Beer pipeline to supply brewery in Bruges

If you haven't been to Bruges yet, it's a beautiful medieval city that worth being visited at least once. Resembling a Northern Venice with canals replacing streets, it has been classified as UNESCO World's Heritage and is probably one of the most visited cities in Belgium... perfect for a romantic trip with your lover! Recently, a brewery found a solution to problem of lorries transiting through the old town with an original idea.

Bruges's beautiful canals

Famous for its beer Brugse Zot, one of his most emblematic breweries of Bruges, De Halve Maan ("the Half Moon") announced its intention for 2015 to install a pipeline in the undergrounds of the city... The first pipeline with beer ever invented!

What it might look like

The pioneer construction will probably cost a lot, but it will be an eco-friendly solution to limitate sound and air pollution in the old city. Every year around 500 lorries transit through Bruges in order to provide breweries with beer. Instead, a 3-kilometer long pipeline will connect the brewery (and maybe others) to a bottling plant outside Bruges, reducing by 85% the number of lorries in the beautiful streets. It will take around 10-15 minutes to get the beer out and the steel tube will be high-quality and safe, guaranteeing no leak. One more reason to get a drink in this splendid town!

Bruges during Christmas time