Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TORONTO, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Six enormous beer tanks made in Germany ended 10 days of road transport Monday when they reached a brewery in Toronto six days late. Six articulated flatbed trucks set out from Hamilton, Ontario, Jan. 7 and were scheduled to deliver the huge tanks four days later to the Molson Coors brewery in northwestern Toronto, near the airport. Advertisement The tanks were sent by ship and had to bypass the port of Toronto as their size made it impossible for them to be trucked through the city, the Toronto Star said. The fermentation tanks are each 150 feet long, 25 feet high and more than 23 feet wide, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said. That meant the 40-mile, walking pace overnight road trek from Hamilton to Toronto required electric power and other utility cables to be lifted or even temporarily severed and traffic lights to be moved to allow the convoy of trucks and support vehicles through. A snowstorm and an underestimation of logistics created the six-day delay, transportation marshal Frank DeVries told the Star. The tanks that each weigh almost 100,000 pounds empty hold a total of 6 million bottles of beer, the CBC said. Advertisement Molson Coors is spending about $24 million on the whole project, the company said.
