Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors and officers of
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") hereby constitutes
and appoints August A. Busch IV, W. Randolph Baker, John F. Kelly and JoBeth G. Brown, and
each of them acting singly, the true and lawful agents and attorneys, or agent and attorney, with full
powers of substitution, resubstitution and revocation, for and in the name, place and stead of the
undersigned to do any and all things and to execute any and all instruments which said agents and
attorneys, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any rules, regulations and requirements of
the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the 2007 Annual
Report on Form 10-K of the Company, including specifically, but without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, full power and authority to sign the name of each of the undersigned in the capacities
indicated below to the said 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and to any and all amendments to said 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K,
and each of the undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys and agents, and to each of them
singly, full power and authority to do and perform on behalf of the undersigned every act and thing
whatsoever necessary or appropriate to be done in the premises as fully as the undersigned could
do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys and agents, or any of them, or
the substitutes or substitute of them or of any of them, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has subscribed these presents this 27th day of
February, 2008.
/s/ August A. Busch IV
/s/ W. Randolph Baker
(August A. Busch IV)
(W. Randolph Baker)
President and Chie