Brugse Zot appears as a signature dish in 1 Belgium cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Brugse Zot · Bruges
The flagship beer of Bruges, an unfiltered blond ale brewed at De Halve Maan inside the old city walls. Named for the Bruggelingen nickname, the Bruges fools, with a stronger dubbel alongside.
Brugse Zot is brewed by De Halve Maan on Walplein, the last working brewery in central Bruges, family-run since 1856 across six generations. The name nods to a medieval tale in which the people of Bruges asked the duke for a madhouse and were told the whole city already was one, hence the Bruges fools. Since 2016 the beer flows from the city-centre brewery to its bottling plant through a 3.3km underground pipeline, a quirk that drew headlines worldwide.
Where to eat in Bruges:
- De Halve Maan
- 't Brugs Beertje
- Cambrinus