If you’re an ale fan (which all sensible people are), then you’ve got to head over to The Cambridge Blue on Gwydir Street. No pub is perfect, but they’re pretty close here. With a number of hand pumps and five giant fridges filled with bottled beer, this place is the pub-goer’s dream. If you can’t find your taste here, you never had one to begin with.

I started with two pints of Inferno by Oakham Ales and then had a pint of JHB by Oakham. Both were hoppy, well kept and very tasty. Inferno was my preference of the two. At £3.20 a pint, this pub is competitive in its pricing. To even out the costs I had a £6.50 pint of ~7% Adnams–something. I can find no reference of its existence online but it was incredible. My friend had a bottle of Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, the highly potent 9.6% ale which was an excellent choice. In the interests of maintaining a healthy diet, we balanced the rounds with some bar snacks. There’s a range of crisp flavours available and whilst sausage and mustard sounds appealing, they’re not worth it. The pork scratchings on the other hand were perfect.

The whiskey selection was decent but overshadowed by everything else they had on offer. The interior isn't the most exciting. The bar area is flanked on both sides by tables and chairs and there’s a restaurant space in the back.

We spent some time in the beer garden which looks out over a cemetery. Unfortunately, there was Morris dancing taking place which is never good (the cemetery suddenly didn’t look so bad). The beer garden itself though was pretty good.

The Cambridge Blue really has to be experienced before you can appreciate its excellence. It’s not a place for revision (as we found out), especially when Bigfoot gets involved. It easily ranks as the best pub in Cambridge that I've been to. A rating of 9/10 is well deserved.