An Amazing Underground Pipeline That Carries Beer From a Bruges,...
In May 2016 we wrote about an underground pipeline in Bruges, Belgium that would efficiently transfer beer from the historic Brouwerij De Halve Maan brewery to their bottling plant. At that time, they...
View ArticleA Pipeline of Beer: Not Just a Fantasy
Halve Maan Brewery lies in the center of Bruges, Belgium, but its bottling plant is on the city’s outskirts. Trucks became expensive and impractical, so the owners built an underground pipeline to...
View ArticleBelgium 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...
View ArticleBelgian Brewery Crowdfunds Two-Mile Pipeline to Transport Beer
A brewery in Belgium is installing a two-mile-long underground pipeline to transport fresh beer from the bottling plant to the pub - a first-of-its-kind feat that was crowdfunded by the community. "A...
View ArticleBelgian Brewery Crowdfunds 2-Mile Pipeline to Transport Beer
De Halve Maan, a brewery in Bruges, Belgium is constructing a two-mile long underground beer pipeline to transport their beer from the bottling plant to the city center. A brewery in Belgium is...
View ArticleTapped for success: Boozy pipe dream becomes reality for Belgian beer lovers
A boozy pipe dream became reality for beer lovers in Belgium today as a Bruges brewery poured its first glass of ale delivered through a 2 mile-long long underground pipeline from an out-of-town...
View ArticleFirst Drafts: Belgian family brewers blend tradition and innovation
Miek Van Melkebeke had other ideas for her future rather than taking over the family business — until she realized the impact of that decision. Her mother, Anne De Ryck, had kept the lineage intact,...
View ArticleBelgian brewery's pipe dream brings relief to medieval Bruges
BRUGES, Belgium: A Belgian brewery is turning on the taps of a pipeline buried beneath the medieval city of Bruges to transport its beer to a bottling plant some 3 km away. Four years in planning and...
View ArticleBeer pipeline today, chocolate pipeline tomorrow?
Forget oil pipelines. This is one we can all agree on: a 3.2-km beer pipeline. The $4.5-million pipeline opens this summer in Bruges, Belgium, -- running beer from De Halve Maan brewery to its brew pub...
View ArticleBelgian Brewery's Underground Beer Pipeline Is Nearly Finished
An underground pipeline built to deliver beer to the people of Belgium is almost complete. When local brewery De Halve Maan, or The Half Moon, moved its bottling facilities two miles away from the...
View ArticleBeer pipeline chugs suds under historic Belgian town
BRUGES, BELGIUM — Beer-loving Belgians dove deep into their pockets and deep under the cobblestone streets of the historical city of Bruges to create world's first beer pipeline. Instead of hundreds of...
View ArticleCheers! The world's first beer pipeline is now open
A beer pipeline. It sounds like an ale lover's wildest dream. It's no longer a fantasy in the Belgian city of Bruges, where the world's first beer pipeline opened last week. The two-mile pipe connects...
View ArticleCrowdfunded beer pipeline to protect medieval city of Bruges
BRUGES, Belgium — The idea may have seemed mad, but after all, the beer is called the Madman of Bruges — or Brugse Zot in Dutch. With the help of crowdfunding efforts among some 400 Madman fans, the...
View ArticleHarriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass statues proposed
Two leading Maryland lawmakers on Friday proposed commissioning statues of abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to be placed inside the Maryland State House. Senate President Thomas V....
View ArticleCentral American immigrants, wary of recent raids sweeping up young people,...
When Wildin David Guillen Acosta left his apartment to head to high school one chilly morning in January, two immigration agents were waiting. Acosta, 19, immediately threw himself on the ground and...
View Article#ICYMI: Popular Stories in Tech This Week (Week of June 27) (Flipboard Inc)
(Source: Flipboard Inc) Jessica Elsey / July 1, 2016 A man is silhouetted against a video screen with an Facebook logo as he poses with an Samsung S4 smartphone in this photo illustration taken in the...
View ArticleButterfield Travels to Georgia Detention Facility to Visit Wildin Acosta (GK...
(Source: GK Butterfield) WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement following his visit to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, where Wildin...
View ArticleThe Story of Wildin: A Undocumented Minor from Honduras and Immigrant Detention
The podcast Criminal has an episode that may be of interest to ImmigrationProf readers. In 2014, 16-year-old Wildin Acosta left Olancho, Honduras and traveled toward the U.S. border. ......
View ArticleNeighborhoods: African-American history and more in Harlem
By Beth J. Harpaz / The Associated PressNEW YORK — Decades of African-American history have made Harlem one of America’s most famous neighborhoods. It’s also an essential destination for visitors to...
View ArticleSupporters urge release of teen student facing deportation
A teen who says he risks death if he's deported to his native Honduras should be released from the custody of immigration officials and returned to North Carolina so he can finish high school,...
View Article