WAR ON XMAS box sets 15% Pre-Sale Until 11/22

Please accept my many hairy and scalable excuses for not deploying a long-winded and mind-altering email any time in the recent past. I've been busier than a lazy, aging and corpulent man-child really prefers to be and, when this happens, something must suffer. And, after long debate, we decided that it should be you that suffers.

But, fret less! With the holidays staring up our proverbial skirts there is a strong chance of me holing up from the (I assume) impending cold and scrawling a new screed or two of vaguely sense-making reportage for you lovely monkeys to roll and smoke upon.

 But, in the meantime, here's some efficient point-making so I can get back to the rest of the tendrils this unholy beast keeps wrapping around my heart.

War on Xmas box sets are back and 15% off from now until 11/22 at noon. Click here to buy now! Use the discount code PREORDER at check out!

This year you get a 2-pack of War on Xmas, one flavor of each variety + 2 War on Xmas pint glasses + an ORANGE War on Xmas shirt so that all you folks with the classic John & Yoko black on white version can indulge in a newish looking t-shirt.

ALSO... go here to hear JOHN BARLOW'S beautiful rendition of our WAR ON XMAS theme song. I mean, what other beer has a god damned theme song? None. That's none but IBW's (until somebody else comes along and bites on that idea, too).

While you're over on our hella-crummy webstore, you might also notice that we have PURPLE Pazuzu's Pedals shirts. HOLY CRAP! How can you NOT buy one of these?

CULT MEMBERSHIPS FOR 2024 GO ON SALE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH. You have been warned. More info to come.

Don't forget about THE BLACKEST OF WEDNESDAYS coming on on 11/22. We buy the pizza, you buy the beer and Rob plays "Thankskilling" over and over and over. Big night. Help us help you ruin your Thanksgiving morning.

And then, of course, all you TWIN PEAKS heads, mark your calendar for Sunday November 26th @ 3pm for our TWIN PEAKS TEAM TRIVIA. If you've spent more than about 8 minutes around me then you certainly know how much I love Twin Peaks. Hell, it's probably the closest thing to an organized view of the world that I enjoy swallowing over and over again. 

All of this is to say, I'm putting a lot of love and care in making these questions. And the wonderful and strange folks over at Bucket O Blood Books and Records have donated some FANTASTIC prizes:

So don't miss the damn fine TWIN PEAKS TEAM TRIVIA.

OH! HEY! BRONY IS BACK!

And, yes Virginia, IBW will be open for the Bears loss tomorrow at Noon. Trust Micheladas et al.

Ok, that's all folks. See you soon!
 


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

HAPPY LOBSTER FOOD TRUCK TONIGHT @ IBW Lodge #1

As Salam Alaykum!

I'll tell you what. I am EXHAUSTED from, what?, now like 3 weeks of SCIF debriefings out here in D.C.

You think when you start a UFO cult in these modern times that people will naturally fear and respect you from a distance and have no interest in whatever strange practices you and your small cabal of degenerate organ grinders get into during wee dark hours of the night with your barbaric incantations and flowery appellations to eldritch creatures. But, PRAISE BOB(TM), that is just not the case apparently. I mean, once you bring beer into this equation of UFO cults, all decorum and decency gets thrown out the window like Frank Olson on a bad day.

And, who knew that Kirkpatrick creep was such a LUSH? I swear to ORTHON that if this freaking guy comes banging on my suite door one more time at 2 am with his "C'mon bro! C'mon!"s trying to get me to do yet another god-damned gravity bong in the Watergate Hotel pool after hours I'm writing a letter to Congress and making straight and sure that I'm once and for good removed from this list of "Cooperative Civilians".  These bozos can piece together this inter-dimensional 5D chess game on their own. I'm OUT!

I mean, talk about late to the party. Congress ignores this problem for decades - I mean decades now, people - and, as soon as Gaetz goes on another one of his 3-day benders in Tallahassee and ends up seeing one of these ships for reals up in these tawdry skies, all of the sudden it's my problem? 

SCIF my left foot, man. I'm so over this thing. You want answers, you ask these things yourself.

From now on, if somebody asks me if IBW is "really an UFO love cult", well, I'm just gonna lie and send them down the street to Jerry at Une Anne. Them's the real freaks! I mean, have you ever asked Jerry Nelson about his time at Giant Rock with Van Tassel back in the 70's? Probably not. And you should. Are you listening to me? You should.

I'm sorry. I know I'm over reacting a bit. But you spend 9 hours a day for several weeks in some high-security bunker with these aspirational dorks from Congress getting asked the same wrong questions over and over, time and time again, and you see how cool you are about the whole thing. I'll tell you now: you won't be cool.

But, I'm distracted. I'm supposed to be telling you that we've got HAPPY LOBSTER FOOD TRUCK at the shop tonight. Come get some lobster rolls and drink some beer while you do it. God knows we could use the revenue as the federal government doesn't foot the bill for the hotel rooms when they subpoena for some low-rent Congressional sub-committee hearings. 

Happy Lobster gets rolling right around opening time tonight. That be 5pm by earth watch standard.

I'll be back in Chicago just in time to host THE BEATLES themed Team Trivia on Sunday afternoon at 3pm. You can have up to 6 on your team. 

I've been putting together the questions in my downtime while out here in D.C. It's been my one reprieve from these pencil necks. I've put a lot of love into the whole endeavor. So, if you're a Beatles fan, you'd be real remiss to not come out for this wonderful little event. Come on now Beatles nerds, let's all get together in the same place and celebrate the greatest pop rock n' roll band of all time on any planet.

Here's a photo of the prizes:

Remember, almost every Thursday is PINT NIGHT at our little UFO Love Cult Lodge, IBW Lodge #1. We're ripping through these JUNIOR ASTRONAUT JUICE glasses as of late. I'm guessing we'll have these for probably one or two more of these and then we'll move onto a different glass.

It's $12 and you get the glass full of Junior Astro Juice. Why don't you have a whole set of these yet?

Ok, beer.

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