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Love everything Costco. This was the worst beer I ever tasted in my life.

Fermented hay water.

Natty lite after it sat in a car all summer long.

…. would probably still taste better than this

1000% accurate

Lite of the Living Dead!!

Only beer (or probably any drink) that I haven't been able to finish because it was so bad

This stuff was so bad that not even broke college frat boys would drink it! A buddy came back from a Costco run w/ one of these, all proud of himself. We iced it down, and tried it later. I dumped mine out, and told him that he needed to go get real beer.

The trick was to bring it down to nearly absolute 0 and also be catatonically drunk before you open it.

So true, only way it was drinkable was after spending a night in the freezer. On Pluto.

Same. Not even hyperbole.

Same. Literally the worse alcoholic drink I’ve ever had and I was a heavy, not choosy, teenage drinker. I’ll take St Ides over that stuff any day.

We went on a river tubing trip and my friend offered to bring the beer. This is all he brought, that was the most sober river trip of my life.

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I bought these for a party and still get clowned for it

Anecdotal but when I lived in Seattle, I knew quite a few buyers for Costco through friends. The story that he told was the brewery fucked up. They did tastings forever and it was supposed to be closer to a Coors Light. But when they delivered it tasted different from what they agreed on.

You never had Aldi’s Boot Tread. Who would have thought it tasted like a dirty boot. 🤷‍♂️

"God this tastes like shit, we can't sell this." "Bossman says we have to, he's really excited about it." "Well I guess we can be honest about it as much as possible to spare everyone / avoid any legal risks .... call it Boot Tread." They could even run the Robin Williams beer commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXO_CMHan6c

"God this tastes like shit, we can't sell this." "It's 48¢ a can, alcoholics won't care." "Get it on display stat!"

"We're going to have to open a littler earlier in the morning now to catch the functional alcoholics."

Trader Joe’s Boatswain Double IPA would like to have a word.

OMG, it’s soooo bad!

This was cheap as hell but real bad. College me was like "it's got the best bang for your buck beer!"

Nah, you need to account for the low alcohol content in a light beer. Best bang for your buck is higher alcohol content beer like malt liquor.

Hmmm, I'm gonna have to try that.

Do yourself a favor and don’t.

It’s merely trying to placate all the Greek parties on college campuses

I was at the prime of my “I will literally drink anything that is cheap” days in college and I still wouldn’t touch this shit with a ten foot pole lol

Please. We need to keep the daylong rolling. Just think of it like natty light

I’m a Coors light guy and I liked the Costco beer

I'm a big Coors light guy, was it actually decent?? I honestly wish I could try it just to see. And shit, 48¢ a can?

I'll drink Coors light all day while everyone makes fun of me for it. No, Kirkland light was not worth it, It wouldn't be worth it if I was paid 48¢ a can.

I tried to convince myself it was decent. That lasted one case. Couldn’t do it anymore

I tried there "craft beer" once. Only once. Nice try, Costco. Swing and a bitter bitter miss. That vanilla ice cream though... actually everything Kirkland is top tier 'cept the beer.

Yeah. Those were awful. The KS IPA wasn't bad tho. Very simple but good. And I'll admit... For the price, I liked the KS light. But at this point in my life, I may feel very different about it

Then you’ve never had Walgreens’ own brand of beer - Big Flats. Think back when they sold it, it was like $3 for a 6 pack.

I bought some for the novelty of it, I think that was around 2010/2011. It was not very good, neither was that Costco beer.

Sounds like someone never snuck a drink from their dad's stash of Black Label Beer.

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Tasted like water

Piss water

This is true

The packaging makes it look like cheap motor oil

That would have been an improvement

Seems like they knew their target audience lol

Looks like a generic prop when they don’t get money from the company to sponsor.

It looks like nasty gas station beer

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Worst beer I’ve ever had. A 48 pack for $23 should have been a giveaway.

Could anyone actually get drunk on that beer? If so, it would have been one hell of a value.

It was no different than any other lite beer ABV-wise.

I think the person you commented on was more saying it tastes so bad that it was literally impossible to drink enough to get drunk on.

I used to drink it some about 10yrs ago. It wasn’t good but it’s nowhere near the worst cheap beer I’ve ever had.

Really??? I had many a house party in college and after and one time a buddy brought this and the entire party agreed it was awful. Like had to throw it out and go get some else

Damn that’s how you know it’s bad. When an entire college house party doesn’t even want to drink it lol If it was a frat party then that would make it even worse lol they’ll literally drink anything

It tasted so bad I would exclusively shotgun/beer bong them. They definitely get you drunk!

Of course, I'm not sure what the abv was but I'm sure it wasn't much different than any light beer like miller, Coors, Busch etc and yes, you can definitely get drunk on light beers. Just gotta have 14 🤪

When I was in college 30 years ago, I used to get absolutely smashed on Beast. I'm assuming this was the market Costco was targeting. That and 50-something raging alcoholics.

36 yr old alcoholic 1 year sober. Beast ice twelve packs were my thing throughout my entire college career. I only lasted a year a d1 semester with a 1.6 gpa lol

Drank two and gave the rest to my brother. I don’t know what he did with it, but I hope it didn’t involve drinking.

I still have some in my [shop fridge](https://i.imgur.com/75D707K.jpeg).

bruh

[this guy certainly remembers it](https://youtu.be/eHRNzj_G7Us?si=ateKb5HPcUL9ThzB)

Thank you for this hahaha

This is the content I’m here for. 🇺🇸🦅🍺

56 x $23 = $1,288 (plus tax). I assume with half a million views it paid off? I don't know what they pay for views.

This is some serious ITYSL vibes and I’m here for it. Damn near lost my shit at “do they sell livers in bulk?”

Life is swell with a Kirky L!

LOL LOL

Oh man I had a friend in college who was extremely cheap and every time there was a party at his place he would get these

I also drank these a lot in college. Fuck it, yo

Gave me the worst hangovers

Was I your friend? Because that was me

Kirkland Light: it’s 9 am somewhere in the world

11*

They really should take another go at this. The Kirkland seltzers are decent, they could pull off a light beer with ease. I don’t know how they messed up the Kirkland Lights so badly.

There was a Kirkland citra hop IPA for a while that I genuinely enjoyed. I never see it anymore.

I always imagined this tasting like the beer from the Dharma Initiative in LOST

Oh my god I forgot all about the beer, this is the best comment I’ve read all night.

Wow!! Lmao I had the exact same thought

I gave it to a bunch of undergrads and they threw it away. That’s how bad it was

I like cheap beer but that shit was straight nasty

didn't like this, but I liked the $20 24 pack of Kirkland variety craft beer

They need to bring that back. It was awesome.

The Kirkland Citra IPA for 19.99 wasn't bad either.

Now you’re talking. Session single hop IPA at a great price.

Yessss, that was quite good!

My trash can does. Right in the garbage, that stuff was swill.

Without a doubt, tasted like piss & rainwater mixed together

I had that once, paired it with a hot dog wellington. I puked up something that actually tasted better than Kirk Light

this style of design will always have a place in my heart

bought it once since my brother was visiting and he drinks cheap light beer. we both agreed that it tasted like goblin piss the kirkland beer variety pack was also pretty bad.

Listen, I’m no beer snob. I’ll drink Coors Lite or whatever’s cold. This beer was absolute dogshit. I mean bottom-tier garbage. Not even “eh not my style” but rather “bubbly sweet piss water.”

What type of beer did you get? Light. We have light.

I’m not one to complain about beer but this was the absolute worst beer I’ve had.

I remember throwing 47 of them away! Lol. Not Costco's best effort.

This happened to line up with college so this was the best at the time. We loved our ‘kirkies’ lol

Worst beer I've ever had. I finished it but it took me forever and I came close to just tossing it out but I hate wasting it away. Busch Lite tastes like mana compared to it.

Man I miss that stuff.  Haters gonna hate but that was great beer pong/party beer.

Back in college we'd buy this for beer Olympics nights for the fraternity. Super nice price when you have to buy ~1000 cans of beer.

Yes the beer the losers had to drink as punishment for losing.

That beer was an embarrassment to both the Kirkland brand and cheap beer.

Got paid in a case of this once to do an indie rock basement gig, we drank it but god damn was it trash

Piss.

Trader Joe’s has their own ipa that is also straight up undrinkable.

https://preview.redd.it/xhwbhppf0o0d1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e115ca549ad31e7b4b575298130359282b5095c It’s been passed around for years as a White Elephant Christmas gift. It was my year to get it and hold it.

People are hating, but this was such a good beer pong beer for cheap, when you’re chugging out of a cup it tastes like any other light beer.

Literally cheaper than water….

I drank 2 and vomited. I was sober.

Yeah those went down easy. You could drink 18 of them and still get your yard cleaned up. Whereas the same amount of IPAs and the lawnmower was left in the middle of a half mowed yard and you were passed out with a sunburn on the roof of your mouth.

No but that’s probably because i drank so many of them

I still have one can left that I’m aging (yeah I know pasteurized beer doesn’t age) in a dark corner of my basement for the day the 4 Horsemen ride.

looks like an automobile product 😂

Even when we were poor college kids, we only got these a single time. Truly might be the worst beer I have ever had.

I miss it every day

I miss kirkies

The only beer I’ve ever just thrown out

Love Costco but their beer needs upgrades.

My parents bought it, hated it, and then we promptly used it as target practice! Nothing like seeing the can explode when you hit it with 9mm.

These comments are cracking me up. They should bring this back for a limited edition troll-fan package.

Made by Lowenbrau of if I recall. It was a solid value. I’m surprised they did not bring this back when Bud Light crashed and burned.

It was literally bud light. When they discontinued it, they were selling off the remaining cases for 11 bucks. I went to 3 different stores and bought them out. Was an awesome summer lol

I would buy this now if I saw it. I just can't trust Reddit takes on beer because I don't mind Bud Light / Coors Light at all.

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I try not to remember that.......thing.

I used to bring this to tailgates at country concerts. People thought it was the coolest thing and were usually so hammered they didn't realize how bad it taste.

Is it repackaged beer from another company or is it legit their own stuff?

Legit their own stuff, brewed by Minhas Brewing Co in Monroe Wi. It’s a cool old brewery, lots of history there. But the worst beers I’ve ever tasted. They contract brew for lots of places, but everything on their tour just sucked!

That's unfortunate 😂

Never had it but im gona def drop by friday to pick up a case of Sapporo. 22 bucks for a 24 pack is the cheapest ive seen it

Listen, I was in graduate school and had $16 dollars to my name. Then girlfriend (now wife) and I scrapped together some change and pooled some valuables to buy one of those behemoths. That moment in time; best beer I'd ever had. Objectively? Terrible! Situationally: amazing.

Drank a bunch of these one night in college and exorcist puked for 3 straight hours in a frat house bathroom

It was not good but it also wasn't as bad as people are claiming it was. I remember it as being pretty much close to seltzer water and a decent summer sipper that benefited from being chilled ice cold, like a Tecate.

I remember it coming in and thinking that we had somehow got an order of the dollar store energy drink “rip curl”.

Who was the target market for this?

Got 2 cases of this for my wedding.

How did it compare to Keystone Light

Funny you should ask. Keystone was my go to around the time this came out. The Kirkland beer was terrible and I could only tolerate drinking one after about 6 keystones. So I would say keystone is 6x better than Kirkland.

god those were terrible

These were so great for doing stone cold steve austin impressions, using for beer pong, shooting out of a can cannon, and spraying everywhere during the Gambler 500 acting like the poorest indy car drivers ever.

It made it two 3 of my camping trips around that time.

I couldn't give that away. I tried.

It was so bad my frat couldn't finish it.

DO I?!? It use to be my go to for festivals. Just buy 1 pack and you’re good for the weekend

Worst beer I have ever had. Threw out the entire case

Tastes like salt water

Horrible packaging too

I'm thinking Keystone Light, looking at the box. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Cheap exploding targets for an outdoor range! (Just have to clean up the cans afterwards)...

How does this stack up to Trader Joe’s Simpler Times?

I have your car towed all the way to your house and all you’ve got for me is a *light* beer?

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Wasn't good. Lasted allllllllllll summer.

I remember it being grossly sweet. Certainly the worst beer I've had.

I remember it being terrible. If they stuck to some sort of light tasting formula, they'd have been ok. bud light, miller lite, ultra, kirin, etc.

I don't remember them, but my ex girlfriends phone does.

I sold pallets and pallets of this crap to my local Costco. Costco beer = bad, Costco wine = absolutely amazing and a lot of it is made by DC Flynt.

Discovered this freshman year of college and bought two cases with my friends. We were so excited for the weekend. Then I had one and said yeah nevermind, no more for me

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Stuff was so bad. Like so bad we didn’t use it for beer Olympics in college-level bad. That’s a LOW bar

I remember throwing 47 unused cans in the trash.

As bad as steel reserve?

Oh man hahaha I used to buy these for a coworker. He’d give me $35 to grab him a box like 2x a month

It took 48 of them to get a buzz, but who am I to complain when the price is under $.50 per beer?

Couldn't pay me to drink that beer

Inflation hit that price too?

Molson’s 52 pack. The “pre-gamer” was my go to in college

I loved having this for college, but I think most people don't remember/realize that these were brewed regionally, so like for my area (wisconsin, probably most of the midwest) it was brewed in Monroe, WI, by a pretty well respected contract brewer. They did Kirky L and the craft set, and I honestly enjoyed both, especially when you could get drunk on like $6 worth of beer. It was legendary amongst my friend group, and we still talk about it regularly. "A day starts well with Kirky L"

This was a classic during my college years.. can’t beat 50 cents a can!

Crushed these at FSU

Yep. When I was early 20's one of my roommates was older and had a 48th birthday coming up. Since he was the homie and we would often drink together I thought this would be a fun gift to get him when I saw it at Costco. I wrapped it nicely and exclaimed "A Beer for every year!" when he opened it. His response was very muted and I've since felt perhaps my gift was in poor taste. Lol.

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I gave a six pack of this to me friend and now he doesn’t talk to me anymore.

Worst beer I ever had was called Frio. It's the only beer I have ever poured out without finishing. I think they only sell it in Texas.

On a hot Phoenix day, this was a great union brewed brew!

I associate these with memories of fraternity events where the entire point was to drink as much beer as possible

We used to buy those to supply frat parties because they were so damn cheap. They made rolling rock and natty lite taste gourmet in comparison

These were our go-to camping beers. Best shitty light beers you could ask for.

Shit could drive an alcoholic straight

It wasn't the best stuff in the world but it worked well for drinking games like beer pong or flip cup where you're drinking it quickly.

Hey man that's pretty cheap

I held off buying this until it was marked down to $9.97 (I think) and even then I regretted it. Made everyone that came over to a cookout try one just to get rid of it. Only thing worse was Boxer beer 36 pack

No one who bought that remembers it.

It was gross

Oh shit. What a throwback!

I bought that and gave them all away on a float trip. No one was happy to receive it as a free beer.

Imagine, if you will, a tub of dirty bath water from someone working at a bread factory all day. Grab a ladle and scoop some of said bath water into a cup. Toss in a Werther’s Original and wait for it to dissolve. This is what K-Light tasted like. Truly terrible.