Dark Lord Day 2016

$8........ I'll try it again. Still have a bottle from last year too. Looks good in my fridge I guess haha.

 

It was so good fresh....I'd love to buy again. This time, though, I'll probably use it all within a couple weeks of purchase.

 

I don't think they let you walk out of the event with a visible open bottle or cup with beer still in it, you have to pour it out or finish it before you leave the fest.

Yes it seems silly considering people are openly bottle sharing outside the event.

The police are pretty cool about it, and at worst might ask you to pour out your glass if it is getting later in the day.

 

Thanks for the heads up. Probably gonna pick that spot as well

 

As for parking, SOME NOT ALL of the yellow highlighted parking lots will have parking available ranging from $20-30 or so, but usually $30. The orange lot across Calumet is the Centennial Park parking lot, which is usually $20.

It is up to the local businesses there to decide if they are going to offer parking, in years past only a couple caught on, or they just blocked off their parking lot entirely. But now most have wised up and offer paid parking. If you get there early enough you can score some of those spots. Usually spots still available by 8:30 - 9:00 am, things probably full by 10am though.

 

I've still been holding off on buying any myself. I may be running around on Friday buying some stuff depending on the forecast.

 

I think what worries me is that every time I look at the weather forecast the temperature seems to go down. It started out ~64-65 and then when I checked accuweather today it was 58-59

 

Yeah, I'd much prefer mid 60's to the upper 50's. I see now that Weather Channel shows a high of 59, partly cloudy in the morning with periods of rain later in the day. Chance of rain 60%.

 

Pulled from https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/201...feature-some-20-different-types-of-famed-beer

And to stoke the thread to 100 pages, see bolded.


UKRAINIAN VILLAGE — The Three Floyds Brewing craft brew empire is set to celebrate its 20th year on Saturday with the “Indy 500” of beer fests — a Dark Lord Day, on steroids.

“We’re really lucky to still be here,” brewery founder Nick Floyd said. “Twenty years. It hasn’t really hit me yet. All I know is it’s awesome and fun … and there’s a lot more to come.” First, the fun starts at the Munster, Indiana brewery this weekend with a bigger (and more organized) celebration of Dark Lord — a potent Russian Imperial Stout, a flavor bomb of Chicago-roasted espresso and Mexican vanilla that’s as thick as motor oil.

It's known by some as “the most wanted beer in the world.”

Three Floyds faithful — especially the exotic aromatic hops fetishists with Goth-metal art sensibilities and, of course, a penchant for spicy smoked meats — are in for some special boozy bottles this Saturday. Dark Lord Day features the one-time-only release of about 20 barrel-aged Dark Lord variants for your sipping pleasure.

In order to get one, you have to buy one of the $200 tickets — which sold out almost immediately — that guarantees drinkers, among other things, a four pack of Dark Lord and a randomly selected 22-ounce bottle of the rare barrel age varieties. Nick Floyd and his head brewer Chris Boggess wouldn’t give up the entire list of special barrel-aged brews available Saturday. But when I visited the brewery this week, Floyd showed off a few of the limited-edition bottles decorated in limited-edition artwork, hand numbered and dipped in shimmering black and silver wax. “All the art on the bottles is amazing,” Floyd said. “It’s so bad ass. People are going to collect it.” Floyd, who helped write the recently released “Alpha King” dark fantasy comic book loosely based on the Three Floyds origin story, makes it very clear that he’s as passionate about the quality of Three Floyds label art as he is the taste of very special brews that make their one-time-only debut including:

“French Vanilla Militia” — Dark Lord aged in Armagnac soaked barrels with vanilla, cocoa nibs and coffee. It's decorated in the dark, ghostly label art of Jesse Draxler, whose abstract paintings have been described as “contemporary monochromatic works … [with a] darkly and elegantly primal quality that borders on the grotesque.”

“Trump* and Pump” — Dark Lord aged in barrels soaked in Sauternes, a French dessert wine commonly served with foie gras, adorned with another Draxler painting. *Not a reference to “The Donald.”

“Dwarven Power Bottom” — Dark Lord aged in barrels soaked in Muscat, an Italian dessert wine. It’s tagged with “spaceman” bottle art designed by Jim Zimmer, who helped select artists and design labels for the special-edition beers.

“Legio Gemina” — Dark Lord aged in barrels soaked in Pineau de Charentes, a French aperitif.

“Marshmallow Handjee” — Dark Lord aged in bourbon barrels with vanilla beans bottled with a space-themed label.

A few of the other special barrel-aged Dark Lord variants getting served up Saturday include:

“Ronaldo Imperial” — Dark Lord aged in barrels soaked in Madeira, a fortified Portuguese wine, with tart Michigan Cherries.

“Dark Lord de Muerte” — A fan favorite returns: Dark Lord aged in bourbon barrels with Guajillo chilies.

“Quit Hitting Yourself” — Dark Lord aged in Porto and Madeira barrels.

“Temuculan 3000” — Dark Lord aged in Pineau Charentes-soaked barrels with green cardamom and Ceylon cinnamon.

And, yes, there are more … but you’ll have to be surprised.

This year, Dark Lord Day marks more than just two decades of making beer that’s “Not Normal,” the beer company’s slogan. The Munster brewery reached the milestone after a “couple pretty brutal years” of becoming a grown-up business, said Boggess, who has been Three Floyds' head brewer for 10 years.

Since then, Three Floyds' production grown more than tenfold — from around 4,000 barrels in 2006 to about 50,000 barrels this year, Boggess said. The last few years have brought the biggest changes thanks to an intense lobbying effort to change Indiana craft beer laws. The so-called “Three Floyds Law” cleared the way for a more than $10 million brewery expansion that added brewing capacity, a state-of-the-art German bottling line and construction of a distillery that’s set to be up and running, well, “soon.”

And earlier this year, Indiana state lawmakers passed and Gov. Mike Pence signed the so-called “Dark Lord Day” law that made the customary practice of beer “bottle sharing” at Three Floyds' annual beer fest legal. “Bottle sharing has been done for forever [at Dark Lord Day] but the legality came into question in the last couple years, and now the state has signed off,” Three Floyds lawyer Jeff McKean said.

It wasn’t a hard sell. “When I bring Nick down to the hearing to testify, he’s like a rock star to some legislators,” McKean said. “They really appreciate what he’s done, the jobs he’s created and national reputation and notoriety he brings to Indiana. It passed without objection.”

The law wasn’t passed solely for Three Floyds, but provisions in the legislation clearly limit bottle sharing to craft beer festivals run by a brewery in operation for three years that draws more than 7,500 people, McKean said. And right now, Dark Lord Day is the only Indiana beer fest that qualifies. People planning to swap bottles with beer geek contemporaries should know you’re only allowed to bring 288 ounces of beer — that’s a case of 12-ounce bottles. And, as McKean explained, “the intent is to allow people to bring craft beer, not a case of Miller Lite.”

If I know beer geeks, that shouldn’t be a problem.

 

Couple of local news cast have taken rain of the forecast for Saturday.

 

That article has pics of the variant labels. Very cool

 

Wait a minute. Randomly selected!

 

Oh no you didn't. Putting on my riot gear in preparation for this thread getting locked down.

 

For those of you driving to DLD please be careful. There are going to be police checkpoints set up this weekend.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/...cle_fb31ddfb-49bc-5d16-a4e3-dc2206cf3833.html

 

I think this is really cool. I like that they did labels for each one. Can't wait to hear the rumors about what the other 10 variants are.

 

I think they mean people will randomly select which bottle they want, not Three Floyds will give you a random variant.

 

That's how I read it - here's hoping we're correct.

I for one am much more intrigued by the statement that there are "about 20" BA variants this year - FFF only spilled the beans on 10 new ones, so even if you include the 3 from last year, that's a far cry from 20. I reeeeeeeeeally hope they release more info about that before showing up, I would hate to have to make a snap decision at the front of the line if there are unannounced variants present.

 

Randomly selected... Hmm should I get my pitchfork and torch ready?

 

Please take your logic elsewhere. This is where we speculate and freak out for no real reason.

 

If there's 20 variants, we're gonna be looking at sub 500 bottle counts. Maybe even a couple hundred for some of them.