Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch {{NYSE|BUD}}, the world's third largest brewing company in volume after InBev and SABMiller, is based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The company brews 35 different beers and malt liquors. Anheuser-Busch's best known beers include brands such as Budweiser, the Busch and Michelob families, and Natural Light. The company also produces a number of smaller-volume and specialty beers, nonalcoholic brews, malt liquors (King Cobra and the Hurricane family), and flavored malt beverages (e.g. the Bacardi family and Tequiza). "A-B", as the company is often called, owns 12 U.S. breweries.

St. Louis Corporate Headquarters and Brewery

The world headquarters for Anheuser-Busch is in St. Louis, Missouri. The brewery there, the largest of the Anheuser-Busch breweries, was opened in 1852 and includes three buildings that are on the register of National Historic Landmarks. At the headquarters, near downtown Saint Louis, tours of the brewery are available to the public. The tour takes visitors through the complex, and those of the legal age can enjoy two free glasses of beer at the end of the tour.

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1852 - Legal age

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The company keeps a rotation of its famous Clydesdale horses at its headquarters, and visitors to the brewery can observe the Clydesdales in their exercise field and see their places in the carriage house. The bulk of the herd is kept at the company farm in St. Louis County.

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Clydesdale horses - St. Louis County

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