SanTan, Four Peaks to collaborate on rare-beer dinner during Arizona Beer Week

With Arizona Beer Week just over a month away, word on some of the more tantalizing events is starting to leak out.

Topping the list so far: A five-course rare-beer dinner at downtown Chandler’s Vintage 95 Wine Lounge on Tuesday, Feb. 18, with SanTan Brewing and Four Peaks Brewing.

Yes, you read that right. SanTan and Four Peaks – the state’s two largest breweries – collaborating on what’s being billed as “a dinner of historic proportions.”

Vintage 95 chef Michael Wahlberg has created a tantalizing menu of head-on grilled prawns, spiced chicken fritters, pan-seared frog legs, and a deconstructed feijoada (a Portuguese meat and bean stew) with crispy pork belly and grilled pork ribs.

Beers will include SanTan’s Saison di Aleatico, Heavy D (imperial Devils Ale), and Russian imperial stout, and Four Peaks’ Double Knot imperial IPA, Odelay Mexican chocolate ale, and Beer Week collaboration Weizenbock.

Click here to see the full menu.

The cost of the 6 p.m. dinner is $65 per person. The first 100 people to arrive will get a special glass etched with the logos of SanTan, Four Peaks, Vintage 95, and Beer Week.