- We're here to serve you the best possible food and beer
that we can and experience that you can have.
Bright Penny is a brewery with great food
and a very laid back atmosphere in downtown Mebane.
- It's a nice place to come, the kids are entertained.
Nice for the parents,
the dads, to watch sports.
- And mommies.
- And mommies, yep.
- Bright penny is known for a handful of things.
Obviously our beer.
We have 16 taps going pretty much at all times.
All of it is brewed right next door.
- They have something for everyone:
amber ales, and they have a really good one;
but they also have IPAs for the people that like those;
or an American logger.
They have sour beers and ciders.
- We try to follow the demand.
We'll throw some beers out, try some new things and see,
let our customers really decide what is gonna be core.
- [Rob] Right now, eight beers are mainstays on the menu.
Cans and growlers are available on site,
but most beer here flows through the tap.
Both the regulars and the rotating beers
feature memorable names.
Just one way Bright Penny Brewing works
to create a memorable experience
that's hardly limited to what's on tap.
- It really is just a good time
even if you're not even into to beer,
just come out, have fun, friends.
- There's definitely a lot more than beer.
They got delicious pizza.
I just really enjoyed the food for sure.
And the beer was good too, though.
- [Rob] When Bright Penny opened in 2019,
its owners wanted to focus on beer
but also have the menu revolve around another item
in particular.
- The biggest thing is our pizzas.
So we have Neapolitan style pizzas.
We have a pretty good variation on that as well.
More craft style, I guess,
to kind of match the beer as much as we possibly can.
We have a sweet and salty pizza.
We use garlic oil and prosciutto, sliced figs
and goat cheese, and then we finish it with fresh arugula
and balsamic glaze.
There are some customizations that you can make,
but for standard pizzas on the menu,
we have about 20 pizzas on there.
We have a handful of smaller bites.
We get a lot of call for our bruschetta and caprese.
It's a really fresh light meal.
Our buffalo dip is probably one of the biggest sellers
that we have.
- [Rob] But there's one appetizer
at Bright Penny Brewing that's come to shine brighter
than all the others.
- The main thing we're known for now food wise
is our grandma's deviled eggs.
People travel for those now.
- The deviled eggs were very good.
- The deviled eggs are to die for.
- The eggs are really good.
You can do a flight,
and on the flight you can choose up to three, I believe.
They're really good.
- We've had probably 10 or so special eggs that come and go.
But nine standard that kind of stick with us.
- [Rob] Each of the grandma's eggs is named
for the grandmother of someone on the Bright Penny staff,
including Lorraine, Madge and Harriet, not to mention...
- Doreen's is dill relish, dill weed, and paprika,
which is the pretty typical Easter egg, Thanksgiving.
We also do Gertie's,
which is just bacon with local micro greens.
We do an Italian one with pizza sauce, pepperoni, capers.
It's a pretty good variety of egg toppings.
Grandma's eggs definitely started out as somewhat of a joke.
Brainstorming meetings, kind of throw things at the wall
and see what sticks, and we gave it a shot.
First night we sold out so we tried it again second day
to see if it was a fluke.
Sure enough, it wasn't.
We sold out again.
And from there, it kind of just grew.
- [Rob] Much like the community Bright Penny Brewing
calls home.
Located in a place that was a Purina feed mill decades ago,
Bright Penny is carrying on the tradition
of providing nourishment to Mebane and beyond.
- We tried to bring it back to life
and it seems to be a staple in Mebane now.
Mebane is growing and growing, faster and faster.
We're really happy to be a part of that.
The community has been really accepting of us
and what we try to do.
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- [Deborah] Bright Penny Brewing Company
is at 107 North 7th Street in Mebane
and they're open daily.
To find out more,
check them out online at brightpennybrewing.com.