Brugse Zot is a signature dish of Belgium; we have verified places to eat it in Bruges. The flagship beer of Bruges, an unfiltered blond ale brewed at De Halve Maan inside the old city walls. Start with where to eat Brugse Zot in Bruges.
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
Where to eat Brugse Zot in Bruges: the editor picks