Here's My Pants, America!

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” 
― Albert Camus, The Fall

There's so much grass in the basket these days we've had to hide all the easter eggs in inappropriate places:  

• We've got Chicago's Beer Hoptacular this weekend which we're very excited for, as well as the Windy City BBQ.  We're splitting duties between gigs, if you get a chance come see us at both.  
• We've got our first legitimately self-distributed beers going out into the world very soon to some places I'm so excited about I can hardly keep myself contained.  We'll give shout outs as they roll out of the dungeon, so stay tuned, it truly is a good time to not be dead yet.
• Apparently there's some kind of Zombie paintball orgy of honkydelia that we're supporting with beverages coming soon. As soon as I have more info, we will give it right to you.
• We've got 2 new beers rolling out in October:  Pazuzu's Pedals and Hasselhopf.  Quake with pleasure filthy freaks... this shit is tasting fuckin' A fresh as hell.  

That's it.  For now.  We've got more communiques from the front lines to transmit, but not before sleep and a couple more drinks lays in against the fleeting weights of my soul.

Well...

Disappointment doesn't even come close to describing the general feeling here in our subterranean lab.  We're completely bummed, totally deflated, deterred, downtrodden, disturbed and crushed.   

Most importantly, we will take another pass at the party.  But not until the spring.  So hang tight, we'll get 2015 started properly. Info will be available in time. 

In the meantime, you'll have to resign yourself to enjoying our beers in some of our fair city's best bars.  Stay plugged-in to our Facebook page and website to find out who's pouring what and where.  Also, please come see us at the Beer Hoptacular and at the Windy City BBQ Classic.  

We will also be doing impromptu parties at our property.  Basically bonfires with free IBW beer and accoustic music and other fiery surprises.  These will be lazy, low key events where you can sit around the fire with IBW and share delicious potions and bad ideas.  We'll post these announcements on our Facebook page the same day they are happening.

Finally, a huge thank you needs to go out to our favorite people and favorite friends in the Chicago universe for helping us out with this event: DRY HOP BREWERS, ANDERSONVILLE BREWING, LOCAL OPTION, UNE ANNE, INEBRIATED BREWING, FLED HOMEBREW, DONER MEN FOOD TRUCK, BLACK ACTRESS, THE COLUMBINES, BRICKFIGHT, THE LEAGUE OF TROUBLED SOULS.  These are the ball-swinging beasts in this strange city of ours, give them every ounce of love and trust that they deserve.

And THANK YOU to all of you for your excitement and support and all the very warm, encouraging emails we've received in the past 24 hours.  We're not doing this project because it's a good idea or that it will make us rich or even moderately poor.  We do this project because we love beer, love Joy, and love doing whatever measley thing we can to make everybody's lives a little better, if only for a little bit.

We look forward to knocking glasses again soon.

Godspeed.

Matt, Jason, Brian, Willie

Juggalo Cadillac!

I stopped by Dry Hop yesterday to bring them a keg of Orange Sunshine for tonight's New Brewer Showcase only to find out that our second collaboration with Dry Hop, Juggalo Cadillac, was ready to taste as well.

Juggalo Cadillac is a fairly traditional saison recipe with a largely pilsner body, an oat protein boost and is fed on a Hillstead Farms saison yeast.  Where Jugallo Cadillac gets interesting is with the Macadmia nuts added late in the boil and the Mango puree dosed in during transfer to the brite tanks.  The Macadamia gives a nice nutty, floral bed for the citrus of the Mango to live.  All of this in a deep orange body with bright spices and a light earthiness from the yeast. 

We're very proud of this collaboration and are excited to pour it for you tonight at Dry Hop alongside Orange Sunshine and 4 of our more talented peers: Moody Tongue, Marz Community Brewing, Breakroom Brewery & Forbidden Root.

Juggalo Cadillac will also be available at "A Star is Born" on Saturday.

Cheers!

New Brewer Showcase @ Dry Hop Wednesday 9/17

As we ramp up in the last few days before "A Star Is Born", we're going to take some time to get together at Dry Hop Brewers to celebrate with a few other new breweries that have just opened relatively recently as well.

Wednesday, September 17th from 6pm - 2am come and sample beers from your truly, Marz Community, Breakroom Brewery, Forbidden Root, Slapshot and Moody Tongue.  Here's the list:

Breakroom Brewery Legend of Chief El Dorado (Lactose DIPA) - 8.5% ABV
Forbidden Root Sublime Ginger (American Wheat) - 3.8% ABV
Illuminated Brew Works LLC Orange Sunshine (Citrus Saison) - 4.6% ABV
Marz Community Brewing Smoke Wheat Every Day (Smoked Wheat) - 4.3% ABV
Moody Tongue Brewing Company Cold Press Paw Paw (Belgian Pale Ale) 5.5% ABV
SlapShot Brewing Co. 1926 (Rye Pale Ale) - 5.0% ABV

Come on out and look into the future of Chicago brewing!  More info here...

Beer List for "A Star Is Born" on 9/20

Here's the list as it exists right now... and it's only getting better and better.

Please remember to get into this FREE party you must rsvp star@ibw-chicago.com

Une Annee collabs w/ IBW:  

Orange Sunshine - Wine-dry and sessionable summer crusher made with orange and lemon zests and French Saison yeast.

Cult of Lam - 3.2% Brett Grisette featuring 2 types of Brettanomyces.

Dry Hop collabs w/ IBW:

Jugallo Cadillac - Mango macadamia nut farmhouse.

Other Dry Hop offerings:

Oysterhead -  a 6.7% Oyster Stout brewed with whole oysters from Goose Point Family Farm in Willapa Bay, Washington, and oyster shells.  Expect this traditional English stout to be smooth, chocolatey rich, and briny.

Inebriated Brewing collabs with IBW:

Green Tea Honeydew IPA - Made with 2 kinds of green tea and 4 types of hops, this sessionable IPA marries the earth tones and citrus of it's 3 main ingredients in a surprising and delicious way.

Other Inebriated Brewing offerings:

Double Double Rainbow Saison - imperial saison fermented with raspberries, pineapple, key lime and lemon zest then doused with a shit ton of nelson sauvin hops!

Tessera - Session pale brewed with simcoe and mosaic hops.

Local Option offerings:

Voku Hila - This 6.5% helles bock is golden in color with a large, creamy, persistent white head; aromatically driven by robust toast and bread notes derived from continental European pale malts with moderate spice from noble German hops.

Hamburger Mary's offerings:

TBD

Fled offerings:

TBD

Don't forget we've got more than just killer beer.  We've got great bands, Burlesque dancers, the fucking Can Car and so much more.

We're looking forward to seeing you on the 20th!

More info can be found here...