Your Local: The Closed Shop
The Reader : Sheffield based beer blogger WeeBeefy. @WBeefy weebeefyspubblog.blogspot.co.uk Why is this ‘Your Local’? “The pub has a friendly atmosphere, making it somewhere nice to relax and enjoy a decent pint.” Favourite tipple: Two recent favourites have been the pale and hoppy Tangled Up IPA (6 per cent) from Blue Bee Brewery and Kelham Island Brewery ’s Gentleman Death, a 6 per cent Baltic porter. The Local: The team behind the Rutland Arms (Brown Street, city centre) have reinvigorated The Closed Shop after taking over the lease earlier this year. Bringing their beer expertise and affability to Crookes the venue now offers 6 hand pulls of ales (including a Blue Bee Brewery regular), craft cider, speciality whiskeys and continental beers such as Budvar and Hoegaarden. Crookes is now one hefty imbibing destination! The Closed Shop supposedly takes its name from the time it traded as a grocery shop and off licence, b...