Crawling up the Ale Trail Charts

Yesterday an old friend and I decided to go on a bit of an ale trail. We did a similar thing last year where we traveled to an area that we don’t normally visit and check out the local pubs. We both take part in the Cask Marque trail; where you scan a certificate in the pub to record your visits and accumulate prizes. We started in Birmingham at a Wetherspoons while discussing which pubs to visit. The problem we had was that we both had different pubs that we’d visited before; which would be a bit of a nuisance as only one of us would be collecting scans at each visit. Eventually, we agreed that we both pass through Birmingham at different times doing different things and could sort these pub visits out in our own time. So in the end we opted to board a bus to Harborne, which is an area that we don’t normally visit but has a crawl of seven pubs that we could add to our collection. The best bit is that I’ve just discovered their Hall of Fame; where I currently sit 396^th out of over 1,200 competitors and I’m to climb the chart after yesterday’s adventure when they next update the website.