(L to R) Joe Hill (77), Peter Hill (52), John Drew (45) and Karl ‘Doc’ Bradley (45) raise a glass to successfully reaching their 14,000th pub.Photograph courtesy of the Staffordshire Newsletter.
A team of Black Country drinkers that have been touring British and Irish pubs for twenty four years have checked off the 14,000th pub on their extensive list.
Marston’s pub, the Stags Leap in Rugeley was host to the landmark celebrations when Peter Hill and the ‘Black Country Ale Tairsters (tasters)’ stopped by to enjoy a pint.
Peter and his team mates, John Drew, Karl Bradley and Peter’s dad, Joe Hill, began their mammoth pub crawl in 1984, when they decided they would travel across the Midlands and have a pint in every Banks’s pub whilst sporting their trademark beer mat waistcoats.
Upon completing the Banks’s task they were presented with tankards from the brewery to mark the occasion in 1986, but the Tairsters didn’t stop there. They have now visited pubs in every county in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, an achievement that is marked in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Peter said: “It feels great to have reached this milestone, especially as we were able to mark it with a pint in a Marston’s pub in the Midlands, where it all began. We have seen so much of the country throughout our adventure and raised a lot of money for charity in the process and will continue to do so until we run out of pubs.”
In the last three years alone, the Tairsters have raised over £5,000 by simply asking for a small donation from every pub that they visit. With all the good work they are doing around the country, let’s hope they don’t run out of pubs anytime soon.
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