A German music festival has come up with a way to save the earth and pour more beer, all at the same time. The Wacken Open Air Festival is building a special pipeline to avoid truck deliveries and speed up the brew.
The heavy metal festival, which brings a crowd of over 75,000 to a town of 1,800 each year, consumes about 400,000 litres of beer during the show, about 5 litres per customer. The pipeline means no more fleets of trucks hauling in new kegs, no more delays while a new keg is tapped, and no more truck ruts across the fields to turn into mud.
The beer pipeline is actually one of several being built. Drinking water will get one, too, as will sewage lines and the electric and fiber optic cables needed for communication, light shows and above all, LOUD music.
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