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

(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