Welcome to the heart of bovine intelligence and the intuition of maladies!

I have no idea what any of that means, but sometimes, when I'm stuck and can't figure out how to start one of these damn newsletters, I just let the brains barf a little bit and enjoy where the languaging goes. Some people call it "communicating with angels". Some call it flowing into the "stream of consciousness". I call it "being inordinately lazy for the insane amount of work I'm supposed to be getting done". They all work. There's many cut points to create a diamond as They say. And we know who "they" are... don't we?

Lots of beer out right now. And, it's all freaking good. Come on by the Lodge and pick some up. We almost literally having something for everybody. And, if we don't have something for you? I don't know? Lighten up? Change you tastes? Alter your habits? Get your mind right? Shall I continue?

That's just a tiny, post-coital shiver of what we have available in the fresh beer department right now. Our talented Sales Manger, Rick, put that image together. He wanted me to say something about "Hopping Into Spring". And, while I'm sure he's right that that would track with more people than, say, strings like "post-coital shiver", I just can't be who I'm not. You know? For good or for granted, I suppose.

TONIGHT! ROBOT KARAOKE is back!

I was in a fairly confrontational and exhausted state when I made that Robot Karaoke image last time. I'm not sure it completely captures the spirit of drunkenly singing your favorite songs to a bar full of equally inebriated strangers, but I do feel like that lama shooting an orange laser beam from its eye does communicate something about this existence we've all found ourselves in. So I'm gonna keep it.

As you know, Robot Karaoke is always free. We'll get started around 8pm.

Tomorrow the Norwood Park Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Bourbon Trail. There's still time to sign up. Do that here: https://buy.stripe.com/bIY5lD2kjcC791uaEM

NEXT WEDNESDAY! March 6th, from 6-8pm, we're hosting our 2nd Annual Girl Scout Cookie Pairing and cookie sale. Come enjoy a pairing of 4 Girl Scout cookies with 4 of our IBW beers, personally -EXCRUTIATINGLY - engineered by our head brewer, Brian Buckman. For $20 you get 4 IBW beers paired with 4 Girl Scout cookies and a chaser of Trust to cleanse your pallet between bites. Support your local Girl Scouts, drink beer and eat cookies. This is precisely what Ghandi or Churchill or Paracelsus would have done.

We're packaging a new batch of Mr. Monk's Cream Ale and some more Orange Sunshine on Monday. But, have I showed you what we packaged this previous Monday, like 3 days ago?

PEACOCK ANGEL is our most recent Double Dry Hopped Double IPA. This one is smothered and covered with 66lbs of Mosaic, Waimea, Rakau & Vic's Secret hops. And it's good. So come on down to our fuzzy little freak of a tap room and get yourself some on draft or in 4-packs to go while they last.

If I haven't mentioned it yet, 2024 is going to be our best, most exciting year yet. And we know excitement around here. We're like the Maggie Thatcher of excitement. The Rube Goldberg of surprise. We're like the Meatloaf of anticipation.

For instance - put this on your calendars - on Sunday April 28th we've got author and all around mensch of a cascadingly smart gentleman Erik Davis coming to our little beer hovel to sign and read from his new book BLOTTER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AN ACID MEDIUM. His book tells the wild story of the development and distribution of Acid Blotter Art from cheap and efficient drug medium to highly curious underground artifact with beautiful photographs from Mark McClouds "Museum of Illegal Images". I've been trying to convince Erik to come out here and do a beer with us since 2017 when he released his magnum opus "High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the 1970's" and I've finally tricked him into it. You're one shot at getting our collaboration beer is going to be on the day of the event. Stay tuned for more information on this.

We're teaming up with our friends at Bucket-O-Blood and Aeriz cannabis to bring you an event unlike any other. Don't miss this.

OK, that's all I've got. Back to work!