Anheuser-Busch

Went to the Anheuser-Busch for a tour.  The tour took a little over an hour.  It is an amazing facility.  Huge but with landscaped grounds.  Brick walkways and flowers and trees everywhere.  The first pic is of the sign you see on the road into the facility.  The next is on the entrance of the building entrance.  The St Louis property is the largest of the 12 US breweries.

No tour would be complete without the Clydesdales.  Just one of many on the grounds.  Their stables are cleaner than some houses.  Every day each horse eats 50 pounds of hay, 23 quarts of mixed feed and 30 gallons of water.  The next is just a sample of the kinds of beers brewed here.

After going through the brew house you see the 50 degree aging cellars.  The beer actually ages over beechwood and is in the tanks on the left which are stacked 4 high, that's a lot of beer.

This picture is on the bottling/canning line.  Again there is a lot of beer going through these lines on a daily basis.  The tour ended at the hospitality suite where two free samples was available for everybody on the tour.  Soda was available for kids and non drinkers.  From there we went to this historical site, it gave me another stamp in my Passport for National Parks and was part of Grant's Farm.

Both of these homes belonged to Ulysses S Grant.  The one on the left was where he and his wife lived most of their lives.  The one on the left, Hardscrabble Farm, was built in 1885 but they lived there for only a few months.  The property was bought by August Busch Sr. and today is an exotic animal park, petting zoo and Bavarian-style farm.   You ride a tram through fields with animals that are free to roam and are dropped at a courtyard where there is a hospitality house (2 more samples) and places to purchase food.  There are also more Clydesdales on one side of the parking area.  All in all it was a great day.