Upcoming Events

The Crafty Pint team is hitting the road for a few days in June to record a few podcasts for upcoming shows.

One of our stops will be in Canberra; while there, we're co-hosting a blind tasting event with BentSpoke at their Braddon brewpub.

You can read about it here – and pick up discounted tickets costing just $10 too.

They'll get you two flights of beers, a Q&A featuring the Crafty team and BentSpoke's Rich Watkins, and entry into a raffle.

See you there for 6pm on June 26!

Love lager? You’re not alone.

Over quite a few years, KAIJU! Beer have been on a quest in to brew the best damn lager they possibly can. You can learn more about their journey here but it's safe to say it's paid dividends given the brewery has picked up back-to-back lager trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards. 

To celebrate those massive lagery wins, on July 5, KAIJU! are inviting Crafty Cabal members through their doors early (at 11.30am to be exact) so we can all nerd out on lagers.  

Join Champion Lager Brewer Nat Reeves from KAIJU! Beer and Certified Lager Tragic Will Ziebell from The Crafty Pint for a behind-the-taps look at what makes a great lager – and why it deserves all the love it's getting (and then some).

Tickets cost just $15 for Crafty Cabal members and includes:

• A pot of award-winning KAIJU! Cerveza on arrival
• Four exclusive tasters as we talk all things crisp, cold and crushable
• Major lager nerd banter from Nat & Will
• 10% off food from the brewery's full menu

Whether you're a seasoned pilsner person or a curious can-crusher, Lager LoveFest is your rare chance to nerd out over lager with two of the best in the biz. Tickets are limited – book now before the foam settles.

If you have a mate who isn't a Crafty Cabal member, they can join you for $20 via this link here. 

Few breweries have produced as many imperial and barrel-aged beers as Hawkers have over the past decade.

And on June 27 they'll be pouring heaps of them at a very special event at Hopsters in Enmore.

They'll be serving up a decade's retrospective of the brewery's much-loved imperial stouts and barleywines from all the way back in 2016 to last year's vintage.

You can check out the full lineup here – and as a Cabal member you can save $5 off the ticket price too.

The event runs from 7pm to 10pm on June 27.

Bendigo On The Hop is the pioneering winter festival that just keeps on kicking goals.

Now into its second decade, the annual bash continues to sell out early and bring thousands of eager punters to the regional city for a day or roaming and sampling.

It's back on August 30, 2025, and while tickets are yet to go on sale – they're still lining up venues and breweries at time of writing – we know they'll get snapped up fast.

If you'd like to be part of the fun, we've got our hands on a few tickets for beer club members.

3 Ravens love to throw a party, not least when the Winter Solstice rolls around and they put on the epic feast that is Dark Mass.

It's a spectacular evening of dark beers, dinner and theatre and will be taking over the brewery's warehouse venue Ravens Yard on June 21.

You can read about it here – and try your luck at winning a $135 ticket in another delicious Crafty Cabal competition.

Bodriggy are releasing Nebula, a huge Starward barrel-aged imperial stout on May 30.

You can read The Crafty Pint's take on the beer here and save 20 percent off tickets to the beer's launch party too.

It features a guided tasting of:

• 3 X 100ML GLASSES OF OUR BARREL AGED STOUT RANGE
• 1 X NIP OF STARWARD WHISKY
• 1 X BITE SIZED PAIRED SNACK FROM HEAD CHEF CRISTIAN CALLE

Attendees at the exclusive event will get a four-pack of the 11.2 percent ABV beer to take home.

In the mood for a day of barrel-aged and dark beers?

Then CoConspirators Brewing are on hand to help!

Their annual Famiglia Affairs event returns to their Brunswick brewpub on July 12, with a bunch of their brewing mates from around Victoria bringing something "big and bold" plus a core range beer with them.

We've got five tickets worth $50 each to give away to Cabal members in another delicious giveaway.

We already know Cabal members are typically among the keenest of Pint of Origin explorers, and in 2025 we're aiming to reward those that get out and about at the festival with a juicy prize draw.

Yes, on top of the main Passport Prize Draw which is open to everyone – including Cabal members – we're going to be running another one exclusively for members that features even more chances to win. And gives the most adventurous explorers the chance to get their hands on exclusive merch too.

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is, well, attend Pint of Origin: hitting up venues and aiming to complete this year's Crawls. Here's what's on offer in the Cabal Prize Draw:

• 1 x Evil Mega Corp Mixed Pack Per Crawl (5 in total)
• 1 x $39 Deep End Pizza Voucher Per Crawl (5 in total)
• 10 x $25 brewery vouchers per Mini-Crawl as follows:
  • Central: Boatrocker
  • West: Bells Beach Brewing
  • Brunswick: Cypher Brewing
  • South & East: Wolf of the Willows
  • The 86 Tram: Blackflag Brewing
• PLUS! The 50 Cabal members who collect passport stamps at the most Pint of Origin venues between May 9 and 18 will win an exclusive #PoO25 beanie from Thirsty Merchants

If you love all beers dark, then Obsidian Dark Beer Fest should be on your agenda for winter 2025.

The event returns to The Mining Exchange in Ballarat on June 28, with 30-plus dark beers from 15 local and international indie brewers the stars of the show.

You can read about the festival – and try to get your hands on a ticket in another delicious beer club competition.

Join the Rocky Ridge crew at their Brunswick Brewhouse for a sneak preview of their brand new core-range California IPA. 

Tickets include a schooner of the new beer, four tasters of some fun surprise beers, as well as a four-pack of the California IPA to take home (oh, and some pretty average banter from the Rocky Ridge and Crafty Pint crews).

The preview event starts at 6.30pm on April 10, with tickets for this exclusive event costing $45pp.

So come down and join us to kickstart your weekend early!

Ravens Yard is the latest chapter in the 20-year-plus story of 3 Ravens – Melbourne's oldest independent brewery.

They turned a warehouse next to their brewery into an events space in 2024, hosting record labels, performance art, dub sound systems and more since, and now they're set to host a series of epic feasts there too.

The debut dinner sees the brewers team up with Bombay Bento, pairing six 3 Ravens creations – including two exclusive beers and a cocktail – with a five course Indian feast, cult Bollywood classics and a curated Indian soundtrack.

You can read more about it here – and, as a Cabal member, enjoy a $10 saving on tickets.

The Crafty Pint Podcast and Pour It Out are joining forces for a one-night-only live show at Hiker Brewing Co's East Brisbane taproom on April 9.

There's plenty going on in the beer world worth discussing – good and bad – and attendees are invited to submit questions in advance.

There will also be special guests from the Brisbane beer scene: brewer Becky Centeno and Netherworld manager Ivy Macario.

Tickets cost $10pp, which includes the first beer on the night; full details here.

And for Cabal members there's a bonus too: an extra beer from the Hiker crew and some merch from the Crafty team.

Bodriggy Brewing are preparing to brew Radical Sabbatical – a limited release IPA made with Galaxy hop cones delivered straight from the High Country to their Abbotsford brewery.

And they're invited Crafty Cabal members to join them and their Bod Squad in the brewery when the hops arrive.

As well as being there as the key ingredient is added to the IPA, attendees will get to sample a few Bodo beers while enjoying a guided tasting with the brewing team.

Tickets cost just $10pp, which includes:

• Tasting paddle featuring Friday Is The New Friday Cali Pils 
• Rocky & Bodwinkle Hazy IPA
• Permanent Vacation Hazy Pale
• An exclusive taste of Subpoena West Coast IPA from the tank

It kicks off in the brewery at 4pm on March 14 – get there sharp to ensure you're there when the hops arrive – and you can book your spots here.

The Canberra Beer & Cider Festival returns on March 15, showcasing more than 250 beers, cider, meads, spirits, cocktails, sugar-free liquors and who-knows-what else.

It takes place at The Mercure Canberra with more than 40 exhibitors rocking up plus food stalls, live music, and family-friendly entertainment.

You can read all about it here – or try to get your hands on one of three double passes in this Crafty Cabal competition.

Table beers originate in parts of Northern Europe. Typically lower in alcohol and diverse in flavour, you'll find a number on offer from Australian brewers.

Farmhouse ale fans La Sirène create a number of them and are putting them at the centre of a masterclass with brewery founder Costa Nikias on February 27 – details here.

If you and a mate would like to join him, we've got a double pass worth $80 up for grabs for one lucky Cabal member.

For the first Crafty Pint Blind Tasting of 2025, we're doing something a little different: pitting brewers from the Brookie Trail, Inner West Ale Trail and South Coast Ale Trail against each other!

On February 26, you can join us at Hopsters Taproom in Enmore to judge their beers using nothing but your senses to see which brewers and trail end up with bragging rights.

The format is simple:

• Four flights of three beers, each featuring a brewery from one of the three trails
• The first two flights will feature lagers / pilsners
• The second two feature IPAs
• Using a simplified scoring system, attendees will rate each beer blind
• At the end, we'll tally scores and see which beers, brewers and trail come out on top

Tickets cost $30pp, which covers the 12 beers in the flight and some basic nibbles of the sort you'd have if judging beers professionally, but Cabal members can grab theirs for just $15pp.

Hazy Days returns to Freo.Social on March 1, this time offering both hazy beers from a stack of great brewers and summer-friendly pét-nats and cocktails from WA producers.

You can read about the event here – or see if you can get your hands on a Beer Tasting Ticket double pass worth $100 in this giveaway.

The plight of the beer and hospo worlds impacted us at The Crafty Pint in 2024, forcing some tightening of the belt in order to ensure survival. Yet, looking back over the past 12 months, we still managed to put on a diverse array of events for Cabal members.

They took place across the country, at breweries and venues including Brewmanity, Wildflower, Phat Brew Club, The Wheaty, Saccharomyces, Audacious Monk Cellars, FOUND,'s pop-up bar, Rocky Ridge, Working Title, Hotel Sweeney's, Molly Rose, a bunch of festivals, and more.

Now, as we look ahead to what will hopefully be a rather less arduous 2025, we're keen to up our member event game, with the team from Crafty HQ in Melbourne already eyeing up trips to New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland in the first few months of the year.

So we figured we should ask our members what they'd like to see on that front: any breweries or venues you'd love us to work with, or any types of events you'd like to see come to life.

We're open to any and all ideas (at least those we can conceivably pull off!) so let us know via this form and we'll see what we can do!

Cheers

There's always something new on offer at Molly Rose, whether that's new beers on tap, new in-house spirits, new menu items, or new events.

To close out 2024, they're inviting Crafty Cabal members to join them in the original taproom part of their multifaceted Collingwood home for an exclusive tasting event hosted by brewery founder Nic Sandery.

Guests will get to taste and chat about Molly Rose and their 2024 brewing and distilling journey. 

On the lineup with be five beers and two spirits that have been a success for the team this year. One beer will also be served with a snack fresh from the kitchen.

Tickets cost $30pp, which includes all of the above, with the event taking place on the evening of December 11.

The Crafty Pint team is joining beer gurus and brewers at legendary Adelaide brewpub, The Wheaty, for a deep dive into the world of lagers.

Part blind tasting, part sensory training session, all lager, the event will pit some hometown South Australian lagers against big-hitters from interstate in what will be a winning combination of education, enlightenment and entertainment.

As a Cabal member, you can enjoy $10 off the full ticket price of $25pp, which includes all beers presented in flights for the event. More details on the event here.

Holgate Brewhouse's 25 Years of Beers celebrations roll into Near & Far in Fitzroy on October 25 for a tap takeover showcasing seven of their limited release birthday beers.

You can read about the event here – and Cabal members who rock up will get their first beer free too.

The event runs from 6pm at the bar in Brunswick Street.

On the day Rocky Ridge opened their Brunswick brewery, we were lucky enough to be able to bring 35 Cabal members along for the pre-opening drinks session, an event that allowed attendees to sample to their heart's content from the 30 taps.

If you're a Sydney-based member looking on and wishing you'd been there, we have good news: we've lined up something similar for you at Sydney Beer Week 2024!

On October 21, they're heading to the Hotel Sweeney's Rooftop for a 12-tap takeover and, from 6pm to 8pm, they'll be hosting a guided tasting featuring six of those beers on level 2 of the CBD pub.

Tickets for the tasting cost $30pp plus booking fee, but as a Cabal member you can gain access for just $10 – yes, a saving of two-thirds off the full price.

Back in May, Rocky Ridge raised the spirits of beer lovers with the news they'd acquired the former home of Thunder Road in Brunswick and would be turning it into their home on the East Coast.

They've since been beavering away, turning the brewery and venue into their own, running pilot brews, and preparing to reopen as Rocky Ridge Brunswick on September 13.

Doors will open to the public at 5pm but they're welcoming special guests a few hours earlier – and happily that includes Cabal members!

Yes, up to 40 Cabalistas can join their other invited guests from 2pm for beers, nibbles and a chance to look around the brewery and venue before doors officially open to the general public.

The Brunswick team will be on hand to chat all about their plans for the venue as well as the beers they'll be brewing here, while attendees will get to sample some of the first Rocky Ridge beers to be brewed in Melbourne.

And you can be part of the pre-opening party for just $10pp.

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Few Aussie breweries focus as intently on classic European styles as King River Brewing, the family-run operation based in Victoria's King Valley.

Whether it's conjuring their take on classic German and Belgian beers or plucking styles from obscurity, they love introducing the old world to the new.

Whenever Oktoberfest comes around, they really up the ante too – so we thought that was the perfect time to invite them along for a chat with Cabal members.

We're heading back to Audacious Monk Cellars at 1pm on September 21 for an Oktoberfest-themed meet the brewers at which founder and head brewer Nathan Munt will share his story alongside four new limited releases.

We'll put on some suitably German-themed nibbles too, all for the price of just $25pp.

We're hosting another Bendigo On The Hop Eve event in 2024, this time celebrating 25 years of Holgate Brewhouse.

We'll be taking a trip down Memory Lane with brewery co-founder Paul Holgate and head brewer Chris Brady via both their beers and some that inspired Paul to start the brewery in the first place.

There's more info on the event at the Black Swan on August 30 here – and Cabal members can enjoy a special price of $25pp for them and their mates.

Bad Shepherd are embracing the dark side of winter with Dark Temptation, and they've invited a bunch of their indie mates along for the ride too.

The event on August 10 sees them tap nothing but dark beers – their own plus those of Deeds, Boatrocker, Stomping Ground, Molly Rose, KAIJU!, Westside Ale Works, Bodriggy and Bojak.

There's two ticketing options (General Admission and VIP), both of which get your unlimited samples of the 17 beers on offer. And, as Cabal members, you can save 10 percent on either option.

Crafty contributor Judd Owen is a two-time TV game show winner and is set to switch from guest to quizmaster at Take Down The Title!

The unique event at Working Title on August 1 will see guests test their wits against brewery co-founder and head brewer Mark Howes.

You can read all about it here – and if you head along as a Crafty Cabal member, instead of getting your first beer free as you prepare for the show, you'll get upgraded to a tasting paddle featuring any four beers you fancy.

All you need to do is choose the right ticket here (including whether you want to take part or just watch) and show staff you're a member on the night.

Game on!

FOUND. is one of the hottest names in the Aussie beer scene right now.

The WA operation only released their first beers little more than a year ago, yet they've already won plenty of admirers. Later this year, they'll open their HQ in Subiaco – a third venue alongside FOUND.Lab in Byford and their Maylands pop-up.

While the brewery is new, the people behind it bring a wealth of experience and decades of success to the party – and this event is your chance to hear all about it.

FOUND. instigator Steve Finney and head brewer Will Irving will join The Crafty Pint team for a Q&A plus guided-meets-blind tasting at FOUND. FRIENDS TAPROOM in Maylands on July 31. The evening will delve into their amazing backstories as well as their ambitions for FOUND. – all while enjoying great beers and pizza.

It kicks off at 6.30pm, with full-price tickets costing $45pp and Cabal members and their mates enjoying a special rate of just $35pp.

Tickets include six beers plus pizza to accompany the chat.

Ahead of Perth's biggest beer festival join The Crafty Pint, Phat Brew Club and some of WA's favourite breweries as we go head-to-head, drink delicious beers and dine out on delightful dishes.

Over a four-course dinner, we're pitting Campus and Phat against Margaret River Beer Co and Beerfarm for a beer battle at which guests will enjoy two beers with each course and ultimately decide whether the City Slickers or the South-Westers are responsible for the great state's best beers. 

You can find out more about what's involved here, or if you'd like to save on a ticket, then you can enjoy an exclusive Crafty Cabal discount of $10. 

Beers Of The Burbs sees six Melbourne suburbs (by way of a top beer venue and its drinkers) go up against each other in a good ol' fashioned "Ours is better than yours!" beer competition where new beers are created, tasted, and the winner gets canned and distributed far and wide.

The 2024 event ramps up in early August and if you'd like to be part of a team we've got a special offer for you: grab three tickets and the fourth is FREE!

This year's suburbs and venues are as follows:

• The Local Taphouse representing St Kilda East
• Hopheads representing Yarraville
• Beneath Driver Lane representing Melbourne
• Carwyn Cellars representing Thornbury
• Beermash representing Collingwood
• Miss Moses representing Brunswick

Tickets cost $90pp, which includes:

• Brewstorm at your chosen venue over a beer w/ Molly Rose brewers
• Brew your winning beer at Molly Rose w/ dinner & beer
• Pours of all 6 beers on winning night at Molly Rose and a token to vote for who you think has brewed: 'The Beer of the Burbs'