Craft Beer Week: Wednesday

The Collaboration Celebration (see post above ) may be the big news today, but there’s plenty more going on during this third day of Spokane (and American ) Craft Beer Week (keep checking back through the day for late-breaking updates):

– Twelve String has an IPA Day with $1 off pints and growlers from noon to 9, and also will be serving a cabernet barrel-aged porter and syrah barrel stout.

– Hopped Up releases its new Wrong Way IPA (dedicated to those drivers headed east on one-way west Sprague Avenue in front of the brewery), with Magnum, Ahtanum and lots of Cascade hops, starting at 3; get an $8 growler fill of all regular beers with a pint purchase.

– Wallace Brewing has a release party for its Ryenot Steam Lager collaboration with Slate Creek from 3 to 8.

– Pilgrim’s in Coeur d’Alene hosts a free tasting featuring Montana’s Madison River Brewing beginning at 3:30, with the Salmon Fly Honey Rye, Dropper IPA, The Juice Double IPA, Copper John Scotch Ale and Black Ghost Oatmeal Stout.

– Orlison taps its first-ever firkin at 4, full of Not So Red Northwest Brown.

– Slate Creek will pour its Ryenot collaboration with Wallace when it opens at 5, along with the 5 Chimneys blended stout collaboration with Daft Badger, Downdraft, Laughing Dog and Selkirk Abbey (also on tap at Downdraft and Selkirk ).

– Iron Goat is serving two returning recipes from last year’s Year of the Goat small-batch series – Catalan Red and Oatmeal Pale – along with its Goat Breaker tart blood orange IPA collaboration with Bale Breaker.

– Daft Badger’s weekly Wednesday small-batch release is the return of Peach Perfect pumpkin peach ale, originally brewed in response to this infamous Super Bowl ad .

– Bennidito’s Brewpub releases its latest single-hop pale , starring Columbus.

– Bellwether’s beer-themed trivia night runs from 7:30 to 9.

– Moscow’s Rants & Raves taps a small-batch medieval-style braggot honey beer at 6.

– The Area 51 taphouses at both the downtown and North Side Onion Bar & Grill are holding a local IPA competition all week, with voting on blind taste-test samplers of entries by Bellwether, Big Barn, Orlison, Perry Street, River City, Waddell’s, Wallace and Whistle Punk.

– The 2015 Lost Abbey Santo Ron Diego spiced rum barrel-aged strong ale and Fremont”s 2015 Kentucky Dark Star bourbon barrel-aged imperial oatmeal stout are the day’s specialties at Manito Tap House .

– The Blackbird offers a whiskey barrel-aged version of River City’s Midnight Marmot imperial stout.

– Deschutes’ 2014 Not the Stoic barrel-aged Belgian-style quad with pomegranate molasses will be pouring at The Lantern Tap House .

– The Flying Goat has No-Li’s bourbon barrel-aged Rise & Grind coffee milk stout.

– Look for the 2015 Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin barrel-aged oatmeal stout at Republic Pi .

– Steady Flow Growler House and Waddell’s Brewpub have local tap takeovers all week (with a special beer-infused fresh sheet menu at Waddell’s), along with weeklong beer specials at Laughing Dog , Black Label and the Steam Plant .