Belgian brewery's pipe dream brings relief to medieval Bruges


An employee controls the beer-making process at the Halve Maan brewery in Bruges, Belgium, September 15, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Vidal

BRUGES, Belgium (Reuters) - 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 (2 miles) away.

Four years in planning and five months in construction, the Halve Maan (Half Moon) brewery will officially open a pipe that will rid the historic city centre and its tight cobbled lanes of beer-laden trucks weighing more than 40 tonnes.

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