This Sunday - as everyone is revving up their red, white & blue pocked livers to celebrate our fair country's annual memory of independence in some half-baked orgy of meat, explosives and booze - your casual friends here at IBW LODGE #1 will be throwing a little fluffer party to get you started.

WAR ON XMAS IN JULY is this Sunday from 2pm - 10pm (yes yes yes, we've extended our hours just so you can drink a little more than you probably need to or should)! Handsome Rob is resurrecting our Xmas decorations (and I think some Halloween ones too, because... Halloween!), we'll be playing crummy Xmas music all day and we'll have $5 cans of WAR ON XMAS white egg nog stout for you to drink oh so responsibly.

We've also got TO-GO War on Xmas 4-packs for $10 and TO-GO War on Xmas cases for $50. And, to help make sure you do the full July 4th celebration in finest patriotic style, we also have all of our TO-GO beer available at 10% OFF, Sunday Only.

So, if you're the kind of deranged, sick-o who likes to flog themselves with 11% beer in the middle of the summer, we've popped this little 2 man tent just for you.

We've also got a SANTA IN JULY COSTUME CONTEST that you'll want to not be square about and remember to participate in. You can interpret this foul prescription in whatever obtuse and categorically lenient way that you so desire, but do keep in mind there are sweet prizes on the line. Yes, we'll have the old faithful Gift Cards for some of the prizes. But we've also got some notable junk from the wonderful and busy beautiful people at AERIZ AEROPONICALLY GROWN PURE & CONSISTENT CANNABIS COMPANY. That's a bit of a mouthful, but, who doesn't like their mouth full?

The COSTUME CONTEST winners will be picked and announced around 8pm on Sunday. You have to be here to win. And you have to be in costume - or real freaking charming - to win also. We've got a few other surprise prizes for you creeps as well including a skateboard deck and a few other things you will want and we will try not to give you.

Here's the Facebook event link , if you are one of those folks who spends time on Facebook. I hate to encourage it, that place is a cess pool, but I hear tell some humans still go there. So, this link is for you. Enjoy!

We dropped our newest SLUSHY THING this week. SLUSHY THING 7: THE WATERGATE SALAD AFFAIR is so damn good. Be like a sweaty Richard Nixon and drink it until you're blue in the face! This beady-eyed little seltzer-based criminal is loaded with 30% Pineapple, Lemon & Sweet Cherry as well as Coconut, Pistachios, Marshmallow & a whole bunch of incriminating lactose sugar. I promise, if you bring this to your Freedom Bender on Monday, you will be worshipped like a Space God who was just spit forth from the eye of the Sun.

We've also got fresh batches of FRUIT CREEP and WATERMELON GUN that are tasting bonkers good. That WATERMELON GUN has 2.5 watermelons per barrel and you feel it, son. You feel it. That's right, we don't cop out with jolly rancher tasting extracts, we make our abused brew staff process those watermelons by hand the way a goddess intended.

You can grab these delightful intoxicants either at IBW LODGE #1 or at any decent, self-respecting bottle shop or liquor conglomerate around Chicago and the burbs, and in some lovely spots in Ohio, Florida, Colorado & Utah. So, why don't you do that then, eh?

Holy crap, you guys, HAPPY LOBSTER FOOD TRUCK is coming back. Friday, July 8th, Chicago's only food truck owned and operated by squirrels that serves amazing lobster rolls is back! There is a small chance that they will be able to honor some walk-up orders, but, if you want to make holy sure that you get a hot & buttered lobster roll NEXT FRIDAY July 8th then you should go to this link and submit to ordering now.

There's no end of dumb fun to be had at IBW LODGE #1 in this troubled month of July. The Lobster Truck is just the start. Here's a few more hits to make sure you take and take regularly:

Every Tuesday @ 7:30pm TRIVIA W/ MR. KING!!! Win prizes, reveal the depth of your ignorance, fight to the death!
Every Wednesday @ 9pm MURDER BINGO w/ HANDSOME ROB. Get 5 horror move tropes in a row and you win a pint of beer!
THURSDAY JULY 14TH @ 8pm, It's the return of FISCHER & FORREST OUTLAW BLUEGRASS HAPPY HOUR(S). You know it, you love it, come get a slice!
SATURDAY JULY 16TH @ 10pm, TIJUANA HERCULES is playing a FREE SHOW!
THURSDAY JULY 21 @ 7:30pm, ROBOT KARAOKE. Nut up and sing like the future of cheese pizza depends on it!

You can see all of our event calendar for the month at https://www.ibw-chicago.com/events

You can see what's currently on tap at IBW LODGE #1 at https://www.ibw-chicago.com/whats-on-tap