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Date: April 25, 2009

Overview

Dark Lord Day 2009 was held on Saturday, April 25th. This was the first year of the Golden Ticket system. Golden tickets were sold online in advance, and would guarantee you an allotment of 4 bottles of Dark Lord. They did not restrict you to one ticket per person, so a single person could use two Golden Tickets to receive a double allotment (8 bottles). Bottle sales for ticket holders were scheduled from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm. Many people were less concerned with getting in line early because they had a ticket, and chose to get in line later in the day. The ticket system resulted in much faster lines than the previous year.

Because of rainy conditions late in the afternoon, many people left. Around 4:00 or 5:00 pm, Three Floyd's brought out more Golden Tickets and sold them to the public. Reportedly you could walk up right before the 6:00 pm cutoff and receive a Golden Ticket and an allotment of Dark Lord.

Each golden ticket also came with a free draft pour or Dark Lord (you could pay $5 to upgrade this to an Oak Aged, or Vanilla Bean Dark Lord). The ticket was punched to indicate you had used your free draft pour.

Around 4,000 tickets were sold, but attendance was closer to 7,000. While tickets were required to purchase Dark Lord, you could still attend the festival without one.

Details

The festival started at 11:00 am.

Wax Color

White

Allotment & Price

4 bottles per Golden Ticket. $15 a bottle.

Attendance

Estimated 7,000.

4000 tickets sold.

Taplist

Notable FFF taps:

• 2008 Dark Lord
• 2008 Vanilla Bean Dark Lord
• 2008 Oak Aged Dark Lord
• Banana Split Seven-Inch (collaboration with The Publican)
• Devil's Handshake
• Slave Princess (Dark Lord parti gyle brew)
• Omeganaught
• Hyena
• Black Sun

Guest taps:

11:00 am

• Pizza Port Carlsbad’s Poorman’s Double IPA
• Stone Levitation
• Rock Bottom Chicago, Bourbon Imperial Stout
• Three Floyds/DogfishHead Popskull!
• Firestone Walke Union Jack IPA
• Flossmoor Station White Lady Imperial Witt

12:00 noon

• 2006 Stone Brandy Barrel Aged Double Bastard
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Trigger Happy
• Synebynkoff Porter
• DogfishHead Palo Santo
• Three Floyds Oak Aged Behemoth
• Flossmoor Station X-IPA

1:00 pm

• Stone R.I.S. 2007
• Pizza Port Solana Booya Steez
• J.W. Lee’s Harvest Ale
• Dogfish Head Fort
• Three Floyds Oak Aged Behemoth with cherries
• Victory golden Monkey

2:00 pm

• Stone Old guardian barleywine aged in red wine barrels
• Pizza Port Faceplant
• Gordon Biersch Bollingbrook
• Three Floyds Oak Aged Dark Lord
• Three Floyds Oak Aged Alpha Klaus
• Bell’s Hopslam

3:00 pm

• Stone Smoked Porter
• Pizza Port Solana Parable Pale
• Firestone Walker Abacus
• Struise Black Albert

4:00 pm

• Stone IPA
• Pizza Port San Clemente Infamous Chocolate Imperial Stout
• Stone Bourbon Barrel Arrogant Bastard
• Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

5:00 pm

• Stone Vertical Epic
• Surly Teabagged Furious cask
• Founders Dry-hopped IPA Cask

6:00 pm

• Stone 10th Anniversary

7:00 pm

• Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine

Notable To Go Beers

Hvedegoop

Food

• Mussels steamed in Gumballhead with bacon, fennel, celery, garlic, and dried chili
• Pulled Pork Sandwich with Coleslaw

Weather

High: 78 °F Low: 42 °F

Sunny and warm in the morning, thunderstorms in the afternoon with a sharp drop in temperature around 5:45 pm.

Bands

• Pelican
• Waco Brothers
• Sybris
• Bible of the Devil

Videos