We should probably start lining up on Wednesday https://youtu.be/JqzReBvMYhw HopCat Detroit and Dark Horse Brewing Co. announce Dark Saturday World Record Tap Takeover 130 different Dark Horse beers will be on tap Nov. 28 at special event For Immediate release DETROIT, Mich., October 24, 2015 – HopCat and Dark Horse Brewing Co., of Marshall, Mich., will make Detroit the center of the beer universe on Nov. 28. Today at Detroit Fall Beer Festival, the two announced plans for Dark Saturday, a World Record Tap Takeover featuring 130 different varieties of Dark Horse beer. The all-day event will break a record set at HopCat Detroit’s grand opening in which 120 different varieties of beer from Short’s Brewing Co., of Bellaire, Mich., were served. “Dark Saturday is our answer to Black Friday,” said Mark Sellers, founder of HopCat. “We worked with Dark Horse to design an event that brings people together to celebrate great beer, hear some great music, and get people in a festive mood for the holidays.” The tap takeover begins at 11 a.m.with 130 varieties of beer brewed by Dark Horse founder Aaron Morse and the rest of the Dark Horse brewing team. Distributor Rave Associates is providing logistical support that helps make the event possible. Dark Saturday will include a special one-day renaming of HopCat Detroit’s Huma Room into the Crooked Tree Room, which will feature 30 varieties of Dark Horse’s Crooked Tree IPA. Live music in the Crooked Tree Room will begin at 7 p.m. to help close out the day. “Putting 130 Dark Horse beers on tap in one day is a monumental undertaking that has required months of planning by the HopCat, Dark Horse and Rave teams,” said Garry Boyd, HopCat Ringleader and VP of food and beverage. “Setting another world record will make Detroit the center of the beer universe on Nov. 28 and help remind the world that Michigan craft breweries are some of the best and most innovative in the nation.” Follow Dark Horse and HopCat on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and the hashtag #darksaturday
This is surprising to me. I wouldnt pick darkhorse as the brewery to churn out that many beers for a take over. In my mind darkhorse has always been the brewery that does a few handfuls of well done beers and that's it. I can't see them getting creative enough to do that many..
Not sure why Rave gets so many plugs in this article...they are a middle mam due to the unfortunate legislature in Michigan and that is all.
Consider the logistics of collecting the beers from the brewery when the beers are finished, storage, trucking the kegs to MidTown, unloading and getting the keg and taps matched up so the correct beer flows out. There would enough paperwork involved to give me a headache. The press release says Detroit, so it looks like HopCat want to include Rave in the PR.
I wasn't there so can't confirm, but here is the tap list posted on event FB page. Doesn't look like any randalls https://www.facebook.com/events/962637560479411/ 1.Crooked Tree 2. Raspberry Ale 3. Amber Ale 4. Reserve Special Black Ale 5. Boffo Brown Ale 6. Scotty Karate Scotch Ale 7. Sapient Trip Ale 8. 4-Elf Winter Warmer 9. ONE Oatmeal Stout 10. TOO Cream Stout 11. FORE Smoked Stout 12. Scary Jesus Rockstar ACPA 13. Cocoa Bourbon Nibbler 14. ROD American Red Ale 15. Maple Bourbon Black Ale 16. 30 Jars of Hearts Saison 17. Till Death Brown Ale 18. HomoSapien 19. Oktoberfest 20. HighC Harvest Ale 21. Double Crooked Tree 22. Plead the 5th 23. Barracuda Blue 24. Smells Like a Safety Mtg 25. HungYu's Heart of Red Gold 26. TRES Blueberry Stout 27. Sarsaparilla 6 Stout 28. Bourbon Barrel Plead 29. End of the Spectrum 30. Perkulator Coffee Dbock 31. Butter Cup Stout 32. Dark Corner 33. Fire Safely Contained 34. ChocoChili Stout 35. Mighty Peach Basil 36. Crème Brulee Beer 37. Hand of Buddha IPA 38. Lemon Viola 39. Louie's NutRoll Brown 40. Belgian Waffle Brown Ale 41. Maple Porter 42. MMMM! 43. AK-47 Hazlenut Porter 44. NO LEM RETAW 45. Peaches&Crème inmyPants 46. Salmeyaki Olut 47. Thirsty Trout Porter 48. Uber Boober Cream Ale 49. Belgian White Ale 50. Zhaftig Ghastly Pale Stout 51. Rye Kwon Do Scotch Ale 52. Hal of Bonlandia 53. GingeRed 54. McWit 55. Pam's Kitchen Beer 56. Peel Outta Here 57. Red Hot Shocka 58. Caramel AppleAley 59. Anger Management 60. Cobain's Black IPA 61. Choc Covered Cherry Porter 62. Pecan Caramel Stout 63. Choc Banana Dark Hefeweizen 64. Chai Porter 65. Peach Saison 66. POLY-POW Pineapple Ginger 67. Captain America's Shorts 68. Cabe's Double Cream Ale 69. Tamarind Saison du Finn 70. Watermelon Crooked Tree 71. Hot Pepper Crooked Tree 72. Coffee Crooked Tree 73. Peach Crooked Tree 74. Raspberry Crooked Tree 75. Pom-Cran Crooked Tree 76. Ginger Crooked Tree 77. Lychee Crooked Tree 78. Black Raspberry Crooked Tree 79. Cherry Crooked Tree 80. Blueberry Crooked Tree 81. Strawberry Crooked Tree 82. Scotty on the Bar-B 83. Grapefruit Crooked Tree 84. Hibiscus Crooked Tree 85. Edacsac Dekoorc Eert 86. Ollopa Dekoorc Eert 87. F.F. Dekoorc Eer 88. Artic Dekoorc Eert 89. Ollirama Dekoorc Eert 90. Azacca Crooked Tree 91. Galaxy Crooked Tree 92. Nelson Sauvin Crooked Tree 93. Simcoe Crooked Tree 94. Mosaic Crooked Tree 95. El Dorado Crooked Tree 96. Belgian Crooked Tree 97. West Coast Crooked Tree 98. Crooked Tree Black IPA 99. Chocolate Crooked Tree 100. Sweet Potatoe Beer 101. Porp 099 Sweet Stout 102. Nitro Sarsaparilla 6 Stout 103. Sorguhm Syrup Brown Ale 104. Rubescent Zhaftig Ghastly 105. Raw Nut Relli's Brown Ale 106. Chocolate Malt Stout 107. Oreo Cookie Stout 108. Percinnamon Amber Ale 109. Love of My Life Rye IPA 110. Stinky Little Peach Fish 111. Space Boners from Planet Funk 112. The Furry Tusk 113. Hogmatic Imperial Brown Ale 114. Ghost of Puca Blackberry Porter 115. Master of the Moon 116. Snow Blind 117. Children of the GraveFruit 118. Hefeweizen 119. McNott 120. Berlinerweiss 121. This One's For Chappy Berliner Weisse 122. Peaches for You Saison 123. Mentha Piperita Stout 124. Noir Navel 125. Dude Where's the Cream Stout? 126. Affair with Amarillo 127. I burnt my f*&king toast 128. Never Say Rye 129. Offhand Runner Session Ale 130. Until the Next Time Imperial Stout
Cool that they named a couple after Black Sabbath songs. Their heads are in the right space. Wish I could have gone to this one.
Went Sunday and had some half pours - some standouts were: West Coast Crooked Tree Mosaic Crooked Tree Until the Next Time Ghost of Puca The mint stout was the most mint forward beer I've ever had, or probably ever will have - should have been sponsored by Scope. Furry Tusk was pretty good, but not very saisonesque.. Lemon Viola was meh and the other west coast IPA was really bad... Should probably still have a bunch on tap I would assume, although about 30 of them were on handpump.
