St. Louis, Missouri

Leaving Memphis, we headed north thru Missouri, next stop St. Louis.  Traveling on Highway 55 thru Tennessee and Missouri is a beautiful drive, lots of rolling hills and beautiful trees.  First stop was the Anheuser-Busch Brewery World Headquarters founded in the 1800s.  Some of the buildings are historic and mostly made from red brick.  The tour included the lobby which has displays of awards, sporting events, beer steins, paintings, etc.  The best part of the tour was first, seeing the Budweiser Clydesdales.  What beautiful and strong creatures we were privileged to see close up. I understand the Clydesdale tradition began in 1933 when Agustus Busch and Adolphus Busch presented their father with a team of horses and a bright red brewery wagon to celebrate the end of prohibition.  Along the tour we learned the process of brewing beer but don't ask me to give you the details.  There are breweries in New Hampshire, California, Colorado and Florida so you can see the process yourself.  At the end of the tour you can sample quite a number of beers, two glasses each.  That is a total of two glasses!!  Since I am not a beer drinker, I had about three swallows of dark beer and Ron and Bernice drank a glass.  Really a fun tour, and free, and I would recommend it to everyone.