Even if you don't get a ticket, it is a fun time. Also last year after the dark lord sales to people with tickets, they still had more bottles to sell to people without tickets. They also have Dark Lord on tap, probably will have 09 vanilla bean dark lord (As the had 08 vanilla bourbon barrel dark lord last year, wonderful!)
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We need to setup a meet and greet. Im out for a grain group as I have my next 6 batches lined up
as for their poor website; clicking refresh when my credit card info was in there worried me to say the least but i got my 2 tix and conformation e-mail. Do the golden tickets come in the mail?
yes they are mailed to you, after they sort out and make sure no one ordered 100 tickets or anything.
I'm all for a meet-up, we should set a place and approximate time.
There was still a huge line last year, even with the golden tickets, I stood in the line for the brew-pub instead, then after that went over and stood in line for 5 minutes to get my bottles. This year I don't know if I'll wait for hours to get into the brewpub.
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Primary: Nothin Secondary: Shady Lord RIS, Water to Barleywine, Pumpkin wine, burnt mead Kegged: Crappy infected mild Bottles: Apfelwein, 999 Barleywine, Oatmeal Stout, Robust Porter, Robust smoked porter, Simcoe Smash
got two tickets as well. I'm not really sure that i want that many bottles so i may just sell my extra ticket to someone at the fest that is in need and seems nice. I would be down for a meet and greet also.
got two tickets as well. I'm not really sure that i want that many bottles so i may just sell my extra ticket to someone at the fest that is in need and seems nice. I would be down for a meet and greet also.
That's a mighty good person of you. Most would buy as much as possible and sell the stuff they didn't want on Ebay. You can made MAD cash off them
That's a mighty good person of you. Most would buy as much as possible and sell the stuff they didn't want on Ebay. You can made MAD cash off them
I was unable to get tickets this year. I'd been following them on twitter, saw the announcement, but by the time I was home where I could order them (about an hour later), they were all sold out.
Fine, that's great. Not complaining about that.
Its just that as soon as I found out they were sold out, I immediately checked craigslist, and some dude was already trying to sell them for $250 for 2 tickets. Total BS. The posting has since been flagged for removal by someone.
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Yeah, people are already throwing them up all over craigslist, even though they won't have the tickets in hand for at least a couple of weeks. Even though I was lucky enough to get a couple I'm still going to flag any that I see up on craigslist.... a lot of people who actually wanted to try DL won't be able to because of these assholes. So far most of them are asking $100 for one ticket.
^ It's good but not that good. The sad part is someone will probably buy it and turn around and sell them for even more.That will be $40.00 a bottle if the price/quantity doesn't change from last year. This system is still better than standing in line for hours and not even getting a bottle or having to buy it at an inflated price from someone ahead of you.
I got my tickets. The server errors were very annoying. 3F should have made sure the transaction company was completely aware of the massive traffic they were about to encounter. Completing the transaction was very difficult, and I won't be surprised if I get billed multiple times.
Still worth it for the beer though. While it certainly is one of the most hyped beers, it's wonderful. It is so massive and flavorful. Definitely for special occasions only.
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