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03-14-2006, 9:56am
Norway, where beer flows instead of water
Woman pleasantly surprised when alcohol comes through kitchen faucet
OSLO, Norway - A woman thought she was in heaven when beer instead of water flowed from the faucets 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, in west Norway. “We thought we were in heaven.”
Beer in Norway is among the most expensive in the world with a 0.7 pint costing about $7.48 in a bar.
Gundersen said she tried the beer but that it tasted a bit odd and was flat.
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 apartment. The bar got water in its beer taps.
“If it happens again I’m going to order Baileys (liqueur),” she said.
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Woman pleasantly surprised when alcohol comes through kitchen faucet
OSLO, Norway - A woman thought she was in heaven when beer instead of water flowed from the faucets 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, in west Norway. “We thought we were in heaven.”
Beer in Norway is among the most expensive in the world with a 0.7 pint costing about $7.48 in a bar.
Gundersen said she tried the beer but that it tasted a bit odd and was flat.
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 apartment. The bar got water in its beer taps.
“If it happens again I’m going to order Baileys (liqueur),” she said.
Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11811147/