{"id":20357,"date":"2016-05-02T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=20357"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:11:06","slug":"dark-lord-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/dark-lord-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Lord Day 2016, Told Through Tweets: Dispatches From a Rainy Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year, another rainy day spent waiting for beer in a parking lot. Here’s what Dark Lord Day 2016 looked like from the boots on the ground:\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n
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This year’s Dark Lord was a floaty robot head guy. Nice ‘stache, too.<\/p><\/div>\n

As we do every year, while everyone else is out standing in line we’re at home eating bacon and trolling social media for the best updates from this year’s Dark Lord Day.<\/p>\n

You can relive 2014<\/a> and 2015<\/a> as you see fit. Here’s 2016’s Dark Lord Day, with its tote bags, winding lines, poncho-clad beer traders, bottle graveyards, a Dolinsky, variant hauls and oh yeah — that Three<\/strong> Floyds<\/strong> Russian Imperial Stout that they make, too.<\/p>\n

Basically, it’s a lot of pictures of rain, ponchos, empty bottles and bands. On the other hand: I didn’t see any dropped\/shattered DLs either! So on the whole, a good year.<\/p>\n

Hope everyone’s dried off and thawed out by now. Here we go:<\/p>\n