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BRAPA - July Review / August Preview (2018)
A great day in Cleethorpes, but perhaps not this particular pub!The great steamship BRAPA left York harbour at the beginning of July for another round of pub ticking adventures, as women waved from the...
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BRAPA : Blackpool Pub Rock (Part 1 of 3 - The Fake Marigold Hotel)
#PubMenIt was my 18th consecutive year at the Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool, and that of course brought with it the added bonus of West Lancashire pub ticks.My list of ten pubs as GBG too heavy...
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BRAPA : Blackpool Pub Rock (Part 2 of 3) Shirkin' in Kirkham
Day one of the Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool had been so full of amazing bands, I didn't get chance to do any pub-ticking (unless you count Bar 19 which I'd done very early in the day). By 1am...
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BRAPA - Blackpool Pub Rock (Part 3 of 3, Paisley Dreams)
There's a pub cat over there somewhereSaturday of the Rebellion Punk Festival dawned nice and sunny, and a seagull eyeballed me mischievously as I ate a breakfast lamb samosa on the prom. I blinked...
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BRAPA - Pre-pubescent Pre-emptives : Blackpool 2, Hull 1
The sun sets on my 18th year of punk festivallingThe next best thing to ticking off a pub in the current Good Beer Guide is, what I like to call a 'pre-emptive' tick. This is usually a pub quite...
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BRAPA - Hope in the Valley : An NFFD Tale
Waiting for the train to appear through the tunnel at Grindleford stationNFFD. A 'Non Football Football Day'. This is when Hull City's away fixture just didn't look appealing enough, so instead we go...
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BRAPA - Too Little(borough), too late : A Tale of Spiders and Smirnoff Ice
Meet Simon the dogLike a young tween cramming in some last minute revision before an important exam, Friday found me pushing that after-work envelope, in order to get my final 'pub tick' figure as high...
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BRAPA - Lip Up Gloss-Op & Hayfield Hotels (Part 1 of 2)
Saturday 18th Auguest saw another opportunity to mop-up some of those North Derbyshire pubs (and a few south of Manchester), what with Hull City having a home game against Blackburn which sounded about...
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BRAPA - Don't Miss Marple Bridge
So to re-cap the first part of Saturday 18th Aug, we’d finished Glossop, and we’d done the two entries in Hayfield. The ‘main event’ was almost upon us.The reason for my later start to the day than...
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BRAPA - Chuckle Time with Chantry (A Rotherham Tale of Hope)
Despite having polished off all South Yorkshire Good Beer Guide entries for the 2017/18 BRAPA season many months ago, a Tuesday night after work trip to watch my hapless Hull City visit those Miserable...
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BRAPA - Newcastle-under-Slyme (Part 1 : Tom Trouble and a Scary Greyhound)
'Twas Saturday 25th August, and not too surprised to not have the new 2019 Good Beer Guide in my possession, I headed out to Newcastle-under-Lyme on the suggestion of Matthew 'SeeTheLizards' Lawrenson,...
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BRAPA : Newcastle-under-Slyme Part 2 (NuL but not Void)
Paul Robinson is ticking his new GBG, but where's my copy?Halfway through our Saturday then as local tour guide Matthew 'Seethelizards' Lawrenson navigated us through the mean streets of NuL for the...
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BRAPA - What a Load of Cobblers. What a Pile of Pies. (Hunmanby and Filey)
Newcastle-under-Lyme may've felt like a rather heavy day on the Saturday, but 11 hours of the good old dreamless, and a restorative pick-me-up (well, iced coffee and banana) meant I was as fresh as the...
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BRAPA - Boing Boing Baggies in Scab Scab Scarborough
Scarborough reaches peak-Scarborough on murky Bank Holiday Sundays such as this. So often, I find it a disappointing and unfeeling town. Not classy enough to be Filey, not delightfully shit enough to...
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BRAPA - Under Privileged : August Review / Sept Preview (2018)
Before we begin, I think we need to address the elephant in the room. It smells of hoppy beer and is the dimensions of a particularly large micropub, with better insides. 'What is he rabbiting on...
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BRAPA - No Taxi to Maxey (Part 1/2) : Cambs Part VI
It isn't dead yet! (the 2018 GBG having to soldier on into September)Trying to 'tick off' pubs in specific counties in some kind of order doesn't always work. Sometimes you find yourself looking at a...
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BRAPA - Werrington in the World Am I? Cambs VI (2/2)
So, we are at the mid point in the day (last Saturday) and I was walking down a country lane having just enjoyed the splendid Blue Bell in Maxey. With no GBG pubs in sight, I was thinking...
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BRAPA - I Drove the Chevy to the Levenshulme, and the Levenshulme was .......
My weekend of beer drinking started like this ......And ended like this .......Friday evening and after the type of train delays us poor downtrodden Northerners have to come to expect from Northern...
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BRAPA - Part One - Cometh the Stour, Cometh the Pubman : An Amble up to...
My first BRAPA school reunion even was just around the cornerI knew we'd arrived in the West Midlands, when on our New St-Stourbridge train, we suddenly heard a man shriek into his phone "Alroite...
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BRAPA - Cometh the Stour, Cometh the Pubman : Part Two (Never Trust a Pub by...
Halfway through the day, and there was no way that me or Dad and his Plantagenitis fancied the half an hour walk back from Amblecote to Stourbridge, especially as the rain was now tipping it down in a...
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