We should be getting into some good quality pubs now, providing you've got it right of course. Let's have a look ..... Tinhouse,...

On with the countdown you lucky people, based on how many 'likes' you gave me on X/BlueSky and maybe even Untwappd. Three Golden Cups,...

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

You know by now that I like a pub countdown from after my epic BRAPA holidays, and it doesn't get much more epic than seven nights in...

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

Cruellest month of the year is January, whether you are talking about pub ticking or just living your freezing life in general. So to...

Saturday 25th January 2025 Daddy BRAPA's birthday weekend had started amazingly with a 0-3 win at Sheff Utd the previous night, and now,...

Thursday 23rd January 2025 Seven pub ticks away from Merseyside glory and I could feel the invisible hands of Bjorn Tore Kvarme on my...

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 11th January 2025 Doncaster Rovers at home wasn't the FA Cup round tie to pique my interest, knowing us this season we'll...

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 26th - Saturday 28th December 2024 With Christmas done for another year in the BRAPA family household ..... Mummy and Sister...

Saturday 21st December 2024, 9:30am Ho, ho, bloomin' ho! You find me deep in the London Underground, ready to embark on a trip all the...

Thursday 19th December 2024 The final thirsty Thursday of the year (unless you count Boxing Day in Preston, which I'm not) took me to...

Saturday 14th December 2024, 10am Lunchtime away kick offs. Gawd bless you Sky TV! So much better for the pub ticker than a 3...

Thursday 12th December, 12:30pm Word up! Complacency sets in after last week's accidental late night Wrexham slippage, and I'm thinking...

Saturday 7th December 2024 I'd never been stalked by a storm before, but any hopes I'd had of leaving Darragh in Wrexham 30 hours...

Thursday 5th December 12:30pm As the bus trundles on its interminable route from Chester to Parkgate, a prettier place than it sounds out...

Saturday 30th November 2024 Middlesbrough away today for Hull City, so the logical BRAPA day out took us to Congleton, obviously! Only...