I've already decided this concept is flawed - ranking the pubs based on social media 'likes'. There are so many variables as to why...

Thursday 30th January 2025 Four above average pubs. Four good pints for £3.50 each. Two in Merseyside. Two in Greater Manchester. Two...

Saturday 18th January 2025 I was missing my work Christmas do for this one! Pool, free drinks and beige snacks in L**ds. "You and Hull...

Thursday 16th January 2025 The #ThirstyThursday Winter Break was over, a shortish Spanish La Liga / French Ligue 1 style break, not as...

Saturday 16th November, 11:57am A last minute decision to swerve off the heavy traffic on the A64 and into Malton meant we'd reversed...

Thursday 29th August 2024 I think it was Charli XCX who this week lamented the end of this BRAP Summer. And now I've alienated my Journey...

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...

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

Thursday 18th July 2024, 11:30am The classic 'game of two halves' took me to within six pubs of Derbyshire completion on a sunny summer...

In today's episode of 'Who Does BRAPA Think He Is?' we head to the posh but beautiful village of Benenden, a more quintessentially...

'A pub tick a day keeps the doctor away' to coin a likely old adage, and this month it was true with a modest 31 new ticks and no trips...

Thursday 16th May 2024 I hadn't planned on BRAPping this particular Thursday. After all, the first half of May had been BRUTAL, what...

44 ticks in the month of April takes me up to 61.7% GBG completion (2777 out of 4500 pubs) as I strive to put as much distance between my...

A first visit to the curvaceous voluptuous steamy town of Buxton since 2017 when I did Cheshire Cheese, Ale Stop and the then 53 Degrees...

Saturday 16th March With Coventry thinking that the FA Cup is still a 'thing', a bonus blank weekend took me to the leading pub town to...

Greetings friends from the sanctity of BRAPA Towers, where you find me recovering from my Northumbrian exploits with much strong tea,...

Thursday 15th February 2024 The magic of my Todmorden debut, on a replacement bus Sunday back in January 2014, is yet to be beaten. On...

(*Although I did, shortly after today's fourth pub). If I'd been pleasantly surprised to find Waterloo's excellent Four Ashes open an...

Thursday 11th January 2024 BANG BANG BANG! Don't worry, it ain't the sound of gunshots raining out over an estate pub car park (when will...

Saturday 6th January 2024, 12:26pm A chilly bus stop in Southport was the unlikely launch pad for 2024 BRAPA pub ticking. Merseyside is...