They also toss in beechwood logs when it’s aging, which probably adds something.
No "secret" ingredients. And yes, they do use beechwood in the bottom of the brewing vats.
At the end of the tour you go to the tasting room.
Up until then I really did not like Budweiser.
But when you have an ice-cold ultra-fresh Bud out of the tap, it's really something special.
Must be the canning process that takes flavor out.
Same thing with the Coor's brewery. Wonderful in the tap room, "meh" out of a can.
O/T, one of the most fun things about the A-B brewery tour is that it really is a self-contained "city" in of itself. Imagine getting hurt on the job and an Anheuser-Busch logoed ambulance shows up.
No I'm not joking. They have one.