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Catching up with more news from the week in local craft beer:
• Community Pint has announced an opening date of Aug. 4. The combination 24-tap beer bar, growler fill station and bottle shop in the former Jones Radiator space at 120 E. Sprague is owned and operated by longtime homebrewer TJ Wallin and his wife Sarah.
• The Nu Home Brew shop in Spokane Valley is in the final licensing stages to start brewing and selling its own beer as Genus Brewing. Initial plans call for serving a rotating variety of small-batch (5 to 30 gallon) offerings in-house; owner Peter McArthur hopes to have that up and running by mid-August.
• Bellwether, which in February did a series of beers with Purple Egyptian barley (locally grown by Palouse Heritage and malted by Palouse Pint), is doing the same thing next month with another ancient specialty strain, Scot's Bere. Two small-batch recipes will be released each Thursday in August with accompanying loaves baked with the grain by Culture Breads.
• Waddell's was the winner in the second Battle of the State Breweries on Thursday at Steady Flow Growler House, unseating original champion Daft Badger in a blind tasting. And look for a five-way competition next Saturday at the Coeur d'Alene Growler Guys featuring Mad Bomber, Paradise Creek, River City, Slate Creek and Waddell's.