Bruckmann Brewery Tour
Guests on the tour will be taken via shuttle bus from the Urban Artifact Brewery to the Bruckmann Brewery site. Once there, we will explore inside several of the buildings - including the underground lagering cellars! While at the Bruckmann Brewery site, we'll provide guests with a local craft beer to drink while exploring the brewing complex (don’t worry, you can bring one from the event too). At the conclusion of the tour, the bus will return and bring everyone back to the festival so the party can keep going. The Brewing Heritage Trail has put a lot of work into repairing various structures at the site in order to make this history available to the public. Don't miss out on this unique experience offered only by our non-profit organization!
Tours Leave every 1/2 hour from Urban Artifact Brewery
1660 Blue Rock St., Cinti. OH 45223
Beer & Cheese:
aka The Fungus &
Mold Tasting
Join Chris Anderson, host of Science Around Cincy and OutSCIder Classroom, as he leads you through a tasting of five artisanal cheeses, expertly paired with five finely crafted brews. Previous panel members included Stephanie Webster, biology teacher turned Cincy's most respected cheesemonger, Mary Ellen Finnegan, a biochemist at P&G and certified beer judge, Dr. Senu Apewokin, MD, microbiologist, and professor at UC, and Roxanne Westendorf, the Missing Linck homebrew captain. We will provide fun, approachable explanations for why you enjoy certain flavors and why certain beers and cheeses pair so well. You'll have a blast and gain an understanding of why beer and cheese make a much better team than cheese and wine.
Includes 5 cheese and 5 beer tastings. Lasts approx. 60 minutes
Brew Skies
Beer Tour Q&A
Join the Brew Skies Happy Hour Podcast hosts and authors of Tanked In Cincinnati, Bret Kollmann Baker and Michael D. Morgan, on a tour through Urban Artifact’s production facilities. Along the way, we talk about the brewery, explore a bit of local beer history, and share the story of how we found Missing Linck Yeast and turned it into a festival (and official city holiday). Oh, and obviously we’re gonna drink some of this year's Missing Linck beers!
Stein Holding Competition
The CIA says that extended stress positions aren't torture, and if we can't trust the people who invented LSD then who can we trust? So, just do it. It'll be fun. You'll get a cool stein and maybe win something.
There's a whole set of rules to keep it fair and make it an official US Steinholding competition (like the ones listed here) but the concept is simple: if you can hold a 33 oz stein of water by the handle with an outstretched arm for longer than anybody else, you win! There's a first, second, and third place in both male and female categories. And if you really care, yes, you will qualify to go to the state competition. CASH prizes there, baby! Performance enhancing drugs are optional. Performance reducing drugs are also optional.
​More information on the way…
FREE Sasquatch Calling Competition -- 8:00PM
Sasquatch, Big Foot, Yeti. Are they all the same creature, or would they be offended because we don't know the difference? Are they successfully illusive because they stay off the grid, or have they begun to walk boldly among us and we just don't see them because we're obliviously staring at our phones? These are intriguing questions best left up to Mammologists and social workers. Although, they have made themselves heard. Only a fortunate few have been paying enough attention to notice, so most of us don't really know what they sound like. That means that what it takes to call a Sasquatch -- from hiding or for mating rituals -- is up for very wide interpretation, and we want to know what YOU think.
Come give us your best Sasquatch call. A panel of random, “mildly” intoxicated judges will determine the winners and award valuable prizes.
Rules? None. Costume? Sure, if you think it helps, but not required. Advanced registration? Nope, just come to the back of the Urban Artifact taproom before
Buy The Book
Tanked In Cincinnati: Fortune & Calamity In The Beer Business by co-authors Michael D. Morgan and Bret Kollmann Baker is a collection of Cincy craft beer pioneers and their stories -- good and bad but always real. Get your copy at the Missing Linck Festival or order one here and have it inscribed however you'd like -- literally. We're very easy. We'll call ourselves stupid if you pay us for it.
