Downtown business issues warning to ‘parents and prudes’ about weekly event

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A tongue-in-cheek note posted on the business' Facebook page explains the weekly "Wu-Tang Wednesday."

The first Wu-Tang Wednesday was held Dec. 13, 2017, and they’ve been held each Wednesday.

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The late Ol’ Dirty Bastard was a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, a rap group. His song “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” includes the lyric “yeah baby, I like it raw.”

Gus Stathes, who co-owns the bar with partner Sara Levin, says it is about fun.

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“Sara and I have been wanting to do something to liven up Wednesdays around the shop, as they’re a notoriously slow day across the board in the industry,” he  explained in a Facebook message. “We’re hip hop fans, I’m a Wu-Tang fanatic, and ‘Wu-Tang Wednesday’ just rolls off the tongue too well. My buddy Jon Albrecht came up with the “growler growler fills y’all” tag, and thus a weekly event was born.”

He said the tagline is a nod to the Wu-Tang song "C.R.E.A.M.": "Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M - get the money. Dolla dolla bill y'all."

Details haven't been set in stone, but Stathes said the Barrel House will offer a growler fill special every Wednesday.

“Wu-Tang Wednesday seems to be the tightest fit, though we play all manner of hip-hop, not just the boom bap NYC stuff,” Stathes said.

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Sathes, the former general manager and beer curator of Ollie’s Place in Washington Twp., and Levin, social media manager and event planner for Cappy’s Wine & Spirits in Loveland, recently bought The Barrel House from Jeff Heater.

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