Brothels, Bootleggers & Booze Tour (Saloon Tour)

Arnold’s Brothel’s, Bootleggers and Booze Tour begins at the most logical place to start it – Arnold’s, Cincinnati’s oldest continuously operating saloon. Built in 1838 as a brothel, 210 E. 8 th became Simon Arnold’s Saloon in 1861 and has been serving libations to Cincinnatians ever since, including straight through Prohibition. Our tour guests get the inside scoop on Arnold’s from the beginning to its more recent but equally colorful history. The tour then takes a walking route that explores the days when Cincinnati’s dozens of breweries and distilleries and almost 2,000 saloons made it notorious for inebriation and mayhem. Guests then enter a side-alley entrance into subterranean cellars that were part of the Gerke Brewery complex. Renowned for its corruption, vice and crime, one of Cincinnati’s lowest moments is the Courthouse riot of 1884. Guests hear about the history of the riot, how dozens of people came to be slain in the surrounding streets, then return to Arnold’s – where cold beverages and great food always await at the place that Men’s Health Magazine has voted one of the “Top 50 Bars in America,” and CityBeat readers have declared the “Best Outdoor Dining” year after year. Tours start at Arnold’s, 210 E. 8 th St, every Saturday at 1:00PM, from May 10th through October, 2014. Tours last approximately 90 minutes. Ticket price is $20. (Portion of proceeds support the non-profit Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corp. and the preservation of our brewing history.) PLEASE NOTE THIS TOUR IS NOT VALID FOR GROUPON OFFERS.