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BRAPA AND ..... IT'S THE (RY)HOPE THAT KILLS YOU : A NORTH EAST PUBBY FEAST...
Ah, good ole' unfussy North East pub ticking, I've missed you!The five I had earmarked for the day all seemed to be open all day, every day. No threats of compulsory bookings, shove-ya-in-the-garden,...
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BRAPA in ..... SEATON TWO VEG
Being a BRAPA chauffeur presents its own challenges that irresponsibly drinking passengers such as myself needn't concern themselves with. Not being able to drink in every pub, they therefore have to...
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BRAPA ...... MAKES HEADWAY ON THE MEDWAY (North Kent Part 1 of 2)
I could tell as early as 11:59am that today was going to get messy. True, no one was forcing me to drink so much, but like watching a car crash in slow motion, I didn't seem to be able to control the...
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BRAPA has ..... ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE(SEND)
"I don't belieeeeve it!"Â Having been in a zombie-state in Upper Upnor's Tudor Rose, just minutes early, I actually got a second wind in the other Good Beer Guide pub in the village, which means I...
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BRAPA and ..... THE MASTER BUTCHER OF LEIGH-ON-SEA
Oh yes, you've got to love a bit of Carter USM. And if I was to labour the blog title even further, you've also got to love one of my favourite Hull City players, Leon C .......Oh I do like to be...
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BRAPA in ...... UP MINSTER, YES MINSTER, NO MINSTER (& HAPPIER HOPPIER TALES)
Halfway through my South Essex debut (unless you count previous trips to Chelmsford, Billericay, Southminster & Burnham-on-Crouch .... I'm not really sure on the geog.) and it was all going well....
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BRAPA is .... BETTERING (HIS GBG TOTAL) IN KETTERING (Northants Pt 1/2)
Believe it or not, there was a point in my dark past than I was totally unaware of the Good Beer Guide's existence.  I knew I loved pubs. That was a given since I was in the womb (which is like a...
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BRAPA in ..... ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELLINGBOROUGH
It had been a mixed day in Northants so far. Kettering had been mean and moody yet an excellent pub, Loddington had offered a glimmer despite some dining banality, and a peculiar taxi experience /...
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BRAPA ...... SEPTEMBER REVIEW / OCTOBER PREVIEW (2020)
23 pubs, a record BRAPA low for the month of September. I'm surprised though. I feel like I've spent most of the month drunk .......The reason for the low return is a combination of factors. No...
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BRAPA has ..... HANTS IN HIS PANTS (Hampshire Pt 1/10)
Excited and raring to go, to the point of impatience, for my five day Autumn BRAPA holiday in North Hampshire. This impatience was borne out of paranoia. A new national lockdown? A travel ban of...
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BRAPA ..... FINDS THAT HOME IS WHERE THE HART(LEY) WINTNEY IS (North Hants...
It hadn't been a magical start to my Hampshire BRAPA debut trip. With the rain pouring down, I was grateful for the Citra-mobile guiding me around the more rural spots, with great company and local...
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BRAPA is ..... IN THE LYNE OF DUTY (North Hants / Surrey Part 3/10)
Not even Ted Hastings could've got to the bottom of the bad luck that blighted me on Sunday 4th October, my second day of pub ticking in the area in and around Basingstoke.  Every time I go away for...
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BRAPA ... FLYING BY THE SEAT OF MY HANTS (NORTH HAMPSHIRE PART 4/10)
The folk of Farnborough seem a bit more smily than their Basingstoke counterparts I put it down to being in that east Hants/ north west Surrey corridor including the likes Aldershot, Camberley &...
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BRAPA ..... IT'S THAT MOST WONDERFUL/DIFFICULT TIME OF THE YEAR
 Evenin' all, just a quick note to say that the new Good Beer Guide 2021 finally reached York this morning, so I have started the arduous task of the yearly cross-ticking.As a result, I'm prioritising...
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BRAPA ..... Is PUB TICKING ANDOVER FIST (North Hants Part 5/10)
Having managed to complete 2021 Good Beer Guide cross-ticking in a record four days, an exercise involving some early mornings, very late nights and a lot of coffee, I can now get back to the blogging....
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BRAPA is ...... BASING ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON (North Hants Part 6/10)
If you have read part 5, you'll be aware I was making good progress in Andover, three of the four 2020 GBG pubs done, and still only lunchtime. Hic! One more to go, this was it .......It simplified...
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BRAPA in ..... TRICK OR FLEET? (North Hants Part 7/10)
I was going to sell this one as a (slightly early) BRAPA Hallowe'en Horror Show, but then I figured that regular readers of this blog have probably noticed that approximately 82.7% of blogs I write...
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BRAPA is ..... LIVING IN A HAMPSHIRE'S PARADISE (North Hants Part 8/10)
Halfway through my my penultimate day in North Hants, the first time I'd ever been to this wonderful county with the sole purpose of ticking off pubs in the Good Beer Guide, and the constant mix of...
View ArticleBRAPA ..... GOOD BEER GUIDE 2021 RELEASED & THE DAMAGE DONE
Good morning friends,  29th October 2020, and as church bells peal, songbirds tweet and toast is buttered with added gusto across this fair isle, the GBG embargo shackles are shaken off like aching...
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BRAPA in ..... INTERVIEW WITH THE HAMPIRE (Part 9/10)
If you ignore the free Qantas pyjamas, I'm actually quite scaryMy final day in North Hampshire was here, a productive rollercoaster of pain, if you like. A few days ago, a local reporter called James...
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