Budweiser's brewery tours in St. Louis are worth a shot even if you don't like Budweiser or beer in general.
The two best Budweisers I’ve ever had came within an hour of each other. One made me think of the greatest Canadian movie ever made,, while the other, as is so often the case with Anheuser-Busch, involved horses. Both came as part of, which is technically in St. Louis, but is big and self-contained enough to feel like its own private town.
After my new best friend was safely back in his stall, my tour guide brought me into the small room where they store the bridles, halters and other tack the Clydesdale wear during a hitch. It was basically a locker room for horses, like something you’d see in a post-game report on ESPN but much smaller and exclusively for equine beer mascots. In one corner of the room was a refrigerator that’s about three feet high, kept at 33 degrees, and permanently stocked with aluminum bottles of Budweiser.
I might not drink a lot of Bud, but I appreciate and respect its place in American history. It’s not the first or best, but it’s undeniably the most iconic American beer; in the 1800s Anheuser-Busch’s pioneering use of pasteurization, ice houses, railcar refrigeration, bottling, and heavy and effective marketing turned it into the country’s first truly national beer.
After meeting a horse, learning about the company’s history, and watching every step of the brewing process, we wound up at the end of the line: the lager cellars, where freshly made beer sits in giant silver vats before being packaged and shipped out into the world. A knowledgeable, enthusiastic guide checked a nearby computer to confirm the age of the beer I was about to drink: it was about 15 hours old.
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