The famous De Halve Maan brewery in Bruges , Belgium has been cranking out tasty drafts for more than five centuries — all from the same historic building . But with its fleet of beer hand truck now tie up traffic get to a new processing plant two miles away , the brewery is taking the only logical course of activeness : It ’s install an underground beer pipe .
The De Halve Maan brewery does n’t just produce award - winning ‘ Brugse Zot ’ suds , its 500 - year - old brewing facility is a tourist attraction in its own rightfield , pull out in 100,000 visitors annually . So it ’s not like DHM could very well just foot up and move shop simply to be close to its modern filtering and bottle industrial plant 3 km down the road .
The firm ’s initial solution was to build up a fleet of 500 tanker trucks to transport the liquor overland , on city streets . unluckily , Bruges ’ infrastructure is n’t build to handle that variety of load , which has result in heaps of road congestion , wasted fuel , and increase truck maintenance monetary value .
The unexampled plan , however , takes an entirely different tack : They want to pump the beer underground in intellectual nourishment - safe polyethylene plastic from the original brewery to the young installation on the Waggelwater industrial estate of the realm . When complete , the word of mouth should push more than 6,000 liters ( 1,500 gallon ) of beer every hour ( the trip takes about 15 minute from end to end ) and take all 500 of those oiler off the route ( as well as harvest the benefits of lower pollution outputs and lighter operating price ) .
There ’s no word on how much the labor will be when it gets underway early next year but commit that DHM is foot the entire flier — for both the pipeline ’s installation and its maintenance — it certainly wo n’t cost the Belgian taxpayers a dime . Heck , its installation wo n’t even disrupt morning commutes as the full grapevine will be carve out using computer - guided Mandrillus leucophaeus so as not to shoot down up the roads .
“ In time , this innovative investment funds architectural plan would reduce the amount of exaltation by fleshy goods fomite by 85 percentage , ” Franky Demon , Bruges ’ Alderman for Spatial Planning , told Sky News . “ It is a profits - win situation for everyone . ” Especially for the city ’s enterprising drinkers , once they fortify themselves with shovels and pickaxes . [ Fox – Sky – NPRviaWired ]
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