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Over the last couple days I've been collecting these from various liquor stores in the cities. I even took a co-worker with me today on lunch break to get an extra once since the store was limiting them to 1 per person.

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So let me to thinking, what kinds of beer do you guys (and gals) like?

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Two of my more regular favorites. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/914...9222918542.jpg

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Gah you suck! I want darkness! I've been wanting to try it for so long now!

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For me, as a general rule of thumb; if can see my hand behind the glass, it's not dark enough.
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I'm more of an IPA guy, but russian imperial stouts are probably my second favorite style. Wish I could get Surly down here.

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I'll have to get a pic of my collection

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Dark lord. I anyone can get me a bottle, I'll trade some darkness for it.

Otherwise I really like grain belt premium! :)

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my last case of 4 that I got
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always full
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the shelf of surly
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http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/7ab66d2f.jpg
the wife picked up 2 yesterday since I could not get out of work to go to darkenss day.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...0A43EC1359.jpg

the worst beer I have ever had. tasted like a ash tray. roge voodoo dought
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/1a638a2a.jpg

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I'll trade you two cases of grainbelt for a bottle of your darkness since they are so similar. :) lol

Haha I just bought that a week ago for the bottle. The beer is the 2nd worst I've ever had by Rogue, their chipotle beer is worse imho. But yea, major fail on the maple syrup + bacon flavored beer.

Edit: Holy shit, is that an unopened bottle of 4? Do want. My most favorite stout to date was a one-time batch of stone vanilla I got at the great american beer festival, and my friend who had that with me said Surly 4 was almost identical.

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I've been looking for darkness for a while and always seem to be out of luck. I want to get two bottle so i can share one with my brother in law.

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The surly 4 is empty. I got it in trade for a 09 darkenss last year. I do not like coffee but loved the beer. Empty surly bottles are woth some cash for the real lmt runs. I have been offred 300.00 for the orignal darkenss and 100.00 each for the 2&4 bottles

AJ, every were west of hwy100 got theres on fri. I got mine by you at the gwill got the only 2 they had.

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I'm so not a beer snob lol. The darkest I go is Nordeast. Otherwise whatever is 2 for 1 is what I prefer :)

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yuengling, best beer ever!!!

-Colin

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You gotta be on top of it to get one. After Darkness day, you just gotta keep calling liquor stores until they say they have it. Most will know if they are getting it or not, but they generally don't know when until the same week they get it. Most stores have a waiting list/reserved list, try to get on them if you can. Otherwise, get there as soon as you know they have it.

I called Haskel's near work here every other day until they told me it would be in Friday. I called them again around noon, and they guy said they would have them there in about 30 minutes. I went there about 45 minutes later, and 5 had already been sold, another 2 were bought by me, and while I was there 4 others were sold. Stores generally only get between 20-60 of them.

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What does this Darkness beer taste like?

Buffalo Sweat is good. I like Left Hand as well, havnt tried thier nitro bottle though. Rogue is always good. I've always been a fan of sweet/milk/chocolate stouts.

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Ahh yes, I've tasted buffalo sweat and thought it was quite pleasant on the tongue.

I hear darkness tastes like buffalo sweat on crack.

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Buffalo Sweat and Lefthand Nitro are fairly tame Oatmeal stouts. Darkness is a Russian Imperial Stout. It's sweet, brewed with Chocolate, Cherry, Coffee and Raisins. It's also like 11% so it's got a little bite to it. The closest thing I can equate it to would be Stone's Russian Imperial. There are other Russian Imperials like Old Rasputen that you can find year round. But Old Rasputen is more of a dry imperial, with a little bit more of a hoppy after taste.

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I spent my friday night outside in line a couple weeks ago for some Darkness. It was cold, but worth it, i ran around for bottles of it last year, and it was nice to have to not have to do that this year. Its is my favorite Russian Imperial. Russian Imperials, Porters, and Bourbon Barrel Ale's are my three favorites.

My wife really likes Belgian Golden Ales, like Goose Island Matilda and similar. Here is most of my "fancy" beer in the house ( aside note... not all of the 2012 Darkness is mine. I'm storing a 4 bottles for my father-in-law's xmas presents).

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...-21-56_178.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-O...-19-26_729.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-C...9-18-58_50.jpg


I also have a homemade keg fridge with two 5 gallon kegs of homebrew in them, that I brew with MattD. One is a Nut brown, the other is a Bavarian Dunkel.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...-07-25_459.jpg

and an empty keg for good measure!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...-23-58_122.jpg

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Nice beer collections! Please dont post beer guts that go with said collections haha.

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Where can you find this Darkness beer? I want to try some but I can't find it anywhere. Is it a limited edition beer or something????

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Yes, very limited, and $25 for 25.4oz bottle. I would find a bar that has it on tap if you just want to taste it.

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Rosey! Can I buy one from you?1

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There's a couple placed I know have it on tap.

Mac's Industrial Sports Bar in NE Minneapolis.
Brick's Pub in Blaine will be tapping theirs this Thursday.
The Happy Gnome on St. Paul
The Muddy Pig in St. Paul
The Groveand Tap in St. Paul.

I would call before going though.

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It doesn't last long on tap.

Mac's is out as of Friday night.

I also heard the Happy Gnome is out as well.

I know a bunch of Old Chicago's got it right away, but I'm not sure if they still have any.

I hear sunshine factory is going to be tapping their keg soon.

There is a post on Surly's facebook with updates on who has it on tap, but definitely call to make sure.

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BTW, I'm looking for Goose Island Bourbon County Stout if anyone has this, I'd be willing to trade some Darkness for it.

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I have a High Life tallboy available for trade.

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Goose Island Bourbon County Stout tastes like poop.

-Colin

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A case just showed up on craigslist.
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hn...403493515.html

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The first and last time I had dark beer was Surley. Not sure which one but it was icky. Tasted like plain old dark coffee with more bitterness. Doesn't really fit my taste bud. Maybe im not getting the good stuff?

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Maybe you had coffee bender, that is good stuff.
I just bought two excellent beers, Stone Ruination IPA and Bell's Java Stout. The Java Stout just came out for this year and it's really good, I recommend it if you like a strong coffee flavor, it's pretty dry as well.

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Love the bells java stout

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Whut? How old are we? haha
GTFO! :p

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Obviously prefers PBR.

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Picked up a couple new Minnesota brewed beers to try tonight. Pretty excited about both, we'll see how they are!

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...-25-19_113.jpg

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/olvalde...wright/158304/

http://boomislandbrewing.com/Yule.html

I something special coming tomorrow! Ill post a pic when I get it.

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I seriously couldn't finish it.

What's PBR? Everytime I go to the liquor store I always walk pass the fancy beer isle so I know nothing about them.

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PBR = Pabst Blue Ribbon. not fancy, it was a joke.
So many microbrews popping up in Minnesota, let us know how you like them Rosey.

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PBR is shit beer that the hippsters drink. (Pabst Blue Ribbon)

rosey let me know how they are.

If any on want to trade beers I still have a full case of bells hop slam I will split up

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Will do guys. I'm excited to try them.

It is pretty crazy how fast they are popping up here, definitely not complaining!

The story on Boom Island is pretty interesting. There was an article in the tribune on them earlier this year.

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PRB as noted above is Pabst Blue Ribbon, it's super cheap, American piss lager. It's like somewhere below Miller Light, Mich Golden and Bud light, but just above Old English, Micky's, and Milwaukee's Best.

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I've just tried these two Southern Tier brews last few days... I like em. quite good

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