Thursday 6th November 2025 This is big Les Wade. He's got nothing to do with Biggleswade, but his cardigan is giving 'disappointing 'Spoons carpet' and his book could be a 1940's CAMRA Good Beer Guide. I'm sick of opening my GBG on the first pub page and seeing Biggleswade's Wetherspoons unticked. Not a difficult tick to get done by any means, but when you've got a quirky ole' dude from Hitchin called John saying "Si, make sure you don't do it without me!" it requires more

I want to start this blog with the sad news I learned yesterday evening that Peter 'Pub Curmudgeon' Edwardson has died. I'm so pleased that I met this talismanic #PubMan on three occasions. The first being on 31st March 2018 in one of those 'Sizzling' pubs at Culcheth (Cherry Tree). He'd kindly DM'd me whilst I was in Daresbury's Ring O' Bells offering to drive me to other required ticks at Golborne (Queen Anne) and Lowton (Travellers Rest). Mudgie wields the green Stabilo

Saturday 27th September 2025 A wise man called RetiredMartin agrees that there's nothing more joyous in life than an early Autumn mop-up of Central London's new Good Beer Guide entries, of which there's always thousands, even if you're an experienced completist like him. And I had the perfect excuse, Watford away with Daddy BRAPA just two days after the official GBG release date. A quick note on why I think C.London's churn is so brutal. Two reasons. Firstly, it doesn't

Sunday 31st August 2025 I didn't surface until 10am on Sunday morning, I needed the sleep having barely stopped since I arrived in...

Saturday 26th July 2025 Ivor Panda had his Mummy BRAPA homemade cherry scone and Arctic coffee (WHEN WILL THEY SPONSOR ME?) , I was down...

Saturday 12th July 2025 It was all aboard the Severn Valley Railway on another scorchio summer Saturday down south, travelling in style...

Welcome back! We're seeing an upturn in pub quality already, which I think says a lot of the general standard of Glos et al ticks this...

Saturday 17th May 2025 The annual post-season outing was upon us, exploring the GBG pubs in that Stourbridge-Wolverhampton corridor with...

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...