Complete Beer Course Author Offers Alternatives to the Best Beers Not Available in NYC
The Rarity: Three Floyds Dark Lord
The Replacement: Goose Island Bourbon County Stout or North Coast Old Rasputin
Acquiring the Munster, Indiana, brewery’s cultish imperial stout requires nothing short of selling your soul to the devil. The only time you can buy a wax-capped bottle is during the annual Dark Lord Day, and its tickets typically sell out in the time it took you to read this sentence. As a substitute, try Goose Island’s boozy Bourbon County Stout or North Coast’s complex, belly-warming Old Rasputin.