Thursday 17th July 2025 I'm on an early morning LNER heading north for my first Scottish ticks of the 2024/25 season. I keep forgetting...

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

A gentle 34 pub month was probably the comedown my liver needed after my June Gloucestershire epic (67 pubs in 11 days) as I move on to...

Saturday 24th May 2025 It was a tricky start to our latest BRAPA outing, crossing the Pennines in search of five pub ticks east of...

Sorry for the late release time, I fell asleep after work for far too long and Wales v Belgium has been distracting me. Thursday 22nd May...

Thursday 15th May 2025 I'd made it as far north as Low (& High) Newton-by-the-Sea on my last Northumbrian coastal jaunt, running out of...

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...

Sunday 4th May 2025 People who wish you a 'Happy Star Wars day' every May 4th need to be shot. It is important we get that straight from...

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...