Our second factory tour for the day took us to Budweisers Californian brewery. This huge plant produces 9 products including their two biggest sellers Bud and Bud Light. Interestingly the beer includes rice as well as barley and takes 24 days from start to finish, where some of the other big breweries we have visited pump their beer out in under a week. They put beech wood in their huge bats, not for colour or flavour but for the yeast to attach to, never seen that before. The tour started off with some tasting, had tastings in the middle and finished with a tasting. Keep away from the Bud as I can drink bath water, but we tried some “craft like’ beer they made that had a distinct popcorn taste, strangely it was pretty tasty.