I thought this was going to be an article about them installing strip clubs in airports. I was disappointed.

Dammit Smellvin!

/GMTA

When I get stranded at an airport, only hard liqour can help me through the delay.

oh, beer thread. Cool.

© I just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you.

The price of a beer at an airport is usually the same as at a strip club.

I saw a cold ham and cheese Wonderbread sandwich priced $9.75 at the airport. I'm afraid to know how much a good beer would cost.

Great, because I want to ride in a sealed metal tube for four hours with a bunch of beligerant drunks. That sounds like great fun.

schattenteufel: Great, because I want to ride in a sealed metal tube for four hours with a bunch of beligerant drunks. That sounds like great fun.

Fark.com is the sealed metal tube of beligerant drunks of the internet.

You come here.

If you ever find yourself stuck in the Philly airport, look around for one of the "Jet Rock" bars. Good beer in big mugs, cute girls and a fantastic employee dress code ;)

Getting hammered is nice until you have to break the seal. Then you're just waiting for that stupid seatbelt sign to turn off.

OwnTheRide: If you ever find yourself stuck in the Philly airport, look around for one of the "Jet Rock" bars. Good beer in big mugs, cute girls and a fantastic employee dress code ;)

Yeah those a pretty nice for airport bars.


/side note...don't get too drunk so that when you land you are still above the limit and get pulled for a DUI when leaving the airport.

//happened to a friend

If ever stuck in Salt Lake City's airport, check out Squatters. Get the 'Captain Bastard's Oatmeal Stout'. I love that stuff.

boy that article linked to a site that is over 2 years old, they were talking about the light rail here at MSP being done in 2007

me in airport bar: A few drinks while waiting for my plane sounds like a good idea!

person next to me: Yea it does:

notices pilot uniform. Takes cab

I had a couple Goose Island Matildas at O'Hare on an extended layover last weekend, so I am really getting a kick out of these replies...

Doesn't philly's airport claim that prices at bars and restaurants there are the same as in town? I seem to recall signs saying as much. I've never been to the city, just the airport. The beer made the experience bearable. Yuengling, mmmm

I'm getting ready to see Charlie Papazian in person at Bell's Brewery, so I'm getting a kick out of any beer thread replies today!

This is sure to increase the numbers of the I-need-some-fresh-air-at-20000ft-let's-open-a-door crowd.

OwnTheRide: If you ever find yourself stuck in the Philly airport, look around for one of the "Jet Rock" bars. Good beer in big mugs, cute girls and a fantastic employee dress code ;)

Thanks for the tip. That's what I should have done instead of waiting for them to find my luggage.

Ow My Balls: I'm getting ready to see Charlie Papazian in person at Bell's Brewery

I went on a beer drinking tour of the Boulder, CO area with Charlie, my father in law, and a couple of other guys (Dick Krek (writes about beer for some Denver rag) and one other guy from Dale's Brewery whose name escapes me) this past August. We went to a "beer mine" west of Boulder, an old gold mine that some beer guy uses to cellar his belgians and strong ales. It was awesome.
Just wanted to share that...

FTA: "fresh-from-the-tap alternatives to watery, character-free, mass-market suds."

HA-ha!

I didn't know getting drunk during airport delays was a new idea.

I spent 6 hours at Laguardia a few months ago. That's a lot of $11 22-ounce beers.

Re Philadelphia Airport: the bars are the only thing the airport has going for it. The rest of it is a shiathole. That is all.

The airport in Boise has pinball machines and video games that you can use to amuse yourself. Both out front and in the terminal.

A beer buzz in an airport... truly one of life's sublime pleasures.
/sigh

OwnTheRide: If you ever find yourself stuck in the Philly airport, look around for one of the "Jet Rock" bars. Good beer in big mugs, cute girls and a fantastic employee dress code ;)

if you connect through PHL, then your stuck in PHL. Usualy because someone in the tower sneezed. "All 'express' flights are on ground delay...

I knew, one day, all those eggs would kill him.

/goodnight, salad dressing man

farkwell: I knew, one day, all those eggs would kill him.

/goodnight, salad dressing man
I'm stuck in an airport, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Cybervamp: me in airport bar: A few drinks while waiting for my plane sounds like a good idea!

person next to me: Yea it does:

notices pilot uniform. Takes cab

Link (new window)
The Man Show drunk pilots clip.

Right, that's what we need. 200 dehydrated and angry plane passengers having beer at 10AM.

I'd rather get where I am going on time and without those latex glove people.

/ssssss-nap!
//bohica!

ukexpat: Re Philadelphia Airport: the bars are the only thing the airport has going for it. The rest of it is a shiathole. That is all.

The same goes for the city.

goethe_helen_hunt: Right, that's what we need. 200 dehydrated and angry plane passengers having beer at 10AM.

I'd rather get where I am going on time and without those latex glove people.

/ssssss-nap!
//bohica!

You'd rather them not wear protection?

cwick: "beer mine"

I consider every beer to be mine ...

/have spent many hours at Sweetwater in Hartsfield Jackson

goethe_helen_hunt: Right, that's what we need. 200 dehydrated and angry plane passengers having beer at 10AM.


So you've never been on a early-AM flight with any half-tanked Texan businessmen downing $10 Jack Daniels shots and declaring their love for the flight attendant loudly in your ear?

Because this seems to happen to me at least half the time.

/Nothing better than spending that loooooong layover in the bar.

The problem with airport alcohol is that it is horridly expensive.

Last December, on my way back home after visiting family for the holidays, I went to the TGI Friday's at the Tulsa airport for lunch and a couple of beers. The beers (Sam Adams) were SIX DOLLARS apiece. Between the burger and the two beers I had, the total bill was around $25.

Sitting at the Vancouver airport last night, I paid 9.25CAD for each beer. And it wasn't anything special. Plus the bar sucked.

/Found out later that the plane only had one lavatory.

Last December, on my way back home after visiting family for the holidays, I went to the TGI Friday's at the Tulsa airport for lunch and a couple of beers. The beers (Sam Adams) were SIX DOLLARS apiece. Between the burger and the two beers I had, the total bill was around $25.


6 For Sam Adams is not really that bad considering it is an airport you probably paid 1- 1.50 premium on the beer.

PHL Jet Rock, 3 22 0z Smithicks = 34 and change., but she did give us to go cups with lids so we could bring the beer on the plane.

I golf at Laurelwood regularly so I'm getting a kick &tc....

WTF Portland stealing my local 9 hole's name for your quaff?!?!?!

Ahhh quaff...