Due to the ongoing pandemic, organizers did not feel that we could provide a safe environment for the Parade, Bockfest Hall, Sausage Queen, and other celebrated events. However, we still have great bock beer from Cincinnati breweries to drink and bockwurst from local butchers to eat, so we’ve created a series of packages to celebrate Bockfest safely at home. We have two dozen participating breweries, bars, and restaurants where you can safely get your bock on. Shop Bock specials at Over-the-Rhine businesses. Plus, Bockfest weekend will see the return of the historic walking tours along the Brewing Heritage Trail. And you never know, you might even see a goat or two around town that weekend!
Bockfest, Cincinnati’s annual celebration of Spring, the area’s brewing heritage and bock beer, stumbles into its 29th year, March 5-7, 2021 in downtown Cincinnati, the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, and new for this year your own home!
 
Admission to enjoy bock beer, music and entertainment at official venues is free. Get the full schedule of venues here.  A limited number of Bockfest packages that include beer, food, and merchandise are available online for pre-sale only, with pickup on Friday March 5 at the Woodward Theater in Over-the-Rhine. Tickets for historic brewery walking tours on Saturday March 6 are also available online.
 
All tours will include limited numbers of guests, appropriate distancing, and be primarily outdoors. Package pickup will include sanitizing, distancing, and pickup from an outdoor window. Venues will also be observing appropriate distancing and cleaning protocols.
CHECK OUT A TYPICAL BOCKFEST!