Your weekly planner
UPDATE FRIDAY 3/4
– Today’s Randall at English Setter from 5 to 8 is Red Setter Retriever through green apple candy.
– Trickster’s has relaunched its Randall for the season with Hipster Juice session IPA over pineapple and blood orange.
– Alaskan’s Hop Turn IPA, Jalapeno Imperial IPA and Smoked Porter are being featured in a tasting today from 4 to 7 at the South Hill Growler Guys.
– Selkirk Abbey has tapped the last of its St. Augustine rye saison aged in Dry Fly triticale whiskey barrels.
UPDATE WEDNESDAY 3/2
– Two of the limited-edition Culture Shock series sour beers from Pullman’s Paradise Creek – Gin Barrel Blonde and Tequila Barrel Scottish – will be pouring along with Pokerface Blonde and Over the Hop IPA in a meet-the-brewer event Saturday from 4 to 6 at Steady Flow Growler House .
– Steady Flow, by the way, launched its Randall today with Big Barn’s Bodacious Blonde over raspberries and cinnamon sticks.
– Paradise Creek’s Pokerface and Over the Hop will joined by the brewery’s Daily Dubbel in a tasting Friday from 4 to 7 at the Coeur d’Alene Growler Guys.
UPDATE TUESDAY 3/1
– Wednesday’s weekly small-batch release at Daft Badger will be a Vanilla Cream Ale (6.9 percent alcohol by volume, 29 International Bitterness Units).
– Bellwether is pouring a strong, small-batch Ryewine made with 85 percent rye malt.
A look at the upcoming week in local craft beer:
MONDAY
– Twelve String’s beer of the week is Twelve Strings of Winter, with $1 off pints and growler fills.
TUESDAY
– Downdraft’s Exit 5 Brown Ale will be the New Tap Tuesday pour at the North Side Hop Jack’s , with $3 pints all day.
– A smooth, malty Just Friends Amber will be on tap for No-Li’s Brewsday Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30.
THURSDAY
– Mad Bomber releases this month’s Mad Bomber Action Comics poster, with $3.50 pints and head brewer Alan Longacre on hand to sign prints from 5 to 7; a portion of proceeds benefits a Hayden woman battling a brain tumor.
– Nectar Wine and Beer in Kendall Yards introduces its March brewery of the month, Everybody’s Brewing from White Salmon, Wash., with a tasting from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring $10 flights of Local Logger Lager, Sprinkles Hibiscus Sour, Daily Bread Common Ale, Law of Nature Pale Ale, Country Boy IPA and Cold Press Coffee Porter.
FRIDAY
– Big Barn visits Bon Bon for First Friday with four beers on tap – Peone Wheat, Rusty Red, Dunn Day IPA and Black Dog Stout – and brewer Craig Deitz on hand starting at 4 p.m.
– Slate Creek celebrates its third anniversary beginning at 5 p.m. with $3 pints (including a special small-batch Doppelbock), raffle prizes, food and live music.
– River City releases this year’s Riverkeeper IPA in a First Friday event from 5:30 to 8 at Numerica Credit Union downtown, with live music and Charley Gurche’s photographs of the Spokane River.
– The Rocket Market holds a New Brews tasting at 7 p.m., with 10 samplers, artisan cheese and Clover bakery bread for $20 (reservations requested).
SATURDAY
– The new Inland Northwest Ale Trail map officially launches with special events at 41 participating breweries around the region; we’ll have as complete a report as possible later in the week.
SUNDAY
– Downdraft offers a Balance & Brews yoga class from 11 a.m. to noon. Cost is $15, which includes a pint afterward; register via Facebook.
And as always, keep coming back here for more information about everything happening throughout the week.
* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "On Tap." Read all stories from this blog