Grill Out this Sunday! Plus NEW Brown Ale & more Brew & Farm News!

This Sunday is our Father's Day grill out!  The food truck will be here from 12-5 pm, most food items are $5 with chips, and the food truck is cash only.  More details below. We have a NEW brown ale on tap starting this Friday!  "Alton" is malty & mild - delicious! Farm CSA Members: Group B half-share members and Full Share members, you are scheduled to pickup your organic vegetable shares this weekend. Scroll down for details on this week's CSA items. Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery - taproom open Fridays 4-9, Saturdays 12-9, Sundays 12-5.   Tap Room Bar at our Brewery In our Tap Room this weekend, open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays 12-9 pm, and Sundays 12-5 pm, we will be pouring fresh from our taps: Alton - mild brown ale Red Five IPA - red, hoppy, and brewed with 5 hops Honey Wheat - mild & easy drinking! The Emperor -  Russian Imperial Stout, 13.5% ABV Smart A** - Belgian Wit style beer Peach Mango Ale - a sweeter style fruit beer  Unicorn Tears - unique flavored copper colored ale Homemade Root Beer (non-alcoholic) In addition to fresh beer by the glass, we also have growler fills available for carry-out!   NEW Beer on tap this weekend!  "Alton" is a brown ale, coming in at 5% Alcohol by Volume (ABV).  Very malty and mild flavored, with notes of caramel malts & bready yeast.  Great paired with our German style soft pretzel plate! Upcoming Events at Wishful Acres:   Father's Day, Sunday June 17, 12-5 pm - Ultimate Grill Out & Fry Up - grilled beer brats, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, pork chop sandwiches, french fries, fried cheese curds. Food Truck!!! July 1 (Sunday) - Independence Day celebration!  Live Music by Sean Huguenin (acoustic classic rock) from 2-5 pm, and Grill Out with a Food Truck from 12-5 pm. Father's Day Ultimate Grill Out Food Truck! Bring Dad to our brewery for an Ultimate Grill Out & Fry Up on Father's Day! Sunday, June 17, from 12-5 pm, we'll have a food truck here at Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Benchwarmers Bar & Grill of Freeport will be parking their food truck in our outdoor beer garden, and they'll be grilling & frying up a nice menu for all of you! Cash only for food truck items, and most grilled meat items are $5 with chips. Featuring: - Beer Bratwurst (cooked in Wishful Acres beer!) - Grilled Hamburgers - Grilled Cheeseburgers - Grilled Butterfly Pork Chop Sandwiches - French Fries - Fried Wisconsin Cheese Curds Our homemade craft beers will be on tap, as well as our homemade root beer. All beverages are made right here on site, inside our renovated barn brewery! July 1, Celebrate USA at Wishful Acres! Join us on Sunday, July 1 for a day of live acoustic music and a grill out!  Our friend Sean Huguenin will be playing a live acoustic set of Classic Rock from 2-4 pm. We'll also have a food truck here Grilling Out from 12-5 pm, with most meat items $5 including chips.  They'll be grilling Beer Brats, Hamburgers, Cheeseburgers, Pork Chop Sandwiches, and also frying up French Fries and Fried Wisconsin Cheese Curds!  Please note: food truck items are cash only. We'll have our craft beers & root beer on tap, and look forward to celebrating with you! Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Member News A couple of notes: - Your vegetables are washed, bagged, labelled, and ready to eat. - You'll find a paper towel at the bottom of each of your bag of greens. This is to absorb excess moisture from our washing. All vegetables are hand washed, and allowed to dry before bagging, but there is still some moisture since we don't have big commercial washing/drying equipment. To extend the life of your salad greens, swap out this paper towel if you notice it's really damp. In your share of organic items this week: Kohlrabi - Kohlrabi is typically eaten raw - the bulb at the bottom gets peeled first. We've included the whole plant in your share, because the leaves are also edible! Garlic Scapes - Garlic Scapes are a gourmet treat! These are the top of the garlic plant, and can be eaten just like garlic and onions.  Kale - Kale is one of the most nutritious leafy green vegetables.  See our recipe database for many kale recipes (link is listed at the bottom of this veggie list). Simpson Lettuce - Our favorite spring lettuce! Light green in color, this heirloom variety is called "Simpson". It is very tender and delicate, you'll never find it in a grocery store because it's too fragile to ship. It can only be enjoyed locally near where it's grown! Spinach - Our spring heirloom variety spinach grows big - so big that you may find some leaves in your bag that are as big as your hand!  Our spinach is tender & sweet, and great to eat raw. The stems are crunchy & delicious as well, don't forget to toss those into your salad bowls too! Due to the hot temperatures we experienced during May, we will not have spinach around very long.... so let's enjoy it while it lasts, and then we'll see it again in the fall. Radishes - This first crop of radishes is a bit small due to the hot temperatures of May, but still delicious and full of beautiful colors! In your bag of radishes, you'll find 3 heirloom varieties mixed together: French Breakfast (long oval shape, pink with white tip), German Giant (large red), and Easter Egg (purple & pink). Oak Leaf Lettuce - A double sized bag, full of red oak leaf lettuce, with some green oak leaf lettuce also mixed in! Oak leaf lettuce is an heirloom variety, and so called because the shape of the leaf resembles the same shape as a oak tree leaf. Spinach - 2 bags of spinach in your share this week!  This week will mark the early end to the spinach crop - our May temperatures were too hot for this cool weather crop.  We'll see spinach again in the shares this fall when cooler weather returns. Cilantro - Fresh cilantro is a cool weather crop, so you'll have it in the spring & fall in your shares. Delicious on a Mexican salad! Dill - Fresh dill weed!  A little goes a long way. Great on sandwiches, salads, dips, etc. Need recipe ideas for the items in your share? Here is a link to the Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery recipe database, with cooking ideas for everything we grow here: http://all-natural-mama.blogspot.com/2015/03/recipes-by-vegetable-type.html    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 organic  produce for our full 22-week-long season! To learn more: http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/csa-program  .   Seasonal Recipe Idea: It's spring - which around here means Salad Greens season! This Warm Bacon Dressing would be delicious on every single salad green in the CSA share this week! Recipe here: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24602/hot-bacon-dressing/   Where to Buy our Beer: Our beer is available for purchase at the following locations: Our Taproom!  Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery, located between Freeport & Lena - Visiting Info Benchwarmers, Freeport, IL Cove Restaurant at Apple Canyon Lake, IL Mulligans, Lena, IL  Park Hills Golf Course, Freeport, IL Pub 219, Freeport, IL Rosati's Pizza, Freeport, IL  Route 75 Bar & Grill, Dakota, IL Woodbine Bend Golf Course, Stockton, IL  Be sure to follow Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery on facebook!  Here is a link to our facebook page.  Want to stop receiving these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list Thank you & Best Wishes from Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays, 12-9 pm, and Sundays 12-5 pm Tap room is located on our farm at 4679 N. Flansburg Rd, Lena IL You can contact us at: wishfulacres@gmail.com or 815-990-2380            Copyright © 2018 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