The time has come for your troubled friends, family, cult members, co-conspirators, cheerleaders, antagonists, thorns in the side, clowns in your car, noodles on your lampshade, fish in your percolators, yada-yada-yadas in your whose-in-what's-haves-its to put on our ritual onesies, tie up our sneakers and hop into the tail of a near-proximity comet.

Its with heavy hearts that we have been forced to finally let you all in on the big reveal: we're closing up shop and heading to the transcendent fields of green on the other side of spaceship earth. We will miss all of you while we play pickle ball with washed up Thetans and out of work party clowns somewhere in the 5th dimension.

Official last day of service will be JUNE 28TH, 2026.

Forbes and I have been working very hard to program every Friday and Saturday from here until the end of (our) time. We will be booking out Thursdays and Sundays as well. If you have a project you think we'd want to yell over while taking beer orders, please hit me up in a DM and we'll discuss.

We are done producing beer and distributing. Our last out-of-state shipment goes to Utah next week. You will be able to get us at all your favorite bottle shops until whatever they have on their shelves are gone.

You will STILL be able to get cans to go out of the Lodge until we close or until the beer runs out, whichever comes first.

There will be a few barrel aged releases between now and June 28th. And there will also be a TON of killer shows and GREAT GREAT PARTIES not the least of which is our ALICE IN WONDERLAND COSTUME PARTY on Friday March 20th.

Because we're closing does not mean we no longer need your money. WE NEED IT NOW MORE THAN EVER. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep coming to the Lodge and enjoying Wonderful and Strange events with Wonderful and Strange humanoids. Tip our bartenders well and share all the love in your hearts with all the great people who are sharing this space with you while you can.

THIS IS NOT THE END.

WE LOVE ALMOST ALL OF YOU.

TAKE NO GUFF.

Be Seeing You!

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