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BRAPA - Loves, Labours and Lambic Lunches : A Leeds Pre-emptive Trio
Anyone seen the new Good Beer Guide yet? Anyone at all? It isn't funny anymore!As Martin "RM""Retired Martin" Taylor put it in his post-punk apocalyptic classic 'The Ploughman of Werrington'"this has...
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BRAPA - A Dent'on my Good Beer Guide (Part One of Two)
Shady card players in Cheshire Cheese, HydeFriday 14th September then, and the time had finally come. We were in GBG 2019 territory, it had been released the previous day and the lucky few already had...
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BRAPA - The GBG and Me (2019 Good Beer Guide Cross-Ticking Complete!)
It is that time of year, where, after much expended green highlighter ink, I can reveal the damage caused by cross-ticking the new edition of the Good Beer Guide......The top for the new 2018/19 season...
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BRAPA - Whimsy Denton (my pubby line of duty)
It is a good 35 minute yomp from Guide Bridge station straight down the main road into the GBG friendly outpost of Denton, nestling somewhere in that outer Manchester sprawl which gives you the...
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BRAPA - Highlighting Green in Bethnal Green
Debutant, the 2019 GBG on the train down to LondonSo, Sunday 16th September, the BRAPA parents had flown off to Toronto (that has no bearing on this blog), my sister was doing the kind of things vegans...
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BRAPA - September Review / October Preview (2018)
North Star, Leytonstone59 new pub ticks is, unsurprisingly, an all-time BRAPA record and as my liver gurgles away, admonishing me in Adrian Chiles & Frank Skinner accents, a period of calm is...
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BRAPA - Feeling ill til Winchmore Hill
Drained. That is how I felt at the end of my first day on 'Project Calypso' down in London, two weeks ago tonight in fact. It was all I could do to drag my living corpse the 15 minutes from Angel to...
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BRAPA - Like Clockwork and Orange : City Slickers and Pubby Tickers
Tragedy befell us all as I left the office of Calypso HQ on my second day of working in London, on Tuesday three weeks ago. As I delved into my rucksack, I had to face the truth, I'd left my green...
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BRAPA - No More Rabbit in Reading, and a Wetherspoons London Hattrick
I'm over 60 pubs behind on my BRAPA blog now, and that must be some kind of record. We have to rewind all the way back to Saturday 22nd September now where I'd finally finished cross-ticking. On a...
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BRAPA - Don't Be Too Leyton Sunday, We've Got Work Tomorrow!
Of course, I don't expect you to read these blogs unless you are Canadian, an insomniac, a pervert or a priest.  Especially considering how many of them I'll be churning out in the coming days....
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BRAPA - Calypso Dreams and Camden Screams : Another Monday in London
A second week of working in London then, well from Mon - Wed and it wasn't long before I checked back in at Highbury & Islington Doubletree and hopped straight back out onto the Northern line from...
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BRAPA - Indiana Groans at the Temple and Spoons
Tuesday night, three weeks ago, and after another stressful day on Project Calypso, BRAPee and Project Leader Cathie West said "you pubbing, I'm coming with you, I need a large white wine!"Now my...
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BRAPA - Another New Cross to Bear : More Crazy Antics in South London
I didn't even need to be back in London for week three of Calypso until the Wednesday of the following week, so it might seem bizarre that I decided to return of my own volition (hang on, is that an...
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BRAPA - Greenwich Time Means Time to be (Justifiably) Mean
You can get used to daily Full English Breakfasts you know, and although this Greenwich Travelodge one lacked those tasteful blue and white plates you get in Wetherspoons, or the porridge approved by...
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BRAPA - Elephant & Hassle : More Calypso Shorts from London
I requested that work send me back to London on the Tuesday evening, that way, I could get settled back in at the Doubletree at Highbury & Islington, and more importantly, a bonus evening of BRAPA...
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BRAPA - Hard Grafton & A Highgate Bonus : More London Calypso Fun
Craftie sees that Doom Bar is the only beer on? Or upstairs pub theatre rehearsals? See pub 1332Â (photo courtesy K.Coull)It had been an incredibly gruelling Wednesday on Project Calypso, I'd worked 10...
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BRAPA - How Posh Can We Go? Knightsbridge to Notting Hill
By Thursday and with only two and a bit days left to work on the now infamous Project Calypso from the Piccadilly Circus Grime Hole, it was now or never for one famous pub tick I'd been promising...
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BRAPA - Hardy Harborne, after a Little Bit of Venice
Friday evening and me & Cathie should've been 'celebrating' the end of our final day working in London on that evil entity 'Project Calypso'. Should've been, for we had to be back in Piccadilly...
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BRAPA - Tom Foolery and Blackcurrant Water (in the Jewellery Quarter)
It was Saturday afternoon, the two GBG entries in Harborne had been a success, and it made sense to walk along the wet leafy road towards Edgbaston where the 'mid-point' pub was situated. My dodgy...
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BRAPA - Portland Bills, Thrills & Jelly Snakes
Smack Alley met Howards Way as I took the bus from Weymouth to Portland on the Tuesday evening, having 'landed' in Dorchester earlier for the start of the BRAPA Autumn Festival of Fun.As you can see...
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