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Some odds and ends from the past calm-before-the-storm week in local craft beer, heading into Spokane Craft Beer Week:

– No-Li is among 100-plus breweries around the country invited to brew "The Biggest Small Beer Ever Made" – an imperial porter, with everyone using the same recipe – by the Brewers Association for American Craft Beer Week. (Check out their video poking fun at big beer.)

"We are honored to have been selected as the Washington state craft brewery to brew the recipe," says No-Li owner John Bryant. Look for it at next week's Brewsday Tuesday in the pub from 5:30 to 7:30.

– Speaking of No-Li, its next bottled barrel-aged offering is on the way: OMFG, which is Rise & Grind coffee milk stout conditioned over vanilla, chocolate and orange peel. The beer, which won a second-place people's choice award at December's Seattle Winter Beer Fest, will pour next Saturday at the Red, White and No-Li Small Batch Festival (which, sorry, is sold out).

– And speaking of small, Badass Backyard is the latest local brewery to be featured on the Seattle-based Northwest Beer Talk podcast.

– New Boundary is pouring a non-hopped Alaskan-style Water-Malone gruit (8 percent ABV), soured with watermelon, rosemary, yarrow and sweet gale.

– Finally, just in case you've been drinking under a rock all week, foreign-owned Budweiser somehow won federal regulators' approval to rename its flagship beer as America all summer. (And coincidentally, the America Clydesdales – er, InBev Clydesdales – will make a Spokane stopover next week for the Lilac Festival.)