reporter: bruges has a problem, and not only bruges.here have been thousands of cancellations since the terrorist attacks. from all over the world. >> our guests ncome from britain, from the us, from japan, even from australia, and china. they've been frightened off by what happened and are staying away for now. reporter: over 12,000 jobs in brussels are in the hotel sector, thousands and thousands more depend on the wider tourism industry. the few visitors who are here at the moment aren't necessarily interested in tourist knick knacks. yousef zideian is feeling the pinch. he's been drawing on the grand place for 18 years. and he reporter: i heard from my friends, which is the horsemen here, flower sellers, or many shops and restaurants around, i know i have many friends which have restaurants and they said they have much much more less people. >> according to the hotel association, reservations have fallen by between 30 and 40 percent. not only because of fear. since the attacks, brussels airport, belgium's biggest airport, has not be

reporter: bruges has a problem, and not only bruges.ve been thousands of cancellations since the terrorist attacks. from all over the world. >> our guests ncome from britain, from the us, from japan, even from australia, and china. they've been frightened off by what happened and are staying away for now. reporter: over 12,000 jobs in brussels are in the hotel sector, thousands and thousands more depend on the wider tourism industry. the few visitors who are here at the moment aren't necessarily interested in tourist knick knacks. yousef zideian is feeling the pinch. he's been drawing on the grand place for 18 years. and he is not the only one. reporter: i heard from my friends, which is the horsemen here, flower sellers, or many shops and restaurants around, i know i have many friends which have restaurants and they said they have much much more less people. >> according to the hotel association, reservations have fallen by between 30 and 40 percent. not only because of fear. since the attacks, brussels airport, belgium's biggest airpo

bruges, belgium, is the best place to drink belgium beer. most of of the breweries are long gone, except the only one left within the town's wall. the streets in the town are too small to accommodate the large tanker trucks required to transport the beer to the brewery to the bottling plant. the solutions over here, a two mile long beer pipe underground, this is where it begins. for 160 years the family has been brewing beer within the walls of bruges, the problem started back in 2010 when the brewery moved the bottling facility out of the town creating a bottle neck of beer trucks. he said this is the best way to keep the family tradition going. >>> i think we are the first ones to do this. >> reporter: engineers drilled through the town's canals and could believedeets producing four thousand ounces of beer an hour. >>> we received from a lot of people they had a condition a tap-in point. >>> are you award about people tapping into the pipeline? >>> we are sure this will not be possible. >> reporter: the pipeline's popularity gave him an id

for 160 years, he has been brewing beer within the walls of bruges.ttle of neck of beer trucks. he says this is the best way to keep the family tradition growing. >> i think we are the first one to do this, yeah. >> engineers drilled through the canals and cobbled streets, capable of transporting 4,000 liter of beer. >> they were enthusiastic. up spon stainiously offering, they want to tap-in points, private tap points. >> are you worried about people tap news your pipeline? >> we are pretty sure technically it will not be possible. >> reporter: it gave him an idea, crowd fund the project's $4.5 million price tag. he came up with a scheme to exchange donations for beer. local restaurant owner gave over $11,000, and now gets free beer for life. >> i like the beer. i drink it everyday, but it is more for the friendship. >> and there is nothing like good friends and the crisp taste of freshly brewed beer. it is expected to start flowing the beginning of summer. in the meantime, let's have a taste. erin mclaughlin, cnn, burgess. >> posing as his own publi

some revenue, be back in a minute. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the de halve maan brewery h been operating in brugesfo1 >>> finally tonight a belgian brewery that's run its business into the ground. >> they've been operating for 160 years, but the medieval city streets are too narrow for the transport trucks that take the beer to the new bottling plant outside of town. instead of moving the brewery is building a 2-mile long pipeline through the city's canals and cobbled streets. >> reporter: how did the residents react? >> well, the residents were quite enthusiastic actually. we received a lot of people spontaneously offering us to pass alongside their house. they just had one condition. they wanted a tapping point, but -- >> reporter: are you worried about people tapping into your pipeline? >> we are pretty sure this will technically not be possible. >> we'll find out. the beer should start flowing sometime this summer. >> we'll stay on top of this one for sure. thanks for watching. 60 minutes is next. >> we'll see you back here at 11:00. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, captioning funded by cbs and ford. we go