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We have heartily enjoyed helping to put together the Post-Dispatch’s four-day series on the first anniversary of Anheuser-Busch InBev. In case you’ve missed some of the work, here is a compilation, just in time for the company’s first birthday, which hits Wednesday.

As part of the package, we tracked down all 17 members of the “old” Anheuser-Busch top-ranking strategy committee to show where they are now. And for a little perspective, here is our way cool interactive timeline tracing the rise of Anheuser-Busch InBev.

There’s more to come in tomorrow’s Post-Dispatch, as we check out the mixed fortunes of Anheuser-Busch’s brands. Here’s a peek at what has already been written.

“The takeover of Anheuser-Busch may have been a bigger blow to St. Louis’ self-image than to its economy,” columnist David Nicklaus argued in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch. “It’s time to rethink that self-image. We’re no longer a town dominated by big, paternalistic corporate headquarters that sell century-old products around the world. Even in its heyday, run by the St. Louis equivalent of a royal family, A-B was something of an anachronism.”

Nicklaus said nostalgia for the “old” Anheuser-Busch gets us nowhere. From the column:

St. Louisans are a nostalgic bunch, but we need to get over our past. We should aspire to be a place where world-class companies choose to put their key people, whether it’s at a global headquarters or a division office.

Also on Sunday, we tackled the question of what, exactly has changed at Anheuser-Busch in the past year.

Remember the demolition project on the top floor of Anheuser-Busch’s headquarters shortly after InBev took over? That was “a sign, plain and unmistakable. There was a new sheriff in town,” we wrote in the story:

When Anheuser-Busch became a subsidiary of the world’s biggest brewer - a branch office, as some people said - things would change rapidly. A-B could trace its roots as an independent brewer to before the Civil War. But now, it suddenly occupied a subordinate place in the world. … After the $52 billion buyout, control would be wielded by the board and executives of the parent company based in Leuven, Belgium.

Still to be seen is whether St. Louis will recognize and embrace the remade Anheuser-Busch as it did before.

We wrote that “the culture of InBev - forged in the bare-knuckled competition of Brazil, the home country for many senior executives - has clearly begun to transform Anheuser-Busch from the inside out.”

Anheuser-Busch is now a leaner place, but critics say it is also meaner. “The new Anheuser-Busch is arguably more efficient than before,” we wrote on Sunday. “But under InBev’s management, it is clearly less patient with time-honored tradition.”

On Monday, Post-Dispatch jobs reporter Steve Giegerich wrote about how much a job at Anheuser-Busch meant to St. Louis citizens.

“Employment at Anheuser-Busch represented far more than a job for the men and women who reported to the brewery at the far end of Pestalozzi Street,” Giegerich wrote here. “An A-B job conferred the status of working for an iconic American brand. It was a brand that also symbolized St. Louis itself, a certain baseball team notwithstanding.”

Today, economic development reporter Tim Logan traced some of the psychological impact of Anheuser-Busch’s sale, writing that the ties between Anheuser-Busch and St. Louis became “murky” last November.

“It was always clear what Anheuser-Busch meant to St. Louis,” Logan wrote here. “Good jobs. Prosperity. A company this city could count on.”

The impact has already been well-documented as far as numbers go, Logan writes. He traces layoffs and the sudden drying up of Anheuser-Busch’s donations to an American Legion post.

But let’s not forget about the psychological cost that came from the fact that “Anheuser-Busch wasn’t your average St. Louis company,” Logan wrote. A year ago, the bond between city and brewer loosened and “shifted forever.” From the story:

Other global brands, such as McDonnell Douglas and TWA, have called this city home.

But the bond with A-B ran deeper, all the way back to the city’s German heritage. Budweiser was a name known around the world, and it brought St. Louis along for the ride, always ending its ubiquitous advertisements with the name of its hometown. The company spread donations all over town and took legendary care of its employees. The Busch family was like royalty.

And St. Louisans were loyal, Logan observes. “They drank A-B products with pride. They took visiting relatives to tour the great brick brewery. And they stood in the eighth inning of every Cardinals game, clapping along to “Here Comes the King,” a salute to the company that was a lot like their city - independent, prosperous and proud.”