While Brian's parents were visiting, we headed over to the original Anheuser-Busch brewery for a tour. The place is really like a campus with buildings from the mid-1800s to recent. There were 53 breweries in St. Louis before prohibition, but only Anheuser-Busch was still in business when prohibition ended.
First stop on the tour was the Clydesdale's:
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| in the stable |
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| Quite a fancy brass light fixture for the horses' stable |
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| front door to the stables |
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| some sort of beer aging going on in these 20 ft diameter, 60 ft long cylinders (the cylinders were stacked 4 high) |
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| I think this was in the mash house |
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| check out the fancy light fixtures and banisters in here |
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| This elephant was the mascot for one of the yeast products that Anheuser-Busch made during prohibition |
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| This is Renard the Fox. He was the mascot of an malt drink that they made during prohibition. |
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| Renard again (he is eating a chicken wing and drinking "Bevo") |
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| Bottling |
