Toast to our history

Cincinnati has a rich brewing heritage centered on the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Join us for a variety of walking tours and programs that bring that history to life!

Malz Tour

Offered Saturday March 4 and Sunday March 5, 2017
Join us for this all new 90 minute walking tour that celebrates how beer was made and consumed in pre-Prohibition Over-the-Rhine. Your tour starts at Bockfest Hall, and visits multiple sites within the neighborhood including a visit with costumed reenactors at the Lafayette Brewery, before descending deep in the lagering cellars of the Kauffman 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.​

Check available times and get tickets HERE.

Volks Tour

Offered Saturday March 4 and Sunday March 5, 2017
Join us for this all new 90 minute walking tour that celebrates the people of Over-the-Rhine and how they lived, worked, and played. Your tour starts at Bockfest Hall, and visits multiple sites within the neighborhood including a visit with costumed reenactors, before descending deep in the lagering cellars of the Schmidt Brothers/Crown Brewery. Along the way, you'll learn how the long ago beer drinkers, beer makers, and beer barons lived. Upon your return to Bockfest Hall, you will be treated to a complimentary beer (21+ please) and all the fantastic fun of Bockfest.

Check available times and get tickets HERE.

Dr. Morgan's Hangover Relief Tour​

Offered Saturday March 4 and Sunday March 5, 2017
Join the man that Cincinnati Magazine declared “The God of Bockfest” and the author of “Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King” for a personal, behind-the-scenes journey. This Bockfest-only walking tour through OTR combines the neighborhood’s pre-Prohibition past with stories about the more recent reclamation of Cincinnati’s brewing heritage and the birth and evolution of the city’s most bohemian beer festival. Tour includes a trip through OTR, into Washington Platform’s lagering cellars, the Gerke lagering cellars (four stories below ground), and then a cold bock beer with Mike Morgan. The unlicensed and irresponsible medical advice for how to walk off some of the previous night’s revelry and begin drinking your way back into the Bockfest spirit is worth the price of admission alone. OTR history that you can’t get anywhere else, two lagering cellars, one beer, and questionable wisdom all begin at Washington Platform, corner of Court and Elm.

Check available times and get tickets HERE.

Doppelbock Tour

Offered Friday March 3 and Saturday March 4, 2017
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 the Kauffman 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.​

Check available times and get tickets HERE.

Bockfest Heritage Series

Join us Saturday March 4, 2017 from 11A-6PM in the Cellars of the Christian Moerlein Brewery (right below Bockfest Hall) for an afternoon of talks, presentations, and displays all about beer and brewing heritage. The event is FREE!
Presenters include:
  • 11:30A Dann Woellert Brewery Beefsteak Brouhaha - Cincinnati's Beefsteak Dinner Culture and its Weirdest Side Dish
  • 12:10P Kevin Grace The Global History of the Glorious Pretzel
  • 12:50P Paul Abrams Slogans and Gimmicks: 20th Century Beer Marketing
  • 1:30P Greg Hand Saloon Food: When Lunch Was Free & Tamales Were Hot
  • 2:10P Fred Krome Brewsters and Alewives
  • 2:50P Kat Finn History of Women in Craft Beer
  • 3:30P Tom Streeter Northern Kentucky Brewing Heritage
  • 4:10P Don Heinrich Tolzmann Over-the-Rhine: Cincinnati's Historic German District & Environs
  • 4:50P Jim Tarbell TBD
Displays include:
  • Stein and Breweriana displays, free appraisals, and items for sale
  • Brewing Heritage Trail
  • German Heritage Museum
  • Over-the-Rhine Museum​
  • Cincinnati State Brewing Science Class

Want more?

If you can't get enough history, we offer tours all year long along the forthcoming Brewing Heritage Trail. Visit www.CincinnatiBreweryTours.com for details!