Ahhh, Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Home of the Cardinals. Home of the 80th All-Star Game.
I may never end up going there, but I do like baseball, and I’ll bet it would be a great time. Could you imagine? Get a nice seat, settle in for a great ball game, decide that maybe a brewski would taste good on this warm August day. Ha! It’s Busch Stadium — you know what kind of beer I’d get:
Yup, a cold Busch beer at Busch Stadium. Awesome.
Except, also, exceedingly difficult, at least according to a writer at the Riverfront Times:
Until this year the “cold as a mountain stream, smooth as its name” beverage had been available at nearly all of the dozens of stand-alone beer vendors found inside the ballpark’s concourses. This year those same vendors only offer Budweiser, Bud Light and Bud Select. And they do so only in 16-ounce, plastic bottles that sell for $7.75. … When I asked a vendor Wednesday night where I could get a Busch beer, she informed me that only three locations in the entire ballpark serve the libation.
Yikes! A spokesperson later clarified that there might be 10-15 locations where you can get Busch, but that’s still dwarfed by the number selling Budweiser. To put it in perspective, you can also get a St. Louis micro-brew, Schlafly, at about the same number of locations.
Interestingly, the writer also notes that the 16-ounce plastic bottles work out to a cost of 48¢/oz. Last year’s Busch tallboys were 24 ounces for a mere dollar more ($8.75) — which works out to a relative bargain at 36¢/oz.
No word on the cost of peanuts and Cracker Jack.
(Stadium photo from Flickr user Joe Penniston. Beer picture from Flickr user Speed-Light.)
Grant Hamilton
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