Saturday 4th January 2025 Boo! The eleventh year of BRAPA begins in the Black Country, as the cold snap returned to the UK and my...

Thursday 5th December 12:30pm As the bus trundles on its interminable route from Chester to Parkgate, a prettier place than it sounds out...

Welcome back you gluttons for pub punishment - PUBISHMENT! I suspect this next batch might be hard to make interesting, colourful or...

Saturday 19th November Cheshire III was upon us, and with Audlem, Barnton and Bostock Green all safely tucked under my belt, 'Bollington'...

Here we go, my favourite 8 pubs in London out of the 33 I visited early this month. Confident you'd enjoy a trip to all of these ..........

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,...

The oppression of the embargo period is over, and it is time to reveal the results of the Good Beer Guide cross-ticking exercise ........

September is here! The most highly anticipated month in the pub ticking calendar as it sees the arrival of the new Good Beer Guide, and...

Saturday 10th August, 10am With the rain teeming down in Cardiff city centre, it was time to say farewell to Daddy BRAPA, Mummy BRAPA and...

Thursday 1st August, 13:00 Happy Yorkshire Day! And I celebrated by crossing the border not only into evil Lancashire, but then into...

Saturday 22nd June 2024 Fully recovered from Devon? You must be joking. I'd had 2.5 quiet days on the Berocca and cheese & cucumber...

Saturday 25th May It was hard to believe that after my 2022/23 efforts around the coast of Kent that it'd possible to return to the...

Actually, I held back on my final day in Devon, determined to be at peak fitness for the forthcoming train home to York via Paddington,...

Saturday 27th April 2024 You could be forgiven for thinking because I visit so many pubs that I actually know what I'm doing when I get...

Nineteen pubs were ticked on a long weekend darn sarf - Kent (9), London (5), Leicestershire (4), Nottinghamshire (1). Over the next...

Saturday 9th December 2023, 7am Drama at BRAPA Towers early on Saturday morning. I'd been waiting for Daddy BRAPA to arrive by car and...

Good evening! I don't say it often enough, because it doesn't happen often enough, but that feeling of 'making genuine progress' is one...

The West Midlands. Is there a better county/area when it comes to pub ticking? An area that just delivers time and time again. ...

Back in Grantham after some ridiculous long walking, so when I finally hop off the (delayed) bus in town for the mad dash to two pubs...

4. British Lion, Devizes My favourite pub in my top Wiltshire town of the week, it is no surprise that this one claims a promotion spot....