Your weekly roundup
Catching up with more news from the past week in local craft beer (and beyond):
• The new Palouse chapter of Girls Pint Out, a national organization for women interested in craft beer, has its first event March 2 with a guided tasting at Moscow’s Hunga Dunga Brewing. (The Inland Northwest chapter next meets Feb. 25 for beer cocktails at Enoteca in Post Falls.)
• Iron Goat is participating in this year’s Inlander Restaurant Week, which runs from next Thursday through March 4. For $19, the three-course menu includes your choice of Brussels sprouts, beet salad or pate for an appetizer; beef cheeks, bratwurst or a farro risotto for the entrée; and crème brulee, a beer float or a cinnamon sugar/crème anglaise/stout caramel pretzel for dessert.
• Laughing Dog’s Dogzilla black IPA is one of 20 finalists in a national Best Beer Label contest sponsored by USA Today. Voting continues through March 13, with the winner announced on St.Patrick’s Day.
• Ellensburg’s Iron Horse is accepting applications for an Eastern Washington/North Idaho market manager position.
• Early registration ends Monday for the second annual Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference, March 17-18 in Vancouver, Wash. The schedule includes educational seminars, tastings of both amateur and professional beers and a keynote address by Chuckanut's Will Kemper. Cost is $199 (increases to $229 on Tuesday).
• Finally, Wal-Mart is being sued for misrepresenting its in-house imitation craft beers, which are credited to a fictitious Trouble Brewing but actually are produced for the retail chain by New York macrobrewer Genesee.