Friday 19th - Wednesday 24th September 2005 I found myself within the pub ticking corridor of uncertainty. After five quiet disciplined days at home, I'd finished cross-ticking the new 2026 Good Beer Guide ........ Somerset woz robbed .... but wasn't allowed to reveal any GBG contents until the following Thursday due to this exciting slip of paper ..... Embargoed to buggery ....so I had to spend six days pub-ticking 'under cover', where I managed a record breaking 17 ticks to

Happy Hallowe'en pub fans! I am breaking off from my 'terrifying' festivities to bring you the results for October, a great month with 65 Good Beer Guide ticks plus 9 pre & post-emptives, all of which could easily make the 2027 GBG. I have passed the 69% mark once again, and I'm on course for a record-breaking BRAPA year. November is all about passing the landmark 70% by next month end - 45 (1% of the Guide) is the bare minimum I'd hope to achieve. September's #CruelChurn

Thursday 4th September 2025 An anti-clockwise tour of Bristol was the plan for my penultimate day down here. Six pubs to go, and if you can work out what 1-6 are, or CS or SS or 'NB Pre-emp' without looking too far into the blog, congratulations, you are a Bristol pub king/queen. Yet again, I failed to reach McDonald's in time for a breakfast muffin. They must've changed the menu at literally the exact same time I arrived. Double cheeseburger and fries for breakfast it was

Tuesday 2nd September 2025 A chance comment from part 2 hero Maltmeister on seeing my photo of salubrious Cabot Circus last time out made...

Happy (belated) September .... the best (& worst) month in the pub ticking calendar. If you follow me on what the kids probably call...

10th May 2025 When I saw this peculiar mutt on the train to Nottingham, I say to Daddy BRAPA 'that's a good omen for one of our pubs...

Greetings pub lovers, 66 new Good Beer Guide pubs visited in the month of May, smashing the previous record of 55. It takes me up to...

Saturday 15th March 2025 Could 2025 finally be the year I complete Kent? Lord knows, I've been trying for long enough (well 2022 to be...

We march into March and hopefully some warmer spring weather (I'm sick of the dark and cold now) in a healthy position after a...

Cruellest month of the year is January, whether you are talking about pub ticking or just living your freezing life in general. So to...

Brappy New Year pub lovers! (Allo Allo style intro) You might wonder, why I am sat here, live from BRAPA Towers, brandishing a can of...

Saturday 9th November 2024 Time to say adios to Oxfordshire, and head to London for a bonus day of pub ticking. I'd normally go home at...

Greetings! This 'cat' might be playing a late lament for 2024, but cheer up mate, here at BRAPA Towers we are in jubilant mood after a...

Saturday 26th October 2024 Derbyshire had been kinder to me than most counties regarding the #CruelChurn of the 2025 Good Beer Guide, but...

Good evening pub lovers, Out of the burning wreckage of September's #CruelChurn emerges BRAPA, like a smooth shiny healthy baby...

Fully green map! A lovely sight to alleviate the pain I felt from the #CruelChurn which I don't like to talk about. But by gum,...

Thursday 26th September 2024 A Rotherham council hi-vis jacket draped over a mobility scooter outside a Wetherspoons in Mexborough...

Saturday 21st September 2024 You join me in the canalside Cheshire town of Audlem, lacking a bus service and now my Uber has driven off...

Seven tick blog, sorry it is a bit of an epic, but I need to catch up. Monday 16th September 2024 The only way to break the shackles of a...

September as a pub ticker. It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. Dickens said that on receiving his 1851 Good Beer Guide....