The story of Belgium’s famous beer pipeline

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Bruges is one of Belgium’s best-preserved medieval cities. Game of Thrones fans will appreciate the picturesque canals, turreted manor houses and gilded spires that help attract millions of tourists every year. But hidden beneath the city’s historic cobblestone streets lies something even more remarkable: a two-mile long pipeline made exclusively for beer.

 

The booze tube, which has been operating since September last year, carries over 1,300 gallons of beer every hour from the city’s oldest working brewery near the center of Bruges to a bottling plant on its outskirts. Think of the original brewery as a kind of heart, pumping Belgian lifeblood through polyethylene “veins” to keep one of the country’s oldest traditions alive. … continue reading.