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Catching up with some odds and ends from the past week in craft beer:

– Slate Creek, MickDuff’s and Wallace took home medals from this year’s North American Beer Awards in Idaho Falls.

Slate Creek won gold for Slack Line Saison, MickDuff’s silver for Idaho Arm Curl Lager and Gold Stout, and Wallace bronze for RedLight Irish Ale. The competition included close to 1,800 beers from 35 states and eight countries.

The awards were announced at today’s Mountain Brewer’s Beer Fest.

– Laughing Dog is Paste magazine’s Idaho selection for its list of the most underrated breweries in each state, singled out for doing “high-gravity IPAs and stouts right, without ever falling back on gimmickry in their recipes.” Elsewhere around the Northwest, Georgetown was the Washington pick while Hair of the Dog got the nod in Oregon.

– Make your reservations now for a pair of upcoming beer dinners. Coeur d’Alene’s Uva hosts River City on Tuesday for a five-course pairing menu starting at 6 p.m.; call (208) 930-0573 for details.

And on June 15, The Blackbird presents a seven-course European Beercation Dinner featuring English, Scottish, German and Belgian beers imported by Merchant du Vin. Cost is $70 per person (includes tax and tip); call (509) 392-4000.

– Finally, amid the continued hand-wringing over the potential effects on craft beer of the proposed Anheuser-Busch InBev/SABMiller merger, the already existing dangers are illustrated by a Seattle case in which A-B faces a $150,000 fine for market manipulation. The Seattle Weekly has a solid analysis here .