It was only $5.99 for a 12-pack of cans at Whole Foods. I couldn’t believe it. Every other beer was $9.99 or more for 6 bottles. How can they make the beer so cheap? This has to be the cheapest beer in Manhattan.
I believe that Copper Bell is a house brand of Whole Foods. There is speculation on the internet that it's re-branded Genesee.
It doesn’t have much flavor, but I can’t say that it has any less flavor than Bud Light or Miller Lite. Too bad they didn’t have the non-light version in stock.
Isn't Whole Foods pretty SWPL?
Posted by: Josh | May 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM
It's sort of an indirect house brand. A California company known as Winery Exchange contracts with Genesee to brew Copper Bell, and Winery Exchange then distributes the beer exclusively through Whole Foods.
According to a news report I found online, Winery Exchange will be changing Copper Bell's name later this year, to settle a trademark lawsuit with a Michigan brewery named Bell's.
Posted by: Peter | May 28, 2012 at 10:36 PM
If you want to me more SWPL and drink very rich, flavorful beer, but don't want to go bankrupt, check this out:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10707/5688
It's Trader Joe's Stockyard Oatmeal Stout. It's actually one of the best beers I've had (and I went onto a pilgrimage to Santa Rosa to drink a Pliny the Elder at the Russian River Brewing Company. That means: I'm elite among my beer drinking friends) and costs about as much as the industrial lagers. I was shocked, because I figured that since it was only at Trader Joe's and was fairly cheap, that it would be cheap and nasty.
Of course, I don't know how common Trader Joe's is in NY.
Posted by: Sid | May 28, 2012 at 11:14 PM
Did you see the thing on Drudge about the 340 lb. woman shoplifting, among other things, Coors Light? It seems like one of the things about being that fat is being able to just let go, and drink real beer.
Posted by: Thrasymachus | May 28, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Support your own state: No. 21 Brewing Co. aka Moe's Back Room, makes good ale.
Upstate New York has the finest concentration of breweries.
Posted by: Firepower | May 29, 2012 at 10:11 AM
It may be brewed by Genny, but it ain't Genny.
As a connoisseur of bad beers, I speak with aw-thoro-tay here. They don't sell Genny or my other favorite, Utica Club, out here in Chicago, we get Old Style and maybe Pabst if we're lucky. I miss those beers (and shopping at Wegmans).
I find that you really can't go wrong with the Champagne of Beers, especially now that the weather is heating up. Nothing better than an alcohol enhanced nap in the shade on the back deck in 95 degree weather, listening to baseball on the radio, as I did yesterday afternoon. The trendy like Corona, but High Life tastes the same to me. Water is water. ;)
Posted by: The Engineer | May 29, 2012 at 11:29 AM
"There is speculation on the internet that it's re-branded Genesee. "
The Taste of the Great Outdoors in a Glass.
Posted by: Turambar | May 29, 2012 at 12:20 PM
"pilgrimage to Santa Rosa to drink a Pliny the Elder at the Russian River Brewing Company."
Santa Rosa is an amazingly prole place.
Posted by: alonzo portfolio | May 29, 2012 at 07:40 PM