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Catching up with more local craft beer news:

• With temperatures finally beginning to dip, it’s not too early to start thinking about No-Li’s next FrostFest .

This year will be a bigger version of the winter small-batch beer festival, moving from the brewery grounds to the Spokane Arena concourse on Dec. 9. Along with a dozen one-off brews, many of them barrel-aged, it will feature a winter carnival atmosphere with entertainment and food; wear your “festive winter attire” for a chance to win prizes.

Tickets must be purchased in advance; cost is $30, which includes a T-shirt, taster glass and five 4-ounce pours. You can order five more for $10, and add that night’s Spokane Chiefs hockey game for another 10 bucks.

• Speaking of No-Li, the charitable-minded brewery has sold almost all of the 400 custom T-shirts it had made for its latest “Spokane Has Heart” fundraiser; only 11 remained as of Monday morning (small and XXL). The shirts are being sold at $25 each to raise $10,000 for Teen Closet, which provides free clothing for foster youth and other young people in need.

• Here’s one for the “whalez, bro” crowd: Nectar Wine and Beer in Kendall Yards on Thursday hosts the only Eastern Washington release event for Unicorn Tears , the highly limited and coveted (not to mention cheekily named ) collaboration between Fremont and Perennial Artisan Ales.

It’s an imperial oatmeal milk stout aged in bourbon barrels with cherries, at 12.9 percent alcohol by volume. The Nectar event starts at 6; you can buy one bottle per person, and one 10-ounce pour from the keg that will be tapped (along with other Fremont beers).

• Finally, the tap count at Selkirk Abbey is back up to 12 after dropping to eight for a while – the better to showcase the Post Falls brewery’s newer Northwest-style Northern Cross line, along with its original Belgian-inspired beers.