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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Two for the flow

Rick Bonino

The waning days of summer bring the return of a pair of familiar festivals on Saturday:

– Hopped Up’s fourth annual Art, Music and Beer Festival, from 1 to 9:30 at the Spokane Valley brewery, features more than two dozen artist and vendor booths plus live bands, food trucks and beer specials.

Along with the regular tap lineup inside – including lemon and mulberry versions of the Cream Ale, Palouse Pale made with locally malted barley and Pogue Mahone Irish cream stout on nitro – there will be four special pours on the patio: aged apricot and fresh raspberry sours, Orange Vanilla Porter and a reserve keg of last winter’s Destroy My Sweater seasonal. The house-made root beer also will be served for the all-ages event, which will feature face painting.

The music lineup includes the Spokane Drum Circle at 1, No Going Back Band at 2:30, Wyatt Wood at 4, T and The Beav at 5:30 and the Schrag Deal Road Band at 7:30, along with a fire spinner performance at dusk. Eats will be provided by the Mac Daddy’s and Mustard’s Last Stand trucks.

– More music and beer are in the works for the 23rd Brewsfest at Silver Mountain Resort near Kellogg. Gates open at 1 and taps close at 5:30, with the gondola starting to load at 9:30 a.m.

Look for 40 beers from 20 breweries including Ballast Point, Big Sky, Brickyard, Downdraft, Elysian, Firestone Walker, Fremont, Grand Teton, Hop Valley, Mad Bomber, Ninkasi, No-Li, North Idaho Mountain, Odell, Orlison, River City, Slate Creek and 10 Barrel.

Aftermath plays at 1 followed by 4 More at 3:30, and the Sara Brown Trio at the afterparty in the Gondola Village at 6.

Tickets are $29.95 in advance, $34.95 at the gate, which includes a tasting mug and your first six drink tickets. Get a mountain biking pass for another $15.