Holiday Party TONIGHT & Vendor Pop Up TOMORROW @ IBW Lodge #1

If you're looking for a couple two-three things to help distract you from the seemingly hopeless tire fire of life, we've got just a the couple two-three things for you this weekend.

Tonight we've got our Holiday party!

The party starts at 5pm w/ food from CHICAGO CATERING COMPANY & holiday music. Make sure to bring in toys for under served kids because every toy you bring gets you another raffle ticket to win a gift from Santa. And, if you hate kids or you don't like charity for some reason, you can get a raffle ticket for every glass of WAR ON XMAS you buy tonight.

At 730(ish) Santa will pull some tickets from his magical sac and distribute gifts to creeps like you from our friends at Drag City Records, Aeriz cannabis, AWH skateboard distributing and, yes, IBW.

We'll have an Ugly Sweater contest and a HO!HO!HO! OFF for some more prizes.

As part of our HOLIDAY BACCHANALIA, we've got our 1st installment of a new monthly Saturday night dance party, WAX DISASTERS. Join Ellis DJ, MiM & DJ Salsa Verde as they take you on a wild adventure into no genre ass shaking.

And then, of course, tomorrow at 1pm we've got our HOLIDAY VENDOR POP UP with the following local artists and businesses:
--BLACK PISCES PRESS w/ screen printed holiday cards and posters
--CHICAGO PYRO SHOP w/ LIVE engraving, IBW hand carved and painted signs and other cool stuff
--GARRET AUGUSTYN w/ deranged ceramic gingerbread men, scary clowns and criminals
--HAREBRAINED DESIGNS w/ all of your STFU About CHICAGO needs from shirts to panties to calendars, pins, posters, flags, you name it
--METALEDGE RECORDS w/ Punk and Metal vinyl
--GAMERS CORPS w/ RPG and Board Games
--LOCAL GOODS CHICAGO w/ all of your Chicago pride stuff
--BRE'S CHIBAKED w/ yummy baked goods that are good when you're baked
--ILLUMINATED BREW WORKS w/ lovely shirts, posters and creepy back rubs for your Uncle's who have bad ideas and really just need a back rub to settle down

JOHN VERNON FORBES will be twisting the tooters behind the bar and we'll have some beer specials and that goddman BEARS game at 1pm, so all of you yahoos who bugged us about playing the BEARS games in our little sanctum sanctorum can come hold up your end of that Faustian deal by yelling at the TV or whatever you people do at football games.

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

TRUST Pint Night @ IBW Lodge #1 TONIGHT!

PINT NIGHT IS BACK @ IBW LODGE #1!!

 Tonight only, for only $10 you get this fancy TRUST glass filled up with TRUST and you can take the glass home at the end of the night.
 

Only one per person for the night, please. Thanks for being cool about that. If you need another glass, you can buy them at the shop for $15 or off of our crummy website for $20 (shipping & handling included).

Ok, that's all folks. See you soon!

WAR ON XMAS box sets 15% Pre-Sale Until 11/22

Please accept my many hairy and scalable excuses for not deploying a long-winded and mind-altering email any time in the recent past. I've been busier than a lazy, aging and corpulent man-child really prefers to be and, when this happens, something must suffer. And, after long debate, we decided that it should be you that suffers.

But, fret less! With the holidays staring up our proverbial skirts there is a strong chance of me holing up from the (I assume) impending cold and scrawling a new screed or two of vaguely sense-making reportage for you lovely monkeys to roll and smoke upon.

 But, in the meantime, here's some efficient point-making so I can get back to the rest of the tendrils this unholy beast keeps wrapping around my heart.

War on Xmas box sets are back and 15% off from now until 11/22 at noon. Click here to buy now! Use the discount code PREORDER at check out!

This year you get a 2-pack of War on Xmas, one flavor of each variety + 2 War on Xmas pint glasses + an ORANGE War on Xmas shirt so that all you folks with the classic John & Yoko black on white version can indulge in a newish looking t-shirt.

ALSO... go here to hear JOHN BARLOW'S beautiful rendition of our WAR ON XMAS theme song. I mean, what other beer has a god damned theme song? None. That's none but IBW's (until somebody else comes along and bites on that idea, too).

While you're over on our hella-crummy webstore, you might also notice that we have PURPLE Pazuzu's Pedals shirts. HOLY CRAP! How can you NOT buy one of these?

CULT MEMBERSHIPS FOR 2024 GO ON SALE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH. You have been warned. More info to come.

Don't forget about THE BLACKEST OF WEDNESDAYS coming on on 11/22. We buy the pizza, you buy the beer and Rob plays "Thankskilling" over and over and over. Big night. Help us help you ruin your Thanksgiving morning.

And then, of course, all you TWIN PEAKS heads, mark your calendar for Sunday November 26th @ 3pm for our TWIN PEAKS TEAM TRIVIA. If you've spent more than about 8 minutes around me then you certainly know how much I love Twin Peaks. Hell, it's probably the closest thing to an organized view of the world that I enjoy swallowing over and over again. 

All of this is to say, I'm putting a lot of love and care in making these questions. And the wonderful and strange folks over at Bucket O Blood Books and Records have donated some FANTASTIC prizes:

So don't miss the damn fine TWIN PEAKS TEAM TRIVIA.

OH! HEY! BRONY IS BACK!

And, yes Virginia, IBW will be open for the Bears loss tomorrow at Noon. Trust Micheladas et al.

Ok, that's all folks. See you soon!
 


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