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Catching up with more news from the week in local craft beer and beyond:

• An old No-Li brewing tank has found new life as an art installation welcoming motorists to downtown Spokane.

The 30-barrel fermenter was donated to Spokane Arts last August and reimagined by local artist Bill Simmons as a symbol of the role brewing has played in the city's industrial history. It now sits in the median along the Lincoln Street exit off Interstate 90.

The piece will be formally dedicated in a ceremony Oct. 13 at 10:30 a.m.

• Congrats to Trickster's, winner of Saturday's IPA-Off at the Coeur d'Alene Growler Guys with its Boatload Fresh Hop. Downdraft's Mango Habanero Third Channel took second, followed by MickDuff's New England-style Any. BoatLoad also was a finalist over the weekend at the prestigious Yakima Fresh Hop Festival.

• Mark your calendar for the return of a favorite event: the fifth annual Spokane Craft Beer & Cookie Fest, Oct. 14 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Girl Scout Program Center, 1404 N. Ash.

Beers from Alaskan, Badass Backyard, Big Barn, Black Label, English Setter, Iron Goat, Lagunitas, New Boundary, River City and Waddell's will be paired with accompanying Girl Scout cookies, along with live music and food trucks. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, which includes a tasting glass, five 4-ounce pours and a $5 food voucher.

• Finally, a pair of financial reports from the bean counters at the Brewers Association: The trade group estimates that craft beer contributed $68.7 billion to the national economy last year – an increase of 22 percent over the previous report in 2014 – including close to $1.8 billion in Washington and almost $400,000 in Idaho.

And craft brewers donated an estimated $73.4 million to charitable causes last year, the association says, up from $71 million in 2014.