HUNDREDS of Americans have gathered in Boston to get a taste of "Scotland's other national drink".
Tartan Army member Giovanni Piacentini-Smith is behind the mass gathering of Americans, all keen to try out Irn Bru for the first time.
The 20-year-old bartender, from Glasgow, is one of thousands of Scots to have travelled to the US for the World Cup, which Scotland are competing in for the first time since 1998.
Steve Clarke's team came out victorious in their first match against Haiti over the weekend, and are staying in Boston to face Morocco on Friday,
Piacentini-Smith said he "sent Irn-Bru a big text" and the company's American distributor sent him several packs of the treasured beverage, according to the Boston Globe.
He then had a "mad idea" while sipping a can of Irn-Bru at a train station – to organise a huge gathering to introduce Americans to the drink on Wednesday afternoon at the Soldiers and Sailors monument on Boston Common.
The gathering was a success, with more than 200 plastic cups of Irn-Bru handed out along with unopened cans, although Americans were left undecided on the taste of the drink.
The Irn-Bru slogan states that it is "made from girders", with the actual recipe famously kept secret.
One American who tried the beverage told the Boston Globe that it tastes "like Fanta, but medicine", while another said it is "exactly like Hubba Bubba".
In response to the gathering, Irn-Bru commented: "chills, literal chills".
Images shared on social media by Piacentini-Smith show hundreds gathered to try the drink, with a Boston park ranger even taking part.
The Scot claimed the gathering had broken the "world record" for the largest number of Americans to drink Irn Bru, tagging the Guinness World Records account on social media in an attempt to make the record official.
