COSTCO ALCOHOL

COSTCO ALCOHOL

With it being the holiday season and the many times you'll be forced to interact with family, buying alcohol in bulk wouldn't be a bad investment. Luckily Costco has you covered. But it's easy to drop money on costco alcohol and not get the best stuff, so here's a list of all the Costco liquor and which ones are really good for their price point and which ones lack the quality that Costco is well known for in that Kirkland signature.

For example, Kirkland Bourbon is fine to mix but I just wouldn't drink it on the rocks. Then again, if you're going to buy bourbon to mix, unless the Kirkland signature is that much cheaper, just get a giant bottle of Evan Williams or the giant bottle of Bullet, that runs you about $32, it's smooth enough to drink on the rocks, but bland enough that you can mix it without feeling all that much guilty about losing something in the blend.

Another factor to come into play in your purchase is to see who is making it in any given year. It's the same mentality as those Trader Joe's "made by a brand name but sold cheaper not using brand naming" products. I've had the kirkland signature bourbon in the past and it wasn't all that great and then there's times that it's fantastic.

Sort of like the French Vodka, where the manufacturer changes over time. At one point it was just grey goose. Still, the vodka is pretty cheap and you should just buy it anyway because it's massive and will serve for so many purposes.

The Anejo tequilas are also really cheap and are pretty solid of a choice. I generally have too much rum that is brand name for my many tiki needs, so I seldom buy anything but a white bacardi to mess around with food science in my kitchen lab. But the spiced rum Kirkland brand, that one has showed up at parties when I want to bring the noise with mixers. The rum is real smooth by itself as a shot and does lean more in to the sweet side. Very heavily spiced with vanilla. So you're essentially making vanilla cokes with alcohol when you use it in a mixer.

The real MVP is the Kirkland XO Cognac. It's a fucking steal at the price point in California. Will it be the best cognac you ever tasted? Fuck no, but at half the price of comparable XO cognacs, it's a shit ton of a better deal. Take that to the family function and tell them where to shove it, yo.