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BRAPA ALTERNATIVE BEER GUIDE PT 4 : LOWER EDMONTON TO PADDINGTON
Good evening, I'm back from the ole' giraffes (cockney rhyming slang for Staffs) to tell you what the Good Beer Guide should really be...

Si Everitt
Apr 234 min read
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BRAPA ALTERNATIVE BEER GUIDE PT 3 : SELSDON TO LIMEHOUSE
Good evening folks . Here's six more from my recent week staying in That London ...... Golden Ark, Selsdon Hull City fans should keep...

Si Everitt
Apr 153 min read
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BRAPA ALTERNATIVE BEER GUIDE PT 2 : UPMINSTER TO HIGHGATE
Part 1 seemed to go off okay, so I'm back with six more of the same ..... in the GBG style. My only concern now is whether I'll have to...

Si Everitt
Apr 123 min read
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BRAPA ALTERNATIVE BEER GUIDE PT 1 : CRAMLINGTON TO STOWTING, KENT
An idea I've had floating around for a while now is to review my pubs in the style of the Good Beer Guide, which could become the book...

Si Everitt
Apr 114 min read
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BRAPA in .... ALNWICK AT THE DISCOURSE
Look, it sounds a bit like Panic at the Disco, okay?? I'm writing this with a bit o' red wine and Aussie punk rock in my system, in case...

Si Everitt
Apr 14 min read
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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : MARCH 2025
March started with a two mile walk to the Buckinghamshire hamlet of Asheridge ...... And ended with a disgraceful but tasty £7 pint of...

Si Everitt
Mar 314 min read
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BRAPA .... STINKS OF LINCS (NOT LYNX) : A NICE LITTLE IRNHAM
Saturday 22nd March 2025 A blank football weekend for supporters of teams as good as, if not better than Hull City. If you can imagine...

Si Everitt
Mar 268 min read
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BRAPA .... CORBRIDGE, PHWOARBRIDGE (FROZEN STIFF WITH PELE)
Thursday 20th March 2025 My first Northumberland ticks of the 2024/25 season saw me climb from 60 to 70% completion, as it leapfrogs...

Si Everitt
Mar 246 min read
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BRAPA .... BACK IN KENT : (ST) PETER'S, PAUL (G) AND MARY (TOURTEL)
Saturday 15th March 2025 Could 2025 finally be the year I complete Kent? Lord knows, I've been trying for long enough (well 2022 to be...

Si Everitt
Mar 199 min read
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BRAPA ... THAT'S JUST PLOUGH WE ROLL (WORCESTER 2/2)
Saturday 8th March, 3pm Worcester strikes me as a rare example of a pretty city. I guess I have York. Oh there's Cambridge, Norwich,...

Si Everitt
Mar 174 min read
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BRAPA .... WHEN I SAW DAD'S FACE, NOW I'M IN WEAVERS (Malvern Special Pt 1/2)
Saturday 8th March 2025 Looking south towards Worcestershire might sound like crazy talk when you're booked down to Brum New Street with...

Si Everitt
Mar 165 min read
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BRAPA .... NO BUCKS LEFT TO GIVE (PART 2/2)
Saturday 1st March 2025 The thing about Chesham is that there's only one way out, back into London on a Met Tube train. You could catch...

Si Everitt
Mar 144 min read
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BRAPA in .... A FISTFUL OF BUCKS (PART 1/2) : FLOTSAM & CHESHAM
Saturday 1st March 2025 Three years to the day since the scariest BRAPA walk of all time, when I nearly put the 'gore' into Bransgore...

Si Everitt
Mar 115 min read
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BRAPA &.... ALL THE DINGLE LADIES (WITH THANKS TO EAST LANCS)
Thursday 27th February 2025 Today's BRAPA star guest and chauffeur Ian 'BeyondThePale' Sutton meets me off the train at the station,...

Si Everitt
Mar 105 min read
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BRAPA .... THE TIGER WENT IN TWO BY TWO, HURRAH! HURRAH! (COMPLETING TYNE & WEAR AGAIN)
Saturday 22nd February 2025 GBG progress : 10/10 Football outcome : 10/10 Beer : 8/10 People : 7/10 'Pubs' : 5/10 It was a successful day...

Si Everitt
Mar 79 min read
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BRAPA in .... CHAPPEL GROAN (+ MORE POSITIVE TALES FROM MIDDLE ESSEX)
Saturday 15th February 2025 Stand-in mascot Pedro the Plum, replacing Colin the Cauliflower (suspended for a biting incident in Llanelli)...

Si Everitt
Mar 57 min read
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BRAPA's ..... STAFFORDSHIRE HULL TERROR
Saturday 1st February 2025 Word up! Before my Glamorgan Special, a six tick Saturday found me in Staffordshire and the West Midlands. ...

Si Everitt
Mar 26 min read
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW : FEBRUARY 2025
We march into March and hopefully some warmer spring weather (I'm sick of the dark and cold now) in a healthy position after a...

Si Everitt
Feb 284 min read
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BRAPA ...GLAMOUR IN GLAMORGAN Part 5/5 -Promotion??
But just where does a 'promoted' Welsh pub get promoted to? Bristol? Hereford? Shrewsbury? We'll say top 2 get promoted, 3-6 make the...

Si Everitt
Feb 267 min read
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BRAPA ...GLAMOUR IN GLAMORGAN Part 4/5 -The Playoff Pwsh
We should be getting into some good quality pubs now, providing you've got it right of course. Let's have a look ..... Tinhouse,...

Si Everitt
Feb 248 min read
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