Dark Lord Day (DLD) 2015

Flossmoor or any hotel in area will prob have a bottle share.

 

Floosmoor, Binny's (I like south loop), Kuma's, Walgreens in Greektown, West Lakeview Liquors, or just go to 18th after 7pm. Also tons of hotel bottle shares.

 

Crap, Zombie Dust on sale for the week at the kiosk today. 100% chance of being sold out by tomorrow. Was hoping to get some Friday but will likely have to go hunting at liquor stores.

Might be trying to keep the horde down so there isn't as much traffic during setup.

 

I'd like a jambalaya with a cup of gumbo please.

Oh, wait. You mean you don't own Heaven on 7? Carry on.

 

Anyone have any reports on the to-go line at the brewpub right now? As someone mentioned earlier, DL '14 and BA Behemoth bottles for sale?

 

Had the unicorn blood, their regular that is used in DL. It's fine. Don't go out of your way.

 

As of 15 min ago it was only half of the parking lot long however, I would imagine that it is much longer now.

 

I had never even considered that.....plus their sales are trending downward as of the past 6-12 months. They probably will need to triple the cost of BA DL bottles to make up for it.

 

Still wouldn't surprise me if the variants were much more expensive. Tickets went up to 40 and the bottles went up to 20...

 

Thanks. Won't be able to get there for about another hour.

 

Not sure if you are being sarcastic but, where are you seeing FFF sales trending downwards?

 

Anyone know if there's anywhere to plug in a charger on the grounds? I've run out of battery on my phone the past 2 years, what with untappd checkins, picture taking, and furiously updating my twitter feed for variant updates. I'd like to avoid that happening this year. Drunk and no form of communication is not a good place to be.

 

Cant tell if serious... Why not just write down your check-ins and do it later when you have access to a power outlet. Or you could always buy one of those portable phone battery chargers things.

 

Totally serious. Not so much about the untappd check ins but the phone running out of battery. For some reason my phone battery is always on its last legs when DLD comes around and it won't hold a charge for a full day. Gotta charge it 2 or 3 times a day. The portable phone chargers are an option but a bit expensive.

 

1. Write down check ins
2. Bring an actual camera
3. get variant update when you go through the line to get bottles.

turn off your phone and have a good time with those around you.

 

Yea I was mostly kidding about the checkin, just started using untappd recently. Mostly concerned with staying in touch with other friends who are in different groupings and a bunch of IP trades I have set up. Battery on my phone is terrible. Hate that I cant just drop in a new battery on the iphone.

 

I have seen some places that have them for cheap, either get one of those or turn off all the battery draining shit and only use it when needed.

Or just drink enough that you don't care about having a phone!

 

21st century beer geek problems.

 

For those staying at any of the south Hammond hotels off of Kennedy, there are now three new breweries in Griffith (New Oberpfalz, Pokro, and Wildrose), plus Beer Geeks, which are a five minute car ride from that location. These craft brewers are relative babies, just having opened in the last few months, but I think are promising.

I don't think Beer Geeks has anything specific for Friday night, but I know Jason's been stockpiling kegs of goodness for DLD (capped by CBS at 8:00 on Saturday, but I'll be dead by then...), so I suspect that the 20 taps there will offer something extra especial delicious.

Or, there's One Trick Pony in Lansing, for those staying off of Torrence or even Halsted, which might be a good pairing if you go to Flossmoor for their bottle share / release event.

 

Last year I plugged mine in by one of the lighting rigs There was a surge protector with extension cords and I just plugged into that and left it.

Wasn't ideal. Best bet might just be mobike battery pack.