Central PA to Munster IN: Straight drive = 10.5 hours, the time it took us: 18 hrs

Thursday
-Selinsgrove Brewery (PA) our first stop to fill up grolwers to take to darklord day to share.
-Buckeye Beer Engine (Cleveland, OH) In addition to brewing their own beer, they had an awesome array for a draft lineup. I consumed meni glasses of Sierra Nevada Bigfoot barleywine vintage 2004.

Friday
-Some park in the middle of Chicago, IL that had a bean sculpture that mindfucked me and i nearly passed out. (pic below)
-Some random bar at 10:30 in the morning because we couldnt get into our hotel yet.
-Hotel to drop off beer
-Goose Island Brewery (holy shit this place was awesome, it would be worth the drive just to have their beer.) I consumed the following: Maple Syrup barrel aged bacon stout, chocolate sout, bourbon barrel imperial stout, bourbon barrel doppelbock, bourbon barrel nightstalker, bourbon county stout, bourbon county coffee stout
-Some bottle shop where I purchased some things we cant get on the east coast.
-Passed out at the hotel since it was now roughtly 36 hours since any of us had any form of sleep.
Woke up 3 hours later to go have dinner and a beer before going gn8.

Saturday
Woke up at 7:30 a.m. for the DarkLord Day. Took 2 coolers full of beer for trading and sharing purposes and had one hell of a fucking time. Already planning what we would do differently next year. (pics below)

The bean

The partners in crime

At one point, our cooler setup became a mobile tasting table where people just put random awesome bottles of beer on the coolers for people to pour their own samples and try stuff. This pic was taken early on. Every bottle that emptied, 2 more different ones replaced them.

A glass of darklord from the taps held up against the croud of people waiting in line.

The stage that was set up inside the brewery for multiple metal bands that played.

A small section of the brewery and people just wandering around.


this is a bad pic, but it is taken from inside the church works brewery in Pittsburg. It was our only stop on the way home. It is a microbrewery set up inside of a church and the actually brewing takes place where the old catholic alter was...

Bottles attained via the trip:
The dark lord itself (3 bottle limit per person)


I traded a fellow some PA stuff for a bottle of darklord from last year (white wax)


Other assorted goodies

That all looks amazing, though the metal bands should be playing where the altar in the church was.

Ivan the Terrible =

bottle #1388 out of 3000

So I think I am going next year.

looks awesome ofc

Sums it up.

Can I get a tl;dr on the Dark Lord shit that I clearly have no idea about, as well as the Stormtrooper Stout.

og;dc

gfy

clearly our fault you're clearly old enough to buy beer

it's fucking beer dude. get fkd and forget about it. only beer I drink is presidente. are you putting this in your book xstakemx? let me know man

I didn't realize that you were an Ozzy.

hes proal here illegally too

overly hyped beer that people flock to in masses to buy because it is made in limited quantities and therefore sold only 1 day out of the year at an overpriced amount

regardless, if I wanted to be "that guy" i could resell my bottles at 300% or more profit because for every person who attended the release there are 10 times as many people who want the beer but would rather pay insane amounts of money to clearly have to deal with the hassels of traveling and large crouds

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26/7520

i think we have a legit chins moment here

crouds

why crowd auto corrects to croud on my phone

perhaps evan and other mac people can pliz explain

hassels was a legit typo

Is it good enough to be worth clearly reselling?

i like the bottle designs

honestly, yes
i was completely taken back on how good it really is

send me a bottle of your piss after you consume the next one

fly out to pa and drink one with me gary and dan?

ive gotta head to illinois in july, maybe in the fall we could make something happen. any releases around fall time in your neck of the woods?
and im still planning on blizzcon too

shouldnt you be drinking protein shakes or whey mixed with oatmeal?

ilu adam. we need to drink sometime.

hey now

dark lord imperial stout

>666 reviews