Whether or not you plan on being one of the thousand-plus beer geeks who stand in line for hours hoping to score a few bottles of Brooklyn Center's own black gold, Saturday's Surly Darkness Day has a lot else going for it. The fun-loving beermakers are offering other brews on sale at the brewery from noon-6 p.m., as well as food trucks (including Chef Shack!), brewery tours and live music. The bands will be: Kentucky Gagfight (12:30 p.m.), Guzzlemug (1:45), Red Pens (3:45) and -- in case you couldn't already tell brewmaster Todd Haug is a metalhead by the beer of the day -- hazy riff maestros Zebulon Pike (5). Patrons will be able to leave their cars in the neighboring parking lots if they need to take a cab home.
If you are one of those beer geeks and do plan on lining up, you'll be able to buy up to six bottles of Darkness at $18 a pop. They will have 7,500 bottles available that day (cash only for Darkness and everything else). Another 7,000 bottles will go out to select liquor stores on Oct. 25. Joe's Garage in downtown Minneapolis will host the Darkness release party on Oct. 26.
