The Kirkland Signature Whole Wheel Parmigiano Reggiano can be yours for $949.99 or $13.99 per pound (up fifty bucks from 2019, when it was $899.99, or $12.50 a pound). We know, it seems a little crazy to buy a thousand dollars worth of cheese. High marks also go to Kirkland Signature’s Canadian Whiskey (some speculate it’s bottled by Crown Royal, Also topping lists are Kirkland Signature’s Single Malt Scotch Whiskey (bottled by Alexander Murray), Kirkland Signature’s Small Batch Bourbon (from George Dickel’s distillery) and Kirkland Signature’s pre-mixed bottled margaritas (possibly from the maker of UNO MAS Margarita). Oh, there’s much more in spirits in the Costco liquor stores. Kirkland’s vodka ranks up there with my fav, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and it costs less. Not that I’m so into vodka, but I do know good from bad. I first stumbled upon Kirkland Signature Vodka while shopping at a Costco on Florida’s Gulf Coast. But where states give the green light to Costco selling liquor, its Kirkland Signature Vodka is a hands-down winner, according to spirits experts. Costco isn’t allowed to sell liquor in all of its stores many states limit the warehouse club to beer and wine (and some can’t even sell that). Wine snobs are already familiar with Kirkland Signature wines (more on those later), but spirits snobs might still be in the dark about Costco’s store-brand booze. Oh, and the name? It comes from the city in Washington state where the company is headquartered. On some Kirkland Signature products, don’t be surprised to see the name-brand manufacturer’s name co-branded with the Kirkland Signature, including Stearns & Foster on a Kirkland Signature by Stearns and Foster mattress (starting at $1,049.99), nationally known Ocean Spray on the Kirkland Signature Cranberry Premium juice, and aluminum foil giant Reynolds on boxes of Kirkland Signature aluminum foil. The Kirkland Signature products are often found next to the national brands on Costco’s shelves, with the Kirkland products 20% less. Many, if not all, are manufactured by top national and regional companies, including Duracell, which makes Kirkland Signature batteries, one of our recommendations. Our consultants said that although the brand-name beers were more flavorful, clean-tasting, and complex, the Costco beers were quite quaffable and, to use the consultants’ technical term, “party-worthy.Those products helped pad Costco’s net income of more than $1 billion in 2021 from more than 111 million members shopping at 828 stores worldwide – and spending $60 to $120 (for now) for annual memberships (we expect that Costco will follow Amazon Prime in raising the cost of membership).Ĭostco has continually expanded its array of Kirkland Signature products, with the distinctive black, red and white design, currently numbering more than 350 individual items, from batteries and bacon to maple syrup and motor oil. On average, our untrained panelists liked the Costco beers about as much as the same-style name-brand beers. They are also known for their Saranac line of beers.Ĭonsumer Reports reviewed the beer in August 2010 and said: The brewer is better known as Matt Brewing Company (Wikipedia page), the fourth oldest family-owned brewery in the United States.
Best known in some areas for their line of restaurants (good garlic fries), they also make beer for Trader Joe’s. The brewer is better known as Gordon Biersch (Wikipedia page ). Hopfen und Malz Brewing Company in San Jose, CA Some quick online research turns up both of them: There are two contract breweries, one on each coast. Also, they follow the German beer purity law of Reinheitsgebot where the only ingredients allows are water, barley, and hops, and yeast.
They only say that they meet the criteria of the Brewer’s Assocation that they be small (less than 2 million barrels a year), independent (less than 25% owned by some big corporation), and traditional. I’ve tried a few of them, and they seemed fine to drink, but it was interesting that the article kept skirting around who actually brews the beers for them. At $19.99 for 24 bottles (12 oz.), that is about 1/3rd cheaper than most brand-name ales. I was reading my monthly Costco Connection magazine and saw that they had an article about their in-house Kirkland Signature line of craft beers.
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