Good day to you, earth eaters!

You know, say what you will about this complicated intersection of life forms we participate in, but it's not so bad.

Sure, you might think Earth is just a stage for you to play act whatever false identity you try to convince people you have on social media. You might even be so far down that tawdry little rabbit hole that you think that that identity actually IS your identity. Or that you have a static identity at all for that matter.

You can think that. It's Ok. I'll accept that as rules for this game, for now. It's lame, but I'll accept it. I'm an easy going guy, after all.

Assuming those rules for the game, imagine what a bummer it would be to ruin this perfectly built theatre here, all constructed and maintained, all in the service of the pageantry of your neurosis' and half-baked ambitions. If we burn this off-off-off-off-broadway puppet house to the ground, well, where oh where will you fill that hole in your soul? You might just have to get reincarnated and do it all again. And nobody wants that.

The answer to the above quiz will be released next week, so hold tight.

In the meantime, we have a brand-spanking-new-super-fresh-yummy-as-holy-hell batch of ORANGE SUNSHINE to excite your nerve endings and inflame your Id. And, I tell you with only a little bit of bias, this batch is fantastic.

You can get ORANGE SUNSHINE on tap and in cans at IBW LODGE #1. Cases start rolling out to your favorite bottle shops next week.

We've also got a new batch of BEER HERE NOW, MR. MONK'S CREAM ALE and a new, delightful session stout available going by the mysterious name CLURICHAUN TRAP.

If you're wondering, a Clurichaun is a kind of drunk, trouble-making earth elemental known to live in breweries and cause general mayhem and havoc. They drink up stashes and break equipment when brewers aren't around. I'm not saying that we for sure have a Clurichaun running around IBW LODGE #1, but, if you've spent any extended time around our humble little tree house, you've probably noticed one or two anomalous occurrences go down.

Maybe your glass slid across the table unprovoked? Balloons spontaneously popped? Doors opened at seeming whim? Strange noises in the brew house? Shapes catching your attention from the corner of your eye? If you've hung out at IBW LODGE #1 for any significant time, you've certainly noticed one, if not several, of these things.

Now, I'm not the kind of person to say for sure, hands-down that the cause of these phenomenon are a Clurichaun. But I'm also not the type of humanoid to tell you they're not either.

So, we've made a beer to appease our little brewhouse friend. All reports is that he's digging it. Why not make the most of a strange situation and get a little of his liquid for yourself?

At 4.8% you can drink CLURICHAUN TRAP session stout for 12-14 hours at a time, and, if you weren't believing in Clurichauns when you started your bender, I can assure you that you'll be entertaining that and all sorts of other odd ideas come the end time.

Speaking of odd ideas and end times, we're doing a collaboration beer with the WERID STUDIES podcast. Phil Ford and J.F. Martel are the hosts of this bi-weekly jaunt into the slippery world of mind and perception. These two affable and confounded gentleman are the perfect guides down the parallax loops of reality and fictions. Covering much loved topics such as Philip K. Dick, David Lynch, the I Ching, Gnosticism, John Keel, E.T.A Hoffmann, Stanley Kubrick and other eldritch artifacts of popular and marginal culture, Phil & J.F. practice the dangerous art of asking questions that have no reasonable answer.

Weird Studies has become a kind of deranged and delightful graduate school for me, Matty and Pritch (the troubled ex-youth who painted our mural) and it's one of the great delights of owning and running a brewery to have an opportunity to introduce these big-brained Canadians to you.

We'll be releasing WEIRD STUDIES BLACK IPA on May 23rd and, to celebrate this auspicious moment in strange, WEIRD STUDIES will be recording a show live at IBW LODGE #1. More info will be coming on that soon, so stay tuned.

I'll say this much now: if you're the kind of person who walks into IBW LODGE #1 and feels like this was the club house you've been looking for your whole life, than you should definitely drop whatever sick thing you're up to right now and start listening to WEIRD STUDIES. And make definite sure to join us on May 23rd.

Have you heard? NONAGON is playing a free show at IBW LODGE #1 on Saturday April 30th at 10pm. Come on out and enjoy Chicago Math-Rock the way your mother intended.

There's a ton of other stuff going on and I'm running out of patience with writing this email. So check our Instagram page or our Facebook page for more information on upcoming events. We've got something really special in the works for you Dad's on Father's Day. Do you like beer? Do you like barbecued pigs? Then stay tuned!

And, please, if you haven't yet (or if you have), come play with us on Tuesdays for TUESDAY TRIVIA NIGHT. It remains the most dangerous night of trivia in Chicago!