Greetings from the End of the Bar...

THE LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE OF DRY JANUARY IS FINALLY OVER!!!!

To properly capstone that tawdry villain, the Inner Order here at IBW Lodge #1 went down to the lake front on the new moon and set a pile of flaming Sears catalogues out to current into our lovely Lake Michigan. This symbolic Viking Funeral for that drooling, three-legged horse-hound demon-dog hyphenate born of the hollow notion that 4 weeks of sobriety is going to solve anything has, it is my hope (I've heard a lot of people talking about!), put that psychic pegboy to bed once and for good.

So let's get back to the business at hand, can we? And, of course, that business is the softening of the edges of this relentless meat wheel of time we've all seemed to have found one another upon. And the method is, yes, of course... beer.

SPOONFUL OF SUGAR is back in 16oz cans! This beautifus beastus is a Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale with lactose sugar and galaxy hops. And, can I tell you? It's great. And it's out at stores and available on draft and in cans at IBW LODGE #1.

Alongside SPOONFUL OF SUGAR we also released, for the first time in 16oz cans, MR. MONK'S CREAM ALE. This homage to the patriarch of the Family Monk was such a huge hit on draft at the Lodge that we seeded it out into your wonderful and open mouths by way of aluminum cans. You can also find it on draft here at IBW LODGE #1 and at a few select draft accounts around the city. And, yes, it's in cans at all of your favorite bottle shops.

NEXT WEEKEND, Saturday, February 19th, starting at noon we'll be releasing the extremely rare and thoroughly delicious collaboration we did with Old Irving Brewing, ANCIENT MAGICK, that has been lovingly barrel aged in W.L. Weller barrels for almost 2 years.

This stuff is incredible, just so good. This 11% stout with peanut butter and marshmallow has relaxed into a black velvet and lace throne for the vanillins, oak and bourbon notes imparted from almost 2 years cozied up in wood. The IBW BEER CULT gets first dibs at the stash, but we'll release whatever allocations are left to you, the uninitiated, once they are done having their way with it.

If you don't want to wait and make sure that you get a slice of this deliciousness before the Cult is done with it, you can still JOIN OUR CULT and secure your dibs.

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BARREL AGED ANCIENT MAGICK is packaged in 750ml bottles and will be available out of IBW LODGE #1 exclusively for $24.99 while supplies last. We open at noon on Saturdays. Again, this is NEXT SATURDAY February 19th.

The following Saturday, February 26, we'll be throwing a Mardi Gras party here at IBW LODGE #1. More details are coming on that in the next week, but, block out your weekend, we're gonna go hard to the hoop on that one.