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As the World Cup heats up in Russia, hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are running around the country, drowning their bitter sorrows and celebrating their raucous victories in tall glasses of cold beer. Unfortunately, the beer keeps running out. Somehow, Russia did not see this madness coming. Reuters reports that some bars and restaurants in Moscow are out of beer and that deliveries are taking longer than usual. And no vodka for these fans; they're pretty much just drinking beer. “We just didn’t think they would only want beer,�� said one waiter from Moscow, whose restaurant ran out of draft lager on Monday and is waiting up to 24 hours for fresh deliveries. Dmitry, a bartender in Moscow, said fans drank more than 211 gallons of beer in three days. “The sun makes them thirsty,�� he said. “In Russian we say, ‘To the bottom!�� I like that these guys are embracing our culture.”And in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, where Sweden played South Korea on Monday, the taps ran empty before the match even started, according to the Independent.Apparently, beer sales have gone down in Russia in the past decade due to increased taxes and tightened regulations on advertising. But the World Cup might just turn the trend around, thanks to a lot of thirsty out-of-towners.