Recap: Eater and Goose Island Chef Meets Brewer dinner at Portland's Holdfast

In the first dinner of our Chef Meets Brewer series, Eater and Goose Island took over Holdfast for a six-course feast full of flavor. Goose Island Brewer Eric Ponce perfectly paired eight brews with custom creations from Holdfast's Chefs Joel Stocks and William Preisch. Guests were taken through a huge range of flavors including sturgeon with apricot, chanterelles and hefe beer blanc paired with 312 Urban Wheat Ale and sweetbreads with corn, tomatoes, black truffle, and Guajillo pepper paired with Matilda Belgian Pale Ale.

Check out the full menu in the gallery below. Feeling jealous of this feast? We're heading to Nashville on August 26th. See the full details and buy your tickets here. Next on the lineup: Washington DC, Houston, and Charleston.

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Photo credit: John Valls