Posted on 06/19/2018 6:53:07 PM PDT by mac_truck
Beer-guzzling soccer fans risk drinking bars and restaurants in the Russian capital dry, with some saying they are running low and having to wait longer than usual for fresh supplies.
Moscow has been transformed by the World Cup, with singing, chanting and beer swilling fans overwhelming some of the packed bars and restaurants around the Kremlin and Red Square.
"We just didn't think they would only want beer," said one waiter at a upscale eatery in central Moscow who asked not to be identified for fear of scaring off future customers.
The waiter said his restaurant ran out of draft lager on Monday and deliveries are taking longer than usual, at least 24 hours, because suppliers' stocks are also running low.
"There are really a lot of people in Moscow ... and they are all drinking," he said. "It's hot, and it's football."
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Just wait until the WC is in Qatar.
The Poles were in Moscow, that probably explains a lot.
After watching how crappy they played, they needed to drink heavily afterwards, I know I did.
Beer? What’s that? You are in the vodka capital of the world. Man up.
Why don’t you pack up and move to Russia? It’s all you think about. Maybe you can land a job directing serving your man Putin.
Start whipping up Moscow Mules, instead.
that wouldn’t work at all, though the insane soccer fans pummeling every muslim in sight might be something worth seeing.
They’ll have to switch to Vodka ,LOL
In the Soviet time, Moscow was an oppressive, dreary and uninteresting place.
How the times have changed and now everyone is having fun!
Seems to me the members of the UN should all donate a bunch of beer to Russia. Of course, that might be considered ‘collusion’.
Russian Beer is what you get after a Russian drinks a ton of Vodka
I’m sure there’s plenty of beer-like kvass left over from the Soviet days. I tried some at a small train station in Russia about 35 years ago. It was draft, tapped out of a small tank trailer. Only 35 kopeks. The first glass was pretty hard to get down, but the third was OK.
Stadiums are packed, so far so good (well, except for Poland today GRRRRRRRR!)
Indeed they are!
Wow, I’d love to wrap my arms around that Pole!
It’s so nice seeing a FReeper wanting to celebrate diversity! :-)
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She’s ok, but there’s much better than that in Poland.
But she's a 10, her top says so. You mean there's better?
Tak.
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