Your weekly planner
UPDATED TUESDAY 9/15:
– River City's seasonal, sessionable Afternoon IPA will be featured in a tasting night Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:30 at Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, with pint and growler discounts.
– Wednesday's small-batch release at Daft Badger in Coeur d'Alene is a smooth-drinking rye beer dubbed Ryediculous (6 percent alcohol by volume).
– Twelve String on Thursday will release its first of two fresh hop beers this season, an all-Simcoe IPA.
– The Flying Goat hosts a Firestone Walker night Thursday from 6 to 9 with Pivo pilsner, Opal farmhouse, Sour Opal, DBA pale and Helldorado blonde barleywine on tap.
– Coeur d'Alene's Summit Cider will feature four local IPAs at its Fall Kick Off Party on Friday – from Daft Badger, Mad Bomber, Slate Creek and Trickster's – with a vote on the crowd favorite.
A look at the upcoming week in local craft beer:
– (UPDATE: RELEASE HAS BEEN DELAYED BECAUSE OF PRODUCTION ISSUES) Paradise Creek has a release party today starting at 3 p.m. for its new fall seasonal, Arc Flash India Session Ale (4.1 percent alcohol by volume, 37 International Bitterness Units). It gets its reddish color from a combination of crystal, carafa and pale malts, and its earthy, citrusy, fruity hoppiness from Cascade, Mosaic, Citra and Falconer’s Flight; look for it in 22-ounce bottles as well as draft.
– Coeur d’Alene’s Cork & Tap holds a fall beer tasting Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 featuring four pumpkin beers from Elysian – Night Owl, Great Pumpkin imperial, Punkaccino coffee ale and Dark of the Moon stout – along with Epic’s Imperial Pumpkin Porter and Oktoberfests from Odell and Ninkasi. Cost is $7, which includes cheese and crackers.
– River City on Friday taps its TW Frankensour (5.4, 25), naturally soured with some 1997 vintage huckleberry ale from predecessor Coeur d’Alene Brewing.
– Daft Badger observes the first official day of Oktoberfest on Saturday with a party from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. featuring beer, brats, soft pretzels with beer cheese sauce and live music by Uppercut from noon to 3 and Boomshack from 4 to 7.
– Green Bluff’s 238 Brewing hosts Brews for Beasts on Saturday from noon to 4, with live country from Christy Lee Music, buggy rides, handmade crafts for sale and a special Halter Hefe. A portion of proceeds benefits Full Circle Equine Rehabilitation Center, a combination horse rescue and equine-assisted therapy program.
– Hopped Up’s third annual car show runs Saturday from noon to 6, with an appearance by the Spokane Hot Rod Girls at 2. There’s more music from Christy Lee afterward starting at 7.
– Manito Tap House celebrates its fourth anniversary Saturday from noon to 9 with a parking lot party, along with neighboring Republic Pi, featuring DJ music, food and limited-edition beers.
– Pints Alehouse welcomes Denmark’s Evil Twin Brewing for a tap takeover Saturday starting at 3 featuring Sour Bikini, Falco IPA, Molotov Lite imperial IPA, Imperial Doughnut Break porter, Soft DK imperial stout, Ashtray Heart imperial smoked stout and From Amager With Love imperial stout with blueberries.