Brewing Heritage Trail — Attraction in Cincinnati

I toured a few years ago with Aaron who was wonderful. Yesterday I took some friends on the same tour with Nick and it was awful. Bless his heart, he tried, but I do not think he is cut out to be a tourguide or storyteller. He rambles a lot and gets side tracked with details that do not matter like what the old breweries may and may not do in the possible future. Aaron instead, told SUPER cool stories like the one where the Lincs brothers discovered a 150 year old yeast and brewed from it. Tourists want more history with the cool stories. PLUS, it was pouring rain. And while I appreciate that the tour is set up to stop at certain places, there has to be some flexibility when it’s pouring. Like why couldn’t you arrange for us to stop inside Northern Brewery to stay dry a little bit, especially if they are also in a contract with this tour company? I get that we were only supposed to go inside OTR, but when your patrons are freezing and wet, we no longer care about protocol. Get us into some dry...

I took the Built on Beer tour with a friend who has not been in downtown Cincinnati for over 30 years. He was amazed at how much the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) area has changed. The tour took in several of the old breweries covering their history and the important role they played in Cincinnati. We ended up in the Jackson Brewery lager cellars embedded deep into the hillside of the road up to the Clifton neighborhood. Great history setting but a pretty creepy maze of corridors and rooms. Unfortunately the beer was not flowing any longer. Our tour guide was Kahna who had a good grasp of the brewing history, told some great jokes and was a very personable young man. We all thoroughly enjoyed the tour under his direction. The Brewing Heritage Trail does great work in protecting and promoting Cincinnati's brewing history. Their tours are wonderful and proceeds funnel back into the OTR community. Book...

This is a no for us. This tour could use technology. Problems from the very beginning. 1) We were supposed to meet at the Moerlin house gift shop at 10:45 - it doesn't open until 11. Guide introduced himself and ushered us to a table (big group 16 of us and NO microphone or anything. It was Father's day so the restaurant was filling up and loud. 2) Served a flight of beer, told to order our brunch and then whisked away to tour the restaurant and brewery, leaving all but the glass of beer we were holding to get warm. 3) Guide was knowledgeable about the tour BUT mentioned several times that we needed to get back so our food wasn't cold and kept on talking and touring. 4) Finally back at our seats and yep food WAS cold which he knew was going to happen. Servers or restaurant staff could have texted him and said food was coming out. 5) Tour ended over an hour early - he just kind of left us at...