Belgium’s beer pipeline starts pumping underneath the streets of Bruges
- 8 years ago
BRUGES, BELGIUM — Belgium’s beer pipeline has officially started operating beneath the ancient city of Bruges on September 16.
The two-mile beer pipeline originates from De Halve Maan beer brewery in the city centre of Bruges to a bottling plant out of town.
“We wanted to avoid running big expensive tanker trucks back and forth transporting our beer,” the New York Times quoted Xavier Vanneste, the director of De Halve Maan as saying. “So we constructed a direct pipeline from the brewery to the bottle room.”
The pipeline is able to transport enough beer to fill 12,000 bottles an hour, the Guardian reported.
The earliest brewing at De Halve Maan was recorded in 1564. Vanneste was advised to shut down the historical site and move the operation to an industrial setting. However, he refused the proposal in order to keep the Bruges-made beer authentic, Reuters reported.
The two-mile beer pipeline originates from De Halve Maan beer brewery in the city centre of Bruges to a bottling plant out of town.
“We wanted to avoid running big expensive tanker trucks back and forth transporting our beer,” the New York Times quoted Xavier Vanneste, the director of De Halve Maan as saying. “So we constructed a direct pipeline from the brewery to the bottle room.”
The pipeline is able to transport enough beer to fill 12,000 bottles an hour, the Guardian reported.
The earliest brewing at De Halve Maan was recorded in 1564. Vanneste was advised to shut down the historical site and move the operation to an industrial setting. However, he refused the proposal in order to keep the Bruges-made beer authentic, Reuters reported.