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mintjellie wrote:No beer is worth entering a lottery, paying 30 dollars for a ticket, travelling almost a thousand kilometers, waiting in line to get in a pub, then waiting in line again to get the beer, and scratching another lottery ticket to see if I get the barrel-aged variant.
Unless I hear reports that this years batch cures Irritable Bowel Syndrome, makes bikini clad female beach volleyballers find me sexy, AND makes those who drink it shit golden turds, I really wouldn't consider trying.
Interesting way of looking at it I suppose.
Little different for me; I both driven and flown out with friends, spent some time in Chicago hitting up some cool beer bars and bottle shops, gone out and spent the day drinking beers I haven't had before and chatting with other beer geeks, made new friends, picked up my darklord, gotten some FFF swag and bottles, and generally had a awesome time. If you make the entire trip about just buying dark lord, yeah, it's stupid, and you're also ignoring a lot of what's going on around you.
Is Dark Lord really that good though? Is it actually a good enough beer to make it worth all the hoops you have to jump through to get it, even if it's only one day of multi-day beer vacation?
Why not spend Dark Lord Day visiting other pubs and breweries you don't need to enter a lottery to get in, drink tons of beer that's as good or better, and buy beer that's as good and possibly cheaper, all with less hassle and less time spent slowly shuffling to the front of a line?
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mintjellie wrote:No beer is worth entering a lottery, paying 30 dollars for a ticket, travelling almost a thousand kilometers, waiting in line to get in a pub, then waiting in line again to get the beer, and scratching another lottery ticket to see if I get the barrel-aged variant.
Unless I hear reports that this years batch cures Irritable Bowel Syndrome, makes bikini clad female beach volleyballers find me sexy, AND makes those who drink it shit golden turds, I really wouldn't consider trying.
Interesting way of looking at it I suppose.
Little different for me; I both driven and flown out with friends, spent some time in Chicago hitting up some cool beer bars and bottle shops, gone out and spent the day drinking beers I haven't had before and chatting with other beer geeks, made new friends, picked up my darklord, gotten some FFF swag and bottles, and generally had a awesome time. If you make the entire trip about just buying dark lord, yeah, it's stupid, and you're also ignoring a lot of what's going on around you.
Is Dark Lord really that good though? Is it actually a good enough beer to make it worth all the hoops you have to jump through to get it, even if it's only one day of multi-day beer vacation?
Why not spend Dark Lord Day visiting other pubs and breweries you don't need to enter a lottery to get in, drink tons of beer that's as good or better, and buy beer that's as good and possibly cheaper, all with less hassle and less time spent slowly shuffling to the front of a line?
I suspect based on your description of the event that you haven't been, it's not like how you are describing it. There is a line in the morning, people are sharing bottles in it. You get into the grounds and there are multiple pour stations with FFF beer, there is also the guest beer tent that has kegs of cool stuff. People stand/sit around sharing beers and drinking FFF and guest stuff. If you want to get into line for the brewpub, you can. Later in the day there are some metal bands playing. There is no point in the day that you are without great craft beer in hand. The is the line up to buy the Dark Lord itself, which is pretty painless. If you are so inclined you can meet a ton of fellow beer geeks.
I like Dark Lord, it's good, it's not the best beer I've had.
Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:Didn't get tickets. Fuck.
Now it's time for some entrepreneuring young minds to come up with some ways to get around the bullshit name on ticket nonsense.
Not an event I've been overly familiar with, as it's just a bit too far for a weekend for me.
As for tiks, all you need is whoever got a ticket to take you as their #2.
The person who bought the ticket doesn't have to 'go', but they do have to show up with their ID, and could technically then let 2 friends use their ticket even.
Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:Didn't get tickets. Fuck.
Now it's time for some entrepreneuring young minds to come up with some ways to get around the bullshit name on ticket nonsense.
Not an event I've been overly familiar with, as it's just a bit too far for a weekend for me.
As for tiks, all you need is whoever got a ticket to take you as their #2.
The person who bought the ticket doesn't have to 'go', but they do have to show up with their ID, and could technically then let 2 friends use their ticket even.
Eh, that would mean hanging out with some strange dude who could be a serial killer.
Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:
Now it's time for some entrepreneuring young minds to come up with some ways to get around the bullshit name on ticket nonsense.
Which would lead to scalping and ridiculous prices...
Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:
Now it's time for some entrepreneuring young minds to come up with some ways to get around the bullshit name on ticket nonsense.
Which would lead to scalping and ridiculous prices...
