The Complete Guide to Surly Darkness Day, Saturday 10/5

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. Saturday, October 5th, 2024. 11AM – Midnight. Free to attend.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2024

BEERS/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.

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MUSIC/SET TIMES

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.

DARKNESS BOTTLE PRESALE

FOOD/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 order from our barbarian-inspired menu, 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.

LAST CALL FOR PRESALE

We are SOLD OUT of our RICH Darkness Bottle Package and in the single digits for the remaining DECADENT packages. We’ll say it one more time because it’s true: The best way to ensure you get bottles of 2024 Darkness or the collab variants with Revolution and TRVE is to utilize one of the remaining presale options.

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