Scottish soccer fans have been having a blast in Boston over the past week, with the “Tartan Army” taking over restaurants and pubs, taking a victory lap of the city after their 1-0 win over Haiti on Saturday and marching to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park on Sunday.
They’ve also been drinking a lot of beer. So much so that some Boston bars ran out.
Sam Adams says its Boston Taproom ran out of Samuel Adams Boston Lager over the weekend because Scottish soccer fans drank it dry. From Thursday to Sunday, it said the Tartan Army drank four times as much Boston Lager as it normally sells during a typical four-day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July.
The company had to schedule an emergency delivery on Saturday morning just to keep up.
And Sam Adams wasn’t the only one.
Hennessy’s Bar in downtown Boston told The Boston Globe that it tripled its St. Patrick’s Day sales and sold out of beer altogether on Sunday night.
“We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it,” said Noelle Somers, Hennessy’s chief operating officer.
Federal Wine & Spirits in the Financial District told the Globe it sold out of Budweiser and Corona on Saturday and the door on one of its refrigerators broke from being opened and closed so many times.
Hopefully, the bars are stocking up. Scotland is next scheduled to play Morocco at Boston Stadium in Foxborough at 6 p.m. ET Friday.
