Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

It's not about what you did 400 years ago. It's what Europeans do because of the choices they make. I mean, there is a brewery in Belgium that literally built a beer pipeline from their downtown brewery to the suburbs for shipping.

That's just nuts. Instead of moving into a modern building next to the interstate, they keep brewing downtown in a 500 year old building. And build a 2 mile beer pipeline. We'll never understand them, and you'll never understand us.

First beer pipeline in the world opens in Bruges, Belgium

It's no longer a fantasy in the Belgian city of Bruges, where the world's first beer pipeline opened last week.

The two-mile pipe connects the Halve Maan brewery in the city's historic center with a bottling plant in the suburbs.

It's a practical solution to the logistical nightmare of having trucks thundering daily through the narrow cobbled streets of a medieval town, the brewery said.

The old town of Bruges is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Halve Maan is one of the fastest growing breweries in Belgium, and the traffic it was generating was becoming unsustainable.

 

^^^^^ Dopey...... beer pipeline

 

Do they guard the beer pipeline ?

 

We understand you perfectly. For Americans, it's all about money and buying lots of things. Europeans care about the quality of life. The owners of this brewery are happy in their old buildings. They feel the presence of all the men that worked there before them. They also feel obliged to pass this brewery on to the next generations. It is culture, it is knowing that you are part of history. If it costs them some money, so what. They use those expenses to be able to work in the middle of a very old town, with a beautiful terrace outside where tourists can taste their beer, where they can show people around, and so on. They are happy, that's important to them.

However, there may also be a another reason. There's another beer brand, Hoegaarden (llook it up). It's also a very old brewery in a very old building. Heineken bought that brewery some years ago, adn since Hoegaarden became more and more popular, they wanted to build a completely new brewery, and so they did. But whatever they tried, they didn't get the taste right. So in the end, the old brewery stayed in production. It would not surprise me if the brew masters of this brewery feared a similar outcome of a change of location.

 

You understand these brewers and their likes of old ways , but us drivers in classic trucks are just so many dinosaurs , ha you make no sense

 

If you restore a 70 year old Peterbilt, than that's fine, and you can be proud of that. If you buy a new truck that is made to look like a 70 year old truck, than that is a fake, it is kitsch.

 

so it's got to be hugely expensive and impractical to make sense to you , driving a museum piece around , good come back

 

No, it is choice.