Bicycling and Brewery Tour Tips From an anonymous Cyclist Experience: I am an avid commuter and a veteran of 15 Brewery tours in the last year but I weigh 300lbs, so I should be able to handle this but I am not superman. I have done everything wrong you can do. I have gone way over my limit and biked when I never should have. So here are some helpful tips you might want to consider when riding. Legal and reasonability: Know your limit. 1. The Texas penal code addressing D.W.I. is § 49.04 and it specifically says "motor vehicle". Remember if you ride while intoxicated on the streets acting like a car you can get a DWI in the state of Texas. Most likely you will get PI instead. 2. You are an Adult Drink Responsible. 3. Have a bailout plan, some one that can come pick you up. 4. If you ride Drunk on a Bike you may not kill someone but you may kill yourself. 5. Wear a helmet I have fallen over several times on the way home and have the scars to prove it. I will admit I have done a few double brewery tours about 7 beers all high alcohol content and I do not know how I got home. I was very lucky. The increased activity and nutrition needs are completely different from sitting in a pub. Everything speeds up. Nutrition: Very Important Tips 1. Drink more water than Beer. Alcohol causes you to dehydrate so if you are drinking beer you are not even coming close to being hydrated properly. Drink twice the water as you would beer. 2. Eat a large breakfast before you go on your ride. 3. Eat high Carb foods while on your ride. Like bread (poor boys) or potatoes (French fries). It will not sober you up but it will slow the absorption of alcohol into your system. Cliff bars do not work well and caffeine just makes you a wide awake drunk. 4. When you have stopped drinking you have about 30 to 45 minutes before all of the alcohol is in your system fully. That is when the trouble starts and you become impaired beyond control. So get to a safe place quickly after the tour stops. These are just helpful tips from experience. Just because the brewery gives a certain amount of tickets does not mean you have to use them. Sample everything they have taste it all if you just do not drink all of the high octane stuff. A small glass with a lot of high powered craft beers can catch of you off guard pretty quick. How many of you have been able to catch a buzz at beer festival almost everybody has. Do not be afraid to step in and call someone out as you would do it if one of your friends was going to get in a car. A bike will fit in the back of a taxi cab van. With all of this said have a good time and enjoy yourselves I have met great people on every brewery ride I have been on. Live to ride and brewery tour another day.