The Kirkland beers are contract brewed by one of two different breweries that are somewhat obscured – East Coast beers come from New Yorker Brewing out of Utica, NY. Now for a little more background on the brewing: It’s also a really great way to get people trying new stuff. You won’t beat that price anywhere for the quality of beers you get. The total cost is around $18.99 or about 79 cents per bottle and there’s a six pack inside of each kind of beer. Overall – it’s an excellent value of a 24 pack. We’ve officially reviewed all 4 beers and have added links to the beer names above. My gut tells me the premium craft brands may feel the pinch more because they run smaller batches and would tend to feel any shifts in consumer demand more than a large company like AB, who has the revenues to more easily absorb it and can create more of their own craft brews to help combat it. Busch) or the more premium craft brands (i.e. The main question asked is who will it affect most? The sub-premium mass market brands (i.e. Gordon Biersch, the same company that brews private-label beers for Trader Joe’s, will do the brewing. Kirkland Signature German Lager Handcrafted Beer.Kirkland Signature Pale Ale Handcrafted Beer.

Kirkland Signature Amber Ale Handcrafted Beer.Kirkland Signature Hefeweizen Handcrafted Beer.The Kirkland name comes from the fact that their corporate headquarters used to be in Kirkland, Washington. It’s their attempt at branding a line of their own discounted products to live somewhere in between the category of “generics” and “premiums” (think of the box of rice that’s just a white box with the word “RICE” on it and then think of Uncle Ben’s – the Kirkland brand is somewhere in the middle). Kirkland Signature is Costco’s store brand (or private label brand for those in the industry). There’s an article over at Advertising Age detailing an interesting development in the craft brew beer market – Costco, one of the top warehouse club stores (along with Sam’s Club and BJ’s), will start offering it’s own private label (Kirkland Signature) line of craft brews.

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