America was ready for the World Cup.
But one host city was not prepared to handle the booze consumption from one group of raucous international soccer fans.
Following Scotland’s 1-0 win over Haiti in the team’s first group stage victory at Gillette Stadium outside of Boston, Scottish soccer fans somehow managed to drink one of the city’s major bars dry.
According to reports, the “Tartan Army” allegedly took over Boston’s downtown area and the famous Sam Adams Boston Taproom following Saturday’s win and drank ALL of the brewery’s signature lager.
According to NBC News, from Thursday to Sunday, Scotland fans drank four times as much Boston Lager as the Taproom normally sells in a four-day holiday stretch.
Sam Adams told NBC News the company was forced to schedule an emergency delivery to keep up.
How funny is this? World Cup fans from Scotland drank the bars in Boston dry over the weekend! pic.twitter.com/q9WQVi78R8
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) June 17, 2026
And the Sam Adams Boston Taproom wasn’t the only bar struggling to keep up with the demand of the rowdy Scots.
Noelle Somers, chief operating officer at Hennessy’s Bar, said the sales from the weekend were three times as much as the city’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities.
“We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it,” she told the Boston Globe.
“We tripled St. Patrick’s Day.”
Peter Zettel, a clerk at Federal Wine & Spirits in Boston’s Financial District, revealed fans even booed one patron who opted to buy water rather than booze.
Zettel added that one of the bar’s refrigerators even broke down because the bartenders were opening it constantly to serve more drinks.
“It met its match against the Scottish,” he told the Globe.
Corona, Budweiser, Coors, Miller, Guinness, Michelob Ultra, and Tennent’s Lager, Scotland’s most popular beer, were the favorites that ran out over the weekend, according to the business owners.
Many of the bars and liquor stores are working hard to replenish their stock as Scotland is scheduled to play against Morocco at Boston Stadium on Friday night.
And the city is already preparing for another onslaught of heavy drinking as the English are expected to take over the city for their match up against Ghana next Tuesday.