Object: Old porcelain pitcher, white in colour, a scorch mark on one side, chipped on rim with a blue line running around below the edge.
Trigger: Filling the pitcher with water
Description: Neela, one of the serving girls, found an old pitcher in the storeroom one busy night. As they needed the extra serving ware she asked Allain to wash it out. Allain, being overworked that night and in a less than charitable mood, filled it with soapy water and set it to the side to soak out some stains inside the pitcher. When he came back to the pitcher Allain found it filled with a deep nut brown ale. Looking about furtively, he took a quick swig - and promptly spat out the soapy ale. Thinking it was a joke, and a poor one at that, Allain rinsed the pitcher out and filled it with clean water and was then distracted by yet more dishes. When the overworked drudge turned his attention back to the pitcher he once again found it filled with a wonderfully smelling deep, nut brown ale. He sniffed it cautiously and, scenting no soap this time, took a tentative sip. Allain was in heaven. This was the best ale he had ever tasted. Allain quickly stashed the pitcher behind some other stacks of dishes. For the rest of that night the serving girls found Allain to be in an uncommonly good humor.

Allain keeps this pitcher for his own private use. As it looks old and beat up the innkeeper isn't all that concerned about it. Every so often, on a busy night, one of the serving girls will grab this pitcher to pour drinks with. Allain always grabs it back as soon as possible. Experimentation has shown that it only turns water into ale and has no effect on any other liquid poured into the pitcher. The ale can be poured into any other serving utensil (i.e. mug or cup) and retain it's full quality. What Allain hasn't yet realized is that the ale produced by the pitcher is a healing potion and will have a beneficial effect on anyone drinking it. The magician created this for his own private use as a quick restorative when his experiments went awry or his familiar got out of hand. He's been missing it for a couple of moons now and would like it back. How it arrived in the tavern's storeroom is open to conjecture though the prime suspects are the magician's familiar and the magician's housekeeper.