Greetings My Ghoulish Gang of Gangrenous Green Garden Gremlins & Circus Geeks!

OHMERGERD! OHMERGERD! OMERGERD! I can hardly contain myself. 10 more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween! 10 more days to Halloween.... but 9 days until Halloween at Chicago's home to TRANSFORMATIVE BATHROOMS... IBW Lodge #1.

Yeah, we're going to knock it out of the ghoulish park on Saturday October 30th with a full day's run of events, everything from the very wholesome, to the truly dark and depraved. Something for everybody, really.

Here's the Facebook event page for people who still do that Facebook thing: https://www.facebook.com/events/172486615076878

Read the flyer, it gives you all the details. Wear a costume. Ok?

We'll have prizes of t-shirts, IBW gift cards and some other seasonally appropriate & scary stuff to give away. There will be something spooky on the tube. Or maybe we'll just turn that damn thing off? Hard to say.

You should totally do the Pumpkin Painting Contest. Just bring in your painted pumpkin anytime between now and when we announce the winner at 5pm on October 30th and leave your name with a bar tender. Who knows, you might be the only person to enter the contest and then, even your crummy pumpkin could take home a medal. Nothing to sneeze at there, bra.

So, long story short, get your fargin iceholes over to IBW Lodge #1 NEXT SATURDAY OCTOBER 30TH and squeeze a little Joy out of your weekend before the whole world is consumed in annoying, loud mouthed, flames. Let's be fair, time is running out.

But, hey, we honor all types over here at IBW. We love all you creepy, carny folks who doll up like Sexy Leatherface or Beetlejuice or even like some low-rent pirate even when it's not Halloween. But we also hold space for you anti-social shut-ins who fear our plague-infested planet with the kind of common sense not typically found in this here our modern world. And for you, our hermetic friends, we make CANNED BEVERAGES chock full of hops and booze. And, this week, we dropped a few newbies just for you.

We've got a fresh batch of FRUIT CREEP that is tasting rrrrrrreeally freaking good. We took a gamble and fermented this batch with Omega Yeast's COSMIC PUNCH yeast and, damn son, it's the best this has been in a long minute. Get it now, get it fresh, yada yada because everybody knows you know soooo much about beer that you don't buy any thing that's older than 3 weeks. We get it, Captain Cicerone. So go on out and get it now, k? K. We'll keep your seat warm on Untappd.

Oh, and holy macarooni, sometimes LIFE IS FLIPPING GREAT. Like when the GREATEST RECORD LABEL IN THE HISTORY OF PATROLEUM PRODUCTS reaches out to you to do a collaboration with THE GREATEST GUITARIST IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC (Ok, Ben might take umbrage at that last statement, but he's really freaking good and, by my mind, one of the better and certainly most interesting folks plucking a small lyre these days).

Yeah, the wonderful and mercurial folks over at Drag City Records hit us up about doing a collaboration to help promote Ben Chasny's (Six Organs of Admittance, Rangda, Comets on Fire, et al.) new album INTIMATE LANDSCAPE. Of course, we agreed and we got to work chatting with Ben about what he likes and what we like and what we came up with was the first Belgian Dubbel we've ever done. Sure, we've poked around that style in the past (see Brown Reason to Live), but this is our first real approximation of that style. And it's delicious. We used that incredible Rochefort yeast strain which just does mysteries with the grain bill and keeps improving over time.

Seriously, pick up this beer now. And eat it with some kind of slow cooked autumnal meal or something with mushrooms or some sausages or, hell, if you hate murder, it's even great with raisiny cous cous or other grain and fruit/nut delights. And listen to Ben's album - or any of his incredible albums ("Burning the Threshold" is a personal favorite) - while you stuff your face and bend your mind.

The album "Intimate Landscape" drops on November 5th and you'll be able to get a 4-pack and LP specially priced package only at the IBW Lodge #1 when that happens. But get the beer now and prepare thyself for beauty. You can read more about this collaboration here.

We also packaged the first batch of MUGWUMP BRUNCH that we've done in like 2 or 3 years. This Sour Double Dry Hopped Double IPA with Cara Cara Orange Juice tastes just like a Mimosa and pairs well with black caterpillar meat. That's a William S. Burroughs reference for you illiterate folks out there.

We've also got a fresh batch of t-shirts in. So, you folks who are waiting on Mushroom shirts will finally get yours, I'll ship them out this week. The rest of you nice people who are looking for a good shirt to wear under your sweater or hoodie or flak jacket, you're in business. Go hit our crummy web storefront and buy some right now!