Chicago Tribune Loves War on Xmas & So Can You!

Howdy!

Chicago's chrome-domed taste-maker, Josh Noel, over there at that hippie-run liberal hack-rag the Chicago Tribune said some very nice things about this year's WAR ON XMAS white peanut-brittle stout and put us in with some wonderful company in this article released today: Beery Christmas and Hoppy New Year: 10 festive beers to stuff in your holiday stocking.

Click the link and read all about it. And then hop on over to IBW Lodge #1 (or your favorite local bottle shop) and grab yourself a 4-pack or 3 and get to making your spirits bright.

Or, better yet, why don't you get over here and buy a WAR ON XMAS box set?

If you don't know already, for $60 you get a War on Xmas! 4-pack, War on Xmas! t-shirt, either 2x IBW tulip glasses or 1x IBW stein, some stickers, a War on Xmas button and it's all boxed up in this lovely little hand-stamped IBW gift box.

New this year, we've also got some other gift options as well including a Shirt, Glass & Beer Can special and, if you need it shipped, just a Shirt & Glass Special.

You can get these off of our hyper-janky WEB STORE or you can come by the Lodge and pick one up anytime, even at the Holiday Pop-Up Shopping this Sunday!

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

Upcoming Events @ IBW Lodge #1

Howdy!

I hope you all survived your Thanksgiving benders in one piece. Now that you've had a few days to catch your breath, I wanted to plug you into some events we have coming up. Read on...

TONIGHT, we're tapping SECRET SPICE SOCIETY at the Lodge. This is a Gose with Fernet spices that we made in collaboration with Lake Effect Brewing. This delightful little monster has notes of citrus and anise and a nice tart finish. Get it while you can.

To celebrate our collaboration, Clint from Lake Effect will be at IBW Lodge #1 tonight around 6:30 to have a couple two-three pops. Come knock glasses with him and wish him well on his new brew space that should be open soon on Belmont Ave.

Thursday, December 1, we've got the 2nd installment of NIGHT BEAMS: AN EVENING OF MODULAR SYNTH JAMS. The last one we had in September was a blast, this one should prove to be just as grand!


This Sunday we have a Holiday Shopping Pop-Up event from 2pm - 6pm. Stop by both IBW Lodge #1 and WineStyles for some unique, Chicago-borne gifts for your friends and enemies. Beer and Wine specials to help your shopping go smoothishly.

Remember that WAR ON XMAS! box sets are back and ready to head into your happy homes. If you don't know already, for $60 you get a War on Xmas! 4-pack, War on Xmas! t-shirt, either 2x IBW tulip glasses or 1x IBW stein, some stickers and all boxed up in this lovely little hand-stamped IBW gift box.

New this year, we've also got some other gift options as well including a Shirt, Glass & Beer Can special and, if you need it shipped, just a Shirt & Glass Special.

You can get these off of our hyper-janky WEB STORE or you can come by the Lodge and pick one up anytime, even at the Holiday Pop-Up Shopping this Sunday!

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

IBW's War On Xmas! Box Sets! This Week's Events!

Hellllooooooooo!

I'm thrilled to be here in your inbox to remind you that we're in a single digit countdown to the most magical time of the year!!! Where people of all stripes come together with the singular purpose of eating and drinking themselves into a narcotic revelry of delights.

The butter drenched mashed potatoes! The magisterial Skeski's we stuff full of butter, onions and aromatics and cook to perfection in their own sordid juices!

The pies! The rolls! THE GRAVY!!! My god, the cranberries!! The whisky!!!! Oh, sweet Huddie William Ledbetter, I can't hardly contain myself.

Never is a food coma offered with such a sublime and savory devotional as it is on Thanksgiving, this Holy Rite of culinary immersion unparalleled in scope and grandeur. And right now, we are less than 48 hours away from lift off.

Take a breath and remember how the house will smell. And try not weep with morbid bird lust.

Ok, enough already, I need to stay focused.

WAR ON XMAS! box sets are back and ready to head into your happy homes. If you don't know already, for $60 you get a War on Xmas! 4-pack, War on Xmas! t-shirt, either 2x IBW tulip glasses or 1x IBW stein, some stickers and all boxed up in this lovely little hand-stamped IBW gift box.

New this year, we've also got some other gift options as well including a Shirt, Glass & Beer Can special and, if you need it shipped, just a Shirt & Glass Special.

You can get these off of our hyper-janky WEB STORE or you can come by the WAR ON XMAS! release party tomorrow for THE BLACKEST OF WEDNESDAYS.

The Blackest of Wednesdays is our Annual retreat for folks in town for the Thanksgiving turkenalia who need a bit of a breather from the family already. Last year was a blast and I'm certain this year will be even better.

We're releasing WAR ON XMAS! in 4-packs and putting it up on draft as well. This year's WAR ON XMAS! is pretty fantastic, I must say. We've decided to try something new with the recipe this year and do a Peanut Brittle version instead of the Egg Nog version we've done for the past 4 years. Going forward there is a real possibility that we'll do a different holiday treat each year. Or not! That's completely our decision and we are endowed with the agency to change our minds at any ding dang time we like. But, what I can tell you right now is that this year's batch is Peanut Brittle and it will change your life!

And, if getting away from your family and getting your hands and mouth on WAR ON XMAS! isn't enough incentive, then how about getting your mouth on some of PrairieWolfe Catering's delicious pierogi's? These things are insanely good and they'll be here for your belly's delights.

If none of those options will suffice, than come on by our SMALL BUSIINESS SATURDAY HOLIDAY MERCH BASH on Saturday November 26th from Noon to Midnight and get 15% off any of those items and a bunch of other merchandise we have for sale.

Also, this Friday, Jason Monk will be here from Noon until 4p offering up 3oz pours from his cellar with any purchase of a beer during that time. Think vintage Dark Lord, Bourbon County and many other sludgy, motor-oil and soy sauce extravaganzas.

Ok. There's a lot of devilry for me to finish up before I leap down a 4,000' foot hole of dining and decadence, so I must be on my way. But, one last thing before I go: We just packaged a tasty little bier de garde today named after one of the most beguiling bad movies ever made, Michael Mann's "The Keep". This movie could have been something phenomenal and, it would appear, the studio execs had other plans for it. But, the beer, it's freaking great. So, get a little winter belly-warmer and watch this movie. It pairs well with edibles and a sizable sound system for the Tangerine Dream soundtrack.

Ok, have a great and joy-filled Thanksgiving. Remember the one's you've loved and lost and try and appreciate the one's you've still got around to get greasy, fat and full with. There ain't much time left now.

Godspeed.

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

If you're into maps, here's a map that shows you where the IBW Lodge #1 is. I would recommend you use this in conjunction with a bike or feet. If you must drive to come see us, please don't park in WineStyle's parking lot. There's a ton of street parking all around us. Indulge in our glut of street parking at will.

DIMO'S PIZZA @ IBW Lodge #1 Tonight! And more...

OHMEHGHERRRRD!

Super stoked that Dimo's Pizza is doing a pop-up at the Lodge tonight. Get down there and get yourself a slice of that Bahn Mi pizza!!!

We've got a ton of other great events coming up as well this month.

I'll bullet point them below with links to the Facebook page. You can go fantasize about the events on that social media hellspace or you go check out the events at our personal hellspace at https://www.ibw-chicago.com/events

Ok, that's all you're getting from me today. I'm going back to bed now!

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

HALLOWEEN EVENTS @ IBW LODGE #1!!!

Greetings strange friends!!!

It's that time of year, once again. The veil is thin. The earth is still not flat. And those that have come and gone before us return, for only a few nights, to remind us of our own short tenure on this mortal coil. Halloween is that wonderful haul across calendrics that brings agency back to the shadow and pleasure to those absent friends.

Over here at the IBW confines, we like to raise our Freak Flag to one-and-half mast high and dig our cloven hooves deep into the meaty-wet soil of dying, dry leaves and soggy stained streets during this most wonderful time of year. We hope you'll come join us and bring your own strange vibrations to our celebrations.

Saturday's SPOOK EASY is the last time this year you're going to be able to get ECTO-SLUSHY on tap anywhere. And we only have one sixtel left. Now, we're not going to tell you when we're going to tap that beast on Saturday, but, when we do, you better get on that business fast. It won't last.

We're also going to have another round of ROBOT KARAOKE with John Barlow and a special surprise from the LAKESHORE DAMES!

We've got a Hawaiian themed menu for the evening from Yetta & Larry's Catering Co. that is going to make you die and raise from the dead again and again.

And, of course, COSTUME CONTESTS and BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM contests. It's going to be a grand old time.

And, listen, do yourself, us and everybody else a favor and don't be the only yutz to show up without a costume on. Just get over yourself and get in the spirit, ok? Ok.

Saturday is going to be BIG FUN, but! before get to the SPOOK EASY, we've got our 2nd Annual Dog Halloween Costume Contest.... tomorrow night, Thursday, from 5pm - 8pm!

Bring your furry buddy by, done up in its finest Halloween scare-fair and get your photo taken by the wonderful and talented Pat Hilander.

On Friday I'll post all the photos to our social media accounts and let the public vote on the finest dressed four-legged weirdo. The winner can collect their $50 gift card at our SPOOK EASY on Saturday and, more importantly, while you're here getting your photo taken, you can drink $3 Mr. Monk's the whole time!

These were some of the contestants from last year. We can't wait to see what shows up this year!!

Don't forget, we've also got a PAINTED PUMPKIN contest. Just bring in your painted pumpkin before our party on Saturday and you'll get a chance to win one of several prizes. Don't sleep through this, it's the quickest and easiest rocket ship to fame and fortune you're ever bound to find.

Oh, hey! We've also got a few new beers out. My favorite right now? ADAM WEISHAUPT a 5.55% dry-hopped weissbier that we've been making for a long time on draft but have never packaged in 4-packs until now. If you're one of those fine, feathered folks who likes a wheat beer with a big yeast character, than this homage to the first President of the United States is just the thing for you!

Last bit of business: we've got like 4 of these sexy new PAZUZU'S PEDALS t-shirts left. You can grab one in the tap room or buy one off our crummy webstore. $30 never made you look so good.

We really hope we see you Thursday and Saturday. There is TOO MUCH FUN to be had.

Weather we see you or not, we hope you have a wonderful and haunted Halloween.


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

That's all I've got. Why not go ride your bike today, it's BEAUTIFUL out there!!