--- title: Brewery Plays WuTang Clan While Beer Ages description: Dock Street brewery in Philadelphia is playing WuTang on Spotify while its beer ages canonical: https://time.com/3904193/wu-tang-beer-brewery/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-01T21:57:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:29.584Z og:title: This Brewery Is Using the Music of Wu-Tang Clan to Age a Beer og:description: Dock Street brewery in Philadelphia is playing WuTang on Spotify while its beer ages og:url: https://time.com/3904193/wu-tang-beer-brewery/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Brewery Is Using the Music of Wu-Tang Clan to Age a Beer twitter:description: Dock Street brewery in Philadelphia is playing WuTang on Spotify while its beer ages twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Brewery Is Using the Music of Wu-Tang Clan to Age a Beer  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 1, 2015 9:57 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 1, 2015 9:57 PM UTC At Philadelphia’s Dock Street brewery, a smartphone playing Wu-Tang Clan from Spotify is fastened to a barrel of beer that is aging, [_Philadelphia_ magazine reports](http://www.phillymag.com/ticket/2015/05/22/dock-street-aging-wu-tang-spotify/). The brew will be called “Dock Street Beer Ain’t Nuthin’ to Funk With” and is expected to be ready by year’s end. Head brewer Vince DeRosiers said he launched the experiment to see “if the bass would cause enough vibration to move the yeast around and create some different flavors during fermentation.” The brewery wants to make another beer this way, but with Run the Jewels blasting, he tweeted: (h/t [DNAInfo](http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150527/stapleton/philly-brewery-making-beer-aged-with-wu-tang-clan-songs)) ### See Art Kane’s Most Memorable Music Portraits  The Who, 1968. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Jefferson Airplane, 1968. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Bob Dylan, 1966. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Country Joe and The Fish, 1968. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Janis Joplin, 1968. courtesy Art Kane Archive  The Rolling Stones, 1966. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Jim Morrison, 1968. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Louis Armstrong, 1958. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Harlem, 1958. courtesy Art Kane Archive  Photographer Art Kane at Keith Moon's drum set, 1968. courtesy Art Kane Archive ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3904193/wu-tang-beer-brewery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3904193/wu-tang-beer-brewery/"},"headline":"This Brewery Is Using the Music of Wu-Tang Clan to Age a Beer","datePublished":"2015-06-01T21:57:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:29.584Z","description":"Enter the brew","url":"https://time.com/3904193/wu-tang-beer-brewery/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3904193/wu-tang-beer-brewery/","name":"This Brewery Is Using the Music of Wu-Tang Clan to Age a Beer"}}]}] ```