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 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 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 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 ArticleLearning from History: Resistance in the 1850s and Today
History never really repeats itself, neither as tragedy nor as farce nor as something else entirely. Donald Trump is both a narcissistic and megalomanical fool and a tragedy for the U.S. and the...
View ArticleFairytale fables
Leisure travel In this world, especially in India, the magnetism of megalopolises dazzles today’s traveller. But, today, a Rome-Paris-London-Amsterdam itinerary finds a place in the attic of the...
View ArticlePolitics and ethnicity in Liberia
Opinion By Dagbayonoh Kiah Nyanfore II, USA. The use of ethnicity in elections is not strange in Liberian political history. For instance, Liberian former president, William V.S. Tubman and his...
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 ArticleThe meaning of the Fourth of July
Frederick Douglass On July 5, 1852, the abolitionist, author and escaped slave Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to a gathering in Rochester, N.Y., that has lived on as a powerful and provocative...
View ArticleDurham Releases #BullCity Running Man Challenge Video
Wildin Acosta, the high school student who had been in federal immigration custody since January, was released Friday after his parents posted a $10,000 bond in Charlotte, a Latino advocacy group...
View Article"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told...
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