The Darkness Day 2025 Bottle Presale is live! We have four options to choose from this year, including a collaboration with the legendary Schell’s Brewery!
*Wrath: Three bottles of 2025 Darkness
*Lust: Two bottles of 2025 Darkness + one of each variant (four bottles total)
*Envy: One bottle of 2025 Darkness + one of each variant + one Schell’s collab bottle (four bottles total)
*Gluttony: Two bottles of 2025 Darkness + one of each variant + one Schell’s collab + one bottle of 2021 Barrel-Aged Darkness (six bottles total)
Go to shop.surlybrewing.com beginning at 4pm CDT on Thursday, July 24th to purchase!
You can pick these up at our Minneapolis Brewery on Darkness Day from 11am-5pm. The variant and collab packages usually sell out before Darkness Day, so we recommend locking them down ASAP. As a reminder, these variants and the collab are only available at Darkness Day. Flavors will be revealed in the coming weeks!
ABOUT THE ART: Down in the hollow there lived a conjuring woman named Old Betty. Her only friend was a razorback hog. One day, a trespassing hunter shot the hog and brought it to the butcher. Furious, Old Betty cast a spell to bring her one true friend back to life. The hog came back…wrong. And the hunter was never heard from again.
Legend has it that when the moon is full, you can still see Old Betty’s hog wandering the hollow, searching for the one thing better than revenge: Darkness, Surly’s celebrated imperial stout, and its signature notes of coffee, chocolate, and cherry.
So, if you’re in the hollow one night, under a full moon, enjoying a bottle of Darkness? You may have some interesting company.
We recommend sharing.
Art comes courtesy of John Bivens, our 2025 Darkness Artist.
