Toast to our history

Cincinnati has a rich brewing heritage centered on the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Join us for a number of special events

The Bockfest Brewery Tour

An immersive guided historic tour experience

Offered Saturday March 5 and Sunday March 6, 2022
Hudepohl is one of Cincinnati's most iconic brands of beer and this limited edition tour will show guests where it all began in 1885! Join us for a 60-minute exploration of the brewery's historic bottling facility and cellars, located just around the corner from Bockfest Hall at Findlay Park. These locations have not been open to the public for many years and are exclusively available through the Brewing Heritage Trail tours on Bockfest weekend. Space is limited, so don't miss out on this unique opportunity!
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Tickets are $18 and are available HERE.

Bockfest Heritage Series

​Suds, signs, and speakers

Saturday March 5, 2022 10A-3P @ Rookwood Pottery
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Join us around the corner from Bockfest Hall at Rookwood Pottery (1920 Race Street) for a day of beer history. All day there will be multiple breweriana vendors with lots of cool beer signs, cans, steins, and more for viewing and sale. From 1P-3P a series of local historians will be sharing stories on our history. Beer is available for sale, plus photo opportunities with The Goat (our giant trojan goat). And you can always check out the Rookwood Pottery showroom for great local items. All of these events are FREE and open to the public.
For those who really want the full experience, grab a ticket for a special behind-the-scenes tour of Rookwood Pottery with a focus on their beer mugs, plus a guided beer tasting and your own limited edition Bockfest mug. Tickets also include a voucher for a future historic brewery tour, and are SOLD OUT. You can still get a mug by purchasing a Bockest Booster package!

Schedule
  • 10A-3P Breweriana Show
  • 11A-1P Behind-the-Scenes tour and beer tasting (SOLD OUT)
  • 12P-2P Behind-the-Scenes tour and beer tasting (SOLD OUT)
  • 1P-1:30P Dann Woellert Gymnastics to Ward off Hangovers:  Turners and their Beerhall Beers
  • 1:30P-2P Steven Hampton Brewery Architecture
  • 2P-2:30P Fred Krome Twilight of the Beer Barons: Cincinnati Brewers and Beer at the Dawn of the 20th Century
  • 2:30P-3P George Hibben Cincinnati Pre-Prohibition Steins

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!