Neo-Nazis were met with a sober welcome last week when they arrived in the town of Ostritz in the German state of Saxony to attend the right-wing Shield and Sword (SS) rock music festival.

A court had earlier ruled that no alcohol could be served or consumed at the event, citing concerns of potential violence. Local police were on hand at the festival gates over the weekend to ensure that this ban was upheld.

According to German media, the people of Ostritz took this drying out effort even further. Locals reportedly banded together to buy all the beer in town to ensure the neo-Nazis would have none to drink all weekend.

“The plan was devised a week in advance. We wanted to dry the Nazis out,” Georg Salditt, a local activist, told Bild newspaper. “We thought, if an alcohol ban is coming, we’ll empty the shelves” at the local supermarket.

Deutsche Welle said the town’s residents bought more than 100 crates of beer in anticipation of the neo-Nazis’ arrival. Salditt told Bild that the number was closer to 200.

“The Nazis weren’t happy about it,” local activist Markus Kremser told public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.