15th Anniversary Party

Date: November 12, 2011

Overview

To celebrate their 15th anniversary, 3 Floyds threw an anniversary party. Along with the event 3 Floyds released Baller Stout, a special anniversary beer that's a blend of Surly Darkness, Mikkeller’s Beer Geek Brunch, De Struise’s Black Albert, and their own Dark Lord Imperial Stout. This was a ticketed event with tickets being sold both online and at the brewpub. The event featured guest taps by Surly, Mikkeller, and De Struise, and Port Brewing. Food by chefs Paul Kahan, Justin Large, Mindy Segal, Jonathan Sawyer, and the brewpub's chef, Mike Sheerin. The event also featured multiple bands headlined by the Melvins.

Event announcement from Three Floyds:

It will be a ticket only event, $25. 2500 tickets will be sold. Tickets will be sold on the internet at a Date To be Announced 700 tickets will be sold at the brewery at a Date To be Announced Pub investors will be given VIP tickets for the event and have a private area to chill in.

Our XV beer is going to be a collaboration between us (USA), Surly (USA), Mikkeller (Denmark), and Struise (Belgium). We are brewing Surly Darkness, Mikkeller’s Beer Geek Brunch, De Struise’s Black Albert, and our Dark Lord Imperial Stout. All these beers will be blended to create our XV beer for maximum ass kickery.

The XV beer will be bottled and sold for $30 per bottle to all those in attendance. The Bottle allotment will be determined when the beer is packaged.

All of the breweries will be represented with their beer and their entourages

There is going to be a live entertainment as well. The line up is yet to be announced, but it will be something special.

There will be 5 world renown chefs from all over the 7 kingdoms. Jonathan Sawyer from The Greenhouse Tavern in Ohio, Paul Kahan and Justin Large from Big Star in Chicago, Mindy Segal from Hot Chocolate in Chicago and our own Mike Sheerin as well as a special guest from Denmark.

All updates will come through the website and subsequently be cross posted to twitter and facebook.

Details

The festival gates opened at 1:00 pm.

Wax Color

Yellow

Allotment & Price

$30 a bottle.

Attendance

2,500

Notable To Go Beers

After you received your 3 bottles of Baller Stout, if you were early enough you had a chance to buy 1 of 6 different barrel aged beers:

• 2011 Brandy Barrel Aged Dark Lord
• Cuvee De Viking
• SoBro
• Biggs’ ‘Stache
• Barrel Aged Owde Engwish Bahwey Whine
• Conquistador de Muerte Porto

Ticket Sales

Cost: $25

Vendor: Music Today

Date: 10/10/2011

Number of tickets sold: ~2,500 (1,800 online, 700 brewpub)

Tickets went on sale on October 10th at 1 p.m.

Ticket sales announcement by Three Floyds: (posted Oct 5th)

On Monday, October 10th (It’s Columbus day: a holiday), at 1 p.m. tickets will go on sale on-line… The link to the ticket site will be posted earlier in the day on the blog, twitter, and facebook.

Tickets will be $25 each with a limit of two per person. This is a 21+ event.

We are setting aside a portion of tickets to be sold on site. Details about these tickets will be announced soon.

Brewpub sales were then announced Oct 8th.

In an effort to give our pub regulars an opportunity to buy tickets to our anniversary party, we will be selling a limited number of tickets at the brewery tomorrow (Sunday, October 9) at 10am.

There will be a 2 ticket per person limit (ID required) and the sales will be cash only (an ATM will be available).

Absolutely no access to the property is allowed before 10am and the parking lot will be closed to vehicles until the pub opens at noon. Please respect our neighbor’s property and do not park on their lawns.

Case beer carry out sales will be available at the same time (cash only)

Bands

• Sybris
• Gorch Fock
• Young Widows
• Sweet Cobra
• Municipal Waste
• Melvins