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BRAPA .... LONDON COUNTDOWN : PART 2/4 (Pubs 25-18) : THE PRATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

Si Everitt

Oct 257 min read

BRAPA .... LONDON COUNTDOWN : PART 2/4 (Pubs 25-18) : THE PRATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

Let us continue ...... Trafalgar, South Wimbledon I'd heard great things about this boozer. Always bad news if the pub doesn't hit the...

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BRAPA .... LONDON COUNTDOWN : PART 1/4 (Pubs 33-26) : NO LIFE AT THE APOLLO

Si Everitt

Oct 216 min read

BRAPA .... LONDON COUNTDOWN : PART 1/4 (Pubs 33-26) : NO LIFE AT THE APOLLO

Pubs, people, pints. Not necessarily in that order. But a simple formula for BRAPA success. Achieve a 3/5 in each category and you're...

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BRAPA in .... PIE OF THE YEAR, IMPROVEMENT IN BEER, DRUNK EMMA STEER CLEAR (NORWICH NIGHTS)

Si Everitt

Oct 186 min read

BRAPA in .... PIE OF THE YEAR, IMPROVEMENT IN BEER, DRUNK EMMA STEER CLEAR (NORWICH NIGHTS)

My Google Pixel 8a hated the inside of the away end of Carrow Road so much, it created this new background as Daddy BRAPA supped down...

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BRAPA .... PEOPLE IN GLASSHOUGHTON SHOULDN'T DRINK STONES (West Yorkshire Completion)

Si Everitt

Oct 166 min read

BRAPA .... PEOPLE IN GLASSHOUGHTON SHOULDN'T DRINK STONES (West Yorkshire Completion)

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,...

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BRAPA is .... NEARLY IN AN ADVERT FOR SPAM, COMPUTER SAYS NO IN ALTRINCHAM (Cheshire II)

Si Everitt

Oct 148 min read

BRAPA is .... NEARLY IN AN ADVERT FOR SPAM, COMPUTER SAYS NO IN ALTRINCHAM (Cheshire II)

Saturday 28th September 2024 First official Saturday of the 2025 Good Beer Guide season took me back to Cheshire where I'd finished my...

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BRAPA .... THE 2025 SEASON IS STARTIN' / TICKING SOUTH YORKSHIRE WITH MARTIN

Si Everitt

Oct 135 min read

BRAPA .... THE 2025 SEASON IS STARTIN' / TICKING SOUTH YORKSHIRE WITH MARTIN

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

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BRAPA is ..... SECRET TICKING ON THE BUS, TERMINATING AT THE TERMINUS (Part 2 of 2)

Si Everitt

Oct 49 min read

BRAPA is ..... SECRET TICKING ON THE BUS, TERMINATING AT THE TERMINUS (Part 2 of 2)

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...

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BRAPA is .... SECRET TICKING UNDER EMBARGO / NANTWICH IS ON A GO SLOW (Part 1 of 2)

Si Everitt

Oct 29 min read

BRAPA is .... SECRET TICKING UNDER EMBARGO / NANTWICH IS ON A GO SLOW (Part 1 of 2)

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...

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BRAPA - MONTH END REVIEW : SEPTEMBER 2024

Si Everitt

Sep 305 min read

BRAPA - MONTH END REVIEW : SEPTEMBER 2024

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....

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BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 4/4

Si Everitt

Sep 276 min read

BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 4/4

Beery success stories from Scotland? You'd better believe it baby. Here's my top seven experiences from my exciting recent holiday in...

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Si Everitt

Sep 267 min read

BRAPA .... HAPPY NEW (GBG) YEAR!

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

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BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 3/4

Si Everitt

Sep 237 min read

BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 3/4

Let the countdown continue where the beer quality, I'm delighted to tell you, hits 'perfectly fine' territory, GBG worthy? ...

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BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 2/4

Si Everitt

Sep 226 min read

BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 2/4

Good evening and welcome back to some more GBG pubs selling questionable, but not terrible beer on my recent debut in Dumfries &...

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BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 1/4

Si Everitt

Sep 197 min read

BRAPA .... DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, CUMBRIA & EDINBURGH : Beery Countdown Pt 1/4

One of the first things I tell people on my travels when they show a vague interest in BRAPA is "...it is more about the pub really, the...

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BRAPA in .... ZIP ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO, HAMPSTEAD BEER PRICES ARE A NO-NO

Si Everitt

Sep 68 min read

BRAPA in .... ZIP ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO, HAMPSTEAD BEER PRICES ARE A NO-NO

Saturday 31st August 2024 Having escaped the Sunderland fans bound for Pompey with their 8am cans and tinny Oasis singalong, we took a...

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BRAPA .... WARMINGTON-NEVER-ON-SEA, AND RODDERS SPILLS THE OUNDLE TEA

Si Everitt

Sep 47 min read

BRAPA .... WARMINGTON-NEVER-ON-SEA, AND RODDERS SPILLS THE OUNDLE TEA

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...

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BRAPA in .... WATERSLIP DOWN(HAM) (MARKET)

Si Everitt

Sep 28 min read

BRAPA in .... WATERSLIP DOWN(HAM) (MARKET)

Saturday 24th August 2024, 10:30am Beginning of Bank Holiday weekend and the British weather knows it. Drizzle in York becomes a deluge...

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Si Everitt

Sep 14 min read

BRAPA - AUGUST 2024 MONTH END REVIEW

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...

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BRAPA in .... ONE MOMENT IN VINE : FROM BEARWOOD TO BRIERLEY HILL

Si Everitt

Aug 288 min read

BRAPA in .... ONE MOMENT IN VINE : FROM BEARWOOD TO BRIERLEY HILL

Saturday 17th August 2024, 11:20am If you head west from Birmingham in a Stourbridge / Wolverhampton / West Bromwich direction, the pubs...

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BRAPA in .... THAT'S A WRAP AT APPLEJACKS : COMPLETING LANCS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

Si Everitt

Aug 275 min read

BRAPA in .... THAT'S A WRAP AT APPLEJACKS : COMPLETING LANCS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

Thursday 15th August 2024, 2:45pm #ProudBRAPAMoment , and with the help of top chauffeur Ian Sutton ('the Pete Langdale of Blackburn' as...

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