Swiss Carpenters Bend Engineering Skills To Important Task Of Opening Five Beers At Once

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(Handwerkskollektiv Zurich on YouTube)

There are some problems that are so important, it takes professionals to figure out how to solve them. But it wasn’t a group of bartenders who worked out a way to open five beer bottles at once, it was a team of thirsty carpenters making use of their engineering skills.

Using an arrangement of 10 wooden rulers (two rulers per beer, stacked) leading from the five beers outward in a star formation, with one guy’s hand at the middle clutching all of them, the carpenters are understandably pumped when a quick push on the rulers pops the tops of all five bottles.

The cameraman then pans around to show glowing faces and exuberant smiles all around while everyone cheers.

I don’t speak Swiss German but I think the translation here is, “YEEEEEEEESSSSSS WE DID IT YOU GUYS WE ARE AWESOME, YAAAAY BEER LET’S DRINK IT!”

The group is made up of members of the Handwerkskollektiv Zurich, a cooperative dedicated to carpentry and painting. They said in a Facebook post that the men were participating in a traditional construction celebration called an Aufrichtefest (via UPI).

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist