It's Orange Sunshine Season Again!!!

It's the little victories that we've come to enjoy & appreciate these waning days of the long, strange winter that was last year.

Our Little Victory for today: It's ORANGE SUNSHINE season once again!! And boy does it taste good.

As always, Orange Sunshine is made with hand-zested oranges & lemons as well as our house yeast, Tim, providing a dusting of peppery aroma to the citric radiance. As people get vaxxed-up and restrictions get eased, it's gonna be a hot and nutty summer. Orange Sunshine should prove the perfect co-conspirator for whatever you have in mind.

Hitting the streets along with this year's ORANGE SUNSHINE is a fresh batch of THE BALLAD OF THE PEANUT BUTTER PONY, our 12% stout made with cocoa and a non-allergenic peanut butter extract. In case you're curious, the extract tastes great. By our peanut butter obsessed standards here, it tastes better than the real thing in this beer. It would have to or we wouldn't have put it in there!

We're packaging our first release out of our new production space and tap room tomorrow!! ASTRONAUT JUICE is an 8% Double Dry Hopped Double IPA made with over 4lbs per barrel of hops including Citra, Mandarina Bavaria & Mosaic.

To celebrate our new home and new neighborhood, we've made it available to our newest neighbor first, WineStyles! You’ll be able to pick up a 4-pack of Astronaut Juice from WineStyles in Norwood Park starting at noon on Tuesday, April 20th. Deliveries will go out to all other stores on Wednesday.

Very soon, you’ll be able to pick up these releases directly from the IBW Lodge at 6186 N Northwest Hwy, but, while we finish gussying up our new place up, we are stoked to have WineStyles be your IBW neighborhood outlet.

To reserve your 4-pack of Astronaut Juice, just fill out this form. An associate will reach out to you via phone or you can call WineStyles after submitting this form with your credit card information to complete the sale and coordinate in-store or curbside pickup. Any questions, just contact WineStyles at 847-518-9463.

We do have one more exciting announcement to make, but I think we'll give it just a couple more days to stew in the radosphere before we release the proverbial kraken. Please do stay tuned...

Raimboberry Pie Will Solve Almost Everything for You

I'm sitting here on hold with Walgreens trying to get my vaccine scheduled. I'm the last creep at IBW to get stuck. I've decided to turn this into a drinking game. Every time I want to throw my phone against the wall, I drink a RAIMBOBERRY PIE.

This flipping CIA torture technique of a hold message is not helping anything...

....ALL OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE STILL HELPING OTHER CALLERS, WE'LL BE WITH YOU AS SOON AS WE CAN. WE APPRECIATE YOU PATIENCE. ALL OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE STILL HELPING OTHER CALLERS, WE'LL BE WITH YOU AS SOON AS WE CAN. WE APPRECIATE YOU PATIENCE. ALL OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE STILL HELPING OTHERS...

I'm on my 4th RAIMBO now. It's getting dark. I hope the Walgreens rep that finally answers my call - and ends this demonic mantra! - is chatty. I'm ready for a good talk, a cigarette and a shot... of whisky.

Thank all of the Old Ones (especially you AZOTHOTH!) that this RAIMBOBERRY PIE is a delicious curative and an effective numbing agent for my aging and easily agitated mind. And that it's finally out of glass an into easily crushed 16oz aluminum cans!

At 8%, RAIMBO is sessionable... as long as you've had a large enough meal. My daily lunch routine of a pound and half of Alaskan King crab legs, 8oz filet mignon & a pint of that dairy-free Ben & Jerry's "PB Cookie" is holding up it's end of the bargain, so far. So, I've got that going for me.

And RAIMBO's a delightful dessert beer to capstone my new diet routine. Tastes just like Brambleberry Pie with all that raspberry, blackberry & boysenberry stacked on top of Madagascar vanilla and Vietnamese cassia. Oh, yeah, and there's even beer in there! But you'll have to take my word on that.

RAIMBOBERRY PIE goes out to the city today, West burbs, tomorrow, North Thursday and South Friday. Ohio got it today and Colorado gets it next week.

Speaking of Colorado, we're sending our love to our friends at our Boulder-based distributor today, Brewer's Star, as they pick up the pieces from another awful shooting in their small community. It seems so far away right now, but I'm going to keep dreaming as hard as post-humanly possible for a day where us dumb monkeys can stop shooting each other.

That dream might begin when we all start seeing ourselves in everyone else - no matter what bad ideas the OTHER might have - and start taking mental health seriously.

Alright folks, we love you, we believe in you and we believe in the future.

XOXOXOXOXO!

IBW's Hallucignosis Lactose DDH DIPA Drops Today!

The hardest part of getting this tap room open has been properly tuning all of our state of the art Mind Control devices.

To believe the documentation, these things should play well together, but, my god folks, when you get into the weeds on sine wave frequencies as non-local psychic engineering devices - I tell you - the map is not the god-forsaken territory!

But, we'll get there. I've employed the help of a few young Redditors that have been incredibly generous with their time and, with any luck, we should have our bio-energetic augmentation arrays humming along by the high holy date of March 4th! After that, it's just a matter of instantiating the initial alpha-sync command in harmonic articulation and, at that point, our squeaky frommes should be doing their thing in no time flat!

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT US! I know you all are thirsty and up to your ears in sobriety and, even though we've been unwittingly pre-occupied with potentiometers and patch cords for longer than any humanoid would prefer, we've still found the time to knock together a delicious new Double Dry Hopped Double IPA. And one with the added electric oomph of lactose sugar, no less!

Might I interest you in HALLUCIGNOSIS? A true science of the mind! (For those of you who don't read English that is pronounced HA-LOO-SIN-OH-SIS.)

The beer goblins have really out done themselves on this one. For you fine-feathered cult members out there who love SPOONFUL OF SUGAR and ASTRONAUT EYE SCREAM, this one is for you! Our latest lactose DIPA employs the magically delicious Sabro hop to bring you into a full-bodied flavorgasm of citrus, apricot and creamsicle with a distinct finish of coconut.

Unlock the secrets of your inner pleasure hog! And let that freaky, filthy pig run free-range in the strangest parts of the valley of delights. And then, go ahead, let that embarrassing amount of shivering delight change you... and change your life.

Can you believe it? All of that and more awaits you inside of something as banal as a beer that you can buy with your crummy money at the store. The lamest of us live better than Kings lived not very long ago. What a world! What. A. World.

HALLUCIGNOSIS hits city accounts today and tomorrow and then hits the rest of you nice folks starting Monday of next week.

Alright folks, we love you, we believe in you and we're here to remind you that the only Deep State you need to concern yourself with is a Deep State of Bliss. Go and get it!

IBW's Kreeper IPA is Baaaaaaack!!

So... how've you all been spending this past week in our collective LARPing of "The Shining"?

Have you mastered the maze yet? Have you outwitted your personal Minotaur? Or have you simply surrendered to the demonic charm of good ol' Lloyd and his surprisingly well-stocked bar?

Myself, I've propped up a couple pillows at a particularly cozy part of my own mind's maze and have been burning down the midnight's hours watching Adam Curtis' phenomenal documentary "Can't Get You Out of My Head". You think the inner contours of your troubled brain are dizzying? Spend 6 hours staring into the collective horror of the human mind as the methodology is revealed on just how we as a species shored up on the strange lands of this particularly revelatory moment in the medium of History.

You best talk to Lloyd about a beverage before your start your journey. As, rest assured... It... Gets... Hairy in there, friends.

Far be it from me to speak for Lloyd - or any of the spirits at the Overlook Hotel for that matter - but, my guess is, should he be suggesting a drink for you, our dear friend in red would most certainly recommend IBW's KREEPER IPA as the beverage of choice in these icy winter months.

Just as the can description reads: "Kreeper wants to talk to you about your immortal self. Kreeper really wants to show you his pet reptile. Kreeper knows how you really feel. A delicious relic of those days past when a man's worth was based on the clarity of his iPA, Kreeper want to be your best, best friend."

Oh, and there's Nelson Sauvin in there.

KREEPER - in spite of the weather and physics - is hitting city accounts today. It's going to the West Burbs tomorrow, North on Friday and out to the South burbs on Tuesday. Florida picked up their shipment yesterday and Colorado & Ohio go out at the start of next week.

But, hey, if you're one of those sickos that doesn't want your beer to taste like beer, and instead likes to shovel booze into your face while it's dressed up as your favorite Power Ranger, after dinner snack or, in this case, tropical drink, then IF YOU'RE NOT INTO YOGA is just right for you. Full of pineapple, coconut and a HOLY SHIT amount of alcohol at 13% ABV, IF YOU'RE NOT INTO YOGA might be the perfect modality for medicating your winter blues.

It has, indeed, altered my defeated perspective more than once over the past couple of weeks and quite well. I've said it before, I'll say it again: I am not only the Hair Club for men, but I'm also their members.

Oh hey... we are licensed by the State of Illinois to produce beer in our new space!! We're going to be brewing up our first batch at the new place around the first week of March. We're very excited and hope you are, too!!!

In the meantime, if you need to dress yourself or your pet lizard in the hottest streetware available, go check out our little web store front and buy some stuff.

At this point I'm not offering any platitudes to folks on when life will stop dropping anchor in the Upside Down. Sorry, I think this is just how we are now, so... get used to it!!

With that in mind, be kind to one another and, please, for the love of all that is unholy, try and stay a little swervy.

XOXOXOXOXO!

See Your Shadow with Illuminated Brew Works

I was reading all the fake news this morning about that creep, varmint, Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow yesterday. My god, Virginia, who hasn't seen their shadow these past few months? On most days, my shadow is the only human I talk to anymore.

To maintain a shadow, we must also remain in light and 9 out of 10 evolutionary biologists agree that the best kind of light your bitcoin can buy is Illuminated Brew Works. See what I did there?

In an effort to fully articulate all the Yin parts of your consciousness', we here at the NEW AND IMPROVED Illuminated Brew Works have duly released, for the first time in 16oz cans, the fan favorite IF YOU'RE NOT INTO YOGA!

This 13% beauty is loaded up with pineapple puree and 6lbs of shaved coconut per barrel. I know, I know, the can says 3lbs of coconut per barrel, but, here at this poorly organized UFO Love Cult we call IBW, our proof-reading skills kind of suck and you just have to roll with us sometimes. Hey, we should totally roll sometime! Call me!

IF YOU'RE NOT INTO YOGA went out to city accounts yesterday, hits the West burbs today, North tomorrow and South burbs on Friday. Go get it, my little shadow children of the light! Indulge! Ingest! And enjoy with people you Trust!!!

There's also still some of our collaboration with Collective Arts, YES H&ND, out in the world. Another 13%er, this one is a peach pecan pie ale and is, dare I say, the greatest beer ever made in all of the crummy history of humankind.

We had our inspection with the state of Illinois for our NEW MIND CONTROL SUPER STORE opening in Norwood Park. We're hoping to be brewing out of there before the end of the month and we hope to be able to knock glasses with you in our fancy pants Tap Room by April... or whenever this god damned pandemic finally GTFO.

In the meantime, if you need to dress yourself or your pet lizard in the hottest streetware available, go check out our little web store front and buy some stuff.

Ok everybody. Hang tight!! Do what you have to do to get by, just do your best not to screw with anybody in the process. K? K.

XOXOXOXOXO!