When you find yourself paying £4 for a pint of Peroni in some destitute wasteland in Shoreditch that’s masquerading as “trendy”, you know the world’s gone mad and you need out. If it’s not achingly trendy Jack Wills clad Sloanes, then its filthy chavs and WKD soaked seats in Wetherspoons. The only stereotype I’ll happily stand for with my drinking venue is Ye Olde Traditional English Pub with Good Ale. And for that there’s no better place than The Bridge Inn in Topsham.

This crumbling brickwork building houses the best variety of locally brewed beer and ale, which are all presented in the dinkiest of specially commissioned one-third sized pint glasses. For less than a tenner, you can have yourself nine third pints of a traffic light assortment of beverages. This delectable concoction of reds, ambers and greens is a delight to look at as well as drink. Each glass is the perfect size to whet and wow your taste buds to the various distinctive flavours that these strange colours hold.

Choose to sit outside on a balmy summer’s eve and watch the melancholic flow of the River Exe, or move inside to the creaky, cosy interior where the sweet smell of beer hangs in the air. If it’s good enough for the Queen (who paid a visit in 1998) then it’s certainly good enough for us mere mortals. Sloanes and chavs excluded…