But what if it was a pipeline that transported beer?

In Bruges, Belgium, for example, as much as 6,000 litres of beer per hour is pumped through a 3.2-kilometre underground pipeline that stretches from the centuries-old De Halve Maan brewery and restaurant to its new bottling plant outside of town.

The pipeline was first proposed in 2010 as an alternative to transporting beer by truck through the city’s bumpy, congested streets, said Xavier Vanneste, the company’s CEO and a sixth-generation brewer.