https://freerepublic.com/tag/cityofwinecoolers/ en-us Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:45:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4385611/posts The bar staff at the Sam Adams brewery in Boston have seen busy weekends. They had not seen anything like the Tartan Army. Over four days in June, kilted Scotland supporters drank the place through seventy kegs of America’s most patriotic lager, sang until their voices frayed, and turned a craft brewery taproom into a slice of Glasgow with better weather. … The numbers from Boston read like a tall tale. Seventy kegs of Sam Adams emptied in four days at the brewery alone, never mind the bars across the city that filled with tartan from morning until well past... Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4385611/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:45:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4384381/posts Watching those videos of the Scottish soccer fans inspired this. Yes, it's AI created. Songer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4384381/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:12:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4384217/posts The parent company of Sam Adams said its Boston Taproom ran out of the brand's flagship Boston Lager over the weekend because Scotland soccer fans in Boston for the 2026 World Cup drank four times as much as the bar usually sells. 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... ESPN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4384217/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:35:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4384139/posts 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. NBC Boston via YouTube https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4384139/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:01:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4383452/posts Slàinte! The Scottish national team kicks off World Cup play in Boston Saturday, but their fans treated their transatlantic flights like a bottomless pub crawl — and drained every drop of booze before touching the tarmac. The kilt-clad Scots entered Logan International Airport ready to rumble — “been drinking since one o’clock in the morning when I got up,” said David Wood as he arrived on US soil. “We ran out of beer.” A flight from the UK to the US usually lasts around seven hours, so when the beer ran dry, the Scots switched to wine, the pilot told... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4383452/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:59 GMT