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

– The brewery list has been released for the Palouse Cabin Fever Brew Fest , coming up Feb. 13 in tiny Palouse, Wash. (east of Colfax). Newcomers Bellwether, Black Label and Trickster’s will join the returning Budge Brothers, Laht Neppur, Paradise Creek, Riverport and Zythum.

The combination indoor/outdoor event at the Palouse Community Center has been growing in popularity, with tickets selling out in advance the past two years. Look for them (at $20 a pop) at Budge in Spokane, Paradise in Pullman and newly opened Rants & Raves in Moscow.

– Bale Breaker’s High Camp Winter Warmer easily won the popular vote among Washington breweries Thursday at The Lantern Tap House’s Winter Beer Fest , while Fort George’s Magnanimous Winter IPA topped the Oregon offerings on Friday.

The festival continues in the outdoor tent today at 2 p.m. with an assortment of porters, stouts and barleywines from breweries in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado and California. Leftovers from the first three days will be tapped Sunday starting at 1 p.m. in an informal closing session.

– Hopped Up has begun releasing a series of infused small-batch (quarter-barrel) beers, starting with Pogue Mahone Irish cream stout (7 percent alcohol by volume, 35 International Bitterness Units).

A Wicked Wahini pineapple/coconut cream ale (5, 15) is set to go on after the stout blows, to be followed by Peanut Buster Porter (6, 34) and more to come. Keep an eye on the brewery’s Facebook page for details.

– Paradise Creek is pouring the latest installment of its limited, draft-only Culture Shock barrel-aged and sour series, a gin barrel version of the Pokerface Blonde.

– On the ever-changing brewery hours front, Twelve String is opening its taproom at noon now Wednesday through Friday, like it has been on Saturday. It will continue to open at 3 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday.

– Finally, a Rainier beer will again be brewed in the Northwest. Pabst, which owns the brand, will produce a new Rainier Pale Mountain Ale at the Redhook brewery in Woodinville, Wash. starting the second quarter of this year (regular Rainier will continue to come from a MillerCoors plant in California).

The deal includes an option for Pabst to purchase the Woodinville facility, as the Craft Brew Alliance – which makes Redhook, Widmer, Kona and other brands – continues to consolidate its operations in Portland. Redhook previously announced plans to open a smaller-scale brewpub in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood this fall.