Thursday 18th July 2024, 11:30am The classic 'game of two halves' took me to within six pubs of Derbyshire completion on a sunny summer...

In today's episode of 'Who Does BRAPA Think He Is?' we head to the posh but beautiful village of Benenden, a more quintessentially...

'A pub tick a day keeps the doctor away' to coin a likely old adage, and this month it was true with a modest 31 new ticks and no trips...

Saturday 13th July, 11:10am When Paul G (@/GBG_Kent) messaged me on Twxtter a few months back declaring his intention to help me achieve...

Saturday 6th July, 2pm Hackney was proving a trial, with no cask in the Hackney Tap, and then a lame pint of Redemption in the dreadful...

Saturday 6th July 2024, 10:30am 'Chingford Curios' (antiques shop, not micropub) is the unlikely starting point for a rare BRAPA foray...

Saturday 29th June, 14:25 I'm sure I labour over these blog titles longer than it takes me to write the damn things. So let us leave...

Saturday 29th June 2024 South of Wolverhampton we go now, where a cute little clutch of six new pub ticks await. I love the West...

Saturday 22nd June 2024 Fully recovered from Devon? You must be joking. I'd had 2.5 quiet days on the Berocca and cheese & cucumber...

6. Torbay Inn, Paignton Paignton might be the only place all holiday where I could hand on heart say 'isn't Ashford in Kent pretty?' but...

13. Fountain Head Inn, Branscombe An 85% certain Noel Edmonds cameo was not what I'd been expecting towards the end of my 40 minute...

It was only when I had finished reviewing this next six that I concluded what the intro should be (how confusingly back to front!) So you...

Things are really hotting up now as we visit six pubs which I wouldn't have to be dragged back to kicking and screaming. It'd be a waste...

Such is the quality of my recent clutch of Devon pubs that as early as part 4, I can honestly say 'pretty darn decent' about five of...

A bit like any England Euro 2024 match so far, this next bunch 'get the job done' without really inspiring confidence. In fact, I...

Greetings friends of the BRAP. A joint record breaking liver-shattering month of 75 ticks moves me onto 2899 current Good Beer Guide...

Welcome back! I feel like Father Ted at the Golden Clerics writing these reviews. "They were the pubs that really fecked me over, now we...

49 Good Beer Guide pubs ticked off on my recent summer jaunt down to Devon, and I spent the train journey home ranking them in some kind...

When Daddy BRAPA wielded the green Staedtler (love you guys, please send me free pens) on the Plough, Greetham (2839 / 4999), it became...

My fifth county completion of the 2024 GBG took me to the east side of GMR on a grey, breezy Wednesday afternoon, and deary me, Hyde...