Tired of home taps that only deliver water? How would you like a beer tap hooked up to your kitchen sink? One Norwegian woman recently discovered her tap water had turned into beer.
It wasn’t a miracle, though; it was just a plumbing malfunction.
"It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet this weekend and found the water had turned into beer.
"Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.
"By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersen’s apartment.
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"However, Gundersen said the beer was flat and not tempting, even in a country where a half-liter (pint) can cost about 25 kroner ($3.75) in grocery stores."
I’m not much of an alcohol drinker myself. I wonder if I could get my taps to spout soda….
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Personally, after discussing this at work with some colleagues, we wonder if she’d kept the sink running- would it have tapped a new keg and had fresher beer? Several of us would like to try the experiment.
Tim, thanks for the Ben Franklin quote!
This has been a recurring dream of mine.
I’m waiting for revisionists to propose the theory that the miracle at Cana can be explained as a “mistaken substitution of nearby wine jars by overworked wedding servants.”
Hot, Cold, and Scotch
Something tells me, my morning showers would last a little longer too.
Eight glasses a day will keep the doctor away.
It would be great to have Norweigan beer instead of something American.
Am I the only one who thought of the recent TV lite beer commercial where guys are running around frantically trying to gather all of the falling rain because they think it is raining beer (because their normal lite beers taste so light they can’t tell the difference between the beer and water) when I saw this post?
>Hot, Cold, and Scotch
LOL. I know a senior senator who has his house piped like that.
It made me think of the “all hail, oh magic refrigerator” beer ad, myself.
PVO