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Reader: Colorado may be the beer capital, but it sounds more like the whine capital

The Great American Beer Festival ticket pre-sale started a week ago today, and complaints started very soon after. But people who don't live in an area as beer-blessed as metro Denver think it's time for people to stop crying in their beer about the GABF. See also: - Reader: Great...
By Patricia Calhoun
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The Great American Beer Festival ticket pre-sale started a week ago today, and complaints started very soon after. But people who don’t live in an area as beer-blessed as metro Denver think it’s time for people to stop crying in their beer about the GABF.

See also: – Reader: Great American Beer Festival is pissing off both breweries and attendees – Brewers Association apologizes for continuing Great American Beer Festival snafus – That was fast: 2012 #GABF tickets sell out in 45 minutes

After one commenter complained that the GABF was pissing off both breweries and attendees, Christine offered this:

I know they say that Colorado is the beer capital of the country, but it sounds more like the whine capital.

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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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