Dark Lord 2016

[Joebrew1]

Need much tip touching...

 

[Joebrew1]

Or at a minimum tip pics.

 

[MarcatGSB1]

i had a great time. am home now drying. beer was good, lines were tolerable (i didn't even try for food as those were the worst lines). most ridiculous siting was this guy

fedora, proper overcoat, nice suit, bow tie, and some ****** up ass boots. i wanted to spit on him in the end run. good day!

The boats are absolutely legit.
Edit: boots, the boots.

 

[RedCoffee]

When I woke up I was told that there would be pics of me on the internet for people to laugh at. S'all I'm saying here.

 

[nsh221]

The boats are absolutely legit.

not with the rest of the outfit. you want to dress like a 1930's gangster, then i'm sorry, you don't get to tuck your pants into some l.l. bean shoe/boots.

 

[gtx281]

Tips?

 

[daniel1]

Tips?

That's amazing.

 

[disapowzment]

Tips?

The best tip would be the suggestion of porta potties in the line to get in, but hey maybe they wanted a piss fence. I felt like Ray from trailer park boys filling up piss jugs and firing them over the fence

 

[RedCoffee]

Bet the volunteers got ****** on tips today. I bet very few people pulled out their wet wallet to specifically add cash to a cashless transaction.

 

[franch]

imagine my surprise when I went in as group E and I could buy akvavit and three of the new wine variants. Earl and muerte were all sold out.

 

[pgh_penguins]

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/ft-marshmallow-handjee.411981/
#newmoney about to be going hard in the paint

 

[regularjohn]

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/ft-marshmallow-handjee.411981/
#newmoney about to be going hard in the paint

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[evilc]

^ need more Likes for this. Reddit Gold status.

 

[pgh_penguins]

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[evilc]

Dat acronym work.

 

[Dunt1]

I'm old and busted, but today was ******* awful. Holy **** beer is retarded.

 

[lb304854]

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.

 

[evilc]

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.

That sucks. Lot of effort goes into it for you guys I know from following along here. We talking torrential rains or was it more beer 2016 that ruined it?

 

[lb304854]

That sucks. Lot of effort goes into it for you guys I know from following along here. We talking torrential rains or was it more beer 2016 that ruined it?

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.

 

[evilc]

Crazy. Ain't like it's their first rodeo.

 

[RedCoffee]

The difference being I didn't wear the Lurchador mask

The mask contains your power.

 

[mrpeterandthepuffers]

I got sort of drunk and left a styro six shipper at least partially full of stuff at the compound -rum bt, backyard, etc.If anyone grabbed it and would ship it back to me that would be awesome.

 

[Lansman]

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 shitshow 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 ****** 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 ****** situation, you know who you are. Cheers.

 

[daniel1]

Of course the word "Chicago" is in his handle.

 

[BobCobb1]

Any gems pop up in guest taps? Struggled to find ones I wanted to drink 10+ oz of, unlike last year.

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

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.

Crazy. Ain't like it's their first rodeo.

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.

Still had fun though.

 

[jdd419]

Any gems pop up in guest taps? Struggled to find ones I wanted to drink 10+ oz of, unlike last year.

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.

 

[jdd419]

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 used 2 tickets. Was drinking way to much good stuff in the tents to wait hours for taps.

 

[ckoop]

Wow, I am surprised they didn't address the bathroom situation at the north gate corral since this was an issue 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, but not something I want to relive!

I'm surprised so many people were not thrilled with the guest taps since that always seemed more like a bonus that I might drink something cool, rather than a highlight of the fest for me. Since I'm not local to the area I was always just buying FFF taps the past couple of years with occaisionaly guest tap thrown in. But I guess since you were forced this year to have money allocated to buying food or taps, I can see why there would be greater demand for quality.

The weather, well, no surprise there!

 

[ApocalypseZombie]

I used 2 tickets. Was drinking way to much good stuff in the tents to wait hours for taps.

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.