Reader: Beer Flights at DIA? They'll Need More Barf Bags!

With the Great American Beer Festival just a few weeks away, the gang's all beer -- and just about every spot in town is getting into the act. That includes Denver International Airport, which next week will introduce Beer Flights, a temporary beer garden in the main terminal where ten...

By Patricia Calhoun

September 12, 2014

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With the Great American Beer Festival just a few weeks away, the gang's all beer -- and just about every spot in town is getting into the act. That includes Denver International Airport, which next week will introduce Beer Flights, a temporary beer garden in the main terminal where ten bucks buys you admission and two-ounce pours of ten Colorado craft beers. Sounds like just the thing to settle pre-flight nerves...or is it? See also: Beer Here! DIA Will Host a Beer Garden in the Main Terminal Says Ed:

As if we don't have enough problems with drunken-passenger air rage...

Adds Steven:

Still got to walk a damn mile to simply have a cigarette...

Concludes Cole:

They'll need more barf bags on those flights.

What do you think about DIA's plan for Beer Flights? Will you stop by for a drink -- or ten?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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