Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

Yesterday I 'waited in line' for 3 hours for two bottles of Surly Darkness. For those that don't know, Surly Brewing Company is one of the most top-rated microbreweries in america right now and it's located only a few blocks from my house!

They only sold 480 bottles, two per person. Now, by waiting in line, I mean I showed up at 11 for the release at 2pm. Upon arriving, I was carded and given a bracelet with *FIVE* little tickets on it. Each one is good for one 'sample'. The sample was a full size beer, fresh from the keg. Their entire brewery was open to run around in, the place is amazing. They had a live band, a hotdog stand, and I hung out with the head brewmaster for about an hour while he showed a few guys their new canning line.

So, each bottle was $15, I was #193 in line. They're selling 6 bottles on ebay for charity, one was up to $130 already.
BEER ON EBAY

WCCO was there, it was a huge blast. We will have to go tour their brewery once it's re-done next spring!

http://www.surlybrewing.com/index.php

WCCO's story:
http://wcco.com/local/beer.darkness.surly.2.611776/

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

Microbrews are great. I have never heard of Surly though.

If you are ever on the other side of the river check out New Glarus Brewery's products. Spotted Cow and Fat Squirrel are my favorites.

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

Spotted cow is one of my favorites!

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

So..... You never told us how good the beer actually is

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Surly are good beers, had I been in town I would have loved to go!

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Yep, spotted cow is good stuff. On tap at the Red Barn in Madison, right on campus.

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I haven't opened them yet......I'm contemplating selling one on ebay.....minimum one is going for $100 now.... :)

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Drink one then decide!

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If I kwnew the other day I would have been in line to get my 2 bottles. sorry if it is worse than normal I am hammred as hell right now

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Actually, I think it might be better :D

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Drink them!

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Give them to me, it's Christmas time you know. :D

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For $15 a bottle you should probably put one in a trophy case. :p

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Damn, that must be some pretty good fucking beer. I've yet to drink anything that was worth waiting that long in line for and then paying $15 a bottle to boot!

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The bottles are 750ml, the size of a 'regular' bottle of wine. I think I shall just keep and drink them.

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Never tried surly I dont think. Thats a nice sized bottle, how are they sealed?

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they have wax on the top of them

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If i had known about it, I'd have been in line too!

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Surly is good, but mine are better :)

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I agree. Speaking of which...

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These aren't available in stores? their website says there are a lot of stores selling their stuff.

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

this is a limited run takes 6 months to make and they do it 1 time a year.

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that would explain it!

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Is this the same Surly that sells bike frames? They are based in the Metro some where, and I have heard they have a brewery. Anyways their bike frames have a great rep as being a awsome bang for the buck. And owning one makes you cool amongst the bike crowd.

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

went down to get some beer today. they sold out of the coffee holiday beer in 30min and I got the last 2 growlers of bender that was at 1pm they started at noon and got 2 of the almost out furious growlers

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

I don't know about the bike frames. The coffee bender is insanely good! The other weekend when I was there I had 4 'samples' of it! :D

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we will go next weekend for the 1st if you know

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What's going on on the 1st? Besides PJs-n-pancakes?

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that is it but you know it is just the click lol
also beer,mimosa's,and some wii

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Well I opened one of the two bottles last night, and I must say:

DAMN! It is so good! Very very flavorful, very strong taste, and I can see why this is so sought after. The bottles on ebay are going for a minimum of $150, one went for $400!

I think I shall open and drink bottle #2, selling it would be a waste....

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Bringing this back from the dead. I found a more sought after beer than darkness:

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da...topias_box.jpg
http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da...ias_bottle.jpg
http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da...ias_serial.jpg

And damn it was delicious. Tried 2 ounces, but that was almost too much. Future tastings in the coming months will be just 1 ounce.

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Oh yea, forgot to mention, this is the 2009 vintage. They only release 8000 bottles every two years. Aged for 16 years, combination of several beers aged in different types of bourbon barrels, sort of like a blended whiskey. 27% abv.

Bottles go for over $200 on eBay, glad I found it at some random liquor store, in the wine section of all places.

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

How much did you pay at the liquor store?

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WOW, I googled Sam Adams Utopias and in the stores online its going for $599 each. http://www.internetwines.com/rws28347.html

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That thing is balliinn.

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+1

Sounds awesome man!

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

very cool

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Three of us went in together, $150 total.

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

Wow, very cool!

Re: Surly Darkness - The most sought after beer ever?
 

Sweet! I've always wanted to try some of this stuff.