Who among us has not , at some point , wished for a pipeline of beer draw straight off to our theatre ? And if not beer , perchance something else you wish to consume in alarming loudness : chocolate milk , pop , gravy , mashed potatoes , fancy flavored foam water , that powder that ’s in Pixy Stix . But this clause is about a beer pipeline — fantasy about that other stuff on your own time .
It turn out that the concertgoers of theWacken Open Air Festival , the mankind ’s biggest outdoor great metallic element music festival , really love beer . Like , a caboodle . The yearly festival takes place in Wacken , Germany , and receive around 75,000 metalheads from all over the world . Over the course of the three - day festival , the next installment of which is coming up in August , each one of these rockers is estimated to toast an average 1.3 gallons ( 5.1 cubic decimetre ) of beer , or a trivial less than 14 received - issue tooshie of beer . keep up enough supply to satisfy this crowd has been a challenge since the fete launched in 1990 .
The issue is that beer motortruck at Wacken beat a problem : A full , received - sized keg of beer weigh about 160 pounds ( 73 kilogram ) , and the festival - departer guzzle about 10,000 kegs each twelvemonth . All recount , that ’s 800 tons ( 730 metric tons ) of beer . All this keg - hauling snag up the festival ground , which are unremarkably agrarian fields , and creates unneeded traffic in the cognitive process .
But permit it not be said metal buff are n’t a solution - minded multitude . The consequence organiser decided to build a pipeline 4 miles ( 7 km ) in length and 14 in ( 35 centimeters ) in width to pump the beer to the thirsty Megadeth , Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson fans — conveniently lay character optic cable as well as boozing water supply and wastewater pipes in the same trench during the base task .
" Of naturally we will control the hygiene of the tube all the time , " say the Wacken organizers on thefestival site .
But the bottom line is , they ’re promising the new pipeline will have enough pressure to allow bartenders to pour six beer in six seconds . The Wacken infrastructure is now complete — sway on , rockers !
