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‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’: Boston Scrambles to Get More Beer as Scottish World Cup Tourists Drink It Dry

Several bars around the city ran out of beer.

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When soccer (or football, if you don’t want to get yelled at) fans arrive in your town for a World Cup match, you had better have your hotels ready and your public transit systems functioning at peak performance. And, apparently, you also need to tap into your city’s emergency beer rations to meet the overwhelming but somehow not at all surprising extremely high demand of Scottish soccer fans.

According to reports from CBS Boston, bars across Boston spent the weekend scrambling for backup beer supplies after thousands of Scottish fans descended on the city to watch the Scottish national team beat Haiti 1-0 while getting lightly to severely trashed before, during, after, and long after the match. Scottish soccer fans drink so much, in fact, that several bars around the city ran out of beer. That’s like saying the ocean ran out........

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