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!

The Bock Tour

An immersive guided historic tour experience starting at Bockfest Hall

Offered Saturday February 29 and Sunday March 1, 2020
Join us for a brewing heritage walking tour! Upon your return to Bockfest Hall, you will be treated to a complimentary beer (21+ please) and all the fantastic fun of Bockfest.​

Tickets are $25 and are available HERE.

Bockfest Heritage Series

FREE series of talks, presentations, and more

Join us Sunday March 1, 2020 from 1P-5PM in the Bockfest Festival Tent for an afternoon of talks, presentations, and displays all about beer and brewing heritage. The event is FREE!

1P - Don Heinrich Tolzman Cincinnati's West End: Its German Heritage Recalled
1:30P - Brother James Czar The German “Beer Purity” Law: More than 500 Years of Class Warfare and Marketing Hype
2P - Chris Hartman Mead and Me
2:30P - Amy Schlag Acknowledging the Unacknowledged: Indigenous, Indentured, and Enslaved Contributions to Brewing
3P - Paul Abrams The Lost Cincinnati Beer Commercials
3:30P - Fred Krome Why Study the History of Beer
4P - Carla Gesell-Streeter A Brief History of Cincinnati Brewing Outside of OTR

Dr. Morgan’s Hangover Relief Tour 2019

Guided Tour starting at Washington Platform

Five years ago, the man that Cincinnati Magazine declared “The God of Bockfest” and the author of Cincinnati Beer and Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King ended a decade as Bockfest Czar and began giving a personal, behind-the-scenes Bockfest tour. This tour has only been available during Bockfest and this is the last year that you will have the opportunity to take it!
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This 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 Dr. 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 (1000 Elm Street, Cincinnati Ohio 45202).
Check available times and get tickets HERE. (Please note coupons, vouchers, Groupons, and other discounts are not valid on this tour)
Goat wagon in Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio c1906

Want more?

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