点评:Paid this one a return visit as part of a recent crawl of Cambridge’s fine back street pubs as the first venue on the crawl due to its proximity to Cambridge Train Station. It’s now painted a dark terracotta red to distinguish itself from the adjoining houses, so you now get the true view of how small it looks from the outside.
Inside it fortunately is a lot bigger than it appears from the front, being two rooms with the smaller bar room as you enter and then a larger wooden floored lounge area with its log burning fire beyond.
Eight hand pumps on the long bar section and two additional ones on the short section which I believe are additional to my previous visit. However, these were unbadged and two were reverse clipped, leaving five Milton Ales and a cider on the other six. The breweries Marcus Aurelius, Pegasus, Justinian, Nero and Sparta were the available ales and the Stout I went for was a good ale to start the crawl. However, the ale pumps are now fronted by multiple clips and cards for the range of Ciders and Perrys (some 14 of them) that the Dev is now getting a reputation for. So much so that it had been awarded the local Cambridge and District CAMRA branch 2024 Cider POTY award a couple of weeks prior to our visit.
This is still a very good pub and should be included in any crawl of Cambridge, especially when disembarking from the nearby train station.
翻译:由于它靠近剑桥火车站,所以作为最近一次剑桥后街酒吧巡游的第一站,我再次造访了这家酒吧。现在,它被漆成了深赤红色,以区别于相邻的房屋,因此,从外面看,它看起来真的很小。
幸运的是,它的内部比从前面看到的要大得多,有两个房间,一进门就是较小的酒吧间,然后是一个较大的木地板休息区,后面有燃木壁炉。
长吧台区有八个手动泵,短吧台区有两个额外的手动泵,我相信这是我上次来的时候增加的。然而,这些泵都没有标签,两个是反向夹的,剩下的六个是五瓶米尔顿艾尔啤酒和一瓶苹果酒。可用的啤酒有 Marcus Aurelius、Pegasus、Justinian、Nero 和 Sparta,我点的 Stout 是巡游开始时不错的啤酒。然而,啤酒泵前面现在有多个夹子和卡片,上面有各种苹果酒和梨酒(约 14 种),Dev 现在因此而声名鹊起。以至于在我们访问前几周,它被授予当地剑桥和地区 CAMRA 分会 2024 年苹果酒 POTY 奖。
这仍然是一家非常好的酒吧,应该包括在剑桥的任何一次游览中,尤其是在从附近的火车站下车时。