BRAPA : British Real Ale Pub Adventure

Friday 7th August 2026 Coming at you live from Horsham, day two of my long weekend in West Sussex began with a quest to buy a birthday card, which I decided to combine with an early morning pre-emptive 'Spoons.

Wednesday 5th August 2026 Heritage Pub 101 It started with the purchase of six Lidl eggs as the sun sets on a balmy summer's evening just outside Horsham town centre.

Welcome back to this rundown of the 34 (THIRTY FOUR) pubs which made the 2027 edition of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide (best book in history, sorry God), but when I visited them, I had no green Stabilo to wield.

Eleven more pre-emptive pubs which have happily made it into the Good Beer Guide 2027.

I'm waving the white flag early on September pub ticking, knowing for certain that there will be no more BRAPA activity between now and 11:59pm on Wednesday.

34 pre-emptives have come good for me in the 2027 Good Beer Guide.

The 2027 Good Beer Guide is official out today.

Saturday 1st August 2026 The Daddy BRAPA close season of summer fun continued in Merseyside, hopping on the Merseyrail at Liverpool Central for our annual trip across (under?)

Thursday 30th July 2026 Sometimes in this unforgiving game, you have to accept minimal pub ticks in a day if you're going to achieve those true rural classics.

Saturday 25th July 2026 Pub ticks in four counties on the same day?

Thursday 23rd July 2026 Welcome to my 500th Wix Blog.

Greetings from BRAPA Towers.

Thursday 16th July 2026 I thought I'd finally cracked the DrossCountry morning train trauma, I really did!

Saturday 11th July 2026 A Simon Dewhurst Essex car day is always one of the highlights of the BRAPA calendar, and being part of our 'Summer-of-fun', (no football to spoil the pubbing) Daddy BRAPA came along for the ride, his first time meeting Simon.

Thursday 9th July 2026 The squashy nature of the above photo suggests I definitely wasn't able to stretch across a two-seater on the 8:18 York to King's Cross Grand Central service.

Friday 3rd July 2026 There are lessons you must learn in life as a pub ticker, many of them from the school of hard knocks in the North East.

Wednesday 24th June 2026 We've all had pints of Tribute like that, haven't we?

Tuesday 23rd June 2026 Day three of The Heatwave™, and today it was hiking up to 33-35 degrees and the BBC breakfast news had whipped me into a state of paranoid terror, like I'd literally melt if I spent one minute exposed to the sun.

Monday 22nd June 2026 Immunity shot.

33 Good Beer Guide ticks for the month of July is a typically modest return during this tricky month of zero holidays and a blank Saturday.

Sunday 21st June 2026 The much anticipated evil heatwave ™ was finally upon us, and my knight in shining armour is TheFamilyRug, or Martyn as his loved ones know him.

Saturday 20th June 2026 With seven GBG pubs, only Belfast can boast more required BRAPA ticks than Weston-super-Mare in a single location.

Friday 16th June 2026 'Twas time to crack on and make hay whilst the sun shines (but not too much).

Thursday 18th June 2026 Minehead.

Wednesday 17th June 2026 A 'Deft' manoeuvre across the 'Tone' (thanks!)

Tuesday 16th June 2026 With 90 (NINETY) pubs to tick, Somerset was easily my most neglected county in this crazy quest to tick the Good Beer Guide in its entirety.

Sunday 14th June 2026 Hi all, getting this one out early before our inevitable Vigintennial / Vicennial / Bidecennial disappointment against the Argies.

Saturday 6th June 2026 Daddy BRAPA's bare leg and the remnants of a flask of coffee.

Thursday 4th June 2026 Not often you have the opportunity to spread your wings on the 8:18am Grand Central from York to London, but the seat booked next to me (Carol Casey, aged 61, from Ashington) phoned in sick following surgery complications to fix a h…