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BRAPA in .... Ignorance is Blisland (Cornwall Part 7)
Since the landlord at the Hole in the Wall in Bodmin had told me he'd heard a whisper that the famous, isolated old inn at Blisland was likely to get back in Good Beer Guide for 2020, I hadn't been...
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BRAPA - June Review / July Preview (2019)
Ey up! We're getting towards the 'business' end of the pub ticking season, my GBG now a battered, dirty, sorry, sticky mess of a book ..... though what I do in my private life is my own business, so...
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BRAPA in ..... 'There's Gonna be an Austell Breakout!' (Cornwall Part 8)
Say what you like Doom Bar but you could certainly tell that Sharp's Brewery were making an effort to impress with their craft ales on my Cornish holiday two weeks ago ......I drank one of these two at...
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BRAPA and ..... Porthleven is a Place on Earth (Cornwall Part 9)
When one time punk rocker and State Brewery Bitter lover Belinda Carlisle sang the above hit, I'd never been to the coastal little resort situated 'twixt Penzance and Helston, but I can now report it...
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BRAPA and .... Sea Shanties and Drunk Insanity : Epic Falmouth (Part 10)
Exhausted by my Porthleven/Gunwalloe adventure earlier on, I realised I just had TWO pubs to do in the 'central-west' part of Cornwall to complete it.It really had to be a case of 'get to the pubs...
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BRAPA and .... the Mystery Pub Ticker of Polbathic (Cornwall Part 11)
Sunday morning, my penultimate day of 'Cornwall : Year Three' and after a relatively healthier brekkie (I also had some fresh berries but they were unphotographable like a fruity vampire) ........Tiny...
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BRAPA in .... Devon Knows I'm Miserable Now / There is Power in a Union (Part...
You can't exactly sidle up to a stranger, brandishing your Good Beer Guide, and breathe in his/her ear "what colour do you highlight in?"Â It'd be strange, perhaps a bit creepy.Yes, if you read part...
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BRAPA in ..... No Taxi Stand at Trebarwith Strand (Part 13, Cornwall)
Monday dawned cloudy, with a chance of pork sausages, my final day of an epic week in Cornwall which has actually been more painful to write about (and probably read) than it was to do in reality.I was...
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BRAPA is ..... Looking for Ole' Jug Ears Amongst the Jugs of Beer (Cornwall...
To my relief, my Northern Irish taxi driver was true to his word and appeared back at Trebarwith Strand, to take me onto Port Isaac for my last pub tick of the 2019 Cornish Adventure.Again, the roads...
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BRAPA in ..... A Town Of My Ilk : Drunken Derbyshire Dreams (Part 1 of 2)
Having had near on three days to recover from Cornwall with a cold compress to the head and cucumbers on the old eyes, the dominant BRAPA gene was stirring and wanted a day out.It seemed an awful long...
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BRAPA in ..... A Town Of My Ilk : Drunken Derbyshire Dreams (Part 2 of 2)
Making friends with the locals in the Dewdrop, Ilkeston (whether they like it or not!)The taxi driver convinced us that he may as well drive us to Marlpool rather than back to Ilkeston station for a...
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BRAPA is ...... Baking Well in Bakewell / The Birchover Bus Mystery
Birchover. Arguably the hardest of my remaining 20 Derbyshire ticks to get to, but beginning with the letter "B", it had to be done first (you gotta have a system in this game chums).I'd not been...
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BRAPA in ..... Once, Twice, Four Times a Micro (Part 2/2)
As I tried to stand in the one remaining sliver of shade on this boiling hot day, facing the Greyhound pub in Cromford, waiting for yet another delayed bus, it hadn't really occurred to me that all...
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BRAPA is ..... in Ripley (Believe it or Not!) - Part 1/2
If I was to finish ticking off every Good Beer Guide pub in the wholly rewarding county of Derbyshire before the 2020 edition drops through my letterbox in late Aug / early Sept, I needed to ramp up...
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BRAPA in ..... Ill Gotten Gainsborough Pt 1 (More Poisonous Than Alfreton)
This tale of highs, lows and the kind of quirks which defy normal society begins in Alfreton, late on Friday 5th July.I'd seen off Ripley with varied results, Swanwick had been fun, but back in...
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BRAPA and .... the Curious Incident Of The Bloke In The Gents (Gainsborough...
Nearly halfway through my GBG debut in the Lincolnshire town of Gainsborough, and I didn't feel it was grabbing me, like say Cleethorpes had last summer, or Lincoln had on my first BRAPA trip in Jan...
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BRAPA is ..... Pissed As a Newt(on) : Derbyshire Evenings
For a second consecutive Friday, I was on the 16:04 sweaty pacer from L**ds to Alfreton, having to contend with unpredictable behaviour of a ginger student, bound for Nottingham, who just couldn't keep...
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BRAPA in ..... Crayke or Fortune? Return to North Yorkshire
When I officially 'completed' the Good Beer Guide Ticking of North Yorkshire for the first time in Melsonby on 2nd April 2017, I made a solemn vow to strategy enforcer Mummy BRAPA Everitt that I would...
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BRAPA is ..... Buried in Burythorpe Betwixt Brassy Castles & Batemans
Two Saturday's ago (13th July), I was trekking around North Yorkshire (well, Dad was driving me) having a nice leisurely day for once. Crayke had been okay, Pickering had been very good and...
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BRAPA and .... Pepsi n' Shirland
I always try and amuse myself where possible during this pain-staking process of trying to visit every pub in the Good Beer Guide.I took a bottle of Oral-B mouthwash to the village of Thoralby. I took...
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