The Shanghai Brewery on the corner of Hengshan Lu and Dongping Lu is very shut down. It's currently sporting a cinder-block wall around its front door and the sign is being taken down with hammers. What scant details we have after the jump.

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As of when we checked this morning, the Shanghai Brewery perched on a corner of Hengshan Lu just across from Zapata's has been a hive of activity of the "ripping down and tearing up" variety. Apart from a cinder-block wall that's been erected around the outdoor seating area up front, the work crews are knocking down the sign with hammers and loading pretty much the entire interior onto trucks and those flatbed bicycles. We've contacted Shanghai Brewery three times to get a comment, but haven't heard back yet. Maybe when they see this.

Hey, guys! What's up with your place! These are some extensive "renovations"! If you're closed just let us know! No big deal! It happens!

We asked the workers what was up and they responded with a noncommittal "closed for a while."

Shanghai Brewery's been closed for a little while already, ostensibly for renovations, but they don't usually erect cinderblock walls suddenly if they're doing scheduled renovation work. And the insides were well and truly being torn up and loaded onto trucks. We saw delivery guys and bao'ans from nearby buildings swiping chairs from under the noses of the people who looked like they were in charge. Here are some pictures.

This is the only picture we were able to get from inside before we were politely but firmly told to put our cameras away because "meiyou weishenme" whatever that means.

Is it a shutdown (probably)? Is it renovations (probably not)? We'll update the wire when we know more.