Sunday March 9, 2025

Take it easy with goats, German heritage, and a .05K fun run on Sunday 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 three Bockfest Halls are FREE to enter. Don't forget great specials at participating venues throughout the neighborhood! ​
Moerlein Lager House
115 Joe Nuxhall Way
Continental Sunday Presented by the German-American Citizens League Continental Sunday is the German-American way of celebrating Sunday afternoons. Historically in Cincinnati this was a time for an afternoon with family and friends for festivities, fun, frolic, and Gemütlichkeit. Come celebrate Bockfest’s version of Continental Sunday at the Moerlein Lager House.

10AM – 2PM Official Bockfest Brunch. Learn more and make reservations HERE.

12PM – 7PM Bock Beer Experience with special sampling package to try 30 of the Bock Beers available at Bockfest. Learn more and purchase tickets HERE.


1:00PM Welcome ceremony with the Continental Sunday traditional Keg Tapping and introduction of all German Club’s flags 
1:30P-6PM Live German Band
3P and 4:30P German Dance Groups
German Historic Speaker Series
  • 12PM – 1PM: Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann Grammer's Cafe An Over the Rhine Landmark
  • 2PM-3PM: Thea Tjepkema German's and Music Hall
  • 3PM-4PM: Dr. Frederick Krome After Prohibition - Beer Consumption After 1934
Northern Row Brewery
111 West McMicken Avenue
 15 bock beers on tap!

Beer Poking All Day!

12:30P-3:30P FREE goat petting zoo

1:30-4P FC Cincinnati Street Team - passing out Swag and showing some skills

2P .05K Fun Run 
Rhinegeist Brewery
1910 Elm Street

9:30A-10:30A Goat Yoga w/ Good Green Earth Farm Sign Up HERE

10:45A-11:45A Goat Yoga w/ Good Green Earth Farm Sign Up HERE

12P-4P Historic Walking Tours Start From Rhinegeist, sign up HERE

12P-4P Schmidt's Real German Food 

12P-5P Brewing Heritage Trail Merchandise Booth

12:30P-2:30P Voices on Tap - Bockfest Sign along w/ May Festival Chorus and YPCC
11:00A-12:00P Goat Yoga - 28 spots are available.  Click Here for tickets

4:00P-7:00P  LUAU    Aloha, beer lovers!  This Bockfest, we’re bringing the beach to OTR’s backyard with a tropical twist on the traditional Bockfest.

As an official Bockfest Hall, we’re keeping the party going with 12 bock beers on tap all weekend long. 
Rosedale OTR
1910 Elm Street

.05K Fun Run - For tickets click HERE

THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE IT 164 FEET?
Check out this video from our friends at RESLV then sign up for the .05K Fun "Run" on Sunday March 9 at 2P. All the glory (plus a cool t-shirt, medal, and beer) can be yours! Registration coming soon, proceeds benefit the non-profit Brewery District CURC.

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 two dozen different bock biers this year at Bockfest Hall!

Sunday Schedule