Drink in the History
If You Go
Brewing Heritage Trail Guided Tours
1939 Race St.
Tours offered include the winter Cincinnati Brewing & Distilling Tasting Tour, Built on Beer, and Over & Under the Rhine
For more information visit brewingheritagetrail.org/tours.
If you like your pint of beer with a side of Cincinnati history, look no further than Brewing Heritage Trails in Over-the-Rhine.
We took you along on a haunted brewery tour last Fall, and recently we stopped by for another tour, with beer and spirit tastings!
Brewing Heritage Trails has a number of guided tours, but the new winter tour is an indoor tour focused on Cincinnati Brewing & Distilling Tasting.
During the tour, we learned about modern and historic brewing and distilling. We sampled a flight of beers from Rhinegeist and a flight of spirits from Northern Row Brewery & Distillery.
The first stop on the tour is the Rhinegeist Brewery
We toured the pre-Prohibition brewing structure, got a behind the scenes tour & finished our time there with a flight of their winter beverages.
Safety glasses are needed for this portion of the tour – We walked past the “employee only” signs (with our tour guides, of course) and learned about historic and modern day brewing techniques!
We stood in awe of the massive pallets of IPA Truth, then finished our tour with a few cold ones.
Next, we walked through the lagering cellar of the historic Jackson Brewery.
We explored underground passages where beer was fermented and cold stored dating back to the 1850s!
After touring the tunnels below Jackson Brewery, we made our way back to West McMicken, to our final stop, Northern Row Brewery & Distillery.
Here, we were treated to a behind the scenes tour and finished our day with a Northern Row spirits tasting.
There’s nothing quite like this in Cincinnati. It’s so fun to walk through the old lagering tunnels and learn more about the history of brewing in the Queen City.
– Lauren Artino