Saturday March 8, 2025

Celebrate beer, history, and sausage queens with all kinds of events on Saturday of Bockfest.

​Historic Brewery Tours

Take a unique behind the scenes tour of a historic Cincinnati brewery. Don't miss out on this very limited opportunity, available exclusively through the Brewing Heritage Trail.
Download the FREE Bockfest app for iOS and Android for a full listing of bock beers at each location and event schedules. Plus check in during Bockfest events and win prizes!

Bockfest Halls

All four Bockfest Halls are FREE to enter. Don't forget great specials at participating venues throughout the neighborhood! ​
Moerlein Lager House
115 Joe Nuxhall Way
10AM – 2PM Official Bockfest Brunch. Special Bockfest Menu and the Bockfest Bloody Mary with Skewered ¼ Bockwurst with garnishments, and a 5oz. Bock Beer Sidecar. Learn more and make reservations HERE.

12PM-9PM Bock Beer Experience with special sampling package to try all 29 of the Bock Beers available at Bockfest. Learn more and purchase tickets HERE.

12:30PM Tapping of the 2024 Bockfest Brewing Champions Beer
1PM-5PM Live music with Zinzinnati Beer Band
1PM-5PM Jim Effler Poster Signing
12PM-3PM Bockfest Speaker Series (In Beer Baron Hall at Moerlein Lager House)
Technical Brewing Presentations
12PM-1PM Roxanne Westendorf Overview of Homebrewing and its origins and tools needed to get started
1PM-2PM Nick Landers – Moerlein Lager House Head Brewer What’s it like to be a commercial brewer
2PM-3PM Speaker TBD Sensory: what are we looking for in a well made beer and what’s not supposed to be there
4PM Bock Beer Competition winner announcements and award ceremony
5PM-9PM Live acoustic music in Tent
Northern Row Brewery
111 West McMicken Avenue
12 bock beers on tap!

Live Music from the Polka Warriors & more - afternoon and evening 

2P Parade Awards Announcements!

Specials on LK's Beer Brat & Servatii Pretzel & beer cheese
Rhinegeist Brewery
1910 Elm Street
OPEN AT 12P

12PM-3PM LIVE MUSIC with the Route 161 Happy Wanderers
3:30PM-6:30PM LIVE MUSIC with Cincy German Band

7PM-8:30PM Sausage Queen Finals

8:30PM-10:30PM LIVE MUSIC  with the Klaberheads
Rosedale OTR
208 East 12th Street

10A​M Goat Yoga

3P-6PM LIVE MUSIC with the Polka Warriors

7PM-11PM LIVE MUSIC with Lunchbox

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 thirty different bock biers this year at our Bockfest Halls!

Saturday Schedule