Beer pipeline

[GermLish]

BELGIUM BREWERY TO BUILD BEER PIPELINE
The De Halve Maan brewery in the city center of Bruges, Belgium, is building a 1 3/4 mile beer pipeline underground to its bottling plant on the outskirts of town.

The pipeline will carry about 1,600 gallons of beer an hour (bph) on a trip that should be less than 15 minutes.

The CEO of De Halve Maan, Xavier Vanneste, said the brewery currently uses tanker trucks to transport their beer to the bottling plant, but the narrow streets and many canals in Bruges make the journey difficult. "This beer pipeline means that we’ll be able to remain in the city,” said Vanneste.

The pipeline tunnel will allow De Halve Maan to continue to produce beer in Bruges as it has done for 500 years. The beer pipeline is expected to be completed this summer.

Anyone hoping for a pipeline spill will be disappointed, though. Vanneste said the pipeline's construction is very strong. "We are quite confident that no leaks or illegal tapping points will be there.”

http://www.constructionequipment.com/belgium-brewery-build-beer-pipeline

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[Chippy_Tea]

They are going to need a fair bit of starsan to sort that out.

 

[GermLish]

It's a continous flow mate.

The pipeline will replace four to five tanker (30,000 liters each) a day :-o

Who the f is that thirsty?:whistle:

 

[Dutto]

The brewery Management are very optimistic! :lol: :lol:

Before a French pipeline had been commissioned a local farmer dug it up and fitted a 1" off-take piped to his barn; from where he sold tanker loads of petrol.

The oil company only found out when one of the Refinery Supervisors moved house and his way to work passed by a farmyard that seemed to have a lot of tanker traffic! :whistle: :whistle:

If you Google "illegal pipeline taps" you will get 797,000 "hits"! I don't think any of them are illegal taps into beer pipelines; but that is probably because there aren't many beer pipelines in the world! :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Jon75]

I'm assuming a sudden interest in archaeology in the area would be a complete coincidence :whistle:

 

[Linalmeemow]

I did the brewery tour at Haalve Maan last year and they were talking about their new pipeline back then, so it must be close to completion by now. The tour is well worth doing if you're in Bruges.

 

[Shampoo]

I did the brewery tour at Haalve Maan last year and they were talking about their new pipeline back then, so it must be close to completion by now. The tour is well worth doing if you're in Bruges.

Funnily enough I did it last year as well (got engaged just afterwards to boot).

I seem to recall the lady saying a large reason is down to the hassle of trying to get the lorries through the streets of Bruges and out again. She also made a joke about the residents nearby asking if they could have a third tap installed into their sinks from the pipe.

But yes, a +1 to the tour. Incredibly informative, and the beer at the end was well earnt after climbing up the tower and back down again!