Essential Brew Day Playlist

Great music is almost as integral to your brew day as the beer you drink while brewing—both help make the drudgery of cleaning, sanitizing, and waiting a little more bearable. But what to listen to while you’re mashing in? Here, we’ve pulled together a few on-topic tracks sure to make brew day a little more fun.

Beer

Reel Big Fish

An obvious one by title alone, but here’s a fun fact: Reel Big Fish are such big craft-beer fans that the band brewed a collaboration brew in 2015 with Ska Brewing and Wynkoop Brewing. The resulting beer, Reel Big Stout, was served at Denver’s Collabfest 2015. This horn-driven ska song will get you moving and brewing.

One Beer

MF Doom

Abstract beats, next-level rhymes. MF Doom rhymed about beer, and that’s enough for us.

God Save Every Brewing Man

The Poxy Boggards

“Raise a toast to the brewing man.” There might not be a better Irish folk-style ode to the craft of brewing than this. “Never do your brewer wrong... It’s his fine work that fills your glass.” There are at least a dozen other songs from The Poxy Boggards that would be at home in your brewing and drinking playlist, but this is the most appropriate.

Roadhouse Blues

The Doors

“Well, I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer / The future’s uncertain, and the end is always near.” The Doors sure lay on the existential angst, but the message is clear. There’s no better day to crack open a beer (or to brew one) than today.

Drinkin’ Beer

Jimmy Witherspoon

“You drink too much ale / they put you in jail / so I think I’ll stick to homebrew.” That line says it all. A solid blues tune from 1963 that reminds you of the fact that when Witherspoon sang that line, homebrewing was against the law.

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers

ZZ Top

If ZZ Top had a quarter for every brewer mimicking their beard game, they’d be even richer than they are.