The former structure containing the Brew and Mill Houses, built in 1911, was repurposed into office space becoming part of the Kenton County Government Center, opening in 2019.

Shortly after the deaths of the father and son, the brewery property produced near-beer, non-alcoholic beverages and malt extract.

[2][6] Prohibition was repealed in 1933, but it wasn't until 1935 that the Bavarian Brewing Co. reopened under M. L. Vorhees who had married Riedlin's granddaughter, Rosemary.

The brewery and its assets were purchased U.S. District Court in December, 1937, by William C. Schott, the husband of Riedlin's daughter Lucia, and his three brothers, George, Lou and Chris.

To reduce their costs, Bavarian decided they needed to consolidate operations in their main plant and make arrangements to dispose unnecessary property.

By the end of 1955 Bavarian had sold the smaller Heidelberg plant and one of the warehouse facilities in order to be more cost competitive.

In particular, Anheuser-Busch introduced Busch Bavarian Beer in 1954 and a year later it was clear that this brand would soon be expanded nationally, including the Cincinnati area.

Still, economies of scale made it difficult for smaller brewers like Bavarian to compete with the national breweries.

In late 1957, a local young woman from Dayton, OH, Brenda Cotter, was hired to be an ambassadress for the brewery, becoming the Bavarian Girl.

His brother, Louis, who had been involved in developing the new Bavarian/s Select image, remained until 1961 and then joined the family's Cincinnati Galvanizing Co. A year before, IBI added a new state of the art, $500,000 bottling to the Bavarian plant.

In an effort to improve distribution and increase sales, IBI had bottled their other brands of beers and ales in the Bavarian plant including, FrankenMuth, Old Dutch, Silver Bar and Phoenix along with Tropical Ale, IBI Malt Liquor and Malta Huey.

In addition, IBI tried to enlarge the distribution area of Bavarian/s Beer by producing it in their other plants located in Tampa, FL, Buffalo, NY and Findlay, OH.

IBI's strategy proved unsuccessful and fell victim to the economic advantages of the larger national brewers.

However, its accessibility and visibility from Interstate 75, just a couple exits from downtown Cincinnati, as well as its unique Romanesque and "castle like" architecture, made it an attractive economic development project for the City of Covington.

In 1996 the property became listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was rehabilitated by Ken Lewis into the Brew Works at the Party Source for a couple of years.

When that failed, the owner tried to tear down the main brewery structure, even though they had previously agreed to preserve it when they removed the former bottling plant and other ancillary buildings a few years earlier.

After a study was conducted, Kenton County officials decided to purchase the former Bavarian Brewery property in 2016 for its own use.

[9] The former structure containing the Brew and Mill Houses was renovated and combined with a new building to form the Kenton County Government Center, opening in 2019.