What:   Bockfest (Parade)
Where: Meet-up in front of Arnold's, moves up Main St.
When:  Friday, February 7th, Meetup @ 5:30 P.M., Starts moving @ 6:00 P.M.
Cost:   Free, in fact you can win prizes!

Bockfest is a celebration of local bock beers and will be going in several establishments throughout OTR and downtown. Check the website for full details

Bockfest Parade - the most unique (weirdest? coolest?) parade in cincinnati every year. 

"Starting at Arnold's -- Cincinnati's oldest saloon -- the Bockfest parade is tradionally lead by a goat pulling a keg. It travels up Main Street and ends with the blessing of the bock beer. This officially marks the beginning of a weekend of festive celebration that might end in blaming a goat on your horizontal position. Goats, the German Renaissance, beer, irreverence and originality are all highly esteemed aspects of a parade entry. There are no fire trucks for the kids. In the past, entries have included faux-monks pulling a Trojan goat, futon queens, German beer bands, a four-poster bed pulled by slave labor, a leather-clad mistress with a huge whip, and patriotic chants of "drink more beer." As usual, you can bring your favorite canine to walk with "The Bocking Dogs."

The grand prize for best parade entry will be a one-of-a-kind, 12 in. hand-blown glass stein made by the Art Academy's River City Works. You can see photos of last year's stein being created at the Bockfest Blow."

What:   Prohibition Resistance Tour
Where: Bus tour visiting several different locations, see below
When:  Saturday, March 8th, Sunday, March 9th, @ various times, see below
Cost:   $30

"We will start our tour at the Museum Center, where your tour admission will include admission to the Cincinnati History Museum's special exhibit on Cincinnati's brewing history. We'll hear from Christian Moerlein Brewing Company's CEO Greg Hardman, as he tells us 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 will include 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 will explore 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. Our final stop is at another of Cincinnati's great breweries, the Kauffmann Brewery. Here we will journey to the sub-basements and tunnels of the brewery, spaces unused since Prohibition."

The tour will take place on both Saturday March 8 and Sunday March 9, with start times of 10AM, 10:30AM,  on Saturday and 11AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 1PM, 2:30PM, and 3PM on Sunday. Tours will be approximately 2 and a half hours, and will start and end at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

Complimentary Christian Moerlein beer tickets will be included for use at Bockfest Hall on Main Street after the tour.

Parking will be available at the Museum Center, or near Main Street. From 2PM until 12AM on Saturday, there will be free shuttle from Main Street to the Cincinnati Museum Center. Additionally, the end of the tour will include stops at Main Street to allow participants to enjoy the other Bockfest activities.

Please keep in mind that if your organization/band/art gallery/restaurant/store is having any events in the future we'd love to help get the word out. Send us an email at dan@buycincy.com.