Budweiser Brewery Tour

Went to the brewery lights and was not very satisfied. You can only go through the buffet one time, sort of defeating the purpose of calling it a buffet. The food was also not very good. There was a private party so we had to wait to see the Clydesdales, which I understand. But when we were allowed to see them, there were only two. We also got pics with our package but had to wait for the only photographer they have to be done with the private party. So we waited until the time we were told we could do the photos. Only to find out there was another private party and we would have to wait another 30 mins. Needless to say, we went home without pics.

Went to see the Clydesdales yestersay, (Saturday December 12, 2015) and was just wowed with the facility, friendliness and the festive atmosphere; Anheiser Busch went all out! After visiting the Clydesdales and getting our pictures taken with one we went to the Tap Room/​Biergarten for refeshments. Much of the popular Anheiser Busch products were on tap and the remainder were sold in bottles. Saw they had a food menu, but didn’t eat there, because we just had lunch in Fort Collins. The gift shop carried a variety of products from wall tacks to clothing.
If you live in the area or just passing through, I highly recommend stopping for a visit.
We will return soon.

Great tour! So much interesting information and our tour guide, Phil was great. We really enjoyed it all including the best ending in the bar enjoying delicious beer. Sampled fresh beer and it tasted great.

I came here for the free beer not the jokes. I use to enjoy it here and enjoyed the atmosphere with the horses but now they are rarely there. And now they charge for the beer. Just one free taste in the middle of the tour. Did they forget about those who would like to try before they buy? I think I’ll stick with the local brewery’s in Denver and free samples at Coors.

We walked in the tour center and were greeted by some happy, friendly, and talkative employees. After being explained all of our touring options, we opted for the the BeerMaster Tour for $ 25. An extra bonus was that we were the only two people on the tour making it a private tour… YAY.
Our tour guide was Al and he is a retired teacher. We walked through the facility, learned about and tasted each step in the beer making process. We learned history, we asked questions, we had fun.
The tour gave us a taster glass, certificate, and a hat as souvenirs of our adventure.
Added bonus: 10% off in gift shop and 1 pint of any beer on tap.
I would highly recommend this tour.
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On a side note, the restaurant.
The restaurant is new and you can tell.
If I would have know what type experience this would have been I would have opted to drive down the road to some other food location.
We ordered our beers, I think the man taking our order was very new, like first day new, and should have had a preceptor.
Everything is made with beer and that is not always good. Sorry, it isn’t
After multiple times of trying to explain that I wanted the red pepper & tomato soup I think he understood that they are not two different soups.
I ordered grilled cheese (had too much bacon bleu cheese, and came out lukewarm).
The soup came out lukewarm as well.
We were not given utensils.
We had to ask for napkins
We had to ask for the fries that were supposed to come with our order
We had to ask for different ketchup because their homemade ketchup just didn’t go with our food.
I am giving the Tour a 5
I am giving the restaurant a 1

I am not an expert on beer or any type of alcohol. My cousins want to disown me because I don’t drink like all of them… But I do love tours. Any tour can really capture my interest and make me excited for the product that they are talking about.
When researching about my upcoming vacation, breweries were a top thing at Fort Collins. Since I am visiting my family and I have a 4 year old nephew, I thought the Budweiser tour would be more fitting because they do house the Clydesdale horses in Fort Collins. To my disappointment, they were in Arizona when we came to visit. The horses do have a busy schedule! The free tour was the one that we all could go to together and free is great for all of us! My underage niece also came with us so it was perfect.
The grounds at the budweiser brewhouse is huge. It was a short walk during the tour. They said it’s about a mile of walking. We learned about the company and the process for making beer. Saw people working in the factory as well. It’s amazing how much beer comes from there. They also offered samples at the end of the tour so of course I needed to try it. Our tour guide had a great energy so it made everyone interested in the tour.
It’s best to call to make sure the times of the tour. They didn’t have the tour we went on anywhere on their website. They are doing some renovations and a restaurant will be built in the near future. Will definitely stop by on my next visit to Fort Collins.

The Beermaster Tour is well worth the money! We had a great time & drank lots of free beer. We also got a hat, a free glass, a certificate & a bottle sticker. I wasn’t expecting the free swag.

Brewery tours and beer tastings are sweeping the country, but Budweiser has a corner on showing off some pretty spectacular horses at their facility just outside Fort Collins Colorado.
Pulling into the parking lot at the Budweiser brewery just off Exit 271 and Interstate 25 near Fort Collins Colorado set in motion a delightful 2-​hour experience that was both enjoyable and interesting. Our well-​informed guide explained the beer making process in such a way as to bring the process to life.
First stop was the Clydesdale Hamlet. The team of horses living in Fort Collins was unfortunately on tour during our visit so we weren’t able to see them playing in the rich green grass surrounded by cloud-​white fencing, but the size of the stalls and the wagons, not to mention the size of their shoes, gave us the unique opportunity to imagine how spectacular they would be in person. One of our groups’ personal favorite items were the Dalmatian-​spotted fire hydrants.
The hour long tour of the brewery itself was fairly standard to any brewery tour but thankfully included no stairs and several opportunities to sit for a few minutes which was perfect for our group of not-​so-​young RVers! We were rewarded with full-​size samples of beer in the beer garden afterward that easily made most of our group of beer enthusiasts quite enthusiastic! The bartenders were friendly and spent time helping this non-​beer-​drinker choose what to try, and the beer drinkers get their new favorites poured efficiently and with a smile.
All in all, if Budweiser is on your list of favorite thirst quenchers, or if you just need something to do while visiting Fort Collins or the nearby area, this brewery tour is a great option!
Complimentary tours of the brewery and the Clydesdale Hamlet are offered daily from June through September when camping at nearby state parks and private campgrounds is most popular. They also offer a Brewmaster Tour which costs $ 25 per adult 21+ and includes all the amenities of the free tour but adds the opportunity to sample beer from start to finish within the brewing process and get a behind the scenes look, and taste, in a small group. And if you still have a craving for more, the Beer School offers $ 10 classes four times per day that explains the steps needed for real beer appreciation.
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The guided tour is an 1hr 15 min but goes by so fast it doesn’t even seem like 1hr. Our tour guide was very friendly and informitive. After the tour you get two samples of beer!

Free tour. Free beer. Free piece of used beechwood. Free pretzels. A hour long guided tour provided a history of the budweiser beer company and all of its subsidiaries. Interesting place to go on a weekend.

I took a class on beer from Budweiser, fun times. If you feel like you would like to know how a beer should be poured or how it should taste this is a must do for a beer novice. If you don’t know what type of beer drinker you are you will by the end of this class. I have a new found respect for my base beers. As a plus of course some free samples from the bar as well as tasting in the classroom. Some extra pluses: you know how your beer should look/​taste and some souvenirs to remember them by.

Our tourguide was really nice, and the tour was interesting. I really liked the two beers I tried at the end! That day they were having a party on the patio and we could have gotten three free beers, but after two we were done! I had to drive, and we needed to leave to make a flight, otherwise we’d have stayed a little longer! Definitely a fun thing to do if you’ve got two hours to kill! :)
I was disappointed that the horses weren’t there. Maybe call ahead and see if they are on the road that day or not to ensure seeing them.

The tour is very well packaged and presented. The facility is flawless. The grounds are manicured better than most peoples nails. The staff is professional and attentive and engaging. Our Tour guide had the script down better than a tape recorder, She was flawless. All in all this is a fun tour and a well spent hour to see one of the biggest breweries in the world. Making 900,000 gallons of brew a day is no small task and the number of product lines that Anhauser Busch Inbev is impressive. Yes they are owned by a foreign Parent company, but the Budweiser is still the same.

I attended the «Beer School» and had a fantastic presenter, Cameron, what a riot he was! I actually learned a lot about how to correctly pour a beer, store beer and best glass with nucleated laser etchings on the bottom to get the best head on a beer. We had a full bottle of beer and then at least 4 other good size samples of beer just in this 45 minute presentation! Thanks for the bottle opening…
In short amount of time we were off on the tour with another couple of guides. The reality of this place… it is huge… one section the equivalence of 12 football field. It is good to visit this place in comparison to the other smaller breweries just to get a real handle on the world of beer production and distribution. The tour was the tour… nothing spectacular. Spectacular would have been if the Clydesdale horse were in the field, but not today! Someplace on the west coast, but not here, bummer! Did see the jewelry the horses wear and the horse shoes. wow…those horses have just got to be huge with that foot and all the food and water they consume per day!
At end of the tour, 2 large glasses of beer of your choice, but samples of others can be had. Nice big seating area. Good gift shop. Actually discovered i like a few of the beers from here… reminds me of my college days, but enjoyed the Platinum best.

Whenever we pass through Ft. Collins on I25, we stop here for some tasters in the Tasting Room. You can always take the tour if you haven’t and go out to see the horses, but if you want to go straight to the tasting room, they just point you the way. Two free regular size beers. I love Stella in the beautiful Stella glass. It is a fun time, and they provide pretzels and soda for the kids. Lovely tasting room. Tour is great as well. We always take out of town guests up here. High Five to Budweiser for such a wonderful facility.

Meh… exactly how I felt about this brewery.
There are many more exciting breweries to check out in this area, particularly in Fort Collins. Budweiser is just too big to make this experience feel intimate or interesting.

This brew tour is a rockin good time!
Even though the regular tour is free, I personally like taking the brew master tour. You get a sweet Budweiser hat, and personally guided tour. You get to head down on the floor, eat some hops and other random stuff, and try beer out of a private fridge every time you walk into another room.
If you’re heading to Fort Collins to do brewery tours, I’d recommend starting here at 10am sharp to start your tours. Why, you may ask? Because if you’re out to get tanked, there’s nothing like starting your day off with private tour and ending it three sheets to the wind by noon to hit the next six breweries.
On a responsible note, please bring a sober driver because it’s way to awesome to end it with getting busted driving from the far north end of town for a DUI.

I think I am a Bud Light Poster Child. I love Bud light, so maybe I am partial.
We drove up from Westminster and were on the first tour on a Sunday Morning 10:45am. There were just a handful of us, but that was ok by me.
We started our Free Tour in the stables and got to see those beautiful horses… after having our fill in the stable we went back to the plant for the tour.
Interesting, and the guide was very knowledgeable throughout. Got to see some great history of Budweiser and commercials… it was fun.
After we were done we went back into the ‘bar’ and had our 2 free samples… yummmmmmmmmm
The tour is about an hour and has a lot of walking… but not too bad ;)
**There is a paid tour for $ 25 that takes you a little more in depth, letting you taste the various stages that the beer goes through. And some other goodies… ***
We’ll be back in the summer for the paid tour.
Two Thumbs up… GO BUD !!

It was a fun and informative tour!
I am always impressed at how many facts the tour guides remember. Way too many specific numbers for me.
I took some family from out of town and they loved it!
It was cool to see the clydesdales, but I would had rather seen them out in the field, not in their cages.
Friendly, knowledgeable staff and free beer! can ya beat it?

Even if you are not a Busch fan (I’m not), this is a great visit if in the Ft. Collins area. You get a professional tour of their facility and best of all you get to visit the Clydesdale barns.
The brewery is laid out on a surprisingly huge and scenic land with some great photo ops. The end of the tour gives you some buying opportunities in their store as well as the sampling of different Busch brands. I thought the name your own «Natty» slogans for Natural Light in the tasting area was funny.