I can't believe that I dared to go to my mom's and back with my two younger kids. Four and half hours one way. The kids were great and I am so thankful for the van DVD player. We had a nice visit.
It rained which ruined our zoo plans, but we went to the Budweiser Beer factory which was free, inside and took about and hour. Nathan loved the end of the tour where they put all the bottles into the cases. They make over 8 million barrels of beer a year. 1 barrel = 31 gallons, that is a lot of beer! That is just one plant. They make beer 24/7.
There is a definite smell to the air. Hard to explain but I remembered the smell from the factory that used to be a Bush Gardens. AHHH childhood memories. The smell of beer brewing. Nathan didn't care for the smell and plugged his nose. I tried to get a picture but he ran from me. Silly boy.
Beside the amount of beer they make I was amazed at the fact that Anheuser Bush survived the prohibition period. How in the world does a beer company make money during a non alcohol period? Smarts! He had a plan and knew it was coming. He even warned his competitors that prohibition was going to happen. He turned his beer company into a company that used ingredients he already used to make other products like selling yeast and feed. There are only five ingredients in beer and he used them to create other products. That is how they have been around for so long. Willingness to adapt. Obviously the other products were not as profitable or he wouldn't have gone back to making beer:)
In three days I travel over 400 miles! I'm tired, but it was worth it.
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