--- title: Bruges: Underground Beer Pipeline description: An underground beer pipeline will be build canonical: https://time.com/3432699/there-are-plans-to-build-an-underground-beer-pipeline-in-bruges/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-26T15:38:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:27.262Z og:title: Bruges: Underground Beer Pipeline og:description: An attempt to reduce traffic in an environmentally friendly way og:url: https://time.com/3432699/there-are-plans-to-build-an-underground-beer-pipeline-in-bruges/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eea778c2769d244/6986a59755a859dcdea82d30/178972032.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bar Beer og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bruges: Underground Beer Pipeline twitter:description: An attempt to reduce traffic in an environmentally friendly way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eea778c2769d244/6986a59755a859dcdea82d30/178972032.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # There Are Plans to Build an Underground Beer Pipeline in Bruges  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 26, 2014 3:38 PM UTC  Bar Beer Bar BeerJack Andersen—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 26, 2014 3:38 PM UTC The Bruges city council just approved plans to install a beer pipeline under the northern Belgian city. Yes, you read that right – _a beer pipeline._ The 1.86 mile (3 km) long tunnel will run beneath the city streets and funnel 6,000 liters of beer per hour from the brewery Brouwerij De Halve Maan to an offsite bottling facility, [CityLab reports](http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/09/a-bruges-brewery-is-building-an-underground-beer-pipeline/380765/). The purpose? To reduce traffic and help the environment by taking about 500 delivery trucks off the streets, [according to The Drinks Business](http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2014/09/pipeline-to-carry-beer-under-belgian-city/). But Bruges isn’t the first city to adopt this method of transport; Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland, Ohio, uses underground tubes to bring beer from its brewery to the pub across the street. Cheers. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3432699/there-are-plans-to-build-an-underground-beer-pipeline-in-bruges/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3432699/there-are-plans-to-build-an-underground-beer-pipeline-in-bruges/"},"headline":"There Are Plans to Build an Underground Beer Pipeline in Bruges","datePublished":"2014-09-26T15:38:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:27.262Z","description":"An attempt to reduce traffic in an environmentally friendly way","url":"https://time.com/3432699/there-are-plans-to-build-an-underground-beer-pipeline-in-bruges/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Business topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eea778c2769d244/6986a59755a859dcdea82d30/178972032.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eea778c2769d244/6986a59755a859dcdea82d30/178972032.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bar Beer","caption":"Bar Beer","creditText":"Jack Andersen—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3432699/there-are-plans-to-build-an-underground-beer-pipeline-in-bruges/","name":"There Are Plans to Build an Underground Beer Pipeline in Bruges"}}]}] ```