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Catching up with more news from the past week in local craft beer:

– Now that you’ve had your fill of the first Spokane Brewers Festival, get ready for the return of the Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival.

Tickets just went on sale for the seventh annual event, which will be back at Avista Stadium Sept. 23-24 with 38 breweries from throughout Washington – up from last year’s 30 – along with food trucks and live music.

Of those, 14 are newcomers from last year. Along with Spokane’s Bellwether, Kettle Falls’ Northern Ales, Yakima’s Bale Breaker and Waitsburg’s Laht Neppur, they include 7 Seas (Gig Harbor), Cash (Silverdale), Crucible (Everett), Elysian (Seattle), Everybody’s (White Salmon), Island Hoppin’ (Eastsound), Lowercase (Seattle), Puyallup River (Puyallup), Silver City (Silverdale) and Wingman (Tacoma).

In another new twist, Saturday’s session will be all-ages this year, with free admission for ages 21 and under accompanied by a ticketed parent or guardian. Tickets again are $20 in advance ($25 at the door), which includes your first six five-ounce pours.

– Speaking of festivals, a trio of first-timers will represent the Inland Northwest at this year’s Great American Beer Festival: Waddell’s from Spokane, and two of North Idaho’s newest breweries, Post Falls Brewing and Moscow’s Rants & Raves.

The 35th annual event, the nation’s largest craft beer gathering with more than 800 participating breweries, takes place Oct. 6-8 in Denver; tickets are sold out.

– Yoke’s Fresh Markets has filed state liquor license applications for growler sales at three more area stores: the former Trading Company locations at 13014 E. Sprague in Spokane Valley, 4235 S. Cheney-Spokane Road in Latah Creek and 4 Cheney-Spokane Road in Cheney.

That follows the success of the chain’s first growler station at the Mead store, which has been serving local and regional beers from its eight taps for about a month.