Jason the Magnificent
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Dark Lord Day 2010
Tickets sold out in one hour. I have two. My wife rules so much it's not even funny. I'm stuck in Iowa. Over.
Steel Nation rules ok.
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Damn you Jason!  Looks like a really good time. Me and Dave went to Kate the Great
Day a couple weeks ago. They were supposed to start handing out calendar pages for bottles at 7AM, and start selling at 9AM. We lined up at 5:40 and
discovered they had handed them out starting at midnight and just gave the last one out. No bottles for us, cept a few other beers of theirs. The rest
of their lineup is quite tasty, including a really good milk stout. Fucking pissed me off to see a bunch of bottles on ebay immediately after that
day. It'd be really nice to see the hype train biters move on to something new.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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Curious to see if it's the same 4 bottles per ticket limit. Looking at BA, it seems like almost 6000 orders went through in an hour (gotta figure most
of those were 2 tickets each)...that's pretty nuts. Crashed the site of their sales provider several times.
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Stupid Portsmouth Brewery........
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Stoked for tomorrow even though it's going to be pouring all day. Dark Lord is 15% this year....no word on bottle limits though.
Guest taps...
Stone Brewing
Vertical Epic 08-08-08
Old Guardian 2006
Old Guardian aged in Red Wine Barrels
Southern Tier
Choklat
Javah
Oak Aged Unearthly
Bells
Hopslam
Poolside
Barrel Aged Hell Hath No Fury
Gouden Carolus
Cuvee’ The Emperor Blau 2007
Upland Brewing
Infinite Wisdom Triple
Light Wave
Scotch Ale
Firkin ? (surprise)
Founders
Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Double Dry Hopped Centennial IPA firkin
New Belgium
Eric’s Ale
New Albanian
Old Ale
Dogfish Head
Fort
Burton Baton
Old School
Van Steenberge
Klokke Roland
Victory
St Victorious
St Boisterous
Smoked Oatmeal Porter
Dark Horse
Double Crooked Tree
Petrus
Oud Bruin
Ommegang
Belgian Pale Ale
Schlafly
Quadruple
Barrel Aged Smoked Porter
Brooklyn
Brewmaster’s Reserve Cookie Jar Porter
Brewmaster’s Reserve Sorachi Ace
Sierra Nevada
30th Anniversary Fritz and Ken’s ale
Pizza Port Carlsbad
10th ann. Bel strong ale
Pizza Port San Clemente
B.A. Infamous Imp stout
Sticky Stout
Cigar City
Brandy winter warmer
Surly
Tea Bagged Furious Firkin
Flossmoor
.357 imp pils
1492 IPA
Avery
Moloch
Maharaja
Bourbon bbl oatmeal
Meph addict
Depuceluese
Joe American Pil
Uberschwein
Boulevard
Tank 7
Firestone Walker
Union Jack
Pale 31
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to give a scale of how many knuckleheads will STILL be there in the shitty weather...their parking map. Outside of the green lots the entire street
from the main traffic light street wrapping all the way around past FFF and to the other entrance to that street will also be packed w/ cars except
where that bold red line/lines are.
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BDx13
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Somehow i completely missed out on that Smoked Oatmeal Porter from Victory.
Everytime I was there over the winter they were out and now it's done for the season.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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I think all those breweries save small amounts for "event" tappings. That Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout is the same way...the 4 packs went on sale
and were gone 2 day later...but it keeps popping up randomly at places on tap.
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Have fun Jason. Should be some good beers being shared in the lineup too, so keep an eye out
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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Total....clusterfuck. Least amount of fun I've ever had at a beer related event. Got my 6 allotted bottles and fled the scene before I flipped out.
Way too many fucking people.
http://blogs.post-trib.com/bort/2010/04/dark-lord-day-live-b...
3rd picture down....imagine that wide ass line going back about 200 feet then branching in 2 different directions once it hit the street, with both
branches about 1/4mi long. 2.5 hr wait once I got in line around 2:30.
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waiting in lines like that AND running?
miserable.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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Yeah that was because they weren't allowing anyone on the property untill like 10am...so all the people that had been there since like 6am rushed up
to the door as soon as they were allowed in the lot. Kind of stupid...I can understand not wanting people loitering about...but get a normal line
going right off the bat.
But that's 3 Floyds...if they can't do it half assed they wont do it at all. They do make one hell of a beer though. Finally getting to sit here and
enjoy a bottle and it's pretty damn amazing.
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Yeah, I'm hearing more than a few bad things about this year's DLD. Mostly about rude, ignorant staff there. Sounds like pretty piss poor
organization. Agreed about the beer though, very good stuff 
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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I think the main problem with the event is they always try to improve what they did wrong last year. The reason that's a problem, is they're not
getting the crowd from last year, they're getting the crowd for this year. If you have a party and 100 people show up and you were prepared for 10
you're obviously goign to have issues. So next year when you have a party and prepare for 100 people and 500 people show up you're going to have a
whole new set of issues.
At this point the event is like a snowball, picking up momentum and people each year. It definitely has outgrown the property...but I don't know
that'd be the same somewhere else....and frankly I don't know that they'd want to try it. Right now they're paying people to clean up their property
and neighbors property. To move it and have to also rent a space is a huge financial loss compared to what they have now. Ultimately people are going
to keep showing up...so alienating the old salt of FFF crowd is a small price to pay. I don't believe that FFF doesn't care about their customers like
some of the BA cuckoo's are ranting about...but this is a huge money maker for them and a huge free ad...it was in every damn paper in the Chicago
metro area. It'll be interesting to see how they adress the problems of this year. The biggest of which would be dropping the bottle allottment from 4
per ticket to 3 and the total disregard for sineage of any type. Really some cheap posterboard and sharpy signs for what tent was what so you at last
had a fighting chance to figure out what line you were in would have been a HUGE improvement.
The complaints about the FFF staff I'd take with a grain of salt. I'm sure some of them had had their fill by the end of the day, there were a LOT of
morons there...which is no excuse to be rude, but the bartenders in the brewpub get stressed out when they have more than 3 orders at once (even
though it's always packed) so those people should be glad they didn't go postal.
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For sure, I've never been there myself and I'm only going on what I've heard (previously as well as on DLD). I'd be pretty unimpressed about the
bottle limit dropping part way through the day, that's pretty greasy. Anyways, at least you got your bottles. Enjoy!
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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