Brugge Beer

Brugge On the Road - April 8 Update

We're thrilled to add the following establishments to our growing list of places you can enjoy Brugge throughout Indiana.

Brugge Black:

Farm Bloomington

108 & 110 Kirkwood

Bloomington, IN 47401

812-340-3593

http://www.farm-bloomington.com/

Ramada Plaza Hotel

2519 E. Center St.

Warsaw, IN 46580

574-268-1733

http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=10010&brandInfo=RA

And last, but certainly not least, our famous Tripel de Ripple makes it's debut this week at BadaBoomz in downtown Indy.

Enjoy, and we'll keep you updated with any additions.

Spring Cleaning

This weekend's heat wave is brutal. 68 degrees today! When will it end?

It was great to see a bunch of people enjoying the sunshine - and frites and beer - on the patio Saturday and Sunday.

A couple of things...

There's this guy named Ted Miller and he's sort of the head PooBah of all that is Brugge. You may have heard of him. He actually posted here once. And I've begged him to be more active here.

Well, it seems he'd rather talk to some other guys instead of us. The issue in the blog, linked below, is important, and I'll address it in another post, but by the end of the thread, they're all singing the Brugge version of Kumbaya!

http://dig-b.blogspot.com/2008/03/beer-wabash-valley-arrives.html

Last Thursday...

Brugge Brasserie was thrilled to host 2 groups last Thursday, both from a website I'd never heard of 3 days before.

The Indianapolis Beer Meetup Group

http://beer.meetup.com/189/

The Indianapolis French Meetup Group

http://french.meetup.com/754/

Both groups were filled with fun people and they're both obviously smart as well, since they made the decision to eat and drink at our place.

Thanks to Chris and Jean-Luc for getting everyone together. The place was rocking till way past my bedtime. We hope to see both groups again soon.

The Website...

As hard as it may be to believe, our website should be up within the next 2 weeks. We wish it had been sooner, but we're big believers in keeping our mouths shut until we actually have something to say. This blog will be moved to become a page of the new site. We'll keep you posted.

Cardiff and Portsmouth

A new law firm? A British shoemaker?

No, it's the unlikely matchup for this year's FA Cup final to be played at Wembley on Saturday, May 17 at 10:00AM.

A special Steak, Egg, and Frites breakfast will be available as Brugge Brasserie will open at 09:30. Reservations recommended.

Brugge Beer at the Indy 500

Yes, we're just getting our legs underneath us.

And, yes, we still don't have bottles anywhere.

But...

We are honored to be an Official Partner of the Rubicon Race Team for the upcoming 2008 Indy 500.

http://www.rubiconraceteam.com/sponsors.html

Jim Freudenberg and Jason Priestley have put together a terrific group, including driver Max Papis, to chase this year's Borg-Warner Trophy.

Brugge is thrilled to be providing liquid refreshment for all the on-track activities leading up to this year's race.

In fact, Ted has created a one - off batch of a special beer to commemorate the event, named appropriately, Rubicon Red.

We'll keep you posted on how things develop.

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.