Dark Lord Day 2009

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.

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 – 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 – 2006 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 – R.I.S. 2007 – Pizza Port Solana Booya Steez – J.W. Lee’s Harvest Ale – DogfishHead Fort – Three Floyds Oak Aged Behemoth with cherries – Victory golden Monkey

2:00 – Old guardian barlewine 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 – Stone Smoked Porter – Pizza Port Solana Parable Pale – Firestone Walker Abacus – Struise Black Albert

4:00 – Stone IPA – Pizza Port San Clemente Infamous Chocolate Imperial Stout – Stone Bourbon Barrel Arrogant Bastard – Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

5:00 – Stone Vertical Epic – Surly Teabagged Furious cask – Founders Dry-hopped IPA Cask

6:00 – Stone 10th Anniversary

7:00 – 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