Dark Lord Day!

This past weekend we took a short trip down to Munster, Indiana to partake in the world famous "Dark Lord Day" put on by Three Floyds Brewery ( http://www.threefloydspub.com/ ) once every year.

Essentially the "Dark Lord" is a HUGE imperial stout which imparts so many subtle flavors that it boggles the mind...seriously after one sip at the festival we all looked at each other and just said "wow" and agreed that it was difficult to even start describing what was going on with this jet black stout.

The actual event was what I would classify as just "ok", meaning that it was certainly an experience but after waiting in line (which ended up in the thousands of folks from as far as Japan) for 5 hours to get our bottles you were kinda left with the sense of "what now...". Well "what now" ended up being sampling just a few beers (a good cask bitter, and a Russion River brew), listening to a brief amount of heavy metal from a local band in the brewery wharehouse and jumping back on the road to Chicago. Granted the location is in Munster, IN and to be fair..well..there's not much going on down in Munster, but please keep in mind that I'm not faulting the event on the location but rather what was available at the fest....4 bottles of DL-good, 2 food stands and no access (well under a 2 hour wait) to the brewpub-bad.

Anyhow..the DL is a extremely chewy and robust stout and it's going to be very difficult to leave the remaining 2/4 that I have along for a year +

At $15 per bottle (22oz) and a limit of 6 per person you can bet we will be cellaring these bad boys for some time.

...also check ot the metal group that opened up at 11am....if this stuff does not get you drinking a beer called "Dark Lord" nothing will...