Beer… Sweet, Sweet Beer
March 14th, 2006 at 8:24 am by Preston Taylor HolmesNorwegian woman discovers her tap water replaced with beer.
OSLO (Reuters) – A woman thought she was in heaven when beer instead of water flowed from the taps in her apartment in west Norway.
“I turned on the tap to clean some knives and forks and beer came out,” Haldis Gundersen told Reuters from her home in Kristiansund, west Norway. “We thought we were in heaven.”
Beer in Norway is among the most expensive in the world with a 0.4 liter (0.7 pint) costing about 50 crowns ($7.48) in a bar.
Gundersen said she tried the beer but that it tasted a bit odd and was not fizzy.
How’d it happen?
It turned out that a worker in a bar two floors below had mixed up the pipes on Saturday evening, wrongly connecting a new barrel to a water pipe leading to Gundersen’s flat. The bar got water in its beer taps.
I don’t really have any commentary to add. I’m just busy fantasizing about Guinness™ flowing freely from my kitchen sink. It may not be as good for washing your hands, but it’ll damn sure cure what ails ya.
March 14th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Holmes… I was imagining the exact same thing. D’oh!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
mmm…beer
I’ve bought beer in Norway. ONE BEER. It is unbelievably expensive. Luckily, we had a trunk full of cheap Danish and German beer so didn’t have to go without.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:47 am
$7.48? Chinese beer sucks, but at least it’s cheap.