Can you believe it's already been 2 years since we moved into our humble little Norwood Park location? 2 years of delicious beers and Trivia Nights and Murder Bingos and parties and St. Patricks and Food Trucks and Pig Roasts and not to mention all of those WHATHAVEYOUS and suches and sundries and whatnots.

2 years of making friends and sharing belly laughs and wondering just what the hell is going on in the world. 2 years of getting older, getting rounder and 2 years of getting down to the business of getting down to business.

But, alas, 2 years it's been. Or about 24 years in medium-sized dog year's according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. And so, by hook or by crook, we are obliged to celebrate. And celebrate we will.

Next Saturday, September 23rd from a little after 3pm until a little after 10pm we'll be drinking beers and high-fiving and howling at whatever's left of the moon at that point. And we hope you'll join us.

The fan-favorite DUNK TANK will be back in full effect giving you ample opportunity to dunk Matty and, I would assume, Molly as well. We'll have a couple new carny games as well, a couple upgrades from last year. Come try your skill, win some tickets and trade them in for priceless stuffed tchotchkies.

The Bumbu Roux food truck will be here serving their wonderful blend of Cajun/Creole and Indonesian faire. We'll have some rare beers pouring that day including some wine barrel aged sours and a certain seasonal seltzer that Ghostbuster nerds seem to REALLY get excited about. And more!

Bring your dog! Get your face painted! Spend money!

If you need the Facebook page, here it is. I don't think there's any more information on there than I just gave you right there, but, well, you never know!

We really do hope you'll come celebrate with us. It should be plenty of fun for everybody.

And, you know, there's other stuff going on in the mean time as well.

Like look at these beautiful beers we've dropped over the past couple of weeks!

We've got FRESH Pazuzu's Pedals (6% Porter), Dagger Flute (6% Citra IPA), MAJOR AWARD WINNING Double Dipped Orange Sunshine (8% DDH DIPA w/ Marshmallow and zest) and - of course! - this year's batch of MOCKTURTLENECKS, our lovely and talented MocktoberFest Marzen-style Ale!

This Saturday, September 16th, we've got a new installment of NIGHT BEAMS the one-of-a-kind night of Modular Synth musicians and video artists:

And remember, almost every Thursday is PINT NIGHT at our little UFO Love Cult Lodge, IBW Lodge #1. We're ripping through these JUNIOR ASTRONAUT JUICE glasses as of late. I'm guessing we'll have these for probably one or two more of these and then we'll move onto a different glass.

It's $12 and you get the glass full of Junior Astro Juice. Why don't you have a whole set of these yet?

Also, please mark your calendars for our late-to-the-party Mocktoberfest 2023! featuring the Ron Smolen Orchestra once again! That will be on Saturday, October 7th from 4pm - 10pm.

Oh yeah, one last thing, WE'VE GOT SHIRTS AND HATS BACK IN STOCK FOR YOU TO BUY WITH YOUR AMERICAN MONEY! Buy them all now at our super crummy web store!!

Ok, that's all folks. We really hope to see you at our 2 Year Anniversary party and every day between now and then... and after!

You can see all of our events on our event calendar 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