Greetings! This 'cat' might be playing a late lament for 2024, but cheer up mate, here at BRAPA Towers we are in jubilant mood after a...

My first serious foray into Oxon earlier this month yielded 32 ticks (well one was in Bucks but it is near enough to the border to be...

Saturday 2nd November 2024 A.I. suggests I call this blog "The Quirky Pub Culture of Yorkshire" which reassures me that I'm still...

Boo! Prepare to be terrified as I take you on a journey (probably in a hearse) around the new GBG pubs I visit at that thrilling time of...

Saturday 26th October 2024 Derbyshire had been kinder to me than most counties regarding the #CruelChurn of the 2025 Good Beer Guide, but...

Wednesday 23rd October 2024 Those pesky East Yorkshire CAMRA folk could not have chosen a more isolated pub for inclusion in the 2025...

Saturday 19th November Cheshire III was upon us, and with Audlem, Barnton and Bostock Green all safely tucked under my belt, 'Bollington'...

Thursday 17th October 2024 I'll keep this brief(ish) as I've been suffering from flu-like symptoms which I caught from some filthy...

Saturday 12th October 2024 Every year you do this to me Lincolnshire, every blinking year! One of the most churnable counties in the...

Good evening pub lovers, Out of the burning wreckage of September's #CruelChurn emerges BRAPA, like a smooth shiny healthy baby...

Here we go, my favourite 8 pubs in London out of the 33 I visited early this month. Confident you'd enjoy a trip to all of these ..........

Let us get into some decent pub experiences ...... 17. Nonsuch Inn, Cheam I think pub staff underestimate the power of including the lone...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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...

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...