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Your cousin from Scotland: Fans drink Boston dry
Key takeaways
- "We've never seen anything like it," Billy DeCain of the Sam Adams Boston Taproom told NBC Boston.
- "The White Bull Tavern, there was no beer," Scottish fan Dave Orr told NBC.
- We ran out of everything," Paul Morris of The White Bull Tavern said.
Why this matters: a sports story that could shift standings, legacies, or fan conversations.
Boston Beer Co. said in a news release that from Thursday to Sunday, the Tartan Army -- Scotland's supporters organization -- drank four times what the company normally stocks during a typical four-day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July, adding that it had to schedule an emergency delivery of beer Saturday morning and are adding extra deliveries this week to make sure it has enough.
"We've never seen anything like it," Billy DeCain of the Sam Adams Boston Taproom told NBC Boston.
"The White Bull Tavern, there was no beer," Scottish fan Dave Orr told NBC. "The Scottish fans just drank the place dry and all they had was Bud Light."
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