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Some odds and ends from the past week in local craft beer:
– Building on its Brewsday Tuesday specialty release series, No-Li is introducing LocALE Mondays.
Each month, the brewery will offer a custom pint glass honoring an area neighborhood, beginning with its own home turf, the University District.
Come in on a Monday between 5 and 8 p.m. and order a pint of that month’s featured beer – for February, Born & Raised IPA – and take the glass with you.
Brewery employees also will volunteer with organizations in the designated neighborhood each month.
– By the way, No-Li’s next small-batch beer event, which we last week reported would be on March 12, has been moved up a week to March 5.
From noon to 4 p.m., a half-dozen infused and barrel-aged beers will pour in a preview of the brewery’s annual full-scale spring No Boundaries on the River festival.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 6 (presale starts Monday for Brewsday Tuesday members) for $15, which includes five drink tickets toward 4- or 10-ounce samples along with a commemorative pint glass and T-shirt.
– Daft Badger has set March 12 as the date for a release party for its first bottled beers. There will be 90 cases each of 22-ounce bottles of Summer’s Envy IPA and Josiah’s Revenge imperial stout, to be sold exclusively at the Coeur d’Alene taproom.
The Badger crew also is readying its first barrel-aged beer, an India brown ale in a bourbon barrel. Look for that in six months.
– Bellwether is finishing its January run of graf-style apple beers with a Welsh Triad brewed with barley malt, honey and cider. Look for a new series of small-batch dark ales starting next week.
The Old World-influenced brewery also is celebrating International Gruit Day on Tuesday (technically a day late, but they’re closed Mondays) with a horehound and aniseed stout, and possibly a second herbed, non-hopped offering.
– Hopped Up has been flying through its new series of small-batch flavor-infused beers, having just tapped the seventh version in two weeks, a hazelnut-praline brown ale.
– Trickster’s yesterday tapped a slightly updated version of its Hops on Parade double IPA (9 percent alcohol by volume, 100-plus IBU), now double dry-hopped.
– A new “Smooth Operator” black IPA is pouring today at 238 Brewing on Green Bluff.
– Pullman’s Paradise Creek has released a seasonal Belgian-style, barrel-conditioned Daily Dubbel (8.6, 19) with a big malt and fruit character.
– A considerably spruced-up Filling Station on Fifth reopened Thursday in Coeur d’Alene following a brief closure for remodeling. Its neighboring restaurant partner, formerly Scratch Bistro, also has relaunched as Collective Kitchen, with a new menu featuring several small plates.