June 17 (UPI) -- Scottish soccer fans are being credited with a boom in Boston beer sales that caused some bars in the city to run dry.
Sam Adams' Boston Taproom said the influx of Scottish fans in town to attend FIFA World Cup games caused it to sell four times as much Samuel Adams Boston Lager from Thursday to Sunday as the bar normally would on a four-day weekend.
The tap room ended up running out of Boston Lager, leading the company to schedule an emergency delivery on Saturday morning.
Noelle Somers, chief operating officer at Hennessy's Bar in downtown Boston, said the facility sold out of beer on Sunday.
"We've been here for over 30 years, and we've never seen anything like it," Somers told The Boston Globe. "We tripled St. Patrick's Day."
