Portland Fermentation Festival

2024 Portland Fermentation Festival
Thursday, October 10th 6-9pm
Ecotrust’s Irving Studio Suite on the ground floor
721 NW 9th Ave. Portland, OR
portlandfermentationfestival.com

All ages, open to the public, $15 advance, $20 cash at door
Children 12 and younger attend for free
Tickets on sale now!, limited cash-only tickets available at door

The 2024 Portland Fermentation Festival, aka Stinkfest, is just a couple weeks away and we are so happy to host it again after our three-year — 2020 to 2022 — pandemic hiatus. Last year’s fest with Kirsten Shockey was so, so good and we all really needed it.

 Please join us on Thursday, October 10th for Portland’s annual, open-to-the-public, all-ages celebration of fermented food and drink. Bring kimchi, try kimchi. Bring miso, try miso. Come out for Portland’s fermented food and drink skill sharing, recipe sharing and tasting event of the year. 

 This year, we welcome back the Starter Culture Sharing & Adoption Center. Bring a vinegar, kombucha, sourdough, etc., starter, take a starter! We also welcome back our Bacterial Petting Zoo, where newbies to the world of fermentation can familiarize themselves with SCOBYs, cultures and mothers of all types.

 The Portland Fermentation Festival is, and always has been, a non-commercial event. Once you purchase your ticket and enter the festival you will not be sold to. The wide array of food and drink ferments are not for sale, they are there to sample. The mission of festival has always been firmly rooted in no sales. Our one-night, annual event fosters learning, connecting, communicating and celebrating fermentation with one another. We believe that transactional interactions often get in the way of that.

 Come celebrate pickling season with us at the 2024 Portland Fermentation Festival at Ecotrust. Taste and share live, fermented foods and drinks made by professionals and home fermentation enthusiasts at the annual fest that’s one of our nation’s oldest fermentation festivals, founded in 2009.

 Talk to fellow fermenters, exchange cultures and recipes, get advice from local food fermentation enthusiasts, attend fermentation demos, and sample everything from sour pickles, miso and natto, to cheeses, long-fermented breads, hard cider and kombucha.

 Please let me know if I can get you any more information about this year’s festival and/or put you on our festival media list. We would love any coverage that you can provide.