Being allergic to the ingredients of a lot of beers I would drop if I had one at anytime during an actual ride, as it makes me very lethargic to the point of having to stop for a couple of hours. I know if I'm going to have a problem with a particular beer, as I sneeze as soon as the first sip gets on my tongue.
English bitters and IPAs are the worst unfortunately.
But, I am going to have a beer but only one, ok maybe two
if I get there early enough, when I get to the night stops at the 1000 St. Germain.
The reason is, is that I had a couple or four beers after a recent 600 and slept like a baby. When I woke, I felt completely refreshed and happily cycled the 130 km or so back to catch my train. It didn't even feel like I had been on the bike for 4 days in a row and done over 850km's 250 of which was with a heavy touring load.
So maybe there's something in it that works for me as a recovery aid, but I'm going to have to choose my beer very carefully, as anything like Stella, Carlsberg or Kronenbourg kill me dead. Budweiser and Barvarian wheat beer are ok, thank the lord.
I like beer, I like the look of it, the smell of it and the drinking of it. Shame most of it doesn't like me.