Schedule of the Event:

March 7, 2025

Friday night of Bockfest is the perfect way to end your week and kick off the best festival in Cincinnati. Watch the funkiest parade in town and celebrate the Coming of Spring!   

Parade

The Bockfest Parade steps off at 6PM in front of Arnold's Bar & Grill, and heads up Main Street to the doors of Rosedale OTR.  Join us for the traditional blessing of the beer and sing along to the "Bock Beer" song as we kick off the Bockfest weekend.

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

12P-6P Official Bockfest Happy Hour with $5 Bock Beer Pints

12PM Keg Tapping “Get Your Bock On Happy Hour!!!” Celebrating the 172nd anniversary of the founding of Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. and 33nd year of the founding of Bockfest (Bockfest was started to launch Christian Moerlein Bock Beer!)

12PM-9PM Live acoustic music in Tent

8PM-10PM Goat Calling Competition

Northern Row Brewery - 111 West McMicken Avenue

12 bock beers on tap!

6P-9P Live Music! Jazz Trio

6P-8P Beer Poking (caramelize your beer with a red hot poker)

Specials on LK's Beer Brat & Servatii Pretzel and beer cheese

Rhinegeist Brewery - 1910 Elm Street

5PM Rhinegeist Bock Bar Open with 27 local bock beers on draft

7PM-10PM Live music from the Zinzinnati Bierband

Rosedale OTR - ?208 East 12th Street

15 bock beers on tap!

10AM Goat Yoga

7:30PM-8:00PM Post-Parade Ceremonies

8PM-11PM Live music from Überland Band

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!

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.

Buy Tickets

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

12 bock beers on tap!

2P Parade Awards Announcements!

Specials on LK's Beer Brat and Servatii Pretzel and beer cheese

Rhinegeist Brewery - 1910 Elm Street

27 Bock beers on tap!
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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

15 Bock beers on tap!
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1-11PM Cincinnati Grill
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3P-6PM LIVE MUSIC with the Polka Warriors

6:30PM Stein Hoisting Competition

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!

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.

Buy Tickets

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. 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 – 7PM Bock Beer Experience with special sampling package to try all 21 of the Bock Beers available at Bockfest. Learn more and purchase tickets HERE.

1PM-6PM Enjoy an authentic German Style Rotisserie Chicken Dinner with a Bock Beer called the Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner meal deal. 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 Group

German Historic Speaker Series

12PM – 1PM: Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann Cincinnati’s Beer Barons in the Golden Age of Brewing

2PM-3PM: Dann Woellert Decoding Pre-Prohibition German-American Beer Pinup Girls

3PM-4PM: Andrew Houghthaling Subject to be announced

Northern Row Brewery - 111 West McMicken Avenue

12 bock beers on tap!

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

2P .05K Fun Run SOLD OUT

Specials on LK's Beer Brat and Servatii Pretzel and beer cheese

Rhinegeist Brewery - 1910 Elm Street

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

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

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

Rosedale OTR - 1910 Elm Street

11:00A-12:00P Goat Yoga

4:00P-7:00P Pig Roast and Luau

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!

Date: March 7-9, 2025

Location: Various Venue in Cincinnati, OH 45202

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