Crafted with care, this iconic beer glass enhances your beer-drinking experience, letting you savour the delightful flavours of Brugse Zot beer. Each sip becomes a celebration of Belgian brewing brilliance. Brugse Zot comes in two forms, with the Blond as its flagship, and a Dubbel rounding things out. Quintessentially Belgian, the beer has a big body, with fruity banana notes from the yeast blended with complimentary hops. Secondary fermentation in the bottle leads to a long maturation process and a soft carbonation. It’s a beer that gets better and better.

Brugse Zot also goes through a re-fermentation that helps develop the taste while it’s in the bottle. Across the square, outside the brewery, horses and carriages clip clop down the lane. De Halve Maan is in the final weeks of testing the beer pipeline: four separate polyethylene tubes that look like ordinary drainpipes.Once the brewery was restarted, Xavier bought Brugse Zot onto the market and it soon gained a name for itself due to its special recipe. Brugse Zot is now the only beer being produced in Bruges town centre. Underneath Bruges’ sleepy exterior and step-gabled houses lies a piece of technical ingenuity unique to the world. Since it refuses to leave its authentic place in the historic city core, a 500-year-old brewery pumps 1,000 gallons of beer underneath its cobbled lanes and winding canals to their bottling factory via an actual beer pipeline.

Nicole Stael, who sells postcards, snow globes and souvenir plates, said that in the 40 years she had owned her gift shop business had not been so bad. Fear of the unknown was keeping people away, she thought. “[The threat] is not in one place and people are no longer sure where is safe,” she said.Over the street, Marc Souris who owns the Fascino hat shop, was sceptical that traffic would decrease, pointing out that the ingredients for making beer still had to be delivered to the brewery. But the project was a “great and unique” one that was bound to bring more tourists to the city. Around 100,000 people visit the brewery each year. “We get a little slice of that cake,” he said. Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in. People are also rediscovering family brewers, partly driven by the craze for craft beers. “A lot of people love craft beers, they are very hoppy and very strong, but they are a little bit too much in flavour at the moment,” said Marc Stroobandt, a master beer sommelier. “The family breweries have been doing it for years and have found the right balance of flavour and drinkability.”