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BRAPA - Mid Wales : Bad Ankle, Good Anchor. (Part 3 of 3)
I once vowed (after a bad experience in Birdwell, South Yorkshire) NEVER to try pub ticking on a Monday ever again. Â Since then, I've had a day in rural Ayrshire with no problems, and here in the heart...
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BRAPA - Friday Night in Wentworth / Pub Pet Poll Results
Friday night is probably my least favourite time of the week for pubbing, but a combination of circumstances (too boring to list here) meant that it "felt right" to be on the 16:33 Leeds-Elsecar where...
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BRAPA - Billinge! Orrell! Crooke! Wigan! Swinton!
There's something strangely life-affirming about being huddled under a bus shelter at Wigan Wallgate at 12 noon on a busy rainy Saturday, waiting for a delayed bus, with just Tom and a few old biddies...
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BRAPA - A Tricky Day on Teesside
Saltburn Pier, one of the few nice things of today.I was already in a restless mood heading into today's trip, having expected the new 2017 Good Beer Guide to be with me by 10am Saturday morning, but...
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BRAPA - August Review / September Preview
I'm more "in limbo" than errrm, errrm Thom Yorke (it's a Radiohead song apparently) as I continue to wait for the 2017 Good Beer Guide to hit my doorstep with all the force of it's 1,000,000,000 pages...
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BRAPA - Back in Berkshire (Part 7)
DISCLAIMER - Any pubs I visited today should be viewed as pre-emptive ticks. Â I'm asking you to believe that I heard about these pubs either through word-of-mouth, on social media, read about them in a...
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BRAPA - Barnsley Bonus Bonanza
Tuesday afternoon at work and I had that sudden compulsion that we all get at some stage of our lives, to 'randomly' visit the pubs of Barnsley that I'd not quite managed to do before. After a train...
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BRAPA - Padiham & Burnley
The 'cushion of controversy', Padiham (see below)It was time for Hull City's annual visit to Burnley. Â Seriously it doesn't matter whether or not we play in the EPL (spit!) or the Maidstone &...
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BRAPA - Doncaster Doom
You'd have thought by now, the number of times I've visited the town of Doncaster, I'd have been confident, relaxed, been embraced by the locals as "one of them" .... NO CHANCE! Â With one of the...
View ArticleBRAPA - Good Beer Guide 2017 published today!
15th September 2016, it is official, the Good Beer Guide is upon us. For those of us who have respected the embargo through those difficult days of late August / early September when the CAMRA carrier...
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BRAPA - North Yorkshire - School Adventure Day Trip
11am on Thursday morning and all was well with the world. Â A day off work, the kind of beautiful summer's day we never get in summer, my York Beer Festival hangover had subsided, and as Dad was...
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BRAPA - Going Out on a Lymm
I was glad I'd taken an earlier train out of York to Manchester on Saturday morning, when an announcement suddenly sounded on the tram advising we were terminating at Timperley rather than Altrincham...
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BRAPA : the archives (375 - 382)
For the first time since November last year ..... a review of pubs I visited before BRAPA became a "thing".These are pubs which now find themselves in the 2017 Good Beer Guide, but were not in 2014-16...
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BRAPA - Hoyland Heaven
Saturday had been a great day n all, but it certainly had been lacking something for all the quirkiness, humour and six GBG ticks. Â And that something was "a proper pub". Â So that was what I was...
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BRAPA - Crosby , Half of Waterloo & a Scouse Pie
Following a conversation back in June about those Antony Gormley statues on the beach, myself, Dad and Tom had organised a visit to Crosby and surrounding area with plenty of BRAPA ticking potential....
View ArticleBRAPA : the archives (383 - 390)
Monday night, Archives night!Welcome back to week two of our three week archives special, where I delve into the vaults of my memory and review eight pubs that I visited before BRAPA was even a drunken...
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BRAPA - No Pain in Hoylandswaine
Shape-shifting locals become a pub catJust to show I hadn't learned any lessons from Saturday's "Scouse Pie" incident, I bought a squishy pie of questionable contents in Barnsley bus station, and...
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BRAPA - September Review / October Preview
September started on the first of the month (as it so often seems to) with the 2017 Good Beer Guide plonking through my letterbox after what felt like a fifteen year wait (about five days in...
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BRAPA - Windsor & Eton, Littlewick Green, Cippenham
When National Treasure Terrorist Encourager John Betjeman implored those friendly bombs to fall on Slough, little did he know that CAMRA would take him literally and decimate the town from the 2017...
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BRAPA : the archives (391-398)
For the third and final time this year, here are eight pubs I visited before I thought "oooh crikey, I'll take a photo of this pub, walk inside, be all judgey, and give it a number based on how many...
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