Brewery Lights at Anheuser-Busch
✓ Verified 2025-2026
Where: Anheuser-Busch Brewery, 1200 Lynch St, St. Louis, Missouri
When: November 22 - December 30
Hours: Timed entry at 5, 6, and 7 p.m.
Cost: free
more than a million lights on historic brewery architecture40th annual eventcomplimentary beer for 21+Budweiser Clydesdalesnightly 10-minute light showfestive parade with vintage trucks and floatslight-up dance floornew VIP speakeasy with live jazzattraction
Now in its 40th year, the brewery drapes more than a million lights over its Germanic-Romanesque buildings and runs a 10-minute light show plus a parade with vintage trucks, floats, and the Budweiser Clydesdales each night. Guests 21 and up get a complimentary beer, and 2025 adds a VIP speakeasy with cocktails, live jazz, and parlor games.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in St. Louis is around 4:41 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:11 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 25°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 6 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 9 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Citygarden Holiday Lights
- Dutchtown Bells
- Winter Wonderland at Tilles Park
- Ameren Missouri Festival of Lights
- Garden Glow at Missouri Botanical Garden
- Commerce Bank Wild Lights at the Saint Louis Zoo
- WonderLight's Christmas
- Holiday Lights at Grant's Farm
Make a night of it. This is stop 3 on our 8-stop St. Louis lights loop — about 25.7 miles and 94 minutes of driving in total.