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

– The LINC Foods farmers’ cooperative has started production on its first batch of Palouse Pint malt , made with locally grown barley. Look for a launch event in early May featuring beers and spirits made with the malt by area brewers and distillers.

– Another event on the calendar for Craft Beer Week : Orlison is holding a homebrew competition , with four finalists to be poured in the downtown taproom May 20. The winner will brew a batch on Orlison’s pilot system and have it served regularly through August.

– Orlison, which has its first production IPA – the Bloomsday-themed Shin Splints – going on tap next Friday, will follow up the week of April 11 with its first wheat beer, a filtered Kristal Klar .

– Trickster’s will release its first two bottled beers next Friday, bombers of Juice Box IPA and Hops on Parade imperial IPA.

– After opening in January as a restaurant serving outside beers, Moscow’s Rants & Raves has received federal approval to begin brewing itself. The first house beer should be out by mid-April.

– Zythum, which previously reduced its taproom hours to one weekend per month for winter – the second Friday through Sunday – has announced that will continue at least through August.

– Meanwhile, 238 resumes summer hours on Green Bluff in April, again adding Sundays (noon-6) each weekend along with Friday (5-8) and Saturday (noon-8).