As I pedal through the Aisch Valley in Bavaria, the bars I’m thinking about are not handlebars. In this quiet, apparently sober valley, things aren’t quite as they seem.
Sauerkraut, sausage and beer in Nuremberg.
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Beyond the façade of neat villages and cornfields is what’s said to be the highest concentration of breweries in the world - the equivalent of about one brewery every half a mile through the valley. I’m not slowed by headwinds or hills, but temptation.