Even The germans are Suprised by the English Drinking

[purpleronnie]

BEER WE GO
Germans fear weii going to drink them dry
By Jeremy Armstrong
ENGLAND's massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday.

Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters.

In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2MILLION pints of beer - an average of 17 pints each.


Astonished bar keeper Herrmann Murr said: "Never have I seen so many drink so much in such little time."


His bar at a fans' tent in the city ran out after they drained all 32 of his 50-litre (11 gallon) barrels.


Herr Murr calculated Britons were shifting beer at a staggering rate of 200 pints per minute.


City official Peter Murrmann said: "The English proved themselves world champs. They practically drank us dry."


In Cologne, where England drew with Sweden, bottles and barrels of the local K?lsch beer ran out because so many English took them to campsites and parties.


Stuttgart bar chiefs said an extra 900,000 pints were sunk last weekend where 60,000 fans partied before and after our 1-0 win over Ecuador.


The Veltins brewery also revealed it has produced a record 418,000 gallons in a bid to keep up with demand.


A spokesman said: "It is incredible how much is being drunk but the hardest thing for the breweries is keeping up with the thirst of the English."


In Dortmund, where most fans for England's Gelsenkirchen clash against Portugal on Saturday are staying, the giant DAB brewery is bracing itself by ferrying in extra supplies to boost production.

[alwaysbeanengland]

At least we showed we are world champs at something!

I bet them Septic Tanks were all shitfaced after about 3 bottles.

[Palermo10]

At a bar I went to in Vilnius, Lithuania, they ran out of beer at halftime of the England-Paraguay match because there were about 50-60 England fans (all male) there.

[JoeSoccerFan]

In Frankfurt, it was so hot, that the German "communicator experts" were imploring the English "to not jump from the bridges into the river", of course only in German - which the English generally don't know.

Of course, the germans were scooping up the english from the river very efficiently.

I just found it very amusing.

[Michael K.]

At a bar I went to in Vilnius, Lithuania, they ran out of beer at halftime of the England-Paraguay match because there were about 50-60 England fans (all male) there.

What bar was this? I was in Vilnius last week, as well, and I find it difficult to conceive of any place in Lithuania running low on booze.

[Palermo10]

What bar was this? I was in Vilnius last week, as well, and I find it difficult to conceive of any place in Lithuania running low on booze.


It was a sports bar, I forget the name. 3rd floor of a mini mall. Above a casino. Faced some of that big construction going on.

[bltleo]

[QUOTE=purpleronnie]BEER WE GO



In Cologne, where England drew with Sweden, bottles and barrels of the local K?lsch beer ran out because so many English took them to campsites and parties.


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YEah, Englishmen rocked Cologne. I think it was the biggest party in Cologne before and after Sweden-England game. We in Cologne needed to open extra public view just for English fans by Rhine River. Many thousends Englishmen came to Cologne without tickets and celebrated in the city. The city was full of Englishmen. And yes, they drunk a lot. But all behaved very good. WE had no big problems with them. They also celebrated with us Germans since the same day we played and we won. Many of them did root for Germany. We also did root for England because we wanted to play against Sweden and not England. It was the biggest party in Cologne. all did drink our Kölsch.

bltleo
COlogne.

[JBigjake]

IIRC, I read a story during WC'02 that the Irish had drank bars in Japan dry. By 10 AM! :D

[Thomas Flannigan]

Fascinating thread. Ten years ago, when American Airlines started the Stockholm to Chicago route, I chatted with a flight attendant as I often do. I asked the guy if they had trouble with the Swedish guys, what with open bar for 9 hours. He surprised me when he said the English drank even more than the Swedes.
I think the story about the Irish drinking a place dry in 2002 is true. A drop taken, surely....
I have only been in Vilnius once, on Easter Eve in 2983. It was beautiful, with only 1 hotel open to foreigners (Hotel Neringa). Beer was awful. Now, Trader Joe's sells good Lithuanian beer to Chicagoans!
You may have heard the joke about the old USSR. On Bolshevik Day, some Russians gather in a bar for some pivo. A retired army officer comes in and orders a beer, showing off his metals. He takes a sip of the Russian ber and spits it out. Another guy at the bar says: "Comrade. If we had lost the war, at least we would be drinking German beer!"

[Matt Clark]

An interesting side point to this is that we can reasonably assume that our government's anti-hooligan policies are, by and large, working. I for one was expecting some serious, serious kick-offs in Germany and all we actually got was a couple of localised and quickly resolved set-offs on just two occasions. The main story of the world cup is that we (easily the best-supported nation at the World CUp beyond Germany themselves) did drinking and partying but hardly any rucking. Which is a first.

But to the main point of the thread - was there ever any doubt we would be World Champions of Beer? We'll always be World Champions of Beer. It's like all those things about how the US Military is the most formidable in the world by a country mile. That's us, with beer. No one can touch us.