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 March 2 and Sunday March 3, 2019
Join us for this ALL NEW 90 minute walking tour! Your tour starts at Bockfest Hall, and visits the historic Hudepohl Brewery's bottling plant and lagering cellars for an immersive experience with music, re-enactors, and historic spaces. 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. (Please note Groupons are not valid on this tour)

Dr. Morgan’s Hangover Relief Tour 2019

Guided Tour starting at Washington Platform

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 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)

Bockfest Heritage & Beer Series

FREE series of talks, presentations, and more

Join us Saturday March 2, 2019 from 12P-5PM in Bockfest Hall for an afternoon of talks, presentations, and displays all about beer and brewing heritage. The event is FREE!
Presenters include:
  • 12:30P Don Heinrich Tolzmann - Grammer's, A German  Heritage Landmark in OTR
  • 1:00P Andrew M. Houghtaling - Beer: Such a Noble Gift. Lager beer and the 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
  • 1:30P Fred Krome - The Campaign Against Beer in World War I America
  • 2:00P Greg Hand - "The Day Adolph Drach's Saloon Exploded"
  • 2:30P Paul Abrams - "Beer and Baseball: The Boys & Brews of Summer"
  • 3:00P "Beer Dave" Gausepohl - "30 plus years of Craft Brewing in Greater Cincinnati (What a Long Strange Sip it's Been)
  • 3:30P Chelsie Hoskins & Sean Andres - Beer Baronness
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
  • Bloatarian Brewing Club
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!