Cult of Fnord RARE Tapping This Saturday w/ Cokegoat!

How rare is rare? SUPER FREAKING RARE. That's right.

There are only 3 sixtels of Cult of Fnord that will be tapped in Chicago this year. That's it. And one of those sixtels will be tapped THIS SATURDAY at the Burlington Bar.

This Saturday, February 11th at the Burlington Bar Cokegoat will be systematically removing faces, cooking them up with a hydrochloride powder and feeding them back to their unwitting audience drenched in metric tons of thunderous metal.  And IBW will be tapping Cult of Fnord to help with party.

If you don't already know, Cult of Fnord is our 7% wit beer that is fermented on 100% brettanomyces in lieu of our house wit strain. We then dry-hopped this beauty with 3lbs per barrel of Amarillo & Columbus and blended with another Templeton Rye barrel aged farmhouse. The result is the wonderfully funky, freak-out of a beer that explodes with tropical fruit and citrus.

This beer is a real victory for Freedom and for Flavor, we promise you. Real patriots will love this beer.

I'll say it one more time... Cult of Fnord will only see 3 draft tappings this year! That's it. The rest of it will be bottle conditioned and released in our standard 750ml bottle format later this spring. Stay tuned for more details.

To help you keep track of everything IBW has going on, we've finally updated our Events page. We've got a bunch of events coming up this month so check out the Events page for info on these.  And keep checking back, I promise to be more vigilant about keeping this updated as we go forward.

Hasselhopf - with it's smooth, juicy notes of citrus and candy - has been all gussied up in it's 8% zoot suit and released to stores this week for your troubling pleasures. You can get the Hopf at:

• Beer Temple
• Vas Foremost
• Grand & Western
• Bottles & Cans
• Bitter Pops
• Madison Vine Wines
• Beermiscous
• Maria's
• Binny's Marcey
• Binny's Lakeview
• Binny's Grand
• West Lakeview Liquors
• Logan Liquors
• Beer on the Wall

Jinx Remover - our beautiful 5.1% brett Pale Ale made with a blend of Cult of Ed and a tart finishing farmhouse - goes out to stores next week. Stay tuned for more info on the locations next Wednesday.

Black Lodge Tapping @ The General This Thursday!

Hey everybody look over there, the world is on fire!

And let's be clear: this is exactly why you have IBW in your life. Our fine, feathered cult of delinquents have been delivered here to spaceship earth to help you make your few remaining days enjoyable.

And, to be clear, the trip to get here was long and miserable and fraught with peril so it'd be great if you could do us a solid and just take advantage of at least some of these offerings we've made available to you over these next few days. There's some good ones, we promise.

Aside from more of our mind-bending tart farmhouse Brainwash being released to your favorite bottle shops in Chicago this Friday, we've got these exciting events that you are implored to attend.

Here you go:

This Thursday our friends over at the General will be tapping into one of the few remaining kegs of Black Lodge, our 8% stout made with sour cherries and 3lbs/barrel of Abacus coffee. We'll be playing Season 1 of Twin Peaks on the TVs and members of our cult will be filling the air with music.

This Friday, the upstanding gentleman at Local Option will be pouring Brainwash (7% Tart Farmhouse) directly into your moufs as part of their celebration of diversity and inclusion, Mucho Chingon.

Next Saturday, February 11th the dark wizard's of Cokegoat are playing the Burlington and we'll be tapping an extremely rare keg of Cult of Fnord for the event. Cult of Fnord takes Fnord, our 7% wit, and feeds it to a blend of brett claussenni and brett trois for 5 months. Just before packaging we dry-hopped this little bastard on 2lbs of Amarillo per barrel. We'll be releasing Cult of Fnord in bottles come April, but this Cokegoat show is one of the only chances you're going to have to drink it on draft. Don't miss it.

That's it for the time being.  Later this month we'll be releasing Hasselhopf and our brett pale ale Jinx Remover.  We've also got a couple of tap take overs around town at Bucktown Pub & Logan Arcade (where we'll be watching the incredible horror film "Evilspeak"!!!) and, of course, we'll be pouring Black Lodge at the Uppers & Downers coffee and beer event. But we'll tell you more about those as we get closer to them. 

Ok, folks. Hang in there, keep your eyes open, stay fighting and remember to always maintain at least a little buzz, it will help you see clearly while the world heats up it's Fnords.

Frozen Mind @ Chicago Psych Fest VIII This Weekend!

We're over our ski's with joy that we've been asked to make a beer for one of the best weekends in music here in Chicago. Chicago Psych Fest VIII: Frozen Mind will be at the Hideout Friday and Saturday night featuring Post-Animal, Magic Carpet, Daigonal and a whole bunch more psyche-rock monsters.

We brewed a batch of dreams to keep you warm & hydrated and to bring you back to earth should you freak too far the fuck out. FROZEN MIND is an 7.5% ABV winter farmhouse ale with a rich herbaceousness wrapped in citrus and pine. FROZEN MIND is available this weekend at Hideout's Psychfest VIII and a few other venues until it's gone. 

If you're lame and don't want to come to the Hideout this weekend, we'll also be pouring at the Winter Ale Fest at Navy Pier.

Next week will see a new batch of our highly coveted 7% tart farmhouse, BRAINWASH, making it's ways out to your favorite Chicago bottle shops. Stay tuned for more info on where and when you can get that.  

Alright, ladies and gentleman, let us prepare to not feel our faces!

Drink IBW & Support Planned Parenthood TONIGHT!

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - Samuel Johnson

In times of great misery, failure and embarrassment - you know, days like today - the best we can do is come together as a community of dying humanoids and drink too much.  IBW and the Green Lady have come together to help in that effort.

At 4pm today The Green Lady will tap our American Orange Ale Trumpty Dumpty.  All proceeds from sales of Trumpty Dumpty today will be donated to Planned Parenthood in the name of Mike Pence.  So, come take your medicine and join us, as a family, as we all salute our new candy colored clown president properly.

In more inspiring news, we've released some more of our very popular beer we produced in support of Drag City Records' Purling Hiss for their tour this past fall.  Here's the description:

"To celebrate "High Bias", the new Purling Hiss release on Drag City Records, IBW assembled our most loving homage to trashy, American macro-beers, just the kind of beer that built the fuzzy guitar rock of "High Bias". Purling Hiss is full of pilsner, munich, rice adjunct and noble hops creating a fizzy, yellow sleigh-ride that pairs well with brown meth, NASCAR and Jesus footies.  Enjoy it cold and fast before this whole hen house heads straight to Hell."

We may be too late on the hen house in Hell thing, but we can still drink.  Get this very limited release at:

• Beer Temple
• Vas
• Bottles and Cans
• Grand & Western
• Liquor Park
• Bitter Pops
• Your Happy Place Liquors
• Binnys Lakeview

For you nice folks outside of Chicago, you can get Purling Hiss on Beer Temple's website for shipment to most of the 48 states.

We've got a couple other bottle releases coming up in the next few weeks. Jinx Remover is a 5.1% Brett Pale Ale that we are quite proud of and works wonders at removing bad luck and hexes brought on from the Evil Eye. And Hasselhopf, an 8% Hopped-Up Farmhouse, will make it's bottle premier with an update to the recipe and a very handsome label you can use to impress your friends.

Stay tuned to this here email list or our Facebook page for specifics as those get released.

Ok. That's it. I've got nothing positive to offer you and no healing words. We're all doomed. The joke is over. Just tune those skills at your "duck & cover" technique and keep plenty of medicine on hand to smooth the corners.  In closing, I leave you with this:

"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush (and Donald Trump)? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us—they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.” - Hunter S. Thompson

P.S. Happy Birthday David Lynch!  RIP Miguel Ferrer.

Black Lodge & Son of Toucan Sam Available TODAY!

Just in time for your annual cold-weather bender this weekend, we pushed our entry-level cult slaves in the IBW bunker to package together two delicious holiday treats to help keep you swervy and warm.

Our first release is Son of Toucan Sam. This is a farmhouse we brewed in collaboration with Executive Chef Rodney Staton last winter.  We made an all munich grist and boiled it for 4 hours in the traditional style of bock beer. We then added Rodney's "fruity loops" spice blend to offer a citrus and earth nose. Fermented on Tim, our house yeast strain, we then put this beer into cabernet barrels for 9 months. The result is an exceptional and clean farmhouse that sets along side red meat like Starsky sat next to Hutch. Pro tip: we conditioned this on Brettanoymyces Bruxellensis so, while the beer is great now, if you hold it at cellaring temps for another 3 or 4 months this beer is going to enter a stratosphere all it's own.  

This is an extremely rare batch of beer, only 10 cases are availble. You can get Son of Toucan Sam at:

• Revival Food Hall
• Bottles & Cans
• Liquor Park
• Binny's Marcey St.
• Warehouse Liquors
• Vas Foremost Liquors
• West Lakeview Liquors
• Grand & Western
• Beer Temple

Our second offering that is on shelves today is our homage to Dale Cooper and his hard work done on the Blue Rose case for the cult TV show "Twin Peaks".  The Black Lodge is an 8.3% stout with Abacus coffee and sour cherry added after fermentation providing you with an insanely drinkabable, big-boned beer that is great for breakfast, second breakfast and even, if you are disciplined, dessert.

You can get Black Lodge at the following locations:

• Beer Temple
• Your Happy Place Liquors
• Puerto Rico Food Liquors
• Bitter Pops
• Bottles  Cans
• Beermiscuous
• Revival Food Hall
• Grand  Western Liquors
• Binnys Marcey St.
• Binnys Lakeview
• Printers Row Wine Shop
• Warehouse Liquors
• Farmers Pride - Noble
• Farmers Pride - Logan
• Vas Foremost Liquors
• West Lakeview Liquors

From our all of our mind-controlled slaves to all of you mind-controlled slaves, we wish you the warmest, happiest, and moderately safe Holiday season, no matter what strange rituals you may celebrate. Whether you enjoy the holidays with IBW bottles rolling at your feet or not, we wish you all the very best.  Keep living and be strong in 2017. XOXOXO