Belgian Beer Pipeline

Ok, this is news to me - A Belgian brewer sending its beer 3 km from the brewery to its bottling plant via a 6,000 liter/hour pipeline :

Good idea!

I thought this comment after the article was interesting:

“I was hoping that news was about pipelines from local brewery to apartments in Bruges. We have this already in Pilsen and Prag(Czech Rep.)”

A pipeline form the brewery to your apartment?  That would have been cool in my younger days. :wink:

Paul

How would they keep it clean and sanitized? Steam?

Yeah, I’m trying to picture that too. And at that flow rate, it seems like there’s potential for a lot of beer spraying everywhere before a valve gets closed. But I’ll give Belgium the benefit of the doubt - they do beer pretty well.

Yeah, I missed that first time. That could’ve been trouble in my 20s or the greatest time ever. Probably some of both !