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Tap Into the Past

Historic walking tours of Over-the-Rhine detail life in pre-Prohibition Cincinnati.

September 2012 Issue
BY Jessica Esemplare | ART BY


In Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, the smell of malt is in the air.

At first whiff, one might think ghosts of German brewers past still toil away in the historic community’s abandoned breweries. At one time, the area housed about 18 breweries in a two-mile radius, including the West End, adjacent to Over-the-Rhine. To read more, click here to subscribe. >>

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