Anheuser-Busch Companies

As far as tours, this review is for the Brewmasters tour. We paid 35 dollars for a really comprehensive tour. IT started with a review of their grains with a chance to eat and taste the different grains used. We got a baseball hat to keep, along with loaner goggles and a head set for the tour. We walked through their main building and museum for a few minutes. We got to see the Clydesdales. Then they took us throughout the different buildings to see the brewing facilities. We had a chance to try beer twice during the tour, including at the end when we tasted 4 hour old beer fresh from the giant tap. It was amazingly fresh and ice cold. We got to see the packaging and bottling area as well. At the end, we went back to the main building where we were able to drink beers from a fully stocked fridge with pretzels as snacks. The beer variety was great, too! We received a certificate at the end. Definitely worth doing if you have a free day.

Beer. Free Beer.
Are you meeting family in St. Louis?
You need this.

Yes, the tour is free and you get two beers and some pretzels at the end of the hour. I’d say it’s a mandatory if you’re visiting the city. Plus, you get to see the clydesdales and a dalmatian. Lots of beer history and information with knowledgeable guides. Beer is really not my thing but it wasn’t the worst way to spend an hour. You might have to wait a bit in their lobby though as the tours are very popular and can be crowded but everyone behaves themselves because they want the free beers at the end.

Free 1 hour tour, cool history lesson and you get to see historical St. Louis landmarks. Worth a visit!

This is only getting one star due to finding out that the city of St. Louis shuts down at 5:00pm.
I didn’t get to enjoy the tour as I showed up around 6 due to work commitments. This whole trip was a disappointment with being turned away from the arch and riding a MetroLink and taking a cab, we were turned away from a security guard who said they were closing up.
The oddity was the lack of traffic, downtown foot traffic, and anyone in sight around 5 to 6pm on a weeknight. St. Louis is definitely not an East Coast city. If the Cardinals are not in town, there is absolutely nothing to do.
I would have enjoyed trying the brewery tour as I’ve done Yeungling and Sam Adams and weren’t disappointed, but c’mon St. Louis, treat your tourists a little better.
:(face for the city itself.

Beer, Clydesdales, and the delicious, delicious smells of the beer-​making process. Could there be a more fun tourist activity? Certainly not for free!
Even if you know how beer is made — hell, even if you make your own beer — it’s fun to walk through the brewery and learn how the folks at A-​B do it. And if you’re just not that patient (or just a bit short on time), do the quickie tour: visit the horsies and enjoy your two free beers.
I sincerely hope that nothing changes too drastically as a result of the InBev acquisition. This tour is totally my go-​to tourist activity when out-​of-​town friends and family come to St. Louis… I mean, am I supposed to take people to the arch or something?

Why is everything so cheap (or free!) in this town? I don’t know, but I like it. I was fully expecting the A-​B tour to cost $ 15 – 20, but a friend told me it was totally free so I was even more excited to check it out on my first full weekend living in St. Louis.
You get to see some of the Clydesdales, go along the beechwood aging room, the fermentation room and the bottling plant. I may have missed something, but I forget. They teach you about the brewing process and what makes them so different from other beer companies in the U.S. Then, you get two free beers at the end. Can’t beat that when the entire tour is free.
There is a full tour, which takes about an hour, and then a 15 minute tour where you just go see the Clydesdales and then go back for your free beer.

I’m a St. Louis native, and AB has been in my backyard my whole life, and I am embarrassed to say that I never took the tour before.
I am not a beer connoisseur, but drink enough of the stuff to be interested in the process. So a friend and I went to the brewery, and checked out the entire process.
The tour took you as close to the actual brewery as possible. Only a glass window separates you from endless gallons of the sweet nectars made by AB. The tour basically takes you through the entire plant, and the tour guide explains what is happening at each step.
The best part is 2 free beers, right out of the brewery. Probably the best beer I have ever had. So fresh, light, cold, and good.

Fun tour. Moves along quick and free beer at the end. During the summer the mashing room can be 120 degrees and the fermentation room is 50 degrees, so be prepared for dramatic temp swings.

Remember Laverne & Shirley, the girls who worked in the brewery? Well you won’t see them here, but you can take a tour of the facilities for free. You can see the building that was in the commercial. I got 2 free beers at the end of the tour, but it was a few years ago, so there’s no guarantee they’re still doing that.