Wacken festival workers laying pipes. The Wacken Open Air festival in northern Germany is constructing its very own beer pipeline to quench the thirst of its tens of thousands of head-banging visitors. In anticipation of all the beer to be drunk, the fest is building its first ever beer pipeline to transport the average 400,000 litres of brew consumed each year to the concert grounds. “With this, the grounds will not to have need to have any heavy trucks distributing beer barrels,” said Wacken fest founder Holger Hübner on Tuesday. According to Hamburg research group Statista, metal fans each drank on average 5.1 litres of beer in 2011.

Source: The Local May 24, 2017 07:52 UTC