If you’ve been following this 365 bar tour, you probably have realized that while I try to mix up the drink selection for a little variety, my go-to drink is a bottle or can of Budweiser.
The Royal Family of Budweiser here in Peoria is the Jacob family. Since 1978, the Jacob family has owned and operated Brewers Distributing here in Peoria. You can read their foamy history here, but if you’ve drank a Budweiser in or around Peoria between 1978 and now, you have a connection to the Jacob family.
Thirteen years ago, Paul Jacob, who was a second generation member of the Jacob family invited me out to Brewers for a tour and I was thrilled to be invited there. We had a fun afternoon and you can see the post and read all about it here.
There’s currently a third generation of Jacobs working at Brewers Distributing now and they’ve been following the bar blog and have invited me out for a night at the exclusive bar at Brewers Distributing and I’m honored to present it as our 80th bar on this tour!
Let’s head on over to Brewers Distributiing for our 80th night out on the town!
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Bar Number 80: Brewers Distributing, Monday, March 30, 2026
Here we are at Brewers Distributing on the north side of Peoria. It’s certainly an impressive building.
Let’s go in and begin our 80th visit to a bar!
Here’s the bar room and the bar is located in the back of the room. We’ll check that out soon, but let’s see who these fellows are over here…
It’s the third generation of the Jacob family and these three are brothers who are currently working here and making sure everything runs smoothly as a freshly tapped keg of Budweiser!
They are from left: Tommy, George and Jake Jacob! Wonderful to see all of them and I thank them for the invitation to hang out at the Brewers Bar tonight!
Steve Aden stopped by to say hi and we met on the previously mentioned tour back in 2013.
Steve’s worked here since 1997 and it was wonderful to see him again!
There’s the impressive bar here at Brewers Distributing. I love the stained glass wooden logo embossed in the middle of the bar!
Hey, check out the sign they made for me! That is so cool! Thanks so much for doing that!
This is such a nice bar and I love the Anheuser-Busch glasses hanging down.
As you can see, it’s well-stocked with Budweiser and I love the beer steins on the top shelves!
There’s the three beers on tap in here and that’s a cool Budweiser piece of art on the mirror behind the bar.
This year marks the 150th year anniversary of Budweiser and the company is releasing these limited edition Heritage twelve packs. There’s four different collections being released and each one has a unique can design.
You can read about it here, but if you’re a beer can collector, you’ll want to have all four in your collection!
Here’s a monument to the number one selling beer in America, Michelob Ultra! Very cool!
I love these vintage Budweiser Brewers photos on the wall!
Check out the Budweiser Clydesdale horse in here!
We enjoyed some pizza, beer and conversation in the bar room and this was such a fun evening! A real highlight of this tour!
Here’s Tommy and Jake presenting me with some Budweiser gifts and the sign from the evening, which I’ll hang up here at MBIP Headquarters!
That’s so nice of them and I thank them for the gifts and this fun evening at Brewers Bar!
Here’s a couple of the delivery trucks waiting to get filled up with beer for the next day deliveries!
Jake showed me these two signs out here and the top one is a Busch sign they rescued from a building in downtown Peoria and he told me that the Budweiser sign used to hang in Sully’s Pub.
I told Jake the last time I was in Sully’s was when I did a Saturday night post from there in the summer of 2013. I wondered if I took a photo of this sign back then and I came home and checked out the post and…
Sure enough, I did indeed take a photo of it back then! Here’s the photo and caption from 13 years ago! Nice to be reunited again over a decade later! You can see that whole post by clicking here.
Thanks again to the Jacob brothers for the super fun evening at Brewers Distribution Bar! I had a blast and appreciate you having me over for the 80th evening of this 365 tour!
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The Drinks
I kind of lost track, but we enjoyed many bottles of Budweiser and thanks to the Jacob brothers and Brewers Distributing for supplying the beer and pizza for the evening!
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2421 W. Townline Road
Peoria
309-692-2883
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Bar List, Rules, Banner Art & Donation Link.
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