Three Floyds-Dark Lord Day

I made my first pilgrimage with three friends to Munster Indiana for the Three Floyds Brewery’s Dark Lord Day. Their Dark Lord is an imperial Russian stout that is only sold one day a year and to be guaranteed a bottle you have to buy a $10 ticket on line on Saint Patrick’s Day. It was nuts and fun because everyone comes with rare beer from all parts of the United States and the World to trade. So I was able to sample a lot of excellent and not so excellent brews. Our novice status has been successfully terminated and we now know what we need to do to make it even better.  I up loaded these three quick videos I took from different parts of the line to you tube.

Three Floyds Alpha King

A couple of buddies and I ran over to the Three Floyds Brewery on a Saturday.  First, we went on the brewery tour and I discovered that beer crafting is both easier and harder than I thought at the same time (and I came to this dichotomy before we started drinking) .  Second, we went to the little pub attached to the brewery and had a couple of beers that you can not get anywhere else and ate and ate and ate (Scotch Eggs, Mussels, fried chicken skin and my sandwich was a pastrami and beef tongue).

Their beer Alpha King is easily the best beer I have had in a long long time.  It runs against my IPA love but it is what a beer should always be about, sharp hoppy beginning, citric middle and crisp end, with clean limited aftertaste.  Brewed in limited batches and hard to find, it is worth the search to have a few and if you go to the brewery I will meet you there! 

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