And, you know, one pretty vital part of becoming a brewery is the licensing needed to properly sell your wares. We’ve made some real progress on that as well, moving to what appears to be the third tear of the federal licensing. We are hoping – and think it’s realistic – that we’ll be able to self-distribute beer produced at our very own dungeon by July or August at the latest. Pretty exciting stuff.
Oh hey... one other thing about the Chiditarod... Apparently America’s favorite son, Jimmy Fallon, is in town this weekend. Liz from Chiditarod has started a social media campaign to get Jimmy to the Chiditarod. We think that ideas as good as putting wheels on peanut butter. All you have to do to help sway his interest is tweet him at @JimmyFallon and give him one good reason to come. What could be a better reason than for him to get mind-crawled by some fucking IBW beer?
Oh yeah, we just got a shitload of stickers in, both ChiditaRye stickers as well as IBW stickers. Find us and acquire them for your strange toys. We also have glasses and a very few shirts left. We’ll get those on the site soon or you can just email me at brian@ibw-chicago.com if you want.
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Lastly…. Our glasses are raised and our hearts are heavy in honor of the passing of Harold Ramis. He was truly one of the greats. But hey, in seemingly terrible times like these, we like to stare a little longer at the sun and vaguely remember what it says on the side of the Ba’hai temple in the northern suburbs: “I have sent death as a messenger of Joy to thee, wherefore dost though weep”. Wherefore indeed, hot shot.
Godspeed, friends. We will knock glasses again soon.
