Cinnamon Toasted Crunch! Our new beer is on tap here at Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery!

Cinnamon Toasted Crunch! YES, it's our new beer! We brewed a beer with Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, and it's going on tap this Friday, September 6!  We made a light-colored, mild-flavored ale with pounds of lactose sugar (milk sugar!), then added boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch! The result is a mild, cinnamon-laced beer with a slight residual sweetness.  It's awesome! Stop out soon for a glass & growler fill, starting his Friday, Sep 6 at 4:00.  7.2% ABV, 12 IBU.  Scroll Down to see pictures of when we brewed this beer! Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery - taproom open Fridays 4-9, Saturdays 1-8, Sundays 1-5.   Tap Room Bar at our Brewery In our Tap Room this weekend, open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays 1-8 pm, and Sundays 1-5 pm, we will be pouring fresh from our taps: Cinnamon Toasted Crunch - beer brewed with lactose sugar and cereal! Jalapeno Ale - wheat beer aged with fresh jalapeno peppers - Yes, still some left! Berry Ale - fruit beer Coffee Habit - stout Dubbel Dribble - Belgian Dubbel style ale Galahad - English brown ale Howdy Hops IPA - citrus IPA Double IPA - high ABV, hoppy! Overcast - Hefezeizen German-style Peach Mango Ale - fruit beer Honey Wheat - mild & easy drinking! Homemade Root Beer (non-alcoholic) In addition to fresh beer by the glass, we also have growler fills available for carry-out!   Cinnamon Toasted Crunch brew day & finished pint glass full!  One of our most unique beers yet!  7.2% ABV, 12 IBU.   Upcoming Events at Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery!   Sep 6, 7, 8: Cinnamon Toasted Crunch beer release weekend September 7, Screw City Brewfest, Rockford IL (visit our booth at the brewfest; our taproom will also still be open as usual here at the brewery!) September 14, Pretzel City Brewfest, Freeport, IL (visit our booth at the brewfest; our taproom will also still be open as usual here at the brewery!) September 29, 1-5 pm (Sunday), Oktoberfest at Wishful Acres! - We'll have a food truck featuring some German-inspired foods, our radio will be tuned to Oktoberfest music, plus our Oktoberfest beer will be on tap! Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Member News In this week's share: Tomatoes - The regular-sized slicing tomatoes are reaching peak harvest!  In your shares will be mostly red slicing tomatoes, but there will also be a few yellow, orange, or purple tomatoes as well (varieties: Moonglow, Wapsinicon Peach, Early Girl, Celebrity) Asian Greens Mix - A really big bag of specialty Asian greens, great for eating raw on a salad or lightly saute. The mix contains: Tat Soi, Mizuna, Green Mustard, Red Mustard, and Scarlet Frills.  Also great lightly sauteed in a fried rice! Radishes - Another beautiful harvest of fall radishes.  "German Giant" and "Easter Egg" heirloom varieties, with green tops still attached.  The green tops are great chopped on to a salad! Garlic - Store garlic on your kitchen counter.  It will stay "fresh" for many weeks! Broccoli - The fall broccoli is starting to produce some nice broccoli shoots!  You'll each see a bag in your share. Hot Peppers - a bag featuring 2 types: chili (mild/medium) and jalapeno (hot).  Great raw, grilled, etc Sweet Peppers - You'll each receive 5 sweet peppers - both green and yellow!  Super fresh & crunchy.  Great raw or cooked. Cucumbers - The last of the season's cucumbers.  A couple in each of your shares! Fresh, crunchy, and thin-skinned.  Basil - YUM! There is nothing like fresh basil.  So delicious used fresh & raw on sandwiches, salads, pizza, pesto, you name it! Kale - Shares a bag with the Swiss Chard this week. Super delicious chopped finely on a raw salad, or lightly sauteed. Have you tried kale chips or kale soup? Swiss Chard - Shares a bag with the kale this week. Super healthy leafy green!  Chop thinly for eating raw on salads, or lightly saute. Optional - u-Pick Apples to those CSA Members who would like some!  This is our only fruit crop that survived to harvest this year.  All the rest did not make it through the super-cold spring, late-April heavy snow, and heavy rains (no mulberries, no black raspberries, no peaches this year).  We do have some apples, but it looks like maybe only 25% or less than the normal amount. Want some? Pick away, just ask us for a bag while you're picking up your share, and we'll point you on your way! Our recipe database contains cooking ideas for all the vegetables we grow - link here. Our 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  .   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 Best Dam Bar, Lake Summerset, Durand, IL Booties, Pecatonica, IL Cedar Inn, Cedarville, IL Eilerts, Freeport, IL Logan's Bar & Grill, Freeport, IL Mulligans, Lena, IL  Park Hills Golf Course, Freeport, IL Pub 219, Freeport, IL Rock City Tap, Rock City, IL Rosati's Pizza, Freeport, IL Route 20 Bar & Grill, Freeport, IL  Route 73 Brew & Chew, Pearl City, IL Route 75 Bar & Grill, Dakota, IL This Is It Eatery, Freeport, 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 Not on our list? To sign up for this email newsletter, visit: http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/join-our-newsletter. Thank you & Best Wishes from Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays, 1-8 pm, and Sundays 1-5 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 © 2019 Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at our brewery, our web site, or participated in a program with us. Our mailing address is: Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery LLC 4679 N Flansburg Rd, Lena, IL, United States Lena, IL 61048 Add us to your address book

Jalapeno Ale! Happy Labor Day from Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery!

A crowd favorite, our Jalapeno Ale is back on tap this Labor Day weekend!  This is a small batch, so make sure to stop out this weekend for yours (there may be some left over for the following weekend, but we can't promise)!  We'll be serving the Jalapeno Ale by the glass, and you can also take some home in a growler fill!  A tip from many of our customers: try mixing the Jalapeno Ale with our Peach Mango fruit beer! Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery - taproom open Fridays 4-9, Saturdays 1-8, Sundays 1-5.   Tap Room Bar at our Brewery In our Tap Room this weekend, open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays 1-8 pm, and Sundays 1-5 pm, we will be pouring fresh from our taps: Jalapeno Ale - wheat beer aged with fresh jalapeno peppers Berry Ale - fruit beer Coffee Habit - stout Dubbel Dribble - Belgian Dubbel style ale Goin' Camping Stout - brewed with graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate Galahad - English brown ale Howdy Hops IPA - citrus IPA Double IPA - high ABV, hoppy! Overcast - Hefezeizen German-style Peach Mango Ale - fruit beer Honey Wheat - mild & easy drinking! Homemade Root Beer (non-alcoholic) In addition to fresh beer by the glass, we also have growler fills available for carry-out!   Jalapeno Ale! Join us this weekend for one of our most-requested beers, Jalapeno Ale!  This is a mild wheat beer that we age with freshly cut jalapeno peppers.  The beer smells like fresh green peppers, and features a slightly spicy taste!  Try mixing it with our Peach Mango fruit ale! Honey now available for purchase!   Beekeeper Tim has harvested the first load of honey from the beehives he keeps here at Wishful Acres!  He has this first batch of raw honey bottled & available for sale here in our taproom.  Stop by soon for yours! Upcoming Events at Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery!   August 30, 31, Sep 1: Jalapeno Ale on tap September 7, Screw City Brewfest, Rockford IL (visit our booth at the brewfest; our taproom will also still be open as usual here at the brewery!) September 14, Pretzel City Brewfest, Freeport, IL (visit our booth at the brewfest; our taproom will also still be open as usual here at the brewery!) September 29, 1-5 pm (Sunday), Oktoberfest at Wishful Acres! - We'll have a food truck featuring some German-inspired foods, our radio will be tuned to Oktoberfest music, plus our Oktoberfest beer will be on tap! Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Member News Farm Members, It's peak tomato time!  We'll keep your tomatoes out of refrigeration, separate from the rest of your veggie share, because tomatoes should not be refrigerated for best tastte..... however...  Please try to pick up your share as soon as possible during the weekend while it's tomato time.  We pick the tomatoes super-ripe, and they'll continue to ripen as they sit and wait for you on Friday... Saturday... Sunday... which means they're getting over-ripe & we're inviting fruit flies into the brewery (no!).  As a result, all shares not picked up by the end of the day on Friday, the tomatoes will also go into refrigeration with the rest of your share as they wait for you.  Thanks for understanding!  :)   In this week's share: Tomatoes - The regular-sized slicing tomatoes are reaching peak harvest!  In your shares will be mostly red slicing tomatoes, but there will also be a few yellow, orange, or purple tomatoes as well (varieties: Moonglow, Wapsinicon Peach, Early Girl, Celebrity, Japanese Black Trifele) Cherry Tomatoes - A bag of mixed varieties of cherry tomatoes.  You'll see orange (SunGold), pastel yellow (White Cherry), and purple (Chocolate Cherry). Radishes - The first harvest of fall radishes.  "French Breakfast" heirloom variety, very mild flavored. Garlic - Store garlic on your kitchen counter.  It will stay "fresh" for many weeks! Green Beans - Over a pound of green beans in each of your shares.  Picked fresh, they are crunchy & delicious. Broccoli - The fall broccoli is starting to produce some nice broccoli shoots!  You'll each see a bag in your share. Hot Peppers - a bag featuring 2 types: chili (mild/medium) and jalapeno (hot).  Great raw, grilled, etc Sweet Peppers - You'll each receive 5 sweet peppers - both green and yellow!  Super fresh & crunchy.  Great raw or cooked. Cucumbers - a few in each of your shares! Fresh, crunchy, and thin-skinned. The cucumber harvest is slowing down. Zucchini / Summer Squash -  The summer squash harvest is slowing down, you'll see just one in your share. Basil - YUM! There is nothing like fresh basil.  So delicious used fresh & raw on sandwiches, salads, pizza, pesto, you name it! Kale - Super delicious chopped finely on a raw salad, or lightly sauteed. Have you tried kale chips or kale soup? Swiss Chard - super healthy leafy green!  Chop thinly for eating raw on salads, or lightly saute. Optional - u-Pick Apples to those CSA Members who would like some!  This is our only fruit crop that survived to harvest this year.  All the rest did not make it through the super-cold spring, late-April heavy snow, and heavy rains (no mulberries, no black raspberries, no peaches this year).  We do have some apples, but it looks like maybe only 25% or less than the normal amount. Want some? Pick away, just ask us for a bag while you're picking up your share, and we'll point you on your way! Our recipe database contains cooking ideas for all the vegetables we grow - link here. Our 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  .   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 Best Dam Bar, Lake Summerset, Durand, IL Booties, Pecatonica, IL Cedar Inn, Cedarville, IL Eilerts, Freeport, IL Logan's Bar & Grill, Freeport, IL Mulligans, Lena, IL  Park Hills Golf Course, Freeport, IL Pub 219, Freeport, IL Rock City Tap, Rock City, IL Rosati's Pizza, Freeport, IL Route 20 Bar & Grill, Freeport, IL  Route 73 Brew & Chew, Pearl City, IL Route 75 Bar & Grill, Dakota, IL This Is It Eatery, Freeport, 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 Not on our list? To sign up for this email newsletter, visit: http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/join-our-newsletter. Thank you & Best Wishes from Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays, 1-8 pm, and Sundays 1-5 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 © 2019 Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at our brewery, our web site, or participated in a program with us. Our mailing address is: Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery LLC 4679 N Flansburg Rd, Lena, IL, United States Lena, IL 61048 Add us to your address book

Food Truck *Cancelled* for this Sunday, August 25

Please forgive us for sending out 2 emails in one week, we've never done it before and I sincerely apologize!  However, I felt the need to let you all know that I've just received word that the Food Truck scheduled for this Sunday, August 25 has cancelled.  Apparently they double-booked themselves.  I apologize, and wanted to let you all know before you make the drive out here & end up hungry! Again, our apologies for the extra email.  We'll be open as usual all weekend long, but the food truck will no longer be coming on Sunday.  Thank you!  :) Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery - taproom open Fridays 4-9, Saturdays 1-8, Sundays 1-5.   Want to stop receiving these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list Not on our list? To sign up for this email newsletter, visit: http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/join-our-newsletter. Thank you & Best Wishes from Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays, 1-8 pm, and Sundays 1-5 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 © 2019 Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at our brewery, our web site, or participated in a program with us. Our mailing address is: Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery LLC 4679 N Flansburg Rd, Lena, IL, United States Lena, IL 61048 Add us to your address book