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BRAPA - March Review / April Preview (2017)
Good evening fellow ale fans, pub lovers, or people who have clicked on this by mistake,March was a successful month with 27 new Good Beer Guide pubs visited, breaking the BRAPA record of 25 set in...
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BRAPA - Buckinghamshire Part II : South Bucks Fizz
I was breathing in Slough air for the first time in my life as I waited for a bus to take me to the village of Hedgerley, despite the GBG claiming it was a busless location in the 'pre-match build...
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BRAPA - North Yorkshire Complete .... at last! / Welsh bonus.
I might live in North Yorkshire but I still think it's been the hardest county to complete so far, and I'm really hoping none of the others are quite so traumatic, because a large percentage of the...
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BRAPA - Darlington - what a place!
What with the rail strike and the prospect of defeat at Man City not particularly enticing, it was always going to be  a case of "keep it as simple as possible today", and with Yorkshire of course...
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BRAPA - Ooh, Ahh, Just A Little Bit (of Stoke & Stockport)
Tom Irvin in BRAPA pub number 1082Catastrophe struck somewhere between Manchester Piccadilly and Stoke-on-Trent when my phone inexplicable broke down ("it is like losing a limb")Â , leaving me in a...
View ArticleBRAPA - Memories of Pontcanna Trauma
Welcome to my most pointless post of the year, only read if you are very bored.18th April, and this is the first time "on this day" since BRAPA records began that I haven't been pub ticking. Â In fact,...
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BRAPA - Back on the Cheshire Trail.
Saturday was one of those up and down days where, for every positive, there seemed to be a negative just around the corner, followed by a positive again. Â I wouldn't call it an emotional rollercoaster,...
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BRAPA - South Derbyshire on St George's Day
Derby's revolutionary new cider dispense methodIf you think about life from an alphabetical BRAPA point of view, Derbyshire is coming into focus (well, to the same degree of focus my eyes had at 11pm...
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BRAPA - A Difficult Day in Aylesbury
I started my four day tour of Central Bucks in Wendover, mainly because my train from London Marylebone stopped there and it seemed a "quick win" (to use an annoying work term) before checking in at my...
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BRAPA - Walking Trauma in Central Bucks
Day 4 of my BRAPA Spring Festival (two Wednesdays ago) dawned with the traumatic sight of two Welsh men in hi-vis drinking cans of Boddingtons in my Travelodge during the 9am breakfast rush. Â It was...
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BRAPA - A Day in the Chilterns
Let me take you back, all the way back to Thursday 27th April (well, two weeks ago) where I was raring to go for "Day 5" of the BRAPA Spring Festival. Â I say 'raring', but after the walking trauma of...
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BRAPA - A Bus Tour of High Wycombe
My final day in Bucks, and my penultimate day of my BRAPA Spring Festival saw my feet and liver so knackered, I wanted an easier day before the final Southampton push tomorrow. Â To be honest, I was...
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BRAPA - Stayin' Up in Southampton (or not)
When Eldin Jakupovic saved a last minute penalty for Hull City at Southampton just over a fortnight ago, one thing seemed clear as we celebrated wildly amongst the miserable southerners, we were...
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BRAPA - A Belated April Review / May Preview (2017)
*Piss off, I've been busy.Apologies for the 16 day delay. Â But what a month April was for pub ticking (well, at least the last week of it) with 44 new pub ticks in total. That is one less than the...
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BRAPA - Glasgow 3, Hull .... Pre-emptive.
It might sound unbelievable but BRAPA had barely crossed my mind as me and three work colleagues journeyed north in First Class comfort, 11am on Thursday 4th May.Just to give you a bit of boring...
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BRAPA - Slipping into Surrey
Reading Hull City's obituaries, Pub 1121, Lamb, SurbitonSaturday 13th May and Hull City's game at Crystal Palace had thankfully been moved to the Sunday for TV, but of course we had already purchased...
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BRAPA - Bucks IV - Heading Out East
Last Saturday (20th May), I was back in Buckinghamshire for the first time since my crazy April 4 day session, and this was one of the days I'd been planning on doing. Â However, I soon found out you...
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BRAPA - Sandstone Dreams in Rural Cheshire.
Behind the bar in Bunbury (see pub 1129)When I completed North Yorkshire a couple of months ago with the help of esteemed BRAPA Chauffeur B.G. Everitt, I thought perhaps chauffeur days were coming to...
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BRAPA - Tyneside Bonus Sunday
Where Twilds go to get lost (see pub 1133)May hadn't been a vintage month for pub ticking in the mystical world of BRAPA, but with a sunny Bank Holiday Sunday on the agenda, I thought I could at least...
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BRAPA - May Review / June Preview (2017)
The good ship BRAPA sails on, aimlessly across stormy beer filled oceans in search of perhaps the perfect pub, or at least the eventual 4,500th one! Only a late flurry of 11 pubs across the Bank...
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