{"id":3511,"date":"2010-03-01T15:36:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:36:49","slug":"beneath-over-the-rhine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beneath-over-the-rhine\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath Over-the-Rhine"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When we lost the local ownership of our breweries, we lost something very dear to our community. I’ve been striving to bring back that heritage.”<\/em>
\n– Greg Hardman, Cincinnati native seeking to reclaim the city’s brewing past<\/strong><\/p>\n

This strikes me as a far better way to spend your time than standing in line for the latest rare beer.<\/p>\n

In this video Steve Hampton, president of the preservationist Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corp., walks through a tunnel beneath East McMicken Street in Over-the-Rhine. The tunnel is part of the old Schmidt Brothers Brewery.<\/p>\n

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Cincinnati’s 18th annual Bockfest begins Friday, with plenty of beer and tours of the city’s historic breweries. Around 40 buildings remain standing in Over-the-Rhine and West End that were used in the operations of about a dozen nineteenth century breweries.<\/p>\n

(For the record, the weekend activities don’t list tours of the tunnels — “We really have no idea how many of these cellars and tunnels may still exist,” Hampton said — but there’s still plenty going on. The schedule<\/strong><\/a>.) <\/p>\n

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“When we lost the local ownership of our breweries, we lost something very dear to our community. I’ve been striving to bring back that heritage.” – Greg Hardman, Cincinnati native seeking to reclaim the city’s brewing past This strikes me as a far better way to spend your time than standing in line for the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-UD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}