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Dark Lord Vertical Tasting

November 28, 2012 By SnobbyBeer 2 Comments

Dark Lord from Three Floyds is like the quintessential Midwest “big beer”. It’s huge (13-15% ABV), it has a cool label, an awesome name, and a must-attend event that is centered around its release every year in April. Plus, death metal starts playing when you crack one of them open. Most people think that the wax is for preventing oxygen and identifying the year it was brewed, but it’s really there to keep the death metal at bay.

Recently, my pal Gus from Professional Beer Reviews decided to crack open the vertical he had been working on, plus a few of the earlier vintages and a couple of barrel-aged Derk Lerds for extra brutality. Thanks, Gus! Gus is working on a video for the tasting, so make sure you check it out when it comes out!

THE LINEUP

Dark Lord Vertical Tasting

Dark Lord Vertical – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Cognac Barrel Aged Dark Lord (2012)
Cognac Barrel Aged Dark Lord De Muerte (aged with ancho and guajillo chili peppers) (2012)
Plus a bunch of other incredible beers (more on that later)

TASTING NOTES [Read more...]

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Beer Tasting at From The Vine – 6-2-12

June 7, 2012 By SnobbyBeer Leave a Comment

Some good people from Beer Advocate got together to have an awesome tasting at From The Vine in Lewis Center, Ohio. Thanks to everyone at From The Vine for hosting the venue!

The list of beers are:

Flossmoor Station – Saison & Garfunkle
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New Holland – Charkoota Rye
Cigar City / The Bruery – Dos Costas Oeste – Lemon Wood Aged
Half Acre – Daisy Cutter
Avery – Uncle Jacob’s Imperial Stout
Elevator – Ghost Scorpion
The Alchemist – Heady Topper
The Bruery – Batch 50 GFAR (Grand Funk Ale Road)
Three Floyds / Mikkeller – Huedegoop
Three Floyds – Vanilla Bean Dark Lord Aged in Bourbon Barrels
Weyerbacher – Fifteen (Smoked Imperial Stout)
The Bruery – Oude Tart
Homebrewed Imperial Stout
Swamp Head / Cigar City – Roosevelt Barley Wine
Firestone Walker – Parabola 2011
Firestone Walker – Abacus
Firestone Walker – Sucaba
Three Floyds – Behemoth 2012
Almanac – Summer 2010 Vintage – Blackberry
DuClaw – Colossus
Foothills – Olde Rabbit’s Foot
Funkwerks – Dark Prophet

Beer Tasting - From The Vine

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Three Floyds Dark Lord ’12 – Snobby Beer Reviews

May 24, 2012 By SnobbyBeer 1 Comment


This is the Snobby Beer review of Dark Lord Imperial Stout from Three Floyds Brewing Company in Munster, Indiana. This highly sought after beer is only available at Dark Lord Day, which is an anual festival that is located at the brewpub in Munster. This massive stout is 15% ABV. Check out my video from Dark Lord Day!

This video features Joshua Hatfield (who provided the beer) and Natalie Phillips from Belmont Party Supply and Brew Sisters Dayton. This is the first time I’ve had a female guest on the show!

Brutal metal music provided by Father Horror.

From the Three Floyds website:

“A demonic Russian Style Imperial Stout, brewed with Intelligensia coffee Mexican vanilla, and Indian sugar this beer defies description, available one day a year in April at the brewery, Dark Lord Day.”

Questions? Suggestions? Let me know what you think! Grab a beer and leave a comment.

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Dark Lord Day 2012 Recap

May 14, 2012 By SnobbyBeer 2 Comments

Saturday, April 28 was the annual Dark Lord Day over at Three Floyds Brewing in Munster, Indiana. For those of you who don’t you, the event is a festival based around the release of their imperial stout called Dark Lord. The event was a blast! I had planned on writing a big long post about everything that we did, but photos and video will have to suffice (for now, at least).

 

 

Max Spang at Three Floyds Brew Pub the night before Dark Lord Day

Me at the brewpub the night before Dark Lord Day

 

Dark Lord Day 2012 Line

Only part of the Dark Lord Day 2012 Line

 

Dark Lord Day 2012 Map

Dark Lord Day 2012 Map

Dave at Dark Lord Day 2012 with allotment

Our DLD buddy, Dave, and his allotment

 

Three Floyds Brewing Tank

Three Floyds Brewing Tank

Special thanks to Joshua Hatfield for providing the majority of these photos!

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My 1 Year Anniversary Beer Review Will Be…

February 22, 2012 By SnobbyBeer 1 Comment

February 28 is my “anniversary” of posting beer reviews on Youtube, so I decided that I was going to do something special for the occasion. I couldn’t decide which beer to review, so I thought it would be cool to write all the special beers I had on a piece of paper, cut them out, and tape them onto a dart board. I’ll let the dart decide which beer will mark the occasion!

And, for the record, I had to cut out like 5 minutes of me trying to hit something with the dart. I suck at darts.

I purposely made the video sort of long to build the suspense, but if you want to spoil the surprise it’s revealed at 2:58

Look for the review coming Feb. 28.

Cheers!

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The Beer Cellar of Snobby Beer ( Max Spang ) BEER PORN!

February 7, 2012 By SnobbyBeer 1 Comment

This week, I decided to do something a little different. Instead of a review, I thought I’d post what I had in my beer cellar. This video is LONG – easily the longest video I’ve posted to youtube.

Most of these beers are not for trade, but I’m always open to listening to offers.

The list is as follows: [Read more...]

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Three Floyds XV Anniversary – How it went down

November 16, 2011 By SnobbyBeer Leave a Comment
Three Floyds Brewpub Sign

Token Three Floyds Brewpub Sign

Last Saturday, November 12th (which also happened to be my 23rd birthday!), I headed up to Munster, Indiana for the Three Floyds 15th Anniversary party. I was with my cousin, Nick, and my friend, Bobby. The plan? Make the 4 hours trek, drink a bunch of amazing beer, hang out with some awesome people, and bring home some delicious bottles of the XV Anniversary Imperial Stout – AKA Baller Stout. Here’s a short summation of the day.

We arrived at 2 PM. The line was already full of hundreds of people, so we had to suck it up and wait. And wait. And wait even more. The whole line took about 2 hours to get through. Luckily, I had some trades arranged, so I got a bunch of really awesome beers while waiting in line (thanks guys!). We also brought a few beers of our own to enjoy while waiting, so it wasn’t too horrible. Once we got in, we got the opportunity to wait in another line for the chance to buy bottles of beer. This time, though, members of our group were able to leave the line to go out and grab a round of beer. They had beers from Three Floyds, Struise, Surly, Mikkeller, and Pizza Port available on tap. We had plenty of time to get a few rounds, because his line took another full 2 hours.

When we finally got through, we had the chance to buy the Baller Stout as well as some special hand-bottled, hand-numbered beers. I was lucky enough to get a bottle of SoBro, a sour brown ale, and Barrel Aged Owd Engwish Barley Whine. Woo hoo! I also got some great brews like Gumball Head, Dreadnaught, Alpha Klaus, and Amon Amarth – Ragnarok. [Read more...]

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