Comments on: How to solve Three Floyds’ Dark Lord Day?

By: beersage

beersage — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:06:29 +0000

Yup, they should have a ‘mug club’ so to speak for regulars and offer them at least a bottle each.

By: indianabreweryfan

indianabreweryfan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:11:25 +0000

my problem with this is I live 5 min from the brewery and I go to the brewery once a week to eat and have some great brews. I support my local brewery so why should someone that lives in florida be able to buy up 6 bottles and sell 5 on ebay when i helped pay their bills and want the beer to drink and age? also my father and I have the same name so will i only be able to submit my name and he is out of luck?

By: beersage

beersage — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:28:41 +0000

Damn, yea musta been awesome to be the first people on the beer bandwagon, having all the Dark Lord you want! I miss being able to pop into Portsmouth for growlers of Kate the Great.

By: Jon B

Jon B — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:08:47 +0000

I got there around 9:30 parked around the corner and ate some pancakes I made that morning. Got in line around 10 and started drinking with some people from around the country. I had a case of Hopslam and gave many of them away. I had 2 douchebags just barging their way to the front after they already bought! I was waiting to get mine when these guys just walked right past everyone INCLUDING 3F SECURITY CREW!!! Went up and bought 6 more and as they walked away announced they were selling it on ebay! WTF!! Yes last year they were not prepared. More porta potties and better security. I like the ticket idea. Too bad I won’t make it this year. Moved to Cali and enjoying Russian River and Port Brewing now. Would still go back given the chance. Hope they make it better for everyone. It was only a few years ago that Barnaby was sitting on pallets trying to sell the stuff. I remember my buddy buying a mini keg of it. I went to the second one and there was only the usuals from the $5 a cup drink as much as you want in the brewery!

By: ChicagoMike

ChicagoMike — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:28:18 +0000

Allow a line to form, say 8AM? People are lining up already before the sun rises! THOUSANDS of people show up, with a limit of 6 bottles per person, and they still ran out with hundreds left in line. This brewery is not that big, so the solution is not to make more, they are making as much as they can while maintaining their other beers. Again this is a SMALL brewery. I made it there in 2008 at around 9:30AM and I had to stand in line for hours, I was probably in the first thousand people in line. You have to park up to a mile away and walk to the line, and the line goes very far, and of course can’t be single file or it would require police intervention (which the Munster police are already involved in the current Dark Lord days and the news media). This is BIG and getting BIGGER. I may be camping out for this one.

By: berserker

berserker — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:43:19 +0000

Why don’t they just brew more beer?

DLD is nothing more than marketing: Limited supply and increased hype.

By: beersage

beersage — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:28:42 +0000

All good points, Jason! Of course you will have your scalliwags that allege they were “in the bathroom.”

By: Brad Chmielewski

Brad Chmielewski — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:49:10 +0000

This seems like a really good idea and I hope it works out.

By: thimbledrome

thimbledrome — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:15:42 +0000

Why not do something similar to what many of the stores do for Black Friday?

Let’s say that there are 12,000 bottles:

1. Allow a line to form at whatever time people are willing to get there.

2. At a specified time (say, 8:00 AM), go through the line giving out tickets to the first 1000 people in line.

3. Each ticket allows the person to purchase up to 10 bottles of DL.

4. Once all of those 1000 people have gone through the line, allow whoever is in line after that to purchase up to 2 bottles of DL. That would allow an additional 1000 people a chance to get a few bottles. And if there aren’t 1000 additional people then those who got their 10 could go back through the line.

This way, those who make the effort to get there early get rewarded for their effort, but a lot of people still get to get some DL. And I can’t imagine that this wouldn’t be waaaaaaaay less complicated than having people register on their website and go through all that hassle.

Just my two cents.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:59:31 +0000

This past Darkness day at Surly, they had two people go down the line checking ID’s and handing out wristbands. One wristband for buying Darkness (unitl they would run out of wristbands) and one to show that you’ve been carded and are over 21. I don’t know exactly how many people showed up total, but it didn’t look like they had any problems and that carding that many people wasn’t that bad at all.

By: beersage

beersage — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:05 +0000

That is correct.

By: cinchel

cinchel — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:53:48 +0000

so since the announcement is down so is the email registration?

By: beersage

beersage — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:40:00 +0000

Or you could go even further and require full address and match it up to a license on DL Day.

Someone on BA said ‘Check over 2000 IDs? No thanks.’ But they gotta check IDs anyway right? I still think they are going to do this right provided they take it a couple steps further to follow through.

By: beersage

beersage — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:37:32 +0000

Andy, I’m thinking if they require city, STATE they can solve that issue for the most part.

Too bad for the two John Smiths that happen to both live in Indianapolis though…

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:31:03 +0000

Sure they might know to knock out the 10 Steve Wolojohanksi submissions, but what about more popular name like John Smith? You could easily have multiple people with the same name sign up…
Regardless, I do like a “ticket” system much better, I just hope they make it work…

By: Jarrett

Jarrett — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:53:25 +0000

I am 100% with your thoughts on this. Some people travel across the country to get some Dark Lord and have come up empty. At least this way that shouldn’t happen. Plus, up to a case, hell yeah that’s 12 bottles! I have a feeling if you can buy that many then they probably have a lot more to sell this year as well and the lottery will serve more as a way to coordinate the event and keep things fair. People need to quit bitching, everything about this is better.