My favorite rides are my Friday evening casual MUP rides with a sixer in the bag on my rack. Ride 5 or 10 miles, have a beer, watch the world go by (or throw rocks in the river, depending on where I'm stopped), enjoy life. Repeat as necessary.

I very seldom have a beer when I'm on the open road, though. Every now and then, I'll stop by a pub on the way home from work and have one or two, but never more than two, and only if I'm not otherwise tired or hungry. I'm not preachy about it, that's just how I like to do it for myself.