Wow I can't believe we have been on the road for 10 days! Last week we were in Milwaukee and today it St. Louis. What an exciting adventure. Kansas City to St. Louis was an easy 3 hour drive so we took our time in the morning. The effects of the drought are very apparent here in Missouri. A lot of the corn is brown and dried up.
We knew we wanted to see and tour the Anheuser Busch Brewery so we set our friend Jill (gps) to the brewery and on we drove. Jill has been a little cranky recently. In Chicago she had Randy exit the highway just to get right back on it, three different times! And today Jill told me to exit at 38C but it did not exist...poor Jill the road trip is beginning to take its toll on her. (And me too apparently since that entire paragraph was on our gps. Day 10 people, DAY 10!)
There was an interesting truck and the bridge crossing the Missouri River.
Then finally in St. Louis at the original Anheuser Busch Brewery!
We got to Budweiser-ville at 1:30ish and had time to look around their lobby while waiting for our 2pm tour. The main building was very impressive, tall ceiling and lots of bud history.
The first stop on the tour was to see the clydesdales. They are so cool! Very big and majestic looking horses.
Their stable is like a five star hotel! These horses have it made!
And then a surprise, a dalmation puppy Chip was there too. Only 10 weeks old, so cute! The puppy stole the show.
The next stop was at their special Beechwood aging building. These huge vats have chips of beechwood on the bottom with the beer and yeast.
There are 6 of these huge vats with 4 levels 1 on top of the other in this building. 36 total in this one building alone. On the Budweiser campus they have over 300 of these vats! A lot of beer!
After the aging house, we stopped at the brew house.
Let me tell you, this entire campus looked like a museum, but it is a functional working brewery! Everything was so clean! Below are their mash containers that flow into their brew kettles below.
  The chandeliers in this room were from the 1904 Worlds Fair when it was in St. Louis |
Next stop, the packaging plant.
So after about 30 days, the beer brewing process is complete and it goes through the bottling process and packaged here.They go right on rail cars and trucks and delivered all over the country! The beer goes from bottling to the shelves in about 12-16 hours! C-R-A-Z-Y!
We headed back to the main building in a trolley to finish our tour by drinking some free beer! Again way to go Bud, full size samples! The big brewery's do it right!
On to Baseball!
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