Bruckmann Brewery Tours
For the FIRST TIME EVER!
Join us for the premiere of the Bruckmann Brewery Tour!
Brewing began at this location in 1856 and continued for nearly 100 years under the stewardship of the Bruckmann family. The former brewing complex is one of the most complete 19th brewery sites in the country and most major components are still in existence including the brewhouse, malthouse, bottling building, stables, family home, power plant, and the underground lagering cellars! After brewing operations ceased in 1950, much of the site was repurposed for other businesses including the Fountain Winery in the 1980s and the headquarters and production facility of the Worthmore Food Products Company, who specialized in producing Cincinnati style chili and mock turtle soup.
Guests on the tour will be taken via shuttle bus from the Urban Artifact Brewery to the Bruckmann Brewery site, where 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. At the conclusion of the tour, the bus will return to pick up the group and bring them back to the festival. This site has not been open to tours before and 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
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Beer & Cheese: aka The Fungus & Mold Tasting -- Will Return In 2026
Fungus, mold, and bacteria -- we usually label these species as "germs" and blame them when we get sick. But did you know that under the right conditions, these microbes are also responsible for putting alcohol in our beer, creating sour beers, and making many of the tastiest, most complex flavors in cheese?
Join Chris Anderson, host of Science Around Cincy and Outsider Classroom, as he leads you through a tasting of five artisanal cheeses, expertly paired with five finely crafted brews. 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, President of the Bloatarians and Homebrewer Extraordinaire 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.
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Cancelled in 2025
1660 Blue Rock St., Cinti. OH 45223
$45
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. Along the way, we talk about the brewery, explore a bit of local beer history, share the story of how we found Missing Linck Yeast and turned it into a festival and official city holiday, and sample six of this year's Missing Linck beers!
Includes the beers, some legit info., and a whole lot of b.s. Lasts approximately 60 minutes.
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Not happening in 2025
Blue Rock St., Cinti. OH 45223
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$25
BUY THE BOOK!
Tanked In Cincinnati: Fortune & Calamity In The Beer Business by co-authors Michael D. Morgan and Bret Kollmann Baker is the story of some of the pioneers of the Cincy craft beer scene and their stories -- good and bad but always real. Get your copy at Missing Linck, 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.
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Stein Holding Competition -- 6:00PM at Humble Monk
The CIA says that extended stress positions aren't torture, and if we can't trust the people who invented LSD, who can we trust? So, just do it. It'll be fun, and 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 (Full rules here), but the concept is simple. If you can hold a 33 oz stein of water (so no party fouls) by the handle with an outstretched arm longer than anybody else, you win! There's a first, second, and third place in both male and female categories, and you will qualify to go to the state competition. CASH prizes, baby! Performance enhancing drugs are optional.
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$20 entry fee includes a cool ass stein. Sign up in advance by stopping by Humble Monk Brewery or the day-of.
_____PM -- Women
_____PM -- Men and primates
Cancelled in 2025
1641 Blue Rock St., Cinti. OH 45223
FREE Sasquatch Calling Competition -- 8:00PM at Urban Artifact -- Will Return In 2026!
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
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NOT HAPPENING IN 2025
Urban Artifact Brewery
1660 Blue Rock St., Cinti. OH 45223
Music
Nothing scheduled in 2025. Look for the return of free, live music in 2026
Missing Ingredient Homebrew Competition Winners Announced
Missing Linck is all about spreading Cincinnati's fabulously funky heritage Missing Linck Yeast around the beer drinking and brewing communities like.....well, a fungus -- but the good kind.
In the spirit of the event, Urban Artifact has generously distributed the yeast to every regional homebrewer that has asked for it, and they've been working on their variations of Missing Linck for the past weeks or months. In one sense, homebrewers have an advantage over commercial brewers. They have a lot more leeway to get creative with very small batches; and the rules for homebrewers are the same as the rules for commercial brewers -- use the yeast and do whatever you want with it.
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On June 6th a combined panel of certified beer judges and just some great people that we enjoy drinking with will judge the entries, and the beers that we choose as the best of the batches will be announced at Urban Artifact at 12:30PM, June 7th.
You Gottta Eat Somethin'
Sustenance for your journey is provided by:
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Butt Brothers Barbeque
After 35 years of running the iconic Washington Platform Restaurant & Saloon, Jon Diebold knows 2 things for sure: bad innuendo and great food. His newest venture will be on the scene with huge hunks of meat for you Neanderthals, Sausage Lincks in buns made with Missing Linck Yeast for those of you that have evolved into puns -- but not beyond yet, and delicious plant-based offerings for you herbivores and aspiring higher lifeforms.
Missing Linck Menu Includes:
Chili & Cheddar 'Tot'chos
Smoked Turkey Leggs
Cajun Grilled Grouper Sandwich, on a Missing Linck Yeast Rolls