Kevin Richards holding court in Middelburg, Netherlands (2008).
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga mud (1999).
This installment was terribly hard to write. Kindly forgive any errors, which I’ll do my best to correct. Let me know.
When Greg Fischer was campaigning for mayor of Louisville in 2009, subsequently winning the first of his three seemingly endless terms in office, he coined the term “bourbonism” as a new civic doctrine, in the process defining “bourbon tourism” as the sum total of bourbon, hospitality, distillery experiences and local food.
Similarly, a long time ago in a beer-soaked life far, far away, I may or may not have coined the term “beercycling.”
(Admittedly this usage strikes me as far too obvious to have much hope of being truly original. I must have stolen it from somewhere, so please let me know if I did, and proper attribution will be added.)
In any event, beercycling is the sum total of beer, bicycles, travel and camaraderie. Beercycling is knowing that at the end of the day, a beercyclist’s beers and meals were fully earned, something important was learned, and we’d all sleep well that night, far from our homes but...
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