Dark Lord Day 2010

[RC0032]

I was looking more beer than liquor but ya.

Looks like there are a few:
http://beermapping.com/maps/reviews/reviews.php?locid=1588
http://beermapping.com/maps/reviews/reviews.php?locid=1575

 

[RC0032]

I was looking more beer than liquor but ya.

Looks like there are a few:
http://beermapping.com/maps/reviews/reviews.php?locid=1588
http://beermapping.com/maps/reviews/reviews.php?locid=1575

 

[conpewter]

We got any way to meet set up yet? Something as simple as a sign with HBT on it tapped up somewhere would be enough to gather together.

 

[IrregularPulse]

Well today is a sad day. It would be a day of packing and trailer hitching and driving in anticipation for drunken fun, but it is not. Have fun everyone.

 

[mrbugawkagawk]

i believe its delocks

^ If your talking about a good liquor store close by last year when we were in line they were passing out fliers for a place and since we weren't prepared we took a ride over there. They had a nice selection. I can't remember the name.It's on Indianapolis Blvd. between 45th and Ridge Rd. on the west side of the street not too far from FFF. If you're interested I'll ask my friend if he remembers the name.

 

[RandalG]

I was looking more beer than liquor but ya.

Looks like there are a few:
http://beermapping.com/maps/reviews/reviews.php?locid=1588
http://beermapping.com/maps/reviews/reviews.php?locid=1575

That's the place The Liquor Stop. They have a nice selection of beers and reasonably priced too. Read some of the comments in your link. That's a nice link to have btw.Thanks for posting.

 

[RC0032]

We got any way to meet set up yet? Something as simple as a sign with HBT on it tapped up somewhere would be enough to gather together.

You still have my number? Call or txt. Im leaving the city around 9:30 and heading down.

 

[RC0032]

That's the place The Liquor Stop. They have a nice selection of beers and reasonably priced too. Read some of the comments in your link. That's a nice link to have btw.Thanks for posting.

Its a great website! I use it when I travel to find breweries, bars, stores, etc. Most of the time the comments are spot on!

 

[conpewter]

You still have my number? Call or txt. Im leaving the city around 9:30 and heading down.

Yep still got it, we'll be leaving around the same time. Not sure if I'll bring a whole cooler or just a backpack with a few beers in it and some chairs.

 

[oldschool]

here is my number: 812-630-9013. call or text. I'm at the inn of hamond currently drinking. I will probly be at the pub around 10ish. I have homebrew to share

 

[DRoyLenz]

I'm pumped for tomorrow. I'm only going to have my Cascadian Dark Ale, and not much of it, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye open for you guys. I'm thinking I'm probably going to wear my HBT patch, so, if someone sees a patch, give a holler.

 

[RandalG]

Got here at 6:30. Already a few 100 people in line.

 

[RC0032]

people already in line...wtf

 

[RandalG]

I can't believe it. Its cloudy all aroud us and there's a big open patch of sky right over FFF and the sun is shining. The beer gods are smiling upon this day. All hail the dark lord.

 

[conpewter]

About to head out! Looking forward to meeting ya'll. I have a HomeBrewTalk logo on my blue cooler (couldn't find my patch).

It'll be cool to meet you all, I have some homebrew I'm bringing along to share as well, water, soda etc.

I'll be around, probably in line for the brewpub at some point. I'll also have an extra sample of Dark Lord probably (you get one for each ticket)

 

[RC0032]

My number is 312 961 9518 I'm in line and will be for a looong time. Come join me

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

My number is 312 961 9518 I'm in line and will be for a looong time. Come join me

WTF this line is for people with tickets! And we will have to do this twice.

 

[conpewter]

Great times! Met up with Rich, sorry I didn't get a call in to you OldSchool. Definitely need to have some sort of HBT table next year or something, not sure exactly how to do that... and stand in line for DL.

This year there was still a huge line even at 5pm, but when I asked (we'd already gotten through line) they said if you had tickets you went right to the front.

They did limit Dark Lord to 3 bottles per ticket, they were doing 4 early in the day but cut it down to 3 by the time we'd gotten in there

 

[oldschool]

what a day, there is way too much to do. I got way too drunk and dropped an empty growler on the warehouse floor.

 

[RC0032]

woops...im sure they didnt like that.


Were they selling to people w/o tickets after 5pm Con?

 

[hopvine]

A bit disappointed that 3F decided to change the Golden ticket purchasable quantity from 4 to 3 arbitrarily halfway through the day. Isn't the whole point of the ticket system so that they know ahead of time exactly how many each person can buy? Would have hated to have been the poor guy that was first to find out that even though the guy ahead of him got 8 bottles, he was only allowed to purchase 6. Seems a bit shady to me.

 

[boostsr20]

I've still got some 2010 KBS and Hopslam if anyone wants to make a trade.

 

[conpewter]

I saw a few people still getting 8 bottles for 2 tickets but the person that was selling me bottles wouldn't budge on the new 3 bottle limit.

Anyway I didn't stay till much after 5, I asked the line (which was well within the 3 floyds parking lot, not in the street anymore) and they said they were in line for extras, but if you had a ticket you went straight to the front of the line. I don't know if they had anything left over, but people were lined up for it.

Also when Rich and I were getting bottles they were willing to sell 2009 bottles for $20 but only as a substitution for 2010, so 3 bottles no matter what vintage you got. I think the 2010 is a better vintage than 2009 so I didn't get any more '09

 

[hopvine]

Also when Rich and I were getting bottles they were willing to sell 2009 bottles for $20 but only as a substitution for 2010, so 3 bottles no matter what vintage you got. I think the 2010 is a better vintage than 2009 so I didn't get any more '09

Interesting, because they didn't count the 2009 bottles against the 3 bottle limit when I was up there. Sounds like 3F needs to work on their planning and communication, given how inconsistent they were in managing the sales.

 

[Scimmia]

The funny part about dropping from 4 per to 3 is that after all of the ticket holders got through, they still had extra they were selling at 3 per person. I went back and got 3 more, and one of my friends went through twice and got 6 more.

 

[conpewter]

I just gotta plan to stay later this year so I can go through a few more times. There are so many people I'd like to give it to this year.

 

[oldschool]

I would like to have NOT been blacked out by 3:00PM. The guest taps should not be 16ozers. I'm not responsible enough to manage my drunkenness so someone else should do it for me.

 

[RC0032]

I've still got some 2010 KBS and Hopslam if anyone wants to make a trade.

Trade for what? DL?


as for the 3 vs 4 thing...very sour taste in my mouth over that

 

[conpewter]

Hey Rich, since Tom "Knows people" think he could get me/us a grain bill for Dark Lord?

I just tried my "Clone" last night, it is not a bad beer, a little high in the fusel alcohols still, but it is more bitter than Dark Lord. That was my first time brewing an RIS and I think I have good bitterness for an RIS.... but Dark Lord doesn't really have a lot of hop bitterness, I'm dropping the hops down next time.

 

[bdnoona]

The funny part about dropping from 4 per to 3 is that after all of the ticket holders got through, they still had extra they were selling at 3 per person. I went back and got 3 more, and one of my friends went through twice and got 6 more.

This was un-effin-believable. A group of my friends got their guaranteed four bottles per ticket while I, stupidly joined another group in the brewpub, to give this brewery a couple more hundreds of dollars collectively for food and drink before picking up my "guaranteed" bottles. Guaranteed my @$$. They would only sell me three per ticket. And now to find out that they had so many left over that they were selling them to anyone who came along, three bottles at a time?!?!?!?!!!! I am so angry about how this went down. I don't think I'm going again.