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Thanks for everyone who purchased golden tickets, that was a wild ride. There where a few hiccups along the way but everything should be sorted out now.

A couple of things to note:

No one will be charged shipping. There was a hiccup in our admin system that caused shipping charges to be added to golden tickets. These charges will not be applied to your credit card. We are removing all shipping charges from your orders.

The site outage was regrettable, but wow, we brought down shopify. We received this email shortly after our services where restored.

Hey guys, Mike from Shopify here.

We’re extremely sorry for the bad showing we gave to your flash-sale of tickets on your Shopify store. I’m afraid you cought us with our pants down with the sheer volume of customers all at once, our datacenter couldn’t handle that many orders a second. We had to disable inventory tracking on all of Shopify temporarily, otherwise we couldn’t keep the system up. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this caused to you and especially your customers.

Sincerely,

Mike Rochon
Head of Support
Shopify.com

The traffic was amazing. We’ll try and get some actual numbers together for you in the near future. Because of the constant refreshing we’ll be testing for duplicate orders and making sure nobody got charged twice for tickets.

So rest assured we will be burning the midnight oil making sure your tickets get to you hassle free. Until then we’ll be toasting a Three Floyds beer to all you Dark Lord Fanatics.

Woohoo!  Not only does the Indiana Sunday Sales bill pass the state House of Representatives, but we get a mention on NPR!

You might have also seen our friend Mindy on Martha Stewart yesterday making monkey bread with Moloko.  Martha took a couple of hits from the bottle in the most gangsta way.

Banner Day.

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Last week we had the official numbers from Ratebeer.com that listed us as the best.  In today’s mail we received Beer Advocate’s #36 issue containing their Beer in Review numbers.  Check it out:

Most Wanted Beers #2 Dark Lord and #12 Dreadnaught and then in the All-Time Top Beers on the Planet we have #7 Dark Lord and again #12 as Dreadnaught.

We had a great time pouring beer for you guys at Winterfest this weekend. It seems like you guys had a great time drinking it. By the time I had a chance to go out to the cask tent, all the Behemoth was long gone. I was stopped by a number of people who wanted to let us know how happy they are that Three Floyds is an Indiana Brewery, and that they are proud to call us their own.
It was good to see some old friends that we normally don’t get to being all the way up here instead of closer to Indy. Here are some photos for those of you that missed out on a great midwinter diversion.

For what I believe is the 3rd time in four years, RateBeer.com has compiled their scores and declared us the Best Brewery in the World.  We also have three beers in the top 10 worldwide, and five in the top 100.  The Brewpub is also listed at #25 on their top 50 brewpub list.

It’s undeniably cool to 1) see that we have such staying power and more importantly 2) have so much support and love from all of you craft beer drinkers out there.  We will do our part to continue to crank out our patented style of “not normal” beers if you guys continue your fervent support for us.

Cheers!

This is Today’s Pub Specials menu.  If you guys aren’t coming down here for the beer menu, I challenge you to find a better food menu in Northwestern Indiana.

Specials for January 15 , 2010

pork ramen housemade porcini mushroom ramen, pork broth,   6

meatballs, cilantro, lime

suggested: Robert the Bruce

lentil soup with carrots, bacon and croutons   5

suggested: Pride and Joy

duck and cabbage sausage with red cabbage braised in duck fat and Robert the Bruce,   6

with buttered rye and mustard

suggested: Robert the Bruce

steamed manila clams in Gumballhead with housemade bacon, celery, salsa verde,   10

shallots, parsley and croutons

suggested: Gumballhead

potato and chicken salad purple fingerling potatoes with warm mustard vinaigrette,   12

cold fried drumstick, hot fried chicken thigh, boudin blanc, shoestring potatoes

suggested: Gumballhead

banh mi crispy pork belly braised in lemongrass, garlic and ginger, liver pate,   9

bacon, pickled daikon, cucumber and jalapeno, sriracha, mayonnaise, French fries

suggested: Dreadnaught

trout organic whole Wisconsin lake trout , bread, arugula and red onion salad,   15

brown butter

suggested: Pride and Joy

duck seared moulard breast, celery root puree, fried shoestring celery root,   18

lambs lettuce, mustard sauce

suggested: Robert the Bruce

tagliatelle with garlic, capers, nicoise olives, fennel frond,   10

breadcrumb and tomato

suggested: Gumballhead

crepes with sweet mascarpone cheese, Surly Klaus macerated cherries    5

and a sour cherry-Surly Klaus compote

http://www.post-trib.com/news/1989610,gaalcohol.article

January 14, 2010

BY JON SEIDEL, (317) 631-7400

INDIANAPOLIS — Hoosier craft beer brewers are seeking the right to sell their unique concoctions on Sundays, a change in state law they say would put them on equal footing with the state’s wineries.

Theirs was one of two bills heard by committees Wednesday at the Statehouse that could change Indiana’s alcohol laws.

The bill that would authorize Sunday microbrewery sales passed muster with the Senate’s commerce committee in a 9-2 vote. Mark Webb of the Brewers of Indiana Guild called his member breweries “good corporate citizens” whose beer likely represents less than 1 percent of all beer consumed in Indiana.

Members of the Guild include Three Floyds Brewing Co. in Munster, Crown Brewing Co. in Crown Point, Shoreline Brewery & Restaurant in Michigan City and Back Road Brewery in LaPorte.

Sen. Ron Alting, R-Lafayette, and chairman of the committee, said he saw the bill as an opportunity to support local businesses.

Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, said he is an opponent of access to alcohol, but he said the Hoosier brewers convinced him to vote in favor of the bill. Among the influencing factors he said, are prices that could reach as high as $9 a glass.

“I don’t think they’re going to be gulping it,” Taylor said. “I don’t think they could.”

The bill now moves to the full Senate for a second reading.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives’ public policy committee heard testimony on a bill authored by Democrat Rep. Trent Van Haaften of Mount Vernon and Republican Rep. Matthew Bell of Avilla that would allow alcohol to be sold on election days.

The committee didn’t take a vote.

Democratic committee member Rep. Scott Pelath of Michigan City, who authored a similar bill, said the committee is likely to consolidate all House alcohol measures into one piece of legislation before voting.

Good news Indiana!