Harriet 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 ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #3-9: 2 Fiery 2 Furious Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-9: 2 Fiery 2 Furious Edition Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Be sure to ask about our special low monthly payment plans and 1.9% APR financing with special...
View ArticleTeen Picked Up by ICE on His Way to High School Faces Deportation to Honduras
Students at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, are gathering on Capitol Hill today to demand the release of their undocumented classmate, 19-year-old Wildin Acosta. Acosta was detained by...
View ArticleUnderground BEER pipeline is being built in Belgium after brewery...
A Belgian brewery is weeks from turning on the taps of a two-mile beer pipeline, which not only makes bottling easier but will also help ease the city's traffic problem. De Halve Maan has built a pipe...
View ArticleBeer will be flowing underground in Bruges, Belgium
In the small, old Belgian town of Bruges just outside Brussels, a pipeline is being built underground exclusively for beer. The two-mile pipeline, which is expected to be completed this summer, will be...
View ArticleAn 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 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 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 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 ArticlePipe Dream Becomes High-Tech Transport Line For Historic Belgian Brew
Enlarge this image De Halve Maan brewery director Xavier Vanneste looks on as the last beer tanker prepares for its trip. The brewery will now transport beer using a pipeline. Teri Schultz for NPR...
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....
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