{"id":744723,"date":"2026-06-18T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744723\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:08:11","slug":"world-cup-soccer-fans-drink-pubs-dry-more-kegs-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744723\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Soccer fans drink pubs dry, more kegs ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of soccer fans are filling into the host cities, leaving some pubs short on supplies. Andrew Johnson has more on the preparations. <\/p>\n

VANCOUVER \u2013 In a downtown Vancouver back alley, the kegs keep coming, as 200 more had to be delivered to Dublin Calling sports bar on Granville Street after what happened last Saturday.<\/p>\n

On June 14, a mob of Aussies did the most damage, just about drinking the pub dry as they celebrated their team\u2019s underdog victory over Turkiye. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen that before anywhere,\u201d said the pub\u2019s general manager Tyler Broers. \u201cThat\u2019s like a stadium-sized amount of alcohol in a pub.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"World Cup beer kegs fans A pub in Vancouver had to order 200 more kegs of beer after soccer fans downed more than 2,500 pints over the weekend. (CTV News) <\/p>\n

Broers says the Aussies downed 2,500 pints of beer. \u201cIt\u2019s like 4,500 litres of beer or something like that. It\u2019s unreal,\u201d he said. At one point on Saturday, the kegs were about to run dry, until the pub\u2019s DJ hopped into a truck and went on an emergency beer run to re-stock for the night.<\/p>\n

CTV News spoke with several of the Australian fans lined up outside the establishment Saturday afternoon, who informed CTV News their festivities had began hours earlier. <\/p>\n

\u201cEconomic boost to the community, that\u2019s what we\u2019re here for,\u201d claimed one smiling Aussie. His friend added, \u201cIt\u2019s 3 p.m. and our game is at 9 p.m., and we already started at 10 a.m. on the beers!\u201d <\/p>\n

\"\"World Cup beer kegs fans A pub in Vancouver had to order 200 more kegs of beer after soccer fans downed more than 2,500 pints over the weekend. (CTV News) <\/p>\n

Staff at Dublin Calling say they\u2019re busiest on St. Patrick\u2019s Day and during the Super Bowl, but Broers says so far, business during the World Cup has blown those events out of the water. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been like having a Super Bowl every single day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

More than one establishment in the U.S. can relate. Rowdy Scottish fans, known as the \u201cTartan Army,\u201d drained two Boston bars of all their beer \u2013 something one bar said had never happened in their 30-year history.<\/p>\n

\"\"World Cup beer kegs fans A pub in Vancouver had to order 200 more kegs of beer after soccer fans downed more than 2,500 pints over the weekend. (CTV News) <\/p>\n

Despite the crowds that filled the temporary pedestrian party zone on Vancouver\u2019s Granville Street deep into the night, and the heavy amount of alcohol being consumed, police and staff at Dublin Calling say fans have been extremely well behaved. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo issues at all,\u201d said Broers. \u201cEveryone\u2019s super respectful. You know, if someone climbs up on a table or something, you just ask them to get down, and they\u2019re very kind and they do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to hoping it\u2019ll be Canadian fans dancing on the tables after a victory over Qatar tomorrow \u2026 politely, of course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of soccer fans are filling into the host cities, leaving some pubs short on supplies. Andrew Johnson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[712,49,48,55],"class_list":["post-744723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}