The difference being I didn't wear the Lurchador mask
The mask contains your power.
The difference being I didn't wear the Lurchador mask
The planning for the entry/bottle line was a joke. You weren't getting out of that one happy, dry, or with a functioning bladder.
Everyone on top of each other in every tent.
The lines for everything were just so long. The vouchers made everyone stand in them to get their money's worth for the fest. I was lucky and caught the food line when it was only about 15 minutes. The other times I walked by, it was twice as long.
lurchingbeast nailed it. The built in cost of the vouchers without more booths set up caused many people, including myself, to feel compelled to use their vouchers and stand in ridiculous lines. I spent over an hour alone in one beer line.Crazy. Ain't like it's their first rodeo.
All I saw was reg DL. No variants. One guy was cool enough to give me a pour from the vanilla handjee it was great.Any gems pop up in guest taps? Struggled to find ones I wanted to drink 10+ oz of, unlike last year.
I used 2 tickets. Was drinking way to much good stuff in the tents to wait hours for taps.lurchingbeast nailed it. The built in cost of the vouchers without more booths set up caused many people, including myself, to feel compelled to use their vouchers. I spent over an hour alone in one beer line.
Still had fun though.
I got a couple pours, then got into the ridiculous food line to order one of everything and spend the rest of our tickets. Dark Lord ice cream is... interesting.I used 2 tickets. Was drinking way to much good stuff in the tents to wait hours for taps.
Given some time to reflect I believe this is the last DLD for us as well, at least going into the annual line waiting festival, likely just stay outside at the compound going forward and engage in drinking significantly better beer being shared than the crap they had on tap this time around.
Volunteers were awesome and doing the best they could to work the horribly mismanaged event, especially the ridiculous North gate line which took us an hour and a half to get through starting around 9:30. Volunteer accidentally gave me two wristbands so after going on in and getting food, checking out the underwhelming options inside and coming back out to the compound I found a guy way back in line to give the extra wristband to so he can skip the ******** at the north gate.
The bottle line was extremely well run, great job there, but that's basically the end of the good highlights of the day. Between reports of shitty people stealing bottles as always, including a few issues at the compound, the horrible weather, no bathroom options in the north gate line resulting in people peeing through the fence, nothing of particular interest on the guest taps save a few things here and there, lines on top of lines with more lines, the $40 in vouchers that no one actually used (between the two of us we had $60 in vouchers left unused that we gave away), having to get police involved after JDF out of nowhere got super aggressive and said that my wife and I were committing animal cruelty by taking our dog to DLD and that he was going to release a video of the dog on my wife's lap unless I apologized to JEG for calling him out back in August for going through the New Glarus line twice, **** it man.
Came back to the house to play two day old Yellow Rose pong at 4 and crack all the **** we didn't get to and had a way better time among our small group away from the rain and cold, which turned into the highlight of DLD. Great seeing everyone and big thanks to a ton of great TBers for making the best of a shitty situation, you know who you are. Cheers.
More JEG: he threatened to have me kicked out and actually called me a c**t when I refused his demands on where to stand as he was playing Paul Blart line cop.
I had fun in last year's monsoon. I was miserable today and left to go sleep in the car at 2 completely sober.
The difference being I didn't wait in a single line last year.
This was probably my last DLD. rmalinowski4 suggested not buying tickets and if the weather was nice just showing up at the compound/Rose Hulman tent. I'm leaning that way.
Who is JDF?Given some time to reflect I believe this is the last DLD for us as well, at least going into the annual line waiting festival, likely just stay outside at the compound going forward and engage in drinking significantly better beer being shared than the crap they had on tap this time around.
Volunteers were awesome and doing the best they could to work the horribly mismanaged event, especially the ridiculous North gate line which took us an hour and a half to get through starting around 9:30. Volunteer accidentally gave me two wristbands so after going on in and getting food, checking out the underwhelming options inside and coming back out to the compound I found a guy way back in line to give the extra wristband to so he can skip the ******** at the north gate.
The bottle line was extremely well run, great job there, but that's basically the end of the good highlights of the day. Between reports of shitty people stealing bottles as always, including a few issues at the compound, the horrible weather, no bathroom options in the north gate line resulting in people peeing through the fence, nothing of particular interest on the guest taps save a few things here and there, lines on top of lines with more lines, the $40 in vouchers that no one actually used (between the two of us we had $60 in vouchers left unused that we gave away), having to get police involved after JDF out of nowhere got super aggressive and said that my wife and I were committing animal cruelty by taking our dog to DLD and that he was going to release a video of the dog on my wife's lap unless I apologized to JEG for calling him out back in August for going through the New Glarus line twice, **** it man.
Came back to the house to play two day old Yellow Rose pong at 4 and crack all the **** we didn't get to and had a way better time among our small group away from the rain and cold, which turned into the highlight of DLD. Great seeing everyone and big thanks to a ton of great TBers for making the best of a shitty situation, you know who you are. Cheers.
More JEG: he threatened to have me kicked out and actually called me a c**t when I refused his demands on where to stand as he was playing Paul Blart line cop.
All of this after powz87 made a ten minute speech about how JEG wasnt that bad. Lol.That is all unfortunate. Makes me glad I stayed on my couch yesterday.
JEG really is the lowest form of a human being out there. He'll get his day just like the O'Doyles did when they hit that banana peel in the road in their station wagon.
having to get police involved after JDF out of nowhere got super aggressive and said that my wife and I were committing animal cruelty by taking our dog to DLD and that he was going to release a video of the dog on my wife's lap unless I apologized to JEG for calling him out back in August for going through the New Glarus line twice, **** it man.
Any gems pop up in guest taps? Struggled to find ones I wanted to drink 10+ oz of, unlike last year.
I remember last year barely being able to walk I had to piss so bad at one point and choosing the fence piss option about half way through when it was clear all hope was lost. I mean it WAS one of the greatest, most life altering pisses of my life
More JEG: he threatened to have me kicked out and actually called me a c**t when I refused his demands on where to stand as he was playing Paul Blart line cop.
Any impressions on any of the non vanilla variants?
BADL variants - Handjee was marshmallow goodness as always. Legio Gemina (Pineau de Charentes barrels) was decent. Not good but better than expected. Haven't had any of the other ones yet. The rain washed off most of the hand numbering and many of the paper labeled variants this year. I have a feeling this year's DLs will all look like Brabantiae bottles.Any impressions on any of the non vanilla variants?
So for E group people, what variants were actually left to choose from?
It felt like slim pickings even in group C
Power Bottom was decent.Any impressions on any of the non vanilla variants?
I would like to apologize to Kevin and his wife regarding this. His recap was accurate and my actions were unwarranted. If someone could please forward my apologies to him in case he does not see this. Hope everyone had a good Dark Lord Day, it wouldn't be DLD without cold and rain I guess.
Interesting. I was right behind you, maybe by 5 minutes... I thought I was pretty close to the front of B since most of the people ahead of me had A tickets. Maybe I was wrong. All I know was that when we got into the brewery about 12:45 they had placed "sold out" signs on both vanillas.Hmmmmmm... We were in Group B and both got French Vanilla. When I went through around 12:40 there were about 5 cases left.
Interesting. I was right behind you, maybe by 5 minutes... I thought I was pretty close to the front of B since most of the people ahead of me had A tickets. Maybe I was wrong. All I know was that when we got into the brewery about 12:45 they had placed "sold out" signs on both vanillas.
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