Your Budweiser is actually 100 years old...[video]

[solbes]

See video link below:

http://money.cnn.com/video/technolo...weiser-100-year-old-yeast.cnnmoney/index.html

- Umm its not actually 100 years old, but the parent cells are closely linked to the original strain
- A weeks worth of Bud starts with 1mL of yeast, would not have guessed that
- Hmm controlling the yeast strain helps keep a consistent taste profile, you don't say...
- And the yeast "bunker", that actually looks pretty damn cool

 

[Talgrath]

Worth noting that old Adolphus Busch that they talk so fondly of, didn't even drink his own beer, calling it "slop".

 

[Brewernaut51]

I read it was more that he preferred wine over beer but it is kind of funny anyway.

 

[unionrdr]

Not the same beer it was 100 years ago. The yeast & inoculation rate may be the same, but the beer is a bit different.

 

[LandoLincoln]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that they didn't do genetic testing on their strains going all the way back to the 1800's to verify that there were no mutations. It's possible that they had some yeast samples from the 1800's and once they started using advanced testing THEN they could say with certainty that the strain that they currently use is the same as that previous strain.

But anyway...it's cool to see how a company with basically limitless money focuses on producing the same goddamn beer in the same goddamn way for decades and decades. Too bad for their business model that more beer drinkers are coming around to the idea that beer comes in more than two flavors and they now want variety.

 

[unionrdr]

Bud produced many different styles, strengths, etc before prohibition. Here's an interesting read I found; https://books.google.com/books?id=gYVLHMmplRcC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=what+adolphus+busch+thought+of+his+own+beer?&source=bl&ots=MHbbtpSiZ4&sig=rXUyrA52FP727zYHHQNIBCMKObo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMIo9aXkPWAyAIVx82ACh3i3QOr#v=onepage&q=what%20adolphus%20busch%20thought%20of%20his%20own%20beer%3F&f=false

 

[Spartan300man]

I toured the St. Louis Brewery and they mention this 'origina strain of yeast' on the tour. Using this same logic, you could say the water itself was created millions of years ago.
The Anheuser-Busch tour is now a brief half hour. Much shorter than it was a few years ago. They no longer go through the bottling area.
The best thing about the tour is that they now have a single tap on the far end of the beer hall where you can use your free token to get a Goose Island IPA.