Friday March 2, 2018

Friday night of Bockfest is the perfect way to end your week and kick off the best festival in Cincinnati! Watch the best parade in town and celebrate the Coming of Spring with live music, great food, and cold bock beer at Bockfest Hall (located at the Christian Moerlein Brewery at 1621 Moore Street, Cincinnati Ohio 45202) and all the participating venues! Purchase a Bockfest ticket package to make sure you experience all the great things Bockfest has to offer!
Make a stop at a dozen and a half participating bars and restaurants all weekend long, many with drink and food specials for Bockfest goers. Admission is always FREE all weekend long! Check out the venues, schedules, and shuttle route HERE.

Bockfest Hall

5PM till 1AM at the Christian Moerlein Brewery 1619 Moore Street
 Bockfest Hall is the end of the Parade and the beginning of the evening! Watch as the keg of bock beer is blessed and the Parade awards are given out, then PARTY LIKE A BOCKSTAR with live music on three stages, delicious food by Servatii, Brew City Sausage, Taste of Belgium, Eli's, Good Guyz Food Truck, and LaRosa's, and plenty of cold bock beer. FREE Admission all weekend long!

Parade

The Bockfest Parade steps off at 6PM in front of Arnold's Bar & Grill, and heads up Main Street to Bockfest Hall. Watch the parade awards as well as the traditional blessing of the beer, and sing along to the "Bock Beer" song as we kick off the Bockfest weekend

Live Music

Music on THREE stages all night long!
Main Stage
5:00PM Zinzinnati Bierband
±7:30PM Parade awards and Blessing of the Bock Beer
9:30PM Chasing Amy
Brewery Stage
6:00PM Hickory Robot
9:00PM 500 Miles to Memphis
Festival Tent Stage
6:00PM DJ E-Trayn
9:00PM DJ Drowsy

Historic Brewery Tours

Join us for this 60 minute walking tour that celebrates how beer was made and consumed in pre-Prohibition Over-the-Rhine. Your tour starts at Bockfest Hall and descends deep into the lagering cellars of a historic brewery. Along the way, you’ll learn how the long ago beer drinkers, beer makers, and beer barons made this neighborhood. Upon your return to Bockfest Hall, you will be treated to a complimentary beer (21+ please) and all the fantastic fun of Bockfest. Offered Friday March 2 and Saturday March 3, get your tickets HERE.

Beer

Bock bier is the ​rich, complex, malty, low-hop style of lager that we celebrate every year at Bockfest. We are excited to offer over a dozen different bock biers this year at Bockfest Hall.

Offered all weekend long are:
  • Christian Moerlein  Emancipator Dopplebock
  • Hudepohl Festival Bock
  • Schoenling Bock (winner of the 2017 Bloatarian Brewing League homebrew competition)
  • Taft's Ale House Big Billy Goat Bock

Guest beers will be tapped on rotating basis at a variety of locations throughout the Hall and Festival Tent. Participating breweries include:
  • 13 Below Fluss Bock Traditional Bock
  • 50 West Road Bock Maibock
  • Fretboard Reverberator Bavarian Dopplebock
  • Listermann Friar Bacon Bock Smoked Bock
  • Mad Tree Bockavelli
  • March First
  • Paradise Dopplebock
  • Platform Bocket Science Traditional Bock
  • Rhinegeist Vincent Van Goat Helles Bock
  • Samuel Adams 390 Bock Maibock
  • Westside West Side Bock Traditional Bock

Food

There are lots of great food options at Bockfest Hall from our wonderful vendors:
GOOD GUYZ FOOD TRUCK
BREW CITY SAUSAGE
Since 2012 the Brew City Sausage Company has been making premium craft beer infused sausages.  Collaborating with some of the finest craft breweries from around the Midwest,  we've been taking over backyard BBQ's and winning the hearts and taste buds of grill masters everywhere. Our premium sausages are near twice the size of anything you'll find at your big box grocery store. We use premium craft beer, all-natural cuts of locally sourced pork and no artificial fillers or additives.
eli's bbq
Serving up their famous BBQ all weekend, you can come in and hear the record player run a needle through an old favorite song while you eat and visit with good friends and meet a few new ones. Visit the Findlay Market location at 133 West Elder Street.
LAROSA'S
​A Cincinnati institution, LaRosa's is your neighborhood family pizzeria serving up real Italian family recipes.
SERVATII
​Wilhelm Gottenbusch, a German immigrant, came to the United States after traveling around the world and in 1963 opened his first bakery in Hyde Park.  Servatii has enjoyed creating special memories for the Cincinnati area for the last 50 years and is looking forward to creating many more over the years to come. Their booth will feature their authentic pretzels and beer cheese.
taste of belgium
is a restaurant group of Belgian-inspired eateries. They take traditional Belgian recipes and twist them; they take American classics and Belgianize them. Their booth will serve the famous waffle and crepes among other specialties.
ST. FRANCIS SERAPH SCHOOL FISH FRY
Delicious fried fish in the true Cincinnati Lenten fashion from our neighbors at St. Francis Seraph School.
Make a stop at a dozen and a half participating bars and restaurants all weekend long, many with drink and food specials for Bockfest goers. Admission is always FREE all weekend long! Check out the schedule below and go HERE for additional venues, schedules, and shuttle route.
Official Venue
Hours
Specials
Arnold’s Bar and Grill
11A-12A
1P Final Bock beer tapped making it 18 in total, 4P Todd Hepburn playing Saloon Music in Bar, 6P Parade Kick Off, 6P 46 Long playing Blues in the courtyard, 9P Chelsea Ford and the Trouble
Below Zero Lounge
4P-2A
Happy Hour 4P-8P, DJ at 11P  
Christian Moerlein Malthouse Tap Room
5P-1A
Full selection of Moerlein beers on draft in the historic Malthouse
The Drinkery
4P-2A
6P-9:30P Dat Band
Dunlap Cafe
7A-8P
Breakfast served all day, Craft beer drafts $3.75
Goodfellas Pizzeria
11A-3A
 
The Hub
12P-2A
Karaoke 
 The Lackman
3P-2A
4P-7P Happy Hour w $2 off drafts, $4.50 calls, and $3.25 domestics 
Liberties Bar + Bottle
2P-2A
5 German Bocks available
Low Spark
4P-2:30A
4P-7P Happy Hour
Milton’s Prospect Hill Tavern
4P-2A
 
Moerlein Lager House
11A-1A
Featuring a variety of bock beers including Moerlein Emancipator, Hudy Bock, and Schoenling Bock (brewed onsite), plus a chef created Bockfest inspired culinary feature with Avril Bleh sausages.
MOTR
11A-2A
Open for Lunch, Late night FREE show The Harlequins w/ Joesph 
Mr. Pitiful’s
4P-2A
10P-2A DJ 
The Pony
12P-2A
4P-7P Happy Hour w $4 Bock Beers, Bock Beer food menu and Fish Fry
Queen City Exchange
3P-2A
 
Queen City Radio
4P-2:30A
 
Revel OTR
4P-2A
10PM-2AM Bockfest Afterparty  w/ DJ, ALL WEEKEND Serving Revel Bock and Revel Double Bock
Rhinehaus
4P-2A
 
Rosedale
4P-2A
4P-7P Happy Hour w/ $3 Bock beers, half-price specials
Skeleton Root Winery
4P-11P
Drink Specials 
Taft's Ale House
11:30A-12A
 
Taqueria Mercado
11A-11P
 
Taste of Belgium
7A-11P
 
Washington Platform
11A-11P
5:30P Brian Lovely Duo, 9P Live Jazz w/ Eric Lechliter, ALL WEEKEND Special Bockfest Menu plus “Dr. Morgan’s Hangover Relief” Walking Tour and Guided Tours of the Malt Ovens below the restaurant
The Woodward Theater
4P-11P
5P Bockfest Parade FREE Sound Check Party with The Yugos, 8P The Yugos w/ Carriers and Kid ESP ($10)
Old St. Mary's Church
5P-9P
The sixth annual Old St. Mary’s Bockfest fish fry in the Main Street parking lot (right along the Bockfest parade route). Sandwiches, sides, and drinks will be available. All proceeds from the Fish Fry benefit Old St. Mary’s Church, so it’s good food for a good cause!