Anybody try Costco Beer?
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There is a minum price that can be charged by law for beer in Ontario so it can be that much different than Lakeport or that other tiny brewery, whose name escapes me right now that advertises on the tele as the best cheap beer in the province.
Mind you looking for good cheap beer is like looking for deal on Folgers Coffee. If you want to drink dish water, go ahead. If you want o drink cheap beer, make ait at home. You can't beat. In under six weeks you've go enough good beer for a frat party and then some for maybe $0.50 a bottle.
Not sure why people like the idea of putting lime in beer. My understanding is that the Corona/lime tradition started in Mexico as a way of keeping the flies off the bottle. Nothing at all to do with taste.Brava!!! The beer of summerPut limes in it and pretend it's Corona!
Tried it and didn't like it and anyone i know from Brazil laugh at it. Relative to the other beers in the country it not even close to the good stuff down there.Brava!!! The beer of summer
I think you're thinking Brahma beer. Brava beer is produced by Lakeport in Canada. Brahma is the one from Brazil... I used to get them mixed up too.
Brava is cheap labatt made in Canada beer, the women like the lime and it definitely has a taste change. Brahma is the brazillian stuff that the brazillians would laugh at I believe.
I stand corrected, your absolutely right. Don't like either, so the confusion is understandable. I like MGD sometimes, but the fruit flavoured version being flogged now is meh.
I've never seen beer in a Costco store in Ontario; so, I take it you're talking about Costco stores in Quebec.
Unless this thread is about one of those 0.5% beers with a tiny amount of alcohol that can be sold at Loblaws etc.
Unless this thread is about one of those 0.5% beers with a tiny amount of alcohol that can be sold at Loblaws etc.
People in Ottawa routinely cross over into Gatineau, Quebec to get cheap beer at Costco.
The Brewer's Retail monopoly in Ontario is costing consumers a lot of money.
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/475123
Costco Kirkland Brand beer available in Quebec and U.S. Costco stores:
The Brewer's Retail monopoly in Ontario is costing consumers a lot of money.
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/475123
Costco Kirkland Brand beer available in Quebec and U.S. Costco stores:
I still haven't heard if anyone has tried it. Who makes it for Costco, Bert&Martha's Basement Brewers. I might taste like horse piss. Ofcourse it's cheap. That's why Lakeport is cheap. They make in large stronger batches and then cut it down to reach 5% or whatever. That's method is for the lower quality stuff and the best way.
So has anyone actually tried it. Maybe they'll show up a the Beer Fest in August and show it off. Nah!!
From an american articles;
A 24-bottle case of Costco's Kirkland Signature beers—oops, make that Handcrafted Lager and Ales—sells for just $19, compared with more than $35 for many top-selling brands. Each case contains four styles of beer: German Style Lager, Pale Ale, Amber Ale, and Hefeweizen, or wheat beer. (You can't buy a case of a single style.) Are they worth trying?
First, we had untrained panelists—regular Joe and Jill Sixpacks—compare each of the Costco beers with a leading competitor of the same style: Samuel Adams Boston Lager, Samuel Adams Boston Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and Paulaner Hefe-Weizen. The bottles were wrapped top to bottom in foil and duct tape so that panelists couldn't tell what brand they were drinking. Then we had two trained consultants sample each Costco beer.
Bottom line
Great price, decent beer. On average, our untrained panelists liked the Costco beers about as much as the same-style name-brand beers. (For each type, some people liked the Kirkland Signature better, some liked the brand name better, and some liked both equally.) 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."
They were up against some good brands, but the big flaw is you have to buy a variety pack. I don't think a four style party pack ever does well in Ontario.
So has anyone actually tried it. Maybe they'll show up a the Beer Fest in August and show it off. Nah!!
From an american articles;
A 24-bottle case of Costco's Kirkland Signature beers—oops, make that Handcrafted Lager and Ales—sells for just $19, compared with more than $35 for many top-selling brands. Each case contains four styles of beer: German Style Lager, Pale Ale, Amber Ale, and Hefeweizen, or wheat beer. (You can't buy a case of a single style.) Are they worth trying?
First, we had untrained panelists—regular Joe and Jill Sixpacks—compare each of the Costco beers with a leading competitor of the same style: Samuel Adams Boston Lager, Samuel Adams Boston Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and Paulaner Hefe-Weizen. The bottles were wrapped top to bottom in foil and duct tape so that panelists couldn't tell what brand they were drinking. Then we had two trained consultants sample each Costco beer.
Bottom line
Great price, decent beer. On average, our untrained panelists liked the Costco beers about as much as the same-style name-brand beers. (For each type, some people liked the Kirkland Signature better, some liked the brand name better, and some liked both equally.) 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."
They were up against some good brands, but the big flaw is you have to buy a variety pack. I don't think a four style party pack ever does well in Ontario.
When will the puritanical Government in Ontario allow beer and wine to be sold at groceriy stores?
