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World Cup in Boston: Scotland causing beer shortage? Norway–Iraq game preps
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| 16 Jun 2026
| NBC10 Boston
Posted on 06/17/2026 7:01:09 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
With Scottish football fans in Boston, bars are saying their beer is getting drunken faster than on St. Patrick’s Day or a sports championship — the Dubliner had its biggest week ever! But first, fans of Iraq and Norway were partying ahead of Tuesday’s game, and what travel on the MBTA trains to Boston Stadium was like.
TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: beer; boston; cityofwinecoolers; massachusetts; scotland; worldcup
The Scots are drinking all the beer in Boston! Supplies rushing in from Maine and New Hampshire...
OMG, someone tell Liz Warren people are having actual fun!
To: Alas Babylon!
Don’t they ship Beer by truck in Boston or has that Crazy Mayor banned It ,LOL
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posted on
06/17/2026 7:07:54 AM PDT
by
butlerweave
(Fateh)
To: Alas Babylon!
LOL. I’ve seen two stories about Scots coming to Boston for the World Cup. The first was Scots complaining about how expensive everything is and the second is that they are causing a beer shortage - both playing into the idea that Scots are cheap and drink too much.
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posted on
06/17/2026 7:14:11 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Alas Babylon!
They saw a sign that read:
Drink Canada Dry......
So they did.............
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posted on
06/17/2026 7:14:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Alas Babylon!
The fact that their first and second games are both in Boston means they don’t have to travel anywhere leaving their days and nights free to imbibe.
To: Opinionated Blowhard
I am Scots/Irish and Cherokee...
I’ve been called a drunk Indian...
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posted on
06/17/2026 7:27:50 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: butlerweave
There was a story on a Boston radio station yesterday that they ran out of Sam Adams Lager at the bar at the Boston Beer Works. This is where they brew Sam Adams beer.
To: Red Badger
Apparently quite literally.
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posted on
06/17/2026 8:42:08 AM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Yet they donated $30,000 to local charities
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posted on
06/17/2026 9:26:24 AM PDT
by
MadMitch
(nemo me impune lacessit)
To: butlerweave
Well, it was Sam Adams beer, made in Boston, so they had to go out of the city to find more.
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posted on
06/17/2026 9:59:33 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
To: All
To: MinorityRepublican
To: Alas Babylon!
bars are saying their beer is getting drunken faster than on St. Patrick’s Day or a sports championship
Well that's a stupid comparison. St Paddy's is one day of everyone drinking. Sportsballs are half a day of a couple people drinking. The world cup is a bunch of tourists nonstop drinking for a week, plus a few of the natives drinking a lot too. Of course they should have stocked up better!
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