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....

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Sunday 11th August 2024, 10:20am Day 2/2 in Glamorgan, I was booked on an evening train home to York, so I needed a town where I could...

Saturday 10th August, 10am With the rain teeming down in Cardiff city centre, it was time to say farewell to Daddy BRAPA, Mummy BRAPA and...

Thursday 1st August, 13:00 Happy Yorkshire Day! And I celebrated by crossing the border not only into evil Lancashire, but then into...

Saturday 27th July 2024, 2:30pm Halfway through my final Derbys/Notts ticking day of the 2023/24 season and I'm feeling a little bit...

Saturday 27th July 2024 From under the long shadow of Pride Park Stadium, our carriage awaits for another day of BRAPA productivity...

Thursday 25th July 2024 After the previous Saturday's Notts horror show, it was important to bounce back quickly, which as any decent...

Saturday 20th July 2024, 2:30pm After the joys of Northants (Welford) had come the disappointment of Leicstershire (Wigston and Barkby)....

Saturday 20th July 2024, 11:45am A final Daddy BRAPA chauffeuring day of the season gave me a great opportunity to really grab my...