By Chris Basinger, Staff Reporter
TRUSSVILLE–The Trussville Entertainment District will host its first ever St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl this Saturday, featuring stops at local businesses, live music, and tons of prizes.
“This is actually the first event for the Entertainment District to collaborate together, so we’re super excited about it,” said Jeremy Reeves, co-owner of Trussville Social and organizer of the event.
The pub crawl, sponsored by Guinness, will feature eight official stops–Trussville Social, Ferus Artisan Ales, Pinchgut Pies, Umami Trussville, Corbeau Wine Bar, Steele Hall Brewing, Axe Downtown, and Mr. West’s Asian Kitchen.
Participants are encouraged to wear green and all things Irish.
The pub crawl will start at noon, and scorecards will be available at all of the eight stops.
Participants will be scored by what food and drinks they order, and scoring will be golf-based with the lowest score winning.
It does not matter what order participants go to each of the eight official stops, so long as they hit all of them.
Other businesses in the district that are not official stops will also be participating in the festivities by offering door prizes.
Completed scorecards must be turned in to Trussville Social by 6 p.m. after which prizes donated by local businesses will be awarded, including gift cards, prize baskets, and Guinness jackets.
“We’re gonna have like a ton of stuff, so it’s not gonna be just first, second, third place. We may give a prize to the person that has the worst score,” Reeves joked.
Reeves hopes that this will be the first of many events like it that allow businesses in the district to come together.
“I think if we all collaborate together, we’ll all succeed together,” Reeves said.
This Sunday, March 17, will also see a St. Patrick’s Day Blessing of the Beer and Wine in the Entertainment District held by the Church of the Holy Cross.
It will start at Steele Hall at 2 p.m. followed by visits to Corbeau and Ferus.