That’s my haul pictured above–six bottles of Dark Lord (white wax this year, and metallic labels–about the only way they could get more metal than they already were), three of the new Dogfish Head/FFF collaboration Popskull (which I haven’t tried yet), and two of Dreadnaught, just because it was cheaper at the brewery and I love it so. My two DLD Golden Tickets entitled me to eight bottles of Dark Lord, but I figured 11 22-ounce bombers was quite enough to be hauling around for the rest of the day.
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The bourbon-barrel Behemoth brewed with cherries (I misunderstood somebody and for quite some time labored under the misconception that it was sherry finished) had a surprising evergreen kick, which I suspect is what my confused palate made out of the combo of whiskey and sour fruit. Far more straightforwardly satisfying was the Surly Tea Bagged Furious, a double-dry-hopped version of the brewery’s already impressive Furious IPA: candied grapefruit, mandarin orange, pine resin, peat moss, sweet biscuity malts, basically everything you could want in the style.
