The Belgian city of Bruges has approved plans to build a pipeline which will funnel beer underneath its famous cobbled streets.What's the over/under on how long it takes before they find clandestine taps have been attached along the way?
Locals and politicians were fed up with huge lorries clattering through the cobbled streets and tiny canal paths of the picturesque city and decided to connect the De Halve Maan brewery to a bottling factory 3.2km (two miles) away.
It is estimated that some 500 trucks currently motor through Bruges each year on their way to the brewery, which is a famous tourist attraction.
Now they will be kept out of the city limits, as the pipe pumps 1,500 gallons of beer per hour. Construction is set to begin next year.
Friday, September 26, 2014
I wonder how you would tap into this
Underground beer pipes:
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Heh, beyond that, what's the over/under on time until the truck drivers' union forms a protest, organized by the tourism ministry?
I'm guessing less than an hour after construction is complete ... to maybe two hours.
I suspect the beer in that pipe won't be carbonated. It'll probably be transported flat and carbonated at the bottling plant. So tap in if you want, just don't expect a head on what comes out of it.
Not feasible. Belgian beer is not Budweiser and how it is transported matters.
You don't put quality wines, spirits or beer in pipes ... period.
Watneys tried that years ago.
Connected pubs' urinals back to their brewery.
Hence the expression "You only rent your beer here"
And won't they need to dig up those touristy cobbles and canal paths to put in the pipes? "We had to destroy the cobbles to save them!"
1500 GPH isn't very much flow. 2" pipe at most.
OMMAG: You're assuming it's quality beer. It might be something they're making for export to the United States.
Sorry Dave, but I can't help taking the matter of beer sacrilege seriously. De Halve Mann is a first rate brewery with 150 years of history.
It's a whole different world in Belgium and in 15 years of some pretty serious beer hunting I've not found a second rate beer except for Stella Artois .... which also the only Belgian Beer I know of that is brewed primarily for export.
As long as the EU doesn't let Ukraine have any beer from the pipe everything will be fine.
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