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Catching up with more news from the past week in local craft beer:

– The 12 Ales of Christmas returns to Capone’s in Coeur d’Alene for a 20th year on Dec. 3, and it pays to shop early: tickets are $50 now, but go up to $55 after Thanksgiving. That gets you a food buffet, a goodie bag including a 12 Ales T-shirt and 8-ounce pours of a dozen winter seasonals – plus, fortunately, free cab rides home in the Coeur d’Alene area. (And it’s not too early to start planning your getup for the ugly sweater contest.)

– The Coeur d’Alene Growler Guys is planning an exclusive party for its first anniversary Nov. 19: an Avery tasting with aged kegs of the Demons of Ale series – The Beast grand cru, Samael’s oak-aged strong ale and Mephistopheles stout – plus the bourbon barrel-aged Uncle Jacob’s imperial and Tweak coffee stouts. For $30, you get three-ounce pours of each plus a souvenir snifter, pizza and breadsticks, and the opportunity to buy 32-ounce grunts of the beers. Tickets are limited to 60 people and go up to $35 the week of the event, if available.

– Badass Backyard is the lone Inland Northwest brewery at today’s South Sound Craft Beer Festival at the Tacoma Dome, pouring its Not Your Average Blonde, Adrenaline IPA and Big Air Black Stout. No-Li and Orlison will return to represent the region at the Washington Winter Beer Festival in Seattle on Dec. 2-3.

– Speaking of No-Li and festivals, its small-batch Frost Fest on Dec. 10 has already sold out. But between now and Thanksgiving, the brewery is donating $1 from every case of six-pack bottles and cans sold at Rosauers supermarkets to Tom’s Turkey Drive for the Second Harvest food bank.

– Daft Badger launches its Sunday brunch tomorrow starting at 9:30 a.m. featuring an egg frittata with beef, cheese and your choice of sausage or bacon, cinnamon roll bread pudding and a yogurt fruit parfait, plus mimosas and red beers.

– Chewelah’s Quartzite Brewing has tapped a Fools Prairie Kolsch (after the name for the area back in the 1860s).

– Finally, a semantic hophead alert: The hop formerly known as Equinox (and originally HBC 366) will henceforth be called Ekuanot , its creators have announced.