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Some odds and ends from the past week in local craft beer:

– This year’s Inland Northwest Ale Trail map will be officially released March 5, with various events in the works at participating breweries to mark the occasion; we’ll keep you posted as details become available. There are 41 stops on the new map, up from the previous 27.

– Two more Spokane newcomers, Young Buck and Little Spokane , have received final federal licensing approval and plan to begin brewing by April at the downtown incubator . Beer will be served out of the breweries and later at an accompanying Steel Barrel Taproom, along with limited distribution to outside accounts.

– Pullman’s Paradise Creek releases its seasonal Hoe’s Daddy Dunkelweizen on Sunday for Valentine’s Day, along with a contest : Create a Valentine card for your favorite Paradise Creek beer and get a discount, and a chance to win a $30 gift certificate.

– Wallace Brewing’s Strong Ale took the bronze medal among a dozen entries in the old/strong ale category in the second annual Bend-based Best of Craft Beer Awards .

– Mad Bomber, which has begun selling a series of brewery-themed comic book cover prints to benefit local charities, this week launched Community Night, with 10 percent of proceeds each Wednesday being donated to a worthy cause.

– The Washington Beer Commission’s new Collaboration Festival , coming April 22-23 in Seattle, will feature 20 collaborative beers from 40 breweries statewide. Yakima’s Bale Breaker is the first from east of the Cascades to sign up; hopefully there will be more to come.

– Finally, Anheuser-Busch’s slightly less craft beer-bashing Super Bowl ad didn’t cause anywhere near as much of a stir as last year’s version , though winning quarterback Peyton Manning did raise a few eyebrows with his repeated post-game references to his plans for pounding Budweiser . Hoping to broaden his horizons, the Brewers Association sent Manning an assortment of 10 craft beers, including six from the Broncos’ home state of Colorado.