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BRAPA - It is Vintage Hull
My first trip to the city that god almost forgot to create since the new Good Beer Guide came out in September. I had a sort of pub tick, a couple of pre-emptive ideas I'd gleaned from that Hedon...
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BRAPA : The Archives (From Derby to Cowdenbeath so deal with it)
This is a blog I've been meaning to write since the 2019 Good Beer Guide arrived in my possession, criminally late in Mid September (hashtag never forget).I've managed to identify ten pubs I've been to...
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BRAPA - The Full Bronte
#PubMenIt was high tension as BRAPA crisis talks were held on Thursday when it soon became clear I'd only be able to do FOUR pubs on Saturday rather than the standard six. Gulp!  Suddenly the...
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BRAPA - November Review / December Preview (2018)
Ho ho ho! Or is it Bah Humbug? Well, however you feel about this 'wonderful time of the year', there is one thing that cannot be denied .... as December moves steadily on towards Christmas, pubs are...
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BRAPA - My Coffee is Offie & Other Assorted Tales from East Yorkshire
Hanging out with classic East Yorkshire folkQPR away didn't seem like a good idea (it isn't like we'd win is it?), and with the trains in chaos and the first day of 'Silly Season' (1st December) upon...
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BRAPA - Everybody's BRAPPY Nowadays (Christmas in Cas)
My second visit to Castleford for BRAPA pubbing, the first time in over four years, so I was well overdue an outing to this iconic town which will provoke a reaction (usually nervous laughter and a...
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BRAPA - Auntie Maggie's Blackcurrant Remedy : Tales from Streatham & Beyond
Plum Porter Grand Reserve, Stormbird (closest I'd get to pint of Blackcurrant today)My good friend Tom isn't phased by much. That much should be clear to those of you who read my blog regularly (you...
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BRAPA - Hebden, Brig and Tod Too (Doing the Hard Yards in West Yorks)
In Good Beer Guide ticking life-cycle terms, I remain a mere twild. Snotty, snivelling and entitled, I sort of still expect every pub outing to be brilliant, and failing that, at least mildly amusing....
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BRAPA - The Ely Twild Show (Part 1 of 2)
We all want to be Chris Packham in the 'Cambs Pub Ticking / Really Wild Show' analogy, but I'm probably more Michaela Strachan, or dare I say it, Nicola Davies in truth. Martin Taylor must be Terry...
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BRAPA - We'll Have a Cambridge Blue Moon Christmas (But Green is the Colour)
Halfway through Saturday then and I was already sobering up in the Taylor Lounge (not a micropub) with a good strong cuppa, reflecting that this cosy spot is very much the drunk tank of the Fens. As...
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BRAPA - Getting a Bit too Gidea This Christmas Time Makes You Ill(ford) -...
If there is one day of the year I'd choose not to venture to the pub, a pub, or any pub, it is tonight. "Mad Friday". Friday before Christmas.  So instead, I sit here with a nice cup of Earl Grey...
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BRAPA - Driving Homerton for Christmas / Wanstead Beyond (Part 2 of 2)
Bloke pretends to be shopmobility scooter in hope it'll make pub more amazing1426 / 2399. George, WansteadAlas, it was more 'smells of rear' than 'sounds of Chris Rea' as I yanked the door open to the...
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BRAPA - Good King Walthamstow & Something to Ponder
It was the Saturday before Christmas, and I'd taken my eye off the ball in my fear of being swamped with Sunderland fans on the Grand Central heading down to Pompey via London. No, I should know by...
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BRAPA - END OF YEAR AWARDS CEREMONY 2018
Greetings! Happy New Year, and all that guff. Welcome to BRAPA towers for our fourth end of year awards ceremony when I look back and wonder, what has been great in the world of Good Beer Guide pub...
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BRAPA - 'Twerp in Tottenham, Smug Newington & ImpPreston (Part 1)
'Twas getting dark on Saturday 22nd December as I fought my way from Ponders End (Southbury) three stops down to White Hart Lane, like a stubborn piece of KFC Mighty Bucket stuck in an old man's...
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BRAPA - December 2018 Review / January & 2019 Preview
Plum Porter Grand Reserve in Stormbird, Camberwell, a highlight of December.Good evening folks! I'm still behind with my pub blogs, I still need to tell you about Lincoln and the dog-end of Preston...
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BRAPA - ImpPreston (Part 3 of 2, or Part 2 of 4)
About to take the 'plunge' in PrestonLet me transport you back to Boxing Day, it was about 1pm as I approached our third Preston pub of the day, flanked by Father BRAPA and Matthew Lawrenson. It's...
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BRAPA - Linkedin in Linkoln (Part 4 of 4)
With rubbish bags strewn across the pavements, it was the kind of main street I half expected to find Phil Mitchell sat down eating a Fray Bentos pie in a doorway. We were south of Lincoln centre,...
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BRAPA - London, My Favourite Joke
Look, you could be in rural Derbys or Staffs, probablyFirst rule of pub blogging, if you haven't got a photo of a pub cat or a foaming pint of best bitter being drunk by an grumpy ancient, make sure...
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BRAPA - Barking to Tooting Part 2/2.
Antelope lads in TootingLast Saturday then, and here we were, myself, Tom and Father BRAPA in London, chugging south down the Northern Line heading towards Tooting Broadway for the third pub of the day...
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