The Blind Monkey, Walkley, Sheffield

I've never really warmed to this pub since it was transformed by the owner of Don Valley Brewery with what the previous reviewer correctly identified as the contents of the V and A. You'd think they'd have missed them by now. I find it not so much impressive as claustrophobic. The bar has quite a decent range of hand pumps, including their own Atomic Blonde. I went for Three Brothers Ruby Revolution, a 4.6% malty beer that went down well (NBSS 3.5, £4.80/pint). Unfortunately I can never seem to get comfortable here, and it was also pretty cold and the background music was pretty annoying, so it's really only the beer quality and the service that gets the pub up to a rating of 6; even that's probably rounded up from 5.5.