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darkness day 2024

Darkness Day. Our favorite day of the year. Created by the fans, curated by Surly, crafted for everyone who loves beer, metal, punk, fire, spectacle, and the occasional goat. We gather to celebrate the first sip of 2024 Darkness, our legendary imperial stout, along with variants, vintages, collaborations, and so much more. What started as a hearty band of craft beer diehards shivering in a parking lot is now one of America’s most beloved beer festivals. Welcome to Darkness Day.

October 5th, 2024 – 11AM – Midnight

Event is free to attend.

Beer/TIMED TAPPINGS

Darkness plays well with others. Every year, we ask our brewers to make their own riff on our classic stout and invite our friends in the industry to collaborate as well. Throw in a couple surprises and our annual release of WET, and there’s more than enough to warm even the most jaded beer geek’s heart.

ON DRAFT ALL DAY:

  • Darkness 2024 (duh)
  • WET
  • Deathwestern Dark Lager (collab w/TRVE)
  • Wackelbier Strong Lager (collab w/Revolution)
  • Sunset Cream Orange Cream Ale
  • Bitter Brewer

TIMED TAPPINGS:

11:00AM–2024 Brewers’ Variants

  • Horchata Darkness (Joe Nourse)
  • Marzipan Darkness (Sam Goertz)
  • PSL Darkness (Matthew McKenna)

Noon–2024 In-Market Darkness Variants Preview

  • Cola Darkness
  • Double Barrel-Aged Darkness
  • Chocolate Limoncello Darkness

1:00pm–Darkness Collabs

  • Darkness with Friends: TRVE. Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness with Raspberry, Pistachio, and Sea Salt
  • Darkness with Friends: Revolution. Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness Aged on Single-Origin French Oak Staves

2:00pm–2023 Darkness Variants

  • Cold Smoked Cherry Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness
  • Coco Nitro Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness
  • Parker’s Heritage 10-Year Heavy Char Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkness

3:00pm–Bottle Project Favorites

  • King Harvest (2023)
  • North (2024)
  • East (2024)

4:00pm–2021 Darkness Variants

  • Gimme S’More Darkness
  • Midnight Manhattan Darkness

THE MUSIC LINEUP

This year’s Darkness Day music lineup is even more ferocious than usual. A full slate of punk, metal, and whatever category you want to put Impaler in, all free, all Darkness Day long, headlined by the immortal ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT. Let’s f*cking go.

rocket from the crypt

8:30pm

schizophonics

7:15pm

MEAN JEANS

6:15pm

CHRISTY COSTELLO

5:15pm

the rumours

4:15pm

rot

3:00pm

KHEMMIS

1:45pm

GOD CAME FROM SPACE

11:30am

IMPALER

12:30pm

THE EXPERIENCE

We like to make Darkness Day a full-on experience. When you’re not sampling imperial stouts or getting in the pit, you can snag vintage vinyl, apply some corpse paint, get tattoos of the temporary or permanent kind, and even register to vote. Make a day of it.

THE food

 

We’ll be serving Darkness-themed fare upstairs, downstairs, and all over the Beer Garden.

The Fire Eater
Lamb Shwarma
Confit Pork Belly (on a stick!)
Bread Bowls
The Double
The Smokestack
Belly of the Beast