US troops deploy overwhelming force against Iceland's beer supply!

[nastygunz]

 This article makes me proud to be a veteran and an American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

U.S. troops landed in Iceland last week ahead of the start the largest NATO military exercise since the Cold War, and apparently, they left their mark in the most appropriate way possible: by drinking every last beer in the nation's capital.

A significant number of bars in downtown Reykjavík were forced to make emergency beer runs under the onslaught of thirsty American sailors and Marines in town for the start of Trident Juncture 18, Iceland Magazine reports.

Local media estimate that 6,000 and 7,000 U.S. military personnel exhausted beer cellars across the Icelandic capital in the span of a single weekend.

The details from Iceland Magazine are, frankly, hilarious (emphasis ours):

The local news site Vísir reports that the brewery Ölgerð Egils Skallagrímssonar, which makes the popular Gull, had to send out emergency supplies to the bars. According to the sources of Vísir, the soldiers preferred local beers over imports and were very willing to sample different microbrews as well as the more popular standard lagers.

[bambam]

God bless our military !!!!

[nastygunz]

 I'm guessing in about nine months Iceland will also have a significant spike in baby  births 

[HaMeR]

had to send out emergency supplies to the bars.

  Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong because I haven't drank in almost 30 years now but if I remember correctly from back then,, wasn't EVERY delivery to a bar a restocking of emergency supplies? 

[Hawks Feather]

wasn't EVERY delivery to a bar a restocking of emergency supplies? 

I think you are correct!

[HaMeR]

Thank You kind Sir!!