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MUNSTER — The Dark Lord will reign again this May.

The world-renowned Three Floyds Brewing at 9750 Indiana Parkway in Munster has bumped back its annual Dark Lord Day from April to May 13 this year. Tickets go on sale at noon Saturday for the daylong celebration of craft beer, which runs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., attracts thousands of craft beer aficionados from across the world and is the only chance to buy the highly acclaimed Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout.

Readers of RateBeer have deemed Dark Lord — "a demonic Russian-Style Imperial Stout brewed with coffee, Mexican vanilla, and Indian sugar" — as world class. Paste Magazine has dubbed the beer "perhaps the most visible and emblematic 'white whale' of the American craft brewing landscape." It's a highly coveted, molasses-thick brew that many say age like wine before drinking.

Tickets to Dark Lord Day cost $180, or about $20 less than last year's rain-soaked 20-year anniversary event. Several mostly heavy metal bands typically play the annual Dark Lord festival, but Three Floyds has not announced this year's lineup yet.