WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.920 This is Bruges, in Belgium, 2 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:04.640 famous for chocolate, lace and beer. 3 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:06.499 And this is the Half Moon Brewery. 4 00:00:06.499 --> 00:00:09.610 There's been a brewery on this site for somewhere around five centuries. 5 00:00:09.610 --> 00:00:12.460 There used to be 30 in the city, but modern production 6 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:15.589 and making enough beer to meet the export demands of the world 7 00:00:15.589 --> 00:00:16.980 make that difficult. 8 00:00:16.980 --> 00:00:20.250 The Half Moon Brewery moved their bottling operation outside the city years ago, 9 00:00:20.250 --> 00:00:23.880 about two miles, but brewing stayed here. 10 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:26.450 This was the last brewery in Bruges. 11 00:00:26.450 --> 00:00:30.580 There have been new brewers coming along with new ideas recently, 12 00:00:30.580 --> 00:00:32.809 so now we are not the only one any more, 13 00:00:32.809 --> 00:00:35.410 but we're definitely the oldest one. 14 00:00:35.410 --> 00:00:38.420 Who are we to change the location of this brewery? 15 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:42.600 Logistics are tricky when your entire city centre is a World Heritage Site. 16 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:44.429 Getting ingredients in was tough enough, 17 00:00:44.429 --> 00:00:47.899 but having to also bring tanker trucks through narrow cobbled streets, 18 00:00:47.899 --> 00:00:51.239 fill them up with beer and then drive them out to the bottling plant two miles away, 19 00:00:51.239 --> 00:00:53.649 well, they needed a better solution. 20 00:00:53.649 --> 00:00:54.710 So they built one. 21 00:00:54.710 --> 00:00:58.899 The beer gets into the pipe right from the brewing room, which is here, 22 00:00:58.899 --> 00:01:01.519 and goes from one tank here in the city centre of Bruges 23 00:01:01.519 --> 00:01:04.470 to another tank on the other side in the bottling plant. 24 00:01:04.470 --> 00:01:07.850 The pipeline's about this size, that's the outer diameter, 25 00:01:07.850 --> 00:01:13.220 and inside that one you have four pipes which are approximately 8cm diameter. 26 00:01:13.220 --> 00:01:18.480 The beer goes through at the rate of about 5,000-6,000l/hr. 27 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:24.020 It's not such a high flow rate that it's under pressure, it's relatively slow. 28 00:01:24.020 --> 00:01:28.720 So it takes a batch of beer about a small hour to get to the other side. 29 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:33.660 The beer enters our site here, it goes in one of the big tanks, 30 00:01:33.660 --> 00:01:36.180 the lagering process goes on for three weeks, 31 00:01:36.180 --> 00:01:41.410 then the beer has to be filtered, pasteurised, we add sugar and yeast, 32 00:01:41.410 --> 00:01:43.780 then everything goes into the bottle. 33 00:01:43.780 --> 00:01:48.090 Yeast inside the bottle has to do the second fermentation, 34 00:01:48.090 --> 00:01:50.490 and that's happening in a warm room. 35 00:01:50.490 --> 00:01:54.550 After the transport, we clean our pipes with cleaning products, 36 00:01:54.550 --> 00:01:57.000 we put disinfection inside of the pipe, 37 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.520 then we flush it with around 300 litres of water 38 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:04.170 before we put beer into the pipeline again. 39 00:02:04.170 --> 00:02:05.550 Outside the city centre, along highways, 40 00:02:05.550 --> 00:02:08.180 sure, regular excavators were fine. 41 00:02:08.180 --> 00:02:11.629 But here, some more creative approaches were needed. 42 00:02:11.629 --> 00:02:13.810 Getting permission for this project wasn't easy, 43 00:02:13.810 --> 00:02:18.850 but we were lucky to have some forward-thinking people in our city 44 00:02:18.850 --> 00:02:21.810 that agreed with this idea and gave us the permit. 45 00:02:21.810 --> 00:02:25.260 It runs only under public domain, so only under the streets, 46 00:02:25.260 --> 00:02:28.239 not under houses or private properties, 47 00:02:28.239 --> 00:02:31.019 and they actually drill from a distance, 48 00:02:31.019 --> 00:02:34.049 so they make a hole on every corner of the street, 49 00:02:34.049 --> 00:02:39.189 and then they have a guided drilling whereby they don't need to open up 50 00:02:39.189 --> 00:02:41.129 all the streets in order to drill. 51 00:02:41.129 --> 00:02:43.959 Four months of construction isn't normally a project that's welcomed, 52 00:02:43.959 --> 00:02:47.640 but the locals of Bruges seemed to think that this was something special. 53 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:50.590 The locals initially thought it was a joke, I think. 54 00:02:50.590 --> 00:02:55.349 People really took to the idea and actually joked a lot about 55 00:02:55.349 --> 00:02:59.239 tapping off the pipeline and getting beer in their own home or kitchen. 56 00:02:59.239 --> 00:03:05.400 It wouldn't be possible to connect a pub or even a house along the pipeline, 57 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.409 however, that's why we invented the crowdfunding, 58 00:03:08.409 --> 00:03:10.329 that's where the idea came from, 59 00:03:10.329 --> 00:03:14.180 so people could crowdfund to actually get some beer for life, 60 00:03:14.180 --> 00:03:17.569 which was the replacement of having a little beer tap in their own house! 61 00:03:17.569 --> 00:03:20.709 Thank you to everyone at the Half Moon Brewery in Bruges. 62 00:03:20.709 --> 00:03:21.430 Pull down the description for more about them!