A river crawls through it

River City is turning up the volume on its Spokane River water protection efforts with a pub crawl this afternoon.

As part of this year’s launch of Riverkeeper IPA, the brewery added a Riverwalk promotion through March involving eight restaurants along and near the river. If you stop at four of them, buy a Riverkeeper pint and/or food and get your guide stamped (available at participating locations), you receive a souvenir glass.

Sponsor Numerica Credit Union donates $5 to the Riverkeeper environmental program for each glass handed out (a portion of Riverkeeper IPA sales year-round also supports the cause).

For today’s crawl, starting at 4 p.m., representatives from River City, Numerica, Riverkeeper and distributor KBI Craft will form two teams to greet drinkers along the route.

One team visits Rock City Grill at 4, O’Doherty’s Irish Grille at 4:45, The Blackbird at 5:30 and Ripples Riverside Grill at 6:15. The other stops at Veraci pizza at 4, Nectar Wine and Beer at 5 and The Knock at 6.

Both teams converge on David’s Pizza at 7 p.m. for the wrapup. Pint glasses will be available there for those who get their four stamps, there will be T-shirts for sale and a group photo is planned on the footbridge by the Flour Mill.

As a bonus, anyone receiving seven stamps will be entered in a drawing for a six-person, half-day whitewater rafting trip with ROW Adventures.