Saturday March 3, 2018
Saturday of Bockfest has experiences for everyone, from the Bockfest 5K run to historic tours to homebrew competitions to a heritage series to delicious food, and of course plenty of 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 5K
Steps off at 10AM from Bockfest Hall
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You’ll run for beer? Then we have the perfect event for you! The Sixth Annual Bockfest 5K happens Saturday morning at 10A, March 3, right in the middle of Bockfest Weekend! Run (or walk) past many of the historic brewery sites throughout OTR, then celebrate your finish with a cold one at Bockfest Hall as the Bockfest party gets started early with food, music and lots of fun! Proceeds support the Brewery District and the Brewing Heritage Trail. Remember, the Bockfest 5K is part of the Christian Moerlein Beer Series, so if you want to be a Brew Hog, you need to do all three events (Bockfest 5K, Little Kings Mile, Hudepohl 14K or 7K). Get your series started at the Bockfest 5K! Sign up today at www.runbeerseries.com.
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Bockfest Hall
10AM till 1AM at the Christian Moerlein Brewery 1619 Moore Street
Bockfest Hall is the center of Bockfest activies on Saturday. Stop by and learn about our amazing history at the Heritage Series, you can even take a tour through some of the historic pre-Prohibition breweries including lagering cellars deep underground. The Bockfest Bloatarian Homebrew competion is judged, you can also try out numerous bock beers including special bock beers being tapped throughout the day! You can't take a tour or drink on an empty stomach, so sample the food from our fabulous vendors Servatii, Brew City Sausage, Taste of Belgium, Eli's, Good Guyz Food Truck, and LaRosa's. FREE Admission all weekend long! Plus there is live music on two stages all day long! Bockfest Hall is FREE all weekend long (though tours have an additional charge).
Beer & Bygone Days Series
The Brewery Stage will host speakers, presentations, displays, authors, stein and breweriana collections, homebrewing demonstrations, and of course plenty of cold bock beer. The Series is FREE and open to the public!
There is also a special beer tasting class w/ multiple samples and food pairings, to learn flavors and what to look for from a certified beer judge. 2PM on Saturday, get tickets HERE. SPEAKERS
Speakers include:
PRESENTATIONS
Presentations and displays will include the German History Museum, the Brewing Heritage Trail, the Over-the-Rhine Museum, and the Cincinnati State Brewing Science department. BREWERIANA
Steins, bottles, advertising signs, and other breweriana including many historic Cincinnati brands will be on display and for sale, including FREE appraisals of your items! HOMEBREWING COMPETITION AND DEMONSTRATION
The Bloatarian Brewing League is again sponsoring the annual Bockfest Home Brew Competition. The competition is BJCP-sanctioned, and BJCP points are awarded. The Christian Moerlein Brewing company selects one entry from the Traditional Bock (5B) category to be used to produce the limited-edition Schoenling Bock the following year. The 2018 Schoenling Bock is the winning entry from 2017, is tapped at a special event the week before Bockfest, and will only be available at Bockfest venues. Get more information and register HERE. |
Historic Tours
Lots of great tours all Bockfest long, including brand new tours along the forthcoming Brewing Heritage Trail!
Mishaps, Malfeasance, and Murder Tour
Join us for this ALL NEW 90 minute walking tour that tells the stories behind the beer, including corruption, accidents, and even murder! Your tour starts at Bockfest Hall, and visits multiple sites within the neighborhood, before descending deep in 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 Saturday March 2 and Sunday March 4, get your tickets HERE. beer & brushes TOUR
Join us for this ALL NEW 90 minute walking tour that celebrates the new public art along the Brewing Heritage Trail. Your tour starts at Bockfest Hall and visits multiple public art sites within the neighborhood as well as hidden signs and details that still remain from pre-Prohibition days. Along the way, you'll learn the stories behind the art and artists. Upon your return to Bockfest Hall, you will be treated to a complimentary beer (21+ please) and all the fantastic fun of Bockfest. Offered Saturday March 3 and Sunday March 4, get your tickets HERE. DR. MORGAN'S HANGOVER RELIEF TOUR
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. Your tour includes a trip through Over-the-Rhine, into Washington Platform’s lagering cellars, the Gerke lagering cellars (four stories below ground), and then a complimentary bock beer (21+ please) 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. Over-the-Rhine 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. Offered Saturday March 3 and Sunday March 4, get your tickets HERE. Tickets available HERE.
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Music
Music on TWO stages all day long!
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Main Stage
10A Just Add Beer 2P Cold Tuna 4:30P Hot Magnolias |
Brewery Stage
12P "Beer & Bygone Days" program |
Festival Tent Stage
11A DJ Hillard |
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:
Guest beers will be tapped on rotating basis at a variety of locations throughout the Hall and Festival Tent. Participating breweries include:
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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. |
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.
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11A-12A |
11A-4P The Craft Menagerie Indie Craft Market - Join Arnold's and Tara Heilman for what has quickly became one of Cincinnati's most popular Indie Craft shows. The Craft Menagerie indie craft market kicks off in the courtyard and features 20+ amazing local artisans showing off their wares. Metal, paper, fabric, jewelry, vintage, prints, pottery, candles and more. 5P-8P An exclusive extremely rare Bock beer tapping on the hour every hour from 5-8, 5P-7:30P Live music from River City Roustabout, 9P Live music from: The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs |
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4P-2A |
Happy Hour 4P-8P, DJ at 11P |
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11A-1A |
Full selection of Moerlein beers on draft in the historic Malthouse |
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12P-2A |
Reggae All-Stars |
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8A-3P |
Breakfast served all day, Craft beer drafts $3.75 |
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11A-3A |
Value |
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2P-2A |
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12P-2A |
4P-7P Happy Hour w $2 off drafts, $4.50 calls, and $3.25 domestics plus ½ price bock beers for Bockfest 5K participants from 11A-2P |
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12P-2A |
Three Floyd’s Tap Takeover, 5 German Bocks available |
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12P-2:30A |
$3 Budweiser drafts |
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1P-2A |
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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. |
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10A-2A |
Open for Brunch, late night FREE show Passeport |
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4P-2A |
10P-2A DJ |
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12P-2 |
German Bocks, $6 Bock Sausage Special |
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12P-2A |
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4P-2:30A |
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12P-2A |
4PM-10:20PM Jayme Shaye Album Release Party, ALL WEEKEND Serving
Revel Bock and Revel Double Bock
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7A-2A |
7A Open for EPL Soccer |
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2P-2A |
$3 Bock beers |
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4P-11P |
Drink Specials |
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11:30A-12A |
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11A-11P |
$6 Stein of Bock, $6 Bottle of Bock w/ Birria de Chivo (goat soup w/ tortillas) |
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7A-11P |
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11A-11P |
12P George Cunningham & Joe Lukasik, 3P Robin Lacy & Ricky Leighton, 6P Buffalo Ridge Jazz Trio, 9P Live Jazz w/ Phil DeGreg & Brazillia, ALL WEEKEND Special Bockfest Menu plus “Dr. Morgan’s Hangover Relief” Walking Tour and Guided Tours of the Malt Ovens below the restaurant |
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Human Rights Campaign benefit |
tHANKS TO THE AWESOME PEOPLE WHO MAKE BOCKFEST POSSIBLE
PRESENTING SPONSORS
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BOCK SPONSORS
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DELICIOUS BOCK BEER FROM
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TASTY BOCKFEST HALL VENDORS
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FANTASTIC NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS
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