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St. Louis Tours & Experiences

Explore our campus, visit the Clydesdales, and even taste beer straight from the finishing cellars. Choose from a variety of experiences, customized to fit your interests and timeframe.

The second annual Blues & Brews will take place at Anheuser-Busch Brewery on Sept. 20.

The outdoor street party will include appearances by Blues players and alumni, food trucks, cold beers, yard games and live music.

To strengthen the connection between music and hockey, which stands at the heart of St. Louis history, music will be a key component of Blues & Brews. This year, the event will feature performances by country music star Matt Stell!

Join us in September for our Oktoberfest themed dinner!!

Hosted by our Head Chef and Beer Enthusiast, your palate will take a journey through a four-course meal, perfectly complimented with four of our carefully selected brand beverages.

Explore the Anheuser-Busch brewery and learn why our beer is second to none.

Take a closer look at our campus and brewing methods when you join us on the Day Fresh Tour! Packed with history and stunning views of the property, you’ll learn all about the life of an Anheuser-Busch beer from seed to sip: from its beginnings as quality ingredients, to its crisp taste as the finished product!

Why dream about meeting a Clydesdale? Make it a reality.

At Anheuser-Busch, we value our storied history. And with a legacy that transcends beer, we especially take pride in our World-Renowned Budweiser Clydesdales. Now, you can get up-close and personal…

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the brewing of Budweiser.

If you’re Budweiser’s biggest fan, there’s only one option for you: the Beermaster Tour. Get an all-access look at how the King of Beers is brewed, and visit exclusive locations on campus only.

Get right to the good stuff.

With a path that brings you right to our lager cellars, the Finisher Tour is perfect for visitors looking to pop in and grab the freshest beer in all of St. Louis - right from the tank!

St. Louis Closure Dates

September 20th.

Last tour at 2:30pm || Biergarten will close early

Podge’s Belgian Beer Tours –

Lots of news this month!

Due to a change of dates of the Ipswich Beer Festival, we are moving the dates of our Beer & Heritage Tour 2013 by two weeks. This will now start on Friday 9 th August, returning Monday 12 th August, the day before the start of the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia. The price of this Tour has now been issued, see below.

Also, please note that our Beer & Battlefields Tour 2013 has now sold out, but due to popular demand and the Great War centenary in 2014-2018 we are already planning two Beer & Battlefields Tours for 2014.

Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival – Wed 20 February – Sat 23 February 2013

Hopefully we will see you at this festival at our BelgaFest Beer Bar where we are featuring beers from De Molen in Holland, Rogue in USA, draught Yeast Beer from Budvar and lots of great beers from Belgium. The festival takes place at a new bigger and better venue, King Edward VI Grammar School, (KEGS), Broomfield Road, Chelmsford CM1 3SX. This is over twice the size of any previous site used for the Chelmsford CAMRA Winter Beer Festival, offering over 200 Real Ales and Ciders. To encourage you to come and visit us on the Wednesday, the first day of the festival we will be offering everybody on our mailing list their first pint of draught Budweiser Budvar Yeast Beer for the price of a half. Come and say Hello!

Tour 64 – LambicLand Revisited – Fri 19 April – Mon 22April 2013

This Tour is based at Ibis Brussels Centre Sainte Catherine Hotel  ideally situated for exploring the heart of the Belgian lambic scene. Over the Tour we will aim to visit all HORAL lambic brewers and blenders and will take in the now famous bi-annual lambic day Toer de Geuze . We will also visit the new Lambic Visitors Centre De Lambiek in Beersel (Alsemberg). There will be meals at the superb de Heeren van Liederkercke and Café-Restaurant 3 Fonteinen in Beersel, plus calling in at specialist lambic cafe In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst . To add to the theme of using oak in the brewing process, we will visit Bockor Brewery in Bellegem. They have recently upped their game and are now doing marvellous things with their foeders (oak barrels) and their revamped brands.

The price of this four-day tour is £396 per person based on sharing a twin or double room with a single supplement of £100 if you want a room of your own. If you are travelling alone and want to share a room with another traveller, please contact Podge as we are regularly able to pair up travellers in twin rooms to avoid the need for payment of a single supplement. If you would like to secure a place, please send a deposit of £100 per person now. This is Tour is nearly full, so if you want to go, contact Podge now. The balance for this Tour is due as usual five weeks before departure.

                                     SOLD OUT – Tour 65 – Beer & Battlefields – Thurs 23 May – Mon 27 May 2013 – SOLD OUT

This is our fourth Beer & Battlefields Tour. Our base is the friendly Oude Abdij Hotel in Lo, the site of one of the many Belgian breweries destroyed in the First World War. This Tour will centre on battlefields and breweries in the Ypres Salient in Flanders and will as usual include visits to well known and some less well-known sites. This year we are planning visits to:

• Six-Colpaert Brewery, Reningelst – a first world war brewery, for a beer tasting*.
• The renovated In Flanders Fields Museum* in Ieper and the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.
• The Memorial to the 2 nd Worcesters at Gheluvelt and their pivotal role in the First Battle of Ypres (1914)
• The Brooding Soldier Memorial to the gas attack at Vancouver Corner and the Second Battle of Ypres (1915)
• Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in the world
• Sanctuary Wood Trenches & Hill 62 Museum*
• Hooge Crater Museum*
• The Ijzertoren, Dixmuide*
• De Dolle Brouwers Brewery Tour*, Esen
• Vanuxeem Beer Warehouse – possibly the biggest in Belgium
• The Christmas Truce Memorial at Frelinghien and the story of what happened in this sector in December 1914
• In de Vrede, Westvleteren, home of the famous Trappist beers, and a First World war billet for the Allies.
• Evenings free in Veurne, Poperinge and Ypres, armed with Podge’s local beer guides.

Once again we have the services of Siobhan McGinn as our guide to Flanders Fields, and this year Siobhan will be giving us the benefit of knowledge gained on the MA British First World War Studies which she is currently undertaking at Birmingham University. If you have a particular cemetery or memorial in the Ypres Salient that you would like to visit in connection with your family, please let us know and we will see if we can incorporate it in the Tour. The price of this five-day tour is £440 per person based on sharing a twin or double room with a single supplement of £120 if you want a room of your own. If you are travelling alone and want to share a room with another traveller, please contact Podge as we are regularly able to pair up travellers in twin rooms to avoid the need for payment of a single supplement. There are now no places left on this Tour. If you are interested in going on either of our Beer & Battlefields Tours 2014 contact Podge now to register your interest.

For those already booked on this Tour don’t forget the balance is due as usual five weeks before departure, i.e.18 th April.

Tour 66 – Beer & Heritage – AMENDED DATES – Fri 9 August – Mon 12 August 2013

Based at Novotel Leuven this Tour combines beer tourism with great visits to historic and cultural sites. We are looking to include:

v      A visit to the Marl caves at Kanne where Grottenbier is aged and can be sampled.

v      A boat trip on the famous Ronquières Inclined Plane on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal.

v      A meal at Dupont brewery tap

v      Beer and Biscuit tasting

v      A visit to the Historic City of Tongeren

v      Call in at probably the most attractive brewery in the whole of Belgium Kerkom

v      A visit to the Archeosite and Museum in Aubechies which just happens to have a special beer Cervesia brewed for it.

v      Lastly a tour and tasting at the brand new brewhouse of Delirium Brewery in Melle.

The price of this four-day tour is £405 per person based on sharing a twin or double room with a single supplement of £100 if you want a room of your own. If you are travelling alone and want to share a room with another traveller, please contact Podge as we are regularly able to pair up travellers in twin rooms to avoid the need for payment of a single supplement. If you would like to secure a place, please send a deposit of £100 per person now. The balance for this Tour is due as usual five weeks before departure.

Dates for your diary:

• Christmas in Bruges Tour 2013 – Mon 23 December to Fri 27 December 2013
• Beer & Battlefields Tours – two five day Tours starting Thurs 22 May 2014 AND starting Fri 26 September 2014. Further details on these Tours will be issued during 2013 in these newsletters.

Included in the cost of our Tours are:

v      Hotel accommodation and breakfasts.

v      Luxury coach travel on a 49 seater coach with toilet.

v      Pick up from Ipswich (Crown Street Layby), Colchester (Southway Chapel St South Layby) or Chelmsford (The Woolpack, Mildmay Road).

v      Arrangements can be made for different joining points on the way to Folkestone or even on the other side of the channel.

v      All Brewery visits, tours and brewery beer tastings.

v      Entrance fees to all group attractions, museums and historical sites.

v      All items marked with an asterisk on individual detailed tour itinerary.

v      Copies of Podge’s City Bar Guide & Map for the town or city where we stay or spend some time on Tour.

v      Free still and sparkling water on the coach.

Personal insurance is not included but is strongly advised, as is carrying the European Health Insurance Card available online, by phone or via the Post Office. If you would like to join us on any of the above tours or if you need more information please contact Podge on 01245 354677 or email [email protected] . Places are limited to the number of rooms booked, so book early to avoid disappointment.

CHEERS! Podge

Podge’s Belgian Beer Tours

Driving people to drink since 1994

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01245 354677

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I f you would like to join us on any of our Tours (or if you need more information) either: call Podge on +44(0)1245 354677 ; send Podge an email ; or fill out the form below. Places on the tours are limited to the number of rooms booked in the hotel[s] of choice for each Tour, so contact us early to avoid disappointment. You can also join our mailing list to be updated first on future Tours.

Podge’s Belgian Beer Tours Driving People to Drink Since 1994