Dark Lord Day 2012
Date: April 28, 2012
Contents
Overview
Dark Lord Day 2012 was held on Saturday, April 28th. The attendance and festival layout was largely unchanged from 2011. Lawn chairs and full size coolers were no longer allowed inside the festival gates, this helped alleviate crowding. As with 2011, barrel aged Dark Lord variants were only available inside the brewpub.
While the Group A sales went smoothly, by Group C the lines were no longer orderly and crowded inside the gates. The time in line was significantly longer for the later groups.
Details
The festival gates opened at 10:00 am.
Wax Color
Red
Allotment & Price
4 bottles. $15 a bottle.
Attendance
Estimated 6,000
Notable To Go Beers
- Baller Stout
- BA Alpha Klaus
- Mutiny and The Mollusk (Half Acre collab)
Food
Weather
High: 50 °F Low: 42 °F
Rain in the early hours (6:00 am). Overcast the rest of the day.
Festival Map & Layout
Ticket Sales
Cost: $15
Vendor: Music Today
Date: 3/17/2012
Number of tickets sold: ~6,000
This was the first year ticket sales saw an increase from $10 to $15. Tickets went on sale on Saturday March 17th at 12:00 noon Central time. They sold out in minutes. A notable change in language mentioned that a portion of the ticket price would go to local charities, when in the past it sounded as if all proceeds from ticket sales went to local charities.
Ticket details announcements form Three Floyds:
We are happy to finally publish the link for ticket sales. They will go on sale March 17th at Noon (which is Central Time). $15 per ticket. Two tickets per person. We are continuing the three different group sales like last year because they worked so well for getting people through the lines quickly and efficiently. Group A 10 am to noon Group B 1 pm to 3 pm Group C 5 pm to 7 pm.Here’s the link http://darklordday.tickets.musictoday.com We recommend that you bookmark that page.
More specifics about DLD will be released on http://www.darklordday.com/ , and crossposted to facebook, twitter, here, etc, as we get closer to the date.
Good Luck.
Golden Ticket
Taplist
Notable FFF Taps
These were available inside the brewpub.
- 2011 Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord (Pappy Van Winkle 23)
- 2011 Brandy Barrel Aged Vanilla Bean Dark Lord
- Barrel Aged Black Sun Stout
- Barrel Aged Moloko Stout
- Robert the Bruce, bourbon barrel aged with raspberries
- Barrel Aged Ice Grille
Regular Taplist in the Brewpub
Notable Guest Taps
- Founders KBS
- Founders CBS
- Goose Island Bourbon Coutny Cherry Rye
- Cigar City Hunaphu
- Cigar City Apple Brandy Zhukov
- New Albanian Oaktimus
- New Albanian Rye Barrel Aged Yakima
Guest Taps Provided By
- Firestone Walker
- Upland
- New Albanian
- Haymarket
- Sun King
- Hitachino
- Schlenkerla
- Schneider
- Birra Del Borgo
- New Belgium
- Stone
- People's
- Sierra Nevada
- Left Hand
- Brugge
- Schlafly
- Brew Dog
- Cigar City
- Pizza Port
- Revolution
- Pipeworks
- Goose Island
- Fat Heads
- Founders
Variants
- Cognac Barrel Aged Dark Lord - 543
- Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord - 688 & 420
- Bourbon Barrel Aged Vanilla Bean Dark Lord - 934
- Cognac Barrel Aged Dark Lord De Muerte - 817
Bands
- Argonauts
- Powermad
- High on Fire
- eyehategod
High on Fire was originally listed as: Ghan Jovi- These guys we have to keep as a huge surprise. You will not be disappointed.
Poster
Artist: Dan Grzeca
