the budweiser clydesdales .. oh my !!

after our breakfast by the window we headed down the street a bit to the budweiser factory .. ellie wanted to see the clydesdale's .. jeff wanted to see the beer .. cash wanted to see the big trucks and i wanted to see the barn ..

these horses are amazingly huge and beautiful .. the grooms spend about 2 hours grooming them a day .. and then they are turned out for 2 hours a day .. they have about 6 horses at the factory .. the others are at grant farm ..

the tack room .. oh my .. this tack room is cleaner and tidier than my kitchen .. that pretty much goes for the whole entire barn .. there is a tiffany chandelier hanging in the center .. right .. because all barns have tiffany chandeliers hanging in them ..

look .. a family picture .. with me !!

this is the beechwood aging cellar .. it holds 3600 barrels of beer .. it stays here for about 30 days .. after this it goes thru a filtering system and then onto the bottling plant .. you would have to drink a case of beer a day every day for 100 years to drink all the beer in one of these containers ... and they are very very cold .. just ask cash ..

this is jerome our tour guide .. i asked him what happened when they had a bad batch of beer .. he said ..no problem .. they just send it up to milwaukee and call it milwaukee's best .. such a comedian ..

the grounds were beautiful .. every building was beautiful .. they have 5 historic landmarks on site .. jeff asked if the employees got free beer .. why yes they do .. 2 cases a month .. !!! i wonder if they have any part time openings in the barn ..

this is the bottling part .. on one side they filter the beer and on the other side they bottle it .. lots of clinking of bottles .. it was a neat sound in a loud kind of way ..

this line was packaging bud light in cans ..

see boxes of beer ..

for the big kids .. samples .. for the little kids .. root beer and pretzels .. i will have to say that was the coldest .. freshest .. and i can't believe i am saying this .. me .. the non-beer drinker .. but delicious bud light lime i have ever had .. i could have pulled up a chair and stayed awhile .. as long as someone would have driven me back to the hotel .. i made this comment to jeff and he reminded me that we were in missouri and that they have 6 point beer .. not 3.2 like oklahoma .. oh .. yea .. i say .. i like missouri ..