The Black Country Ale Tasters celebrate their 40th anniversary at the Black Country Museum.

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00:00Cheers!

00:04Go on then Pete, just explain what's going on today then mate.

00:08Well today is our 40th anniversary of Travelling Pubs.

00:12To the day! 1984 to 2024.

00:16Fantastic. Yes and we've all come down to have a great celebration

00:20with some Boston beers, they're fixed wheel

00:24and fancy something. So today's the actual day of the anniversary?

00:28To the day, to the day. Excellent. Well congratulations guys

00:32and have a lovely time. All right then, cheers.

00:36We've done 23,466 pubs now. Have you?

00:40So where was the first one, where did you start?

00:44The old tree down at Gritch Green, West Bromwich. Right, and what was the date of that again you say?

00:48That was 3rd November 1984. Goodness me.

00:52So it's exactly 40 years to the day, not the date.

00:56Next year, 24,000 pubs going to be up the road in the Elephant and Castle.

01:00So how many points do you reckon you've consumed in that? I know exactly how many because I keep a record.

01:04Oh go on then, go on. 56,000.

01:08I'm going to have about 80 today.

01:12And you're going to have a few more today then? We usually go on a gallon run

01:16you see, so we should have gone on one next week but I've

01:20done something with my arm, I kind of fell out of concrete.

01:24Well have a great day anyway guys and cheers everybody.