Brewery Plans

You may remember - about 100 years ago - we announced plans to produce and bottle 5 varieties of Brugge Beer as we launch.

We have already made our Black, White, and Tripel de Ripple in the new Terre Haute brewery. And from the comments of many of our customers at both Brugge Brasserie, as well as our new bar and restaurant partners, it's the best beer we've made yet.

So, for the next few months, we've decided to only package these 3 beers. This will help us to produce larger quantities of each, which will be even more important when the bottling line is operational.

Bottling 3 varieties also allows to be a bit more "friendly" with our packaging and marketing. We will be putting 6 - .75 litre bottles in an easy to handle 6 pack. And, yes, the 6 pack will be available in a "Sampler" pack, consisting of 2 Black, 2 White, and 2 Tripel.

So where are they?

In Terre Haute, we needed to make several adjustments to the existing bottling line in order to handle our .75 litre bottles. In fact, we ended up making an adjustment to the bottle itself to make it a bit easier to properly package the beer.

This has put us back just a bit further in our schedule. But bottles will be available soon.

Really.

Seriously.

I promise!

Once the bottling line is completely operational, we will be running another bus ride to Terre Haute for anyone who wants to see the operation. We might even drink a beer or 2. I vaguely remember how much fun the last trip was.

All 3 beers will also be on the menu at the restaurant, while Ted continues to play Mr. Science with the brewery at the restaurant. In fact, he has something very interesting cooking right now which should be ready this week.

Stay tuned.