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Prohibition Resistance Tour 2010 - Octoberfest Edition
September 18-19, 2010
Including tours of the future Christian Moerlein Brewery, this edition of the Tour promises to be the best yet!
Prohibition Resistance Tour 2010
March 6-7, 2010
This year's tour saw 640 people start at Bockfest Hall, where participants learned about the Brewery District and then travel to the Clyffside Brewery (also known as the Mohawk, Sohn, and Red Top Brewery). Here, a multimedia presentation took participants back to 1888, when Cincinnati was one of the brewing centers of the country and beer was the backbone of Over-the-Rhine. We continued our tour past the remaining breweries on Brewer's Boulevard with such storied names such as Jackson, Moerlein, Lafayette, and Hudepohl. The next stop was the Kauffman Brewery, where we heard about Cincinnati's beer barons and explored the massive subterranean lagering cellars under the building. A brief walk past the typical working class Italianate tenements explored the typical Over-the-Rhine resident's life in 1888. The final stop was the Crown Brewery (also known as the Schmidt Brothers Brewery). Here we learned how Prohibition closed most of the Cincinnati breweries and dealt a devastating blow to Over-the-Rhine. This tour included a visit to the recently rediscovered and reopened lagering cellars and tunnel underneath McMicken Avenue, which have been sealed off for 50 years and never before opened to the public.
Prohibition Resistance Tour 2009
March 7-8, 2009
This year's started at Bockfest Hall, where participants took buses past many of the remaining historic brewery buildings in Cincinnati, including the Crown/Schmidt Brothers Brewery, the Hudepohl Brewery, the Lafayette Brewery, the Kauffman Brewery, and the Christian Moerlein Brewery. Participants visited the Clyffside Brewery and Kauffman Brewery, where they journeyed through the sub-basements and tunnels of the breweries, spaces unused since shortly after Prohibition. The tour continueed past the Bellevue Brewery, Germania Brewery, and John Hauck Dayton Street Brewery, including a stop at the restored Hauck Brewery office building. Here Greg Hardman, the CEO of the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company presented a Moerlein Lagers and Ales beer tasting including a special sneak preview of the newest Moerlein beer.
Prohibition Resistance Tour 2008
April 12-13, 2008
This year's tour saw over 520 people come to the Brewery District to learn about the incredible history we have here. The tours started at the Cincinnati Museum Center, where the Cincinnati History Museum's special exhibit on Cincinnati's brewing history was on display. Christian Moerlein Brewing Company's CEO Greg Hardman intorduced us to the amazing story of how Christian Moerlein left his native Germany and started one of the biggest breweries in the country, a story that mirrors the history of Cincinnati. The bus tour included many of the remaining brewery buildings in Cincinnati, including the John Hauck Dayton Street Brewery, the Clyffside Brewery, the Jackson Brewery, and the Christian Moerlein Brewery. We explored the life of another of Cincinnati's great brewers at the John Hauck House Museum, where this restored mansion on Cincinnati's original "Millionaire's Row" contains original antiques, furnishings and brewing memorabilia. The final stop was at another of Cincinnati's great breweries, the Kauffmann Brewery, where we journeyed to the sub-basements and tunnels of the brewery, spaces unused since Prohibition. The tour was topped off with some delicious beers at the Ale Haus on Findlay Market.
Prohibition Resistance Tour 2006
September 16, 2006
The Brewery District presented a guided tour of some of the most significant remnants of Over-the-Rhine's Nineteenth Century brewing heritage. Almost 500 people from around the Tri-State volunteered or participated in a tour of the neighborhood and some of its breweries, and heard about Cincinnati's brewing history. In addition, hundreds of signatures were collected to encourage City Council to save the Kauffmann Building, an important part of Over-the-Rhine's history and architecture.
