking about it mostly, but it’s also making me want to try it.

Especially since I am told that the fine Oregon brewer, Deschutes, makes it.

I am not a member of Costco, and it’s a member-only kind of place. But there is an alcohol loophole.

Costco can’t put alcohol exclusively behind the membership-only wall. So I/you as a non-member can go in and buy some Kirkland beer and whatever else ones they have.

So now I have to drag my ass down there and get some.

But the thing is, one of the reasons I don’t have a Costco card is I hate going in there. It’s so damn busy and I am like “I am paying Costco money to deal with a jammed parking lot, five people deep lines, and a warehouse shopping experience? Eat it!”

So yeah, I probably won’t be trying it. Too busy or too lazy, take your pick.

Maybe you have had some Kirkland beers, let me know what you think, it might get me in there.

Thank you for opening. Hope you have a great week with your beers and I hope your beer geek shopping goes well this season.

-Mikey

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