We've been so busy tearing around the country in recent weeks hosting Cabal events that we don't appear to have racked up that many new offerings for our dear supporters since last time we published one of these updates. But what we do have for you is pretty juicy.

Thanks to those who came to the six Pint of Origin pop-ups and events we hosted at Brewsvegas (jeez, that seems a lifetime ago already), those who made it to Beechworth for the High Country Hops tour & experimental hop variety tasting and those who made the trek from Sydney's CBD to join us and the team from Modus Operandi for an event based around the reappearance of their Zoo Feeder in tweaked form and in cans.

We popped some photos from each of those – and the Good Beer Week Gala Showcase trade session Meet the Brewer session we hosted for Cabalistas with 3 Ravens and Sailors Grave – on Facebook here.

This week, we were also lucky enough to be invited with five supporters to the VIP opening of Exit's new Uitgang Bar (pictured below). So, if we've been a little slack in lining up new deals, hopefully you understand.

Party With Crafty

We've got some new stuff to unveil for The Crafty Pint in the coming weeks so thought we'd throw a party to mark the occasion. After all, why not?

It's invite only and that invitation stretches to Crafty Cabal members. It takes place in a warehouse in Melbourne on April 29: there's free beer on tap, DJ all night, tinnies for sale to raise money for charity and food on hand to keep you sustained.

Existing Cabalistas will find full details and can register via their member's area now; you can each bring a mate too. If you'd like to sign up and make the party your official Crafty Cabal event bow, you can do so here.

GABS Up For Grabs

As you may well have seen already, we snaffled $3,500 in tickets for GABS Melbourne and Sydney to give away to new and existing Cabal members. We've notified the existing members who won tickets and all of the double passes for new signups in Melbourne have been snapped up too.

We've still got a couple of double passes for each GABS Sydney session for new signups: two tickets for the session of your choice. If you'd like to get your first year's membership back in an instant, head here quick!

For those who've already secured tickets from us, we'll send them out electronically later in the month. For those who missed out, there's still hope: we also got our hands on two season passes for Melbourne and Sydney. These are long sold out, so if you'd like one, enter the ballot via your member's area now. The GABS Melbourne ballot will close on April 17, at which point we'll open the one for Sydney. Good luck!

Winners

A few more winners to announce, on top of those who made it to the Yarra Valley Beer & Cider Festival at the weekend.

The three winners of the mixed cases of Sailors Grave beers are Luke Hatherley, Aaron Smith and Andrew Bailey. And the winner of our latest #craftycabal social snaps prize, a bottle of White Rabbit TeddyWidder, is Luke McManus. We'll get all the prizes send out at the start of next week.

Next up in the photo comp is a bottle of Young Henrys recent collab with Pond. And we'll have another stack of beers to give away once the GABS season passes have been snapped up – if not sooner.

We've also notified the winner of the tickets, tokens and brunch prize for the Fresh Hop Festival (so check your emails if you entered). If you've got a friend thinking of going along, we've still got a couple of signup packs for new Cabal members featuring double weekend passes, drinks tokens and t-shirts. Grab one here.

New Offers

Just a couple of new ongoing deals to update you with:

Head to Kooinda on any of their weekly Saturday Sessions, featuring live bands, and they'll give you your first schooner free – every week.
And it's a similar deal at Hotel Sweeney's in Sydney. Each week, you can head to the Rooftop and they'll upgrade your first schooner to a pint. (NB this offer was awaiting final stamp of approval at time of writing so may not yet be visible)

Look out for news of more events and deals coming at you imminently, particularly as Good Beer Week approaches. Hopefully, we'll see many of you on the 29th.