In this edition…Surly Darkness Day details as well as news from Flossmoor Station, Buckeye Brewing and Jolly Pumpkin.

[10/11 UPDATE: Jolly Pumpkin Fuego del Otono will be available starting in about two weeks and will only be available in Michigan due to production constraints.]

…You’ve probably seen the label above already. Now we have some preliminary details on Surly Darkness Day, courtesy of the Surly Brewing blog:

-October 23rd at Surly Brewing Company
-Gates open at 12:00, event goes to 6:30.
-We will be selling about 7500 bottles of Darkness here at the brewery
-$18 per bottle. CASH ONLY!
-Maximum of 6 bottles per person..
-Bottles will be for sale at local liquor stores the following week.

…Flossmoor Station will release its Replicale brew on October 12th. Per the blog:

“For those of you not familiar with the Replicale project, it is an annual brew in which each brewery gets a single style of malt donated (a very kind thanks to Mid Country Malts) and then chooses a single variety of hop (also thanks to Mid Country) to use in a pale ale, and the yeast strain is also donated (thanks to White Labs). The style varies with the year, but the idea is always the same – vary an ingredient and find out what each brewery produces.

Our Replicale is a light pale ale in which we used Brewer’s Gold hops. This hop imparted a light lemony flavor with other citrus flavors. The overall impression of this beer is a light pale ale with a refreshing moderate hop presence. At 6.3% this beer is on the upper end of a pale ale A.B.V., but it drinks very smoothly as it has been conditioning for a bit.”

…From Buckeye Brewing’s blog, “Buckeye’s 2010 commemorative India-style Black Ale is now for sale. 7.0% abv, Chinook hops, American ale yeast, 65 IBU’s. In addition, we are proud to present a new silk-screening process that absolutely rocks! At first glance it looks like a label, but upon further inspection one will find that it is actually a silk screen. Go ahead, try to scrape it off, it won’t be easy. Enjoy this delightful Black Ale while supplies last. CBW starts October 15th.” The brewery also announced that it will release Pumpkin Dead this fall.

…Finally, Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales has announced the fall return of Fuego del Otono. See the short clip with Ron Jeffries below.