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We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our report dated February 28, 2007 relating to the financial statements, management’s assessment of effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in the 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., which is incorporated by reference in Anheuser-Busch’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006. We also consent to the incorporation by reference of our report dated February 28, 2007 relating to the financial statement schedule, which appears in such Annual Report on Form 10-K. We also consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement of our report dated August 21, 2006 relating to the statements of net assets available for benefits and the related statements of changes in net assets available for benefits, which appear in the Form 11-K of the Anheuser-Busch Deferred Income Stock Purchase and Savings Plan (For Employees Covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement) for the year ended March 31, 2006. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.