Hi, my name is Harper and I do a weird thing; I like to materialize songs as beer. Artists and song writers work hard to create dimension, texture, and volume with music, each note and movement inciting emotions and conjuring a sense of place. So is it really all that different, I think, for brewers to do the same thing with beer?

Music is very central to my life. It’s playing at all points of my day from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep, and even as I sleep. As I type this I’m listening to a mix of early-aughts emo in the Funky Picnic cafe and a band called “Tropical F*ck Storm” (abbreviation my own) in the brewery. For every beer we brew at Funky Picnic there’s almost certainly a song attached to it. Some brews are even direct attempts to materialize a song as a beer, foolhardy a task as that may be.

So in the spirit of Record Store Day, let’s take a look at some of the beers we’ve brewed at Funky Picnic and the songs which inspired them.