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...

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...