How do you get into The Blind Pig?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Pig is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at The Blind Pig
How the venue describes itself: “Blind Pig can be referenced back to the prohibition era where a proprietor sold patrons tickets to view a blind pig he kept in the back room. Along with every admission, customers were treat…” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Blind Pig sits
The Blind Pig is in Lafayette, Indiana, in Tippecanoe County, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Lafayette. If you know another, tell us.
Indiana holds 25 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Indiana speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Indiana
Indiana did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Indiana already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Indiana.
What the newspapers recorded in Indiana
Searching the Library of Congress run of Indiana newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Indiana:
- The Lake County times, July 15, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- South Bend news-times, January 11, 1924 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Lake County times, December 16, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Lake County times, June 9, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- 11:00-03:00
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Blind Pig by phone on (765) 464-6691, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 302 Ferry Street, Lafayette, IN 47901. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Pig we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold an online booking link or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.