The Glasgow airport bar sponsored by Scotland's most popular lager had run out of its core product. The explanation has no link to some early rush towards summer holidays.
Tonight in Munich, Scotland's national football team will play their first European Championship game outside of the UK since 1992.
The identity of the opposition for that 3-0 win on 18 June was the CIS, essentially the Soviet Union, which nods towards all that has transpired during the intervening years.
John Carver, the Scotland assistant manager, speculated that 200,000 Scots could appear in Germany for upcoming matches against the tournament hosts, Switzerland and Hungary. If the number feels disproportionately high relative to the population of Scotland - about 5.5m - it must be considered that expats are joining the party. Scores of them.
Flights from Australia have carried Scotland supporters. Mark Donaldson, an Edinburgh native, has travelled to Munich from Connecticut. "It was the worry and the fear of missing out," he says. "It was the worry of seeing 20% of my class from school going, even having not seen some of them for decades. People do not want to watch on TV something that their mates will probably be speaking about for the rest of their lives.
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