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The Crafty One, Ilkeston

Pub added by Alan Winfield
65 South Street
Ilkeston
DE7 5QQ

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Old Boots left this review about The Crafty One

Fairly spartan bottle shop and bar, bottles and can off sales to the right, craft bar to left seating to the extreme left. The rear by the counter and the shop are on a higher floor level, the left hand seating area is at street level. Minimalist décor of a light grey paint job, with a laminate floor. It’s furnished with scaffolding and thick board tables. Two pulls with today; a Howling Hops Beer and one from Brew York, keg wise there are two solos, a double T-bar and six taps on back wall, a blackboard to the left of the counter has the choices, wines, spirits and snacks are also available. The shop portion has an excellent choice of bottles and cans. Not far from the Burnt Pig and Spanish Bar, it makes part of a strongly contrasting trio.

On 9th March 2024 - no rating submitted
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Crafty One

Spacious, modern craft beer bar set across three notional rooms, although they all merge into one due to the way the pub has been opened out at the front. The pub is bare boarded throughout, with the servery positioned to the rear of the central ‘room’. The bar has a rough timber fronted counter with the pub’s name spelled out across it, whilst the bar back is dominated by the row of keg taps and a TV screen to one side was showing muted live football and a beer board on the opposite side lists the full tap selection. There’s just the one table with comfy high-backed chairs in this central space, but many more of the same can be found in the left-hand space along with a drinking ledge and high stools which run beneath the side windows. To the right is a Chesterfield sofa and one more table, but this space is otherwise given over to a bottle shop set-up with plenty of shelves full of bottles and cans. Everything has been painted in rather drab shades and sparsely decorated with a few brewery adverts and bits of contemporary décor. Indie tunes played quietly in the background, which I was quite enjoying until a huge group turned up and created so much noise that I could no longer hear it.
There were two handpulls in operation, from which I selected a pint of Turning Point Wavelength, which was in reasonable nick, although the pub’s focus is clearly more aimed towards the eight craft keg taps and numerous bottles and cans available from the shop. The barman was very friendly and welcoming and did a good job managing the large group when they descended en masse.
This felt like a decent enough craft beer bar, with a good selection of interesting beers, a couple of cask options and some friendly service making up for the rather plain, uninspired interior. It’s far from the best pub in town, but it’s nice to have an option like this, offering something a little different to other nearby pubs, and I was glad I included it on my crawl.

On 11th September 2023 - rating: 6
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custodian 42 left this review about The Crafty One

Decent enough place with the bar in the middle and enough room for people to sit down. Four hand pumps and various craft offerings. Bottles and cans in fridges on right hand side.

On 21st January 2018 - rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Crafty One

Minimalistic modern bar with a bottle shop and canned craft beer to take home or drink on the premises. They also had two handpumps on the bar, so I went for the Aurora ales Light Show, from a microbrewery based in Ilkeston, also tried was the Adnams Mosaic on keg. I was also quite tempted to go for the Beavertown Neck Oil, which was only £2.40 a can, maybe on a next visit, when the new train station will be open, near the Dewdrop Inn.

On 23rd March 2017 - rating: 7
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Crafty One

The Crafty One is a new opening on South street.
Once inside there is a single L shaped room with the bar facing,this is up one step,the seating is normal tables and chairs to the front and tall tables and chairs to the rear left,there is a range of bottled beers on shelfs to the rear right.
There were two real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Shiny Brewery Disco Balls,which went down well,the other real ale was Amber Toast.
There was also a range of keg craft beers which included Adnams Mosaic and the likes,i am not really bothered by these types of beers.
The pub was almost empty on my Saturday dinner visit,but this is early days so hopefully it does well in the future.
A decent enough pub to do while doing others in the area.

Pub visited 28/1/2017

On 1st February 2017 - rating: 7
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