{"id":264888,"date":"2026-04-24T21:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:01:27","slug":"how-the-clydesdales-brought-joy-to-el-pasos-the-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264888\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Clydesdales Brought Joy To El Paso&#8217;s The Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animals can sometimes be as famous as people and some of the most famous horses in the world recently took a stroll around downtown El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody knows Eddie, the Jack Russel terrier from Frasier right? How could anybody forget Cujo? Famous dogs indeed but a much bigger animal star just hit El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a couple of big anniversaries, the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anheuser-busch.com\/about\/clydesdale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Budweiser Clydesdales<\/a> just came to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Budweiser has their &#8220;dream team&#8221; on tour these days to commemorate their 150th anniversary and they made a stop in El Paso to celebrate a local legends 70th.<\/p>\n<p>Famous El Paso Bar Turns 70<\/p>\n<p>An iconic El Paso bar, a tourist must see and the ultimate dive bar, <a href=\"https:\/\/thetapep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Tap<\/a>, is 70 years old. Located at 408 E. San Antonio, The Tap has been serving cold brew, tasty drinks and some amazing Mexican food for 7 decades and shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>Budweiser is twice as old and they&#8217;re not slowing down either. Jeez, if anything, they&#8217;re picking up speed. Over the years, they have introduced us to some iconic animal characters. Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/57L9PhN8iPs?si=ZZf9EepBsuj8RS-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spuds McKenzie<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Spuds was short lived but the Dalmatians have been around for quite a while now. On TV, they help the Clydesdales. In real life, they do something much more important. They guard the beer.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, those legendary, beautiful &#8230; not to mention freakin&#8217; HUGE &#8230; Clydesdales. The &#8216;Clyde&#8217;s and the Dal&#8217;s have starred in some of the most epic commercials ever.<\/p>\n<p>Budweiser Clydesdales Visit El Paso<\/p>\n<p>They &#8230; and the Dalmatian too &#8230; paid a visit to The Tap to wish them a happy anniversary and then did a little sightseeing around downtown to the delight of a pretty big crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Budweiser Clydesdales In El Paso<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Budweiser Clydesdales Visit El Paso<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/author\/ggarza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dubba G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They even brought gifts &#8230; lots of Budweiser swag and some really cool stuffed Clydesdales for the young &#8216;uns. (Given, of course, to their parents.) Some of those adults though, I didn&#8217;t see any kids with &#8230; just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Happy anniversary to Bud and The Tap. Here&#8217;s to many more years of ice cold beer and sizzlin&#8217; hot Mexican food. This Bud is actually for you two.<\/p>\n<p>Super Bowl Clydesdales<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Anheuser-Busch<\/p>\n<p>Stunning Photos of the Budweiser Clydesdales at the Western Heritage Classic in Abilene<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/keyj.com\/author\/chazmcguire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chaz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animals can sometimes be as famous as people and some of the most famous horses in the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1907,138,140,139,6120,143,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-264888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-audio-videos-photos","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-food-drinks","13":"tag-local-el-paso","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}