Swedish Students Rally for Beer

Dozens of students marched on a Swedish brewery on Tuesday, winning a landmark, if somewhat mock, victory in a decades-long struggle to get a 100-kilometer beer pipeline built from the brewery near Gothenburg to Chalmers University of Technology. The long-sought pipeline, which would pump beer directly to the student union, will advance by a single meter, reports the Local, a newspaper in Sweden.

The student effort began in 1959 when the Chalmers student union purchased a single share in the brewery, giving it a platform to press for construction of the 100-kilometer (62-mile) pipeline. Two meters—one on the brewery end and another on the student-union end—were laid, but “no further construction has taken place since 1968,” according to the Local.

A spokesman for Carlsberg, which now owns the local brewery, noted that the students “are a big customer for us and it’s important to have good relations.” —Aisha Labi