Brew Cellar, a popular bottle shop in Park Circle, announced its closure last week. Brew Cellar’s last day of service will be Feb. 17.
The shop opened in 2014 in what was, arguably, the heyday of craft beer — locally and nationally. With draft beers and a wide variety of bottles and cans, the small but mighty shop has served as part–beer garden, part–retail store, for the past decade. Now, though, its owners say that it’s become too expensive to remain open.
“We’ve been dealing with insurance woes for about two-and-a-half years now,” co-owner Ryan Hendrick said. He’s referring, specifically, to liquor liability insurance, a hotly contested topic in the food and beverage world right now…