Beer Tour

Another day in St. Louis and more adventures. I don't care for beer, but I thought a tour of the Anhueser Busch Plant would be fun. It turned out to be great fun. For starters, it was free. And because of that and because it was beer, there were tons of people going on the tour with us. It was interesting learning some of the history and just seeing the mechanics of how it gets done. Anyway, the place is huge. Plus it had Clydesdales.

At the end of the tour adults could get two glasses of beer and a bag of pretzels. For children and me they also had a Pepsi machine there. I did take a couple of sips of beer. I've had sips before. I just can't get over the fact that, as far as I'm concerned, it is nasty tasting stuff. It tastes like warm diet Dr. Pepper. Yes I could force it down if I had to, but I don't. When you figure the nasty taste with some of beer's other possible negative side effects like job loss, divorce, anger management issues, headaches, nausea, and thinking you have a sense of humor when you don't, I just don't see the reason for trying to acquire a taste for it. I remember in high school our track coach was telling some of us how you can learn to like the taste of beer. Looking back on it, that probably could have gotten him fired, but it didn't. If I was going to be an alcoholic, and I still have plenty of time, I think I could get into that hard lemonade they have. It seems like it would be tasty. But, the human body can probably only deal with so much fluid in one day, and I can't let anything get in the way of my Coke/Pepsi addiction.

Speaking of drinking fluids – What's with people drinking all this water? I just read that you don't need all that much. Some goofy scientist onetime came up with 8 to 10 glasses a day, but that really isn't right. The best sign that you should drink is that you are thirsty. If your not thirsty, you're probably fine. I'm just saying, I read that recently. Plus it makes sense. God didn't intend us to have to pack water bottles with us everyplace we go like we're nomads headed across the desert. If you can't make it to the next water fountain, you've got problems. And by the way people, its called “drinking”. I just feel like slapping anyone that says they have to “hydrate”.

We just drove by the stadiums where the Rams play. That was cool because they play the Packers there tonight. I had seen a bunch of people wearing Packer stuff at the Busch tour and it seemed odd to me. It all makes sense now.