Day of the Druid

Tomorrow will be one of the darkest days in Trickster’s history.

The Coeur d’Alene brewery is debuting its Daedric Druid strong American stout (8.1 percent alcohol by volume, 43 International Bitterness Units).

While most of it will end up in 22-ounce bottles, scheduled for release next month – making it Trickster’s first packaged beer – a limited amount will be poured in the tasting room on Friday (pints only, no growlers).

Brewery owner Matt Morrow says the name, which comes from a character in an online fantasy role-playing game, suggests “the darkest of the dark – a nefarious sort of thing.”

The “really meaty” beer has a big caramel character from an extended boil that caramelized sugars in the malts, he adds, along with dark fruit flavors.

Coming later in 22-ounce bombers is a more limited release of Trickster’s first barrel-aged beer, a combination of two winter seasonals – year-old, naturally soured Naughty Nick Chocolate Chip Cookie Oatmeal Stout and unfermented Soul Warmer Porter – aged in a wine barrel, which Morrow says “smells like candy.”

Along with the bottled specialties, some of the brewery’s regular lineup also could show up in cans down the road.