We made him quite a few years ago and he returns this time of year every year ...
"The Great Kinder Beer Barrel Challenge" was thought up by a couple of local guys when they were down the pub one evening and the beer went off. They discussed how far it would be to get another barrel from another pub and decided technically the closest was the Snake Pass Inn. In their drunken state they decided it would be fun to carry a barrel of beer from one pub to the other as a fund raiser for the local school and before they sobered up it was organised so they couldn't get out of it!
It has now evolved into a race with usually about six or eight teams running the five miles between the pubs carrying a barrel full of water so as not to waste good beer. That might not sound far, but it involves a long and evil climb up onto Kinder Scout, a short and very boggy wade through the peat on the top, then a lunatic hurtle down an impossible steep slope into Edale. Fast teams do it in just under an hour, slower ones take up to 2 hours.
The outright winners win a barrel of beer and the fastest local team win our little oak barrel on legs trophy. He comes back to us so I can write the winning team's name on the base and the rest of the year he lives behind the bar at the Nags.
Cute, isn't he?!
Nicola
"The Great Kinder Beer Barrel Challenge" was thought up by a couple of local guys when they were down the pub one evening and the beer went off. They discussed how far it would be to get another barrel from another pub and decided technically the closest was the Snake Pass Inn. In their drunken state they decided it would be fun to carry a barrel of beer from one pub to the other as a fund raiser for the local school and before they sobered up it was organised so they couldn't get out of it!
It has now evolved into a race with usually about six or eight teams running the five miles between the pubs carrying a barrel full of water so as not to waste good beer. That might not sound far, but it involves a long and evil climb up onto Kinder Scout, a short and very boggy wade through the peat on the top, then a lunatic hurtle down an impossible steep slope into Edale. Fast teams do it in just under an hour, slower ones take up to 2 hours.
The outright winners win a barrel of beer and the fastest local team win our little oak barrel on legs trophy. He comes back to us so I can write the winning team's name on the base and the rest of the year he lives behind the bar at the Nags.
Cute, isn't he?!
Nicola
and the barrel is just 'right' 
