"Beechwood chips, sterilized in a cooker, are placed in the Anheuser-Busch Lagering Cellars (above). Here the beer ages, and "krausening," a costly second fermentation, produces Budweiser's natural carbonation and flavor."
"Pickets appeared at the Anheuser-Busch brewery yesterday for the first time since the work stoppage there started Oct. 1. Members of Local 187 of the CIO Beer Bottlers Union are shown before the bottling plant. The company garage and three outside garages housing brewery trucks were also picketed, stopping the delivery of beer."
"August A. Busch Jr., president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., helped notify pickets at the brewery that a settlement of the company's dispute with the Brewery Workers had been reached at 2:35 a.m. yesterday. From left, Eberhard Anheuser, chairman of the board of the brewery; R. W. Upshaw, vice president; Robert F. Lewis, president of the Joint Local Executive Board of the Brewery Workers, and Busch
"Pickets from the Newark, N. J. local of the CIO Brewery Workers Union set up a picket line yesterday at the Anheuser-Busch brewery here, but most workers crossed the line and production was not halted. The union is seeking a contract at the Anheuser-Busch Newark plant."
Two original captions: "Busch beer packaging evolution, from the original design, flat top steel can of 1955, upper left, to the Tab Top aluminum can, lower right, which was introduced in 1978 and immediately preceded the most recent redesign." "Beer can collectors delight - With the introduction of a new label and graphic design ("The look of the 80s") for Busch beer, hundreds of can collectors
"The 30-millionth barrel of beer produced by Anheuser-Busch, Inc. in 1974 was bunged at its St. Louis brewery Wednesday by August A. Busch Jr., right, chairman and chief executive officer, with an assist from President August A. Busch III, at left. The brief ceremony made Anheuser-Busch the first brewery in the world to produce 30 million barrels of beer in a single year."
SWINGING A 75-YEAR-OLD mallet from the Falstaff Museum of Brewing, President Joseph Griesedieck seals the 7,000,000th barrel of beer porduced by the company in 1966. (Since the standard of measure in the brewing industry is a 31-gallon barrell, it takes tow like the half-barrel pictured to equal a barrel.) Observing the event is Charles Mitchell of the brewing department at Plant Ten, one of