Brew & Farm News: Brewery Expansion - more Hours!, Veggie Sign-Up & more!

I'm so excited to share with you our 1st Brewery expansion - more open hours!  We're now open every Friday 4-7 pm, and every Saturday 12-7 pm.  Thanks so much for your support, you've all made this possible!!! Our Holiday Hours will be the same as regular, we'll be open Christmas Eve from 12-7 pm, and New Years Eve from 12-7 pm, as well as the Fridays before each of those holidays!   In Farm news,  the registration for the 2017 Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA) is now open!  CSA Members receive 30 weeks of fresh, local, and organic vegetables from our farm, May through early December. More information here on our web site.  Also, Winter Micro-Greens CSA Members, Group A is scheduled to pick up your micro-greens here at the taproom & store anytime this weekend during open hours. Visit our Taproom & Store!!!  Now Open - Fridays 4-7 pm, and Saturdays 12-7 pm - visit our web site for location, directions, and more: www.WishfulAcresFarm.com.   Tap Room & Store In our Tap Room this week, open to the public Fridays 4-7 pm and Saturdays 12-7 pm, we will be pouring fresh from our taps: Alderaan IPA (citrus loaded I.P.A.) Coffee Habit (mocha coffee stout) Cherry Cider Ale Overcast (Hefeweizen style German wheat beer) Wookies Win (Mild Brown Ale with toffee & caramel flavors) Jack-O-Java (Pumpkin Coffee Spice Ale, award winning beer!)  Honey Wheat Ale (Mild, very drinkable, organic wheat ale) Homemade Root Beer (non-alcoholic) In addition to fresh beer by the glass, we also have growlers & bottled beer available for carry-out on select styles of beer!  We're Family Friendly - bring the kids, we have homemade root beer!   Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) News Our 2017 CSA program is now open for enrollment!  To learn more about our CSA program, please visit the CSA page on our web site.  To view a video of our CSA, click here.  You can receive 30 weeks of local, fresh, USDA Certified Organic vegetables.  Sample share from September 2016 shown above. Our 30-member CSA Program (Community Supported Agriculture) is a membership program in which members become "shareholders" in the farm's seasonal vegetable production & receive a "share" of the farm's USDA Certified Organic produce for our full 30-week-long season! 2017 CSA is now open for enrollment.  To learn more: http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/csa-program  "Beer Share" News: "Beer Share" Community Supported Brewery (CSB) Members, fill your growlers Fridays 4-7 pm, Saturdays 12-7 pm!   Remember, you may fill as many growlers as you like during your visit - you're not limited to just one.  Bring in your empty growlers, and we'll mark off your punch cards.  All the beers in our taproom are available in growler fills this week.  Our "Beer Share", aka CSB Program (Community Supported Brewery) is an ongoing membership program that offers members a 1-year supply of our beer at discounted prices, plus additional discounts & benefits.  Learn more on our web site: http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/csb-program Our Taproom is available for Private Events!  We will be happy to be open during our "closed" hours for your group event of 8 or more people.  There is no charge for use of the taproom, carry-in food is okay, and we staff it for you, we just ask that all beverages be purchased from us.  More info here on our web site. Fresh from the Farm! In our Store & taproom this week, open to the public Fridays 4-7 and Saturdays 12-7, we will have the following foods available from our farm!  All grown right here, all USDA Certified Organic, all washed & ready to eat, or frozen & ready to cook! Hakurei - delicious, sweet & mild Japanese radishes - delicious raw with dip! Garlic Frozen heirloom tomatoes Frozen Basil Pesto Frozen Sweet Peppers (green & yellow) Frozen shredded Zucchini Bottled Beer! We hand-bottle & hand-label our beer into large 22-oz "Bomber" bottles.  These bottles are for sale in our taproom, and also at the following select retail locations: Royal Liquor, Freeport IL Choices Natural Market, Rockford/Loves Park, IL.  Choices also carries a selection of our farm-fresh organic vegetables when available. our taproom - at Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery Gift Certificates & Online Store!!! We offer gift certificates for sale!  These can be used towards the purchase of anything we sell in our store & taproom, including all farm products (fresh & frozen vegetables, CSA memberships), fresh tap beer, bottled beer, growlers & growler fills, apparel (shirts, sweatshirts), tours, and more! We also have an online store, featuring t-shirts, sweatshirts, natural cotton bags, and even gift certificates, and we can mail anywhere within the United States.  Shop our online store here! Recipe Corner! This week's featured recipe is Absolutely Ultimate Potato Soup! Last week's featured recipe:   Beer Chili Soup!  Yes, what could be better than beer in chili?!    Be sure to follow Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery on facebook!  Here is a link to our facebook page.  Thank you & Best Wishes from Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Open Saturdays, 11 am - 6 pm Tap room & store located on our farm at 4679 N. Flansburg Rd, Lena IL You can contact us at: wishfulacres@gmail.com or 815-990-2380            Copyright © 2016 Wishful Acres Farm, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at a farmers market, opted in at our website, or participated in a program with our family farm. Our mailing address is: Wishful Acres Farm 4679 N Flansburg Rd, Lena, IL, United States Lena, IL 61048 Add us to your address book Want to stop receiving these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list Subscribe here! Were you sent a copy of this email newsletter, and want to sign up for your own subscription?  You can sign up here on our web site