Since 2009 my friends David Barber, George Winborn and I have put on the annual Portland Fermentation Festival with/at Ecotrust and every year it gets bigger and better. This year we'd set the date for Wednesday, October 7th until earlier this week when Neil Young announced his tour dates for his October tour of The Monsanto Years album. When is he playing Portland for it you ask? Wednesday, October 7th! (Tickets on go on sale for the University of Portland show tomorrow at 10am PT!) So we did what any Neil loving fans would do -- we changed the date so we and YOU can go! Below are all the details for this year's stinky good time -- the 6th Annual Portland Fermentation Festival.
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Organizers & Media Contacts:
Liz Crain lizcrain at gmail dot com
George Winborn gw dot winborn at gmail dot com
David Barber briney at picklopolis dot com
Sixth Annual Portland Fermentation Festival NEW DATE!! Tuesday, October 27th 6-9:30pm Ecotrust’s Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center Rooftop food and drink sales and music 721 NW 9th Ave. Portland, OR All ages, open to the public, $10-$20 Children 12 and younger attend for free www.portlandfermentationfestival.com
Earlier this week Neil Young announced the October tour dates for his The Monsanto Years album and guess when he's going to play in Portland? Yep, on Wednesday, Oct. 7th at the University of Portland -- the very night we had planned to host this year's Sixth Annual Portland Fermentation Festival at Ecotrust. As lifelong fans of Mr. Young we have a strict no-compete clause with him in our heart of hearts so we've changed the Portland Fermentation Festival date so that no one in Portland has to choose between rockin' in Neil's free world and rockin' in our fermented world. You're welcome. Tickets for Neil's tour go on sale this Friday at 10am by the way. See you at the PDX show!
So, please, please join us now on the evening of Tuesday, October 27th at Ecotrust for Portland's annual, open-to-the-public, all-ages celebration of fermented food and drink. Bring kraut, try kraut. Bring miso, try miso. Come out for Portland's fermented food and drink skill sharing, recipe sharing, and tasting event of the year. We are very pleased to announce that this year's special pre-tasting event is a panel of fermentation experts soon to be determined.
Come celebrate pickling season at the Sixth Annual Portland Fermentation Festival at Ecotrust. Taste and share live, fermented food and drinks made by professionals and home fermentation enthusiasts at the annual event that brought out more than 600 attendees in 2014.
Talk to fellow fermenters, exchange cultures and recipes, get advice from local food fermentation enthusiasts, attend fermentation demo's and sample everything from sour pickles, miso and kefir to cheese, hard cider, and mead.
Admission for the 7:00 or 8:00pm Tuesday tasting sessions and fermentation demos is $10. For $20 attend the 6:00pm panel of experts on all things food/drink fermentation in addition to the 7:00pm tasting and fermentation demos. Enjoy rooftop music, food and drink from Reverend Nat's Hard Cider and Bingo Sandwiches and others TBD.
Visit http://portlandfermentationfestival.com/ for more information.
Festival coverage past and present:
KGW http://www.kgw.com/media/cinematic/video/15892130/pdx-tonight-fermentation-festival/
Photos from last year's festival Food Lover's Guide to Portland http://www.lizcrain.com/foodloversguidetoportlandblog/2014/10/portland-fermentation-festival-2014-redux/
Cooking Up a Story http://cookingupastory.com/annual-fermentation-festival-opens-world-ferments
KBOO Food Show http://kboo.fm/node/24469http://kboo.fm/content/foodshowon10151983
Portland Monthly http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/articles/four-reasons-to-get-excited-about-the-portland-fermentation-festival-september-2014
Willamette Week http://wweek.com/portland/article-18099-how_to_pickle_almost.html
Portland Mercury http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2014/10/15/fermentation-fest-what-microbobes-can-do-for-you
OPB http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/portland-fermentation-festival-offers-diy-techniques-tips
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