Saturday, September 27, 2014

In Bruges

An underground pipeline carrying 5,700 liters of beer an hour will be built in Belgium’s historic city of Bruges. A family-owned brewery will pump beer direct to a bottling plant in the suburbs to cut the number of trucks on ancient cobbled streets.

"The beer will take 10 to 15 minutes to reach the bottling plant. By using the pipeline we will keep hundreds of trucks out of the city center,” Xavier Vanneste, CEO of De Halve Maan brewery, which initiated the project, told Belgium's Het Nieuwsbladsaid.

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“This is unique in the brewing industry, with the exception of one German brewery that has installed a similar system,” said Vanneste.

He says that the idea of a beer pipeline was born out of “environmental and quality of life concerns, not economic ones."

  RT
Obviously not American.


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