Our only question: Are there enough tattooed metal-heads qualified to make and serve beer in our fair city? We shall see. more ›

Local beer geek darling Three Floyds will help local music geek darling Reckless Records celebrate Record Store Day with Rye'd Da Lightning, a rye pale ale. more ›

Three Floyds Dark Lord day isn't until April 28, but the announcement of some new rules have fans of the event wondering if the event will be more like the brewery's 15th anniversary instead of the seamless 2011 DLD. more ›

Who needs cheap champagne when you can drink beers from Three Floyds, Lagunitas, Bell's and Founders? more ›

While Alex followed my advice for FOBAB to a tee, I largely ignored my own experience regarding attending a Three Floyds event. more ›

It's not easy to find this rare and delicious beer. more ›

Yesterday, the American Home Brewers Association listed the 50 best beers in America. Everyone loves a list, so of course we started looking for our hometown favorites. This was not a list of only craft beers (according to the site, "The only rule is that the beer has to be commercially available somewhere in the United States") and the poll considered 1306 different brews. It's a reader-driven poll, so feel free to argue with it. more ›

Chicagoist guest contributor Bridget Houlihan experienced the madness of Dark Lord Day and lived to tell about it. Saturday was Dark Lord Day - the beer lover’s Woodstock - when thousands from near and far descended upon Three Floyds brewery in Munster, Indiana to buy the limited supply of “Dark Lord,” a Russian Imperial Stout considered to be one of the best beers in the world. You can only buy Dark Lord one day a year, and you need a ticket to get your share - four bottles at $15 each. Even at that price, it’s quite a deal considering (as we predicted) bottles of 2011 Dark Lord are already for sale on e-bay for as much as $100 a pop! The frenzy begins more than a month before the big day, when online tickets become available and sell out in a matter of minutes. more ›

As this year's Dark Lord Day (the yearly festival where beer lovers queue up for the one-day-only release of Three Floyds' special Russian Imperial Stout) fast approaches, more news is squeaking out about some super-specialty brews for this year's celebration. more ›

Esquire magazine lists its seven best beer cities in America. Right at the top of the list — Chicago. more ›

Three Floyds is ranked the #1 brewery in the world by Ratebeer.com. The folks over at Beer Advocate have proclaimed Stone Brewing the #1 brewery on the planet. If we used a computer to determine an ultimate ranking, craft brewing would be no better than college football. more ›

Another Dark Lord Day is in the books and the lesson learned is "come early." Marcus hopped on the LUSH Wine & Spirits bus. I biked. We reached Three Floyds within a half-hour of each other to find a line stretching down Indiana Parkway. I'd like to say that it was exciting, but both Marcus and I spent the majority of our time in Munster in queue like British, golden tickets in hand. more ›

Is it just us, or has there been a lot more graffiti around than usual? Taggers have been everywhere (when they're not getting killed running from the cops) and the skill level seems to have been going up as well, at least from the work we're seeing on rooftops during our daily commute. more ›

Try to remember, people: It's just a beer!! more ›

Outstanding in the Field, which organizes farm dinners across the country matching local chefs with local farms, released its 2010 farm dinner schedule today. They'll be making two local stops in august. First, Paul Virant will handle cooking duties for a 4 p.m. dinner at Dietzler Farm in Elkhorn, WI on August 2. That'll be followed three days later by a return appearance of Mindy Segal and Aric Miech of Hot Chocolate at City Farm august 5 at 4 p.m. While we thoroughly enjoyed our dinner at Kinnikinnick Farm last year, the first-person accounts we heard about the City Farm dinner with Segal three nights later were overwhelmingly ecstatic, with praise for both the food the view of the Chicago skyline from the dinner. more ›

We're less than two months away from the insanity that is Three Floyds' Dark Lord Day. The implementation of "golden tickets" was a wonderful idea to ensure those who wanted to purchase the hotly anticipated Russian Imperial Stout actually could, while raising money for the Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society in the process. While some golden ticket holders still took to Craigslist and ebay to sell extras, the combination of the tickets and bad weather made last year's version of DLD manageable and much more enjoyable. more ›

Here is a deal that is the very epitome of "budget-friendly." On Wednesdays Province (161 N. Jefferson St., 312-669-9900) serves up a burger made from fresh Dietzler Farms all natural Wisconsin beef with a Three Floyds beer for only $10. It's available for customers dining at the bar from 4:30-10 p.m. more ›

Did that label artwork get your attention? Good. Three Floyds and Half Acre are teaming up to brew a Helles Bock called "Invasion." The beer is currently fermenting, although recent conversations with Half Acre's Gabriel Magliaro and both Nick Floyd and Lincoln Anderson of Three Floyds have proven to be futile as to when it will be released. more ›

Sunday night marked the first of Stephanie Izard’s Wandering Goat dinners, a series of “traveling dinners” that lead up to the opening of her new restaurant, The Drunken Goat, this coming winter. Tickets sold out in a matter of minutes but the lucky ones that got them were told the dinner would be at “Roger’s House.” Turns out Roger is Stephanie’s friend Roger Herring, chef/owner of Socca in Lakeview. We arrived at a large town home and shown to the spacious backyard, filled with friends, food lovers, and a notable goat piñata that we imagined was filled with truffle infused bacon mousse. (It was never cracked open so we will never know.) Three Floyd’s Alpha King and Gumballhead were on tap and an array of red and white Australian wines were offered as well. more ›

The DarkLord Days of recent years have devolved into a litany of disappointed beer fans either leaving without bottles of Three Floyd's prized Russian Imperial Stout, or being so desperate for it that they purchase bottles from some of Northwest Indiana's brightest trade school dropouts for at least three times the $15 selling price set by the brewery. The golden ticket sale announced by the brewery was a step in the right direction to give those who truly wanted the beer an opportunity to buy it. Still, it was only a matter of time before golden tickets started popping up on Craigslist and online auctions. more ›

Collaborative ales between breweries are nothing new. It's a wonderful chance for two (or more) breweries to put their heads together and give their customers something truly special. Collaborative Evil and Bison's annual Reunion ales are good examples. Meanwhile, Larry Bell and Dirk Naudts are hard at work with their planned Bell's/De Proef collaboration later this year. more ›

As of 4:23 a.m., the golden tickets for this year's DarkLord Day (April 25) at Three Floyds Brewery are now on sale. The brewery implemented the ticket system as a means to get as much DarkLord to the people who actually want to drink it, instead of buying scalped bottles in the parking lot. more ›

Last night Mindy Segal brought together some of the best chefs in the city to celebrate Hot Chocolate's fourth anniversary with a $100 per person dinner to benefit Share Our Strength, a non-profit that works with local food banks, restaurants and community groups to combat hunger at home. Segal is the chair of Share Our Strength's "Taste of the Nation" event, scheduled for August 13 at Ravenswood Billboard Factory (Full disclosure: this Chicagoist staffer is also on the event committee). more ›

Now this is a recipe for a fantasy weekend: a road trip with Stephanie Izard to Three Floyds brewery and brewpub. [The Tasty Life] more ›

Isn't that a thing of beauty? The only thing more beautiful than a growler is one full of beer. more ›

We need to post some corrections to tomorrow's Dogfloydapalooza event at Bottom Lounge. Both Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione and Nick Floyd of Three Floyds will be on hand tomorrow night. Their collaborative ale, Popskull, however, will not. more ›

Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head and Three Floyds' Nick Floyd are two of the more extreme brewmasters working today. So when the two of them decided to collaborate on an experimental ale, the mind boggles at what they could create. more ›

This week, we hopefully compare tasting notes. Two weeks back we wrote about a sampling of Moloko, a milk stout brewed by Three Floyds, that was happening at Smallbar in Wicker Park. Milk stouts are typically made with lactose sugar; the resultant brew is sticky sweet. more ›

If you want to have an informed opinion on what we've already selected as "Beer of the Week" in a couple weeks, head to Smallbar (2049 W. Division) this evening from 9-12. They'll be serving Three Floyds Moloko, a sweet stout, on draft. more ›