Reservations! You can now pay!

Remember:
Tickets are sold through PayPal:
Baconstock2014@gmail.com
$20 gets you all the food and live music!
 GO!!!  It' almost sold out!

The menu!

 Here's what is going to be featured at Baconstock 2014!

Smoked / candied bacon with brown sugar and cracked black pepper
Ribs smoked with a bacon overlay/Sweet Baby Ray's sauce
Pulled Pork finished with a bacon dripping jus / Sweet Baby Ray's sauce
Bacon sliders
Bacon Belgian Waffles
Bacon ice cream
Bacon cupcakes
Bacon infused chocolates
Bacon infused cornbread
Chips
Molly's coleslaw
Popcorn with bacon infused oil/salt

 Featured drinks on special will be:
Bacon Bloody Marys
Jameson shots
PBR
Revolution Brewing Co Anti-Hero IPA

 Menu subject to change and additions.

Just added to the musical line-up....

THE BUNGDOONS are playing Baconstock!

a look back

At Baconfest 2011 the menu was this!
 1 whole 60lb Lechon pig ( filipino style) ( not applicable for entry by host )
Stuffed jalapenos wrapped in bacon
Pretzels covered in white chocolate and bacon bits
Bacon Jam Empanadas
Peanut butter bacon brownies
Bacon dip with pita chips ( third place tie )
Grilled pork tenderloin stuffed with prosciutto & fontina, crusted in rosemary and garlic ( not applicable for entry by host )
Maple bacon glazed donuts
Bacon meatballs with sauce
Water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
Bacon with white chocolate & Heath bits
FIFTY/FIFTY burgers ( first place ) 
Bacon with chocolate & caramel ( third place tie )
Bacon potato hash
Bacon wrapped chicken & dates ( second place )
Baked bacon beans
Bacon tomato dip with toast
Bacon dip
Potato bacon casserole ( third place tie ) 
Tri-color pasta surprise
Pigs in a blanket
Potato-bacon tart
Bacon croquetas
Maple chili bacon glazed chicken wings

There WERE 200 available. It's a lot less now.

 Need tickets?

 Contact us at baconstock@gmail.com  or google voice at 470-BACON-94

 We will direct you on how to pay thru secure Paypal.  We will then either mail tickets to you or have them reserved at will call at the venue.

 Act now or be baconless later...

 Thank you!

  Baconstaff

BÄCONSTOCK 2014 9-20-14

Hello Friends!!
 It's been a while. 3 years to be exact ( although technically it's 2 because 2012 we hosted Smokefest..which was like Baconfest's little brother.)
 This time we are adding music. Therefor we have changed to BäconStock!!
 Location is secret for now, but we can tell you it will be held in the Forest Park area with free parking, easy access from the Eisenhower as well as mere steps from Metra trains and the CTA Green Line!
  Admission will be $20.  That gets you a whole bunch of BBQ charcuterie baconey goodness and top notch entertainment. The bar is a cash bar featuring craft beers and liquor of any variety. The event will most likely start early afternoon and go til the bar kicks us out.
 Foods will be fashioned by Bäconstock staff and Scratch Kitchen & Lounge.

 To reserve your tickets please contact us!  
Send us an email! BigBaconFest@gmail.com

Leave us a voicemail!
(470) BACON94

Please be sure to include your name and contact info so we can get your name on the list.

 Stay tuned for more details!

What we ate!!!

 1 whole 60lb Lechon pig ( filipino style) ( not applicable for entry by host )
 Stuffed jalapenos wrapped in bacon
 Pretzels covered in white chocolate and bacon bits
 Bacon Jam Empanadas
 Peanut butter bacon brownies
 Bacon dip with pita chips ( third place tie )
 Grilled pork tenderloin stuffed with prosciutto & fontina, crusted in rosemary and garlic  ( not applicable for entry by host )
 Maple bacon glazed donuts
 Bacon meatballs with sauce
 Water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
 Bacon with white chocolate & Heath bits
 FIFTY/FIFTY burgers  ( first place )
 Bacon with chocolate & caramel ( third place tie )
 Bacon potato hash
 Bacon wrapped chicken & dates ( second place )
 Baked bacon beans
 Bacon tomato dip with toast
 Bacon dip
 Potato bacon casserole ( third place tie )
 Tri-color pasta surprise
 Pigs in a blanket
 Potato-bacon tart
 Bacon croquetas
 Maple chili bacon glazed chicken wings


 That's a ton of bacon!!!

3 words about what happened.

 OH.
MY.
GOD.


 Pics and stuff to follow. I'm still hungover and can't type.

Lock & Load!

Tomorrow we dine on swine, rain or shine!!

 The weather is gonna be awesome!


 Let's do this thing, bitches.



  See y'all there!! 

 (* remember: $5 donation. No fighting. No guns. No knives unless it's used on the pig. NO explosives. Designated drivers are loved and appreciated. BYOB...good stuff. NO Bud or Miller.  Any questions about directions, etc. send it to thejc3@gmail.com and I'll get back to you within the hour. )

Hog Butcher! KNOW IT! LIVE IT!

CHICAGO

     HOG Butcher for the World,
     Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
     Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
     Stormy, husky, brawling,
     City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
     have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
     luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
     is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
     kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
     faces of women and children I have seen the marks
     of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
     sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
     and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
     so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
     job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
     little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
     as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
          Bareheaded,
          Shoveling,
          Wrecking,
          Planning,
          Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
     white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
     man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
     never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
     and under his ribs the heart of the people,
               Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
     Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
     Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
     Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

 - Carl Sandburg-

  WORD, CARL!!! WORD!!
 NOW LETS GO KICK SOME ASS AND EAT SOME BACON!
 BEACUSE WE CAN, DAMN IT! WE ARE CHICAGO!

   LET'S GET IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Directions and rules

Need directions??
 Send me an email
 thejc3@gmail.com
 And I'll give you the map.
 Reminder: This is a BYOB. $5 per person at the door to cover costs. Children are free.
 Please no weapons. No explosives. No rowdies(Security will be present).
 We encourage that you bring a FINE craftbrew ( no Bud or Miller please). We recommend, Two Brothers, Three Floyds, Founders, Goose Island, Smuttynose, Stone, Boulder Brewing and Lagunitas.
 While we encourage choice libations, we also encourage designated drivers as well as sleeping-it-off-in-a-chair if need be. Please be responsible.
 We intend for this to be as fun as last year, with good charcuterie and fine brews highlighted.
 Let's get our swine on!!!!
  Thanks
 BACONFEST MANAGEMENT

COMING THIS SATURDAY 4-30-11...HEAVEN!!

IT'S ALMOST TIME TO DINE ON SWINE, RAIN OR SHINE!!!!

Will YOU be there??

WE'RE READY!!!

 WE GOT NEW GRILLS! WE HAVE NEW, BIGGER BEER COOLERS!!

And because we spent yesterday watching DELIVERANCE with Burt Reynolds, we do indeed feel like squealing like a pig!!!
 No..No..not that way.  More like in a happy way! The menu is shaping up to be nothing less than awesome! Whole pigs. Bacon desserts. Bacon main dishes. Bacon side dishes. 50/50 burgers...you name it..it's gonna be there..
 FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD SOMEONE IS MAKING FAT ELVIS!!

   BACON!! 
JUST CHEW IT!!

It's April!! Do you know where your pig is??

 OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!

 FRIGGING genius!!
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 In other news:
 We have decided that BACONFEST® 2011 FEATURING LOGCANO® is going to be a BYOB event. We considered getting kegs but quite honestly we have no clue who is coming and who isn't. As far as beer choices, we recommend something premium. There are a couple good local sources that have some fine choices ( Hey local sources..be a sponsor and we send everyone there to buy booze! Plus put a 10 foot banner on the fences!)

 We ARE, however, supplying a pig done Fillipino lechon style. And if you were there for the Most Interesting Man In The World Party, you know how good it is!
















 The place where the event is going to be held is Lago Casa in Warrenville. Just like last year.
 WE ARE LIMITING IT TO 100 PEOPLE.

  We got a few recipes in last week. Looks like a good menu is shaping up.
  Stay tuned!

BEER and BACON!!

Does anyone have a good beer pairing to go with bacon??

Charcuterie PORN!!!

Learn it.
Know it.
Live it.

Listen up troops! We are opening up the palate to all forms of Charcuterie ( that's the art of cooking pork...but you knew that already, O' Baconholics.)
That includes bacon, pancetta, prosciutto, lechon, tenderloin, hams, sausages, etc.
Example: One recipe being presented is a garlic & rosemary crusted pork tenderloin stuffed with prosciutto and fontina cheese. Grilled, of course.
Another example on the menu is the 50/50 burger. It's a mix of 50% ground beef and 50% ground bacon made into what is arguably the best burger on planet earth.
And word has it that there is a whole pig ( done phillipine LECHON style) if the crowd is sizeable enough to warrant it.

Basically anything on this map goes!!















We ask that menu submissions get to us by April 15th so that we can print the menu.
We also need a head count pretty soon so that we know if we are going to order kegs, a whole pig, etc.

Now, at this point we were going to put up the "Squeal like a pig" scene from Deliverance.  But after review...we decided against it.
Instead we'll just leave you with this...

Stay tuned and check back soon!

Good Lord! Inspirational awesomeness!

LOOK AT THIS!!!.

 4/30/11. The Bacon Train is comin' down the track!
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 ( Credit Chrissy for bringing this to our attention)

The Test Kitchen is OPEN!!

 This weekend we tested out one of the many Baconfest 2011 recipes that are gonna roll in.
 It's a variation of the legendary 50/50. ( if you're a bacon freak, I need not explain the 50/50.)
  We went about 60/40 beeft to bacon. Grilled. On a grilled roll. With sauted ( in Fat Tire beer & Butter) yellow onions. Cheese ( we grabbed a colby jack..but we'll have optionals) And topped in with a smear of Baconaisse.

 I'm gonna say it was near perfect.
 We'll change it slightly by adding a single bread & butter chip pickle, downsizing, cutting them square, and using a grilled King's Hawiian Roll, while keeping the exact onion method as well as the baconaisse.
 I have to pass this by Chef Erich, but I would like to call it " The Moo & Oink!".  And if you're from Chicago..you surely get laugh.
  The problem with the 1/3 pound version was this: I personally didn't eat for 24 hours due to feeling like Orca washed up on a beach. It's a fatty, salt infused stack of tubby ass goodness. But I wouldnt recommend having more than one per month....hell, I may up that to 3 months. Honestly..even though it's one of the best things I've ever had, I probably wont have another one til BACONFEST on 4/30/11 .

Beer Pairing: Founder's Porter.  If you're gonna go heavy on the meal, ya might as well go heavy on the best of the black porters! Go down in a blaze of glory!!

Baconfest 2nd annual 4-30-11 featuring Logcano!