Podcasts about wandering tortoise

It's everywhere. What started as a trend is here to stay. It's the haze craze! We're talking about Hazy IPAs this episode and leveling up the Haze for Daze badge with King Sue from Toppling Goliath. We cover the top Hazy IPAs on Untappd, how we earned this badge, give our best beers of the week, and highlight legendary Phoenix, AZ beer bar, The Wandering Tortoise as our Verified Venue of the week. Drinking Socially is Untappd's Craft Beer Podcast. Your inside look into what's happening in the Untappd community and the world of beer. Have questions, want to be a guest on the podcast, or just want to say hello? Email podcasts@untappd.com.

When the opening of The Sleepy Whale was announced it came with immediate hype. With the groundwork laid by the massive success of sister beer bar, The Wandering Tortoise, the Chandler spot hit the ground running and hasn't missed a beat since. With a selection that is 2nd to none its a must-hit for beer enthusiasts. In this episode I sit down with co-owner Tony Fatica and the always amazing beer slinger Tiffany Fowler to talk about their story and enjoy some great beers. Enjoy!

In this episode we drink some Coquito (Puerto Rican egg nog) and some 450 North. We also discuss the current climate in the AZ beer scene celebrate the awesomeness of Justin and the team at Wandering Tortoise and more. Enjoy....and Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maxallotmenttv/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/maxallotmenttv/support

(NSFW or HCPC)  Since Ed is over seas drinking copious amounts of Guinness. Nate, Jeff and Chris decided to crash the patio at The Sleepy Whale. They gush over what is on tap at this new craft beer destination in downtown Chandler. Including some big hitters like Bottle Logic, Pueblo Vida, and their own collaboration with Arizona Wilderness called Into the Whalederness  They talk about the next upcoming craft beer bar in downtown Phoenix from the master minds behind The Wandering Tortoise, Sleepy Whale, and Hops on Birch called the The Roosevelt. Nate tricks Jeff and Chris with a Cellarmaker IG image that should be an hazy dream but it is not. They talk about up coming Hoppy Craftsmen trips, including Rowley and maybe Boston. Also, they create a new beer name. This time called Friends with Crust, please leave your comments about what kind of beer that might be. Then some on-the-air blendary of to create a one of kind sour stout. Sadly, they did not have a name for that one, missed opportunity. Enjoy! Our Location Info: The Sleepy Whale 290 S Arizona Ave, Chandler, AZ 85225 Facebook Instagram Our Information: Music Credit: Takotsubo Men The assorted sounds of three ageing humans hitting things in a studio for five days. Beautifully nasty and pretty vile at times but ultimately gorgeous. Enjoy! Intro: Skint But Free Outro: Takotsubo Man Follow them! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TakotsuboMen Twitter: https://twitter.com/TakotsuboMen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TakotsuboMen Contact us! Instagram: @hoppycraftsmen Twitter: @hoppycraftsmen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hoppycraftsmen/ E-mail: hoppycraftsmen@gmail.com Blog: http://hoppycraftsmenpodcast.com/ YouTube: Hoppy Craftsmen – Craft Beer Podcast Support US! Buy Us a Beer! For as little as a dollar a month you can help a bearded white guy drink a good craft beer. Your generous donation will help supply thousands with the gift of more podcasts and we are pretty sure inappropriate humor as well. Invest in Us!  Rate us on iTunes! Want to help us reach a bigger audience and keep the episodes coming? Then head over to iTunes and Give us a rating and feedback! Tell A Friend!S Tell someone you know about our show! If you know that a friend likes or loves craft beer tell them to give us a listen. Or if you know someone who is new to craft beer and you are tired of telling them about the scene, let us be your soap box! Or have an amazing whale that you want to share with the world. Go on your social media platform of choice and give us a shout out. Use the hashtag #hoppycraftsmen and we’ll respond in kind. Probably in some form of emoji and maybe a super rad type of comment. You get the picture.

If you are a part of the Arizona craft beer scene, you know Justin Evans. And if you somehow don’t know Justin, you know his bar, The Wandering Tortoise. Oh, and if you don’t know the Tortoise, you may have heard of The Sleepy Whale, which Justin and some others are opening in Chandler in April. If none of that rings a bell, then Hops on Birch, a craft beer institution in the pines of Flagstaff, should. Recently, Justin and his group purchased that spot, too. Not bad for a guy who at one time thought he would go into law after attending Anthem College. “I got a paralegal degree from there,” Evans told TapThatAZ. “That’s when I thought my career path was going to be being a lawyer. “Then I got through two years of school and I realized that’s not what I wanted to do.” Evans went on to say he had been in the food and beverage industry before, and the idea of sitting behind a desk just didn’t appeal to him. He said the “freeness” of the food and beverage industry did, but across various stops in that field came to the realization that he wanted to one day have his own spot. Following stops at OHSO Arcadia and the Pig’s Meow (now The Whining Pig Arcadia), Evans – along with Shay Gau, whom he met at the Pig’s Meow – looked to open what became the Tortoise. Many people have at one time considered the idea of starting a business, but Evans, Gau and the other partners, put up their own money, took out the loans and started looking for a place. They found one in the Sprouts parking lot, but that fell apart due to the grocery chain not wanting another beer seller in their area. “So we wasted about three months trying to negotiate that deal, we were really drug around on that,” Evans said of the Sprouts lot. “And we rushed to find something else with a couple of stipulations: We wanted to be on Indian School, we wanted to be west on Indian School. “And somewhere still appealing to my customer base at Pig.” Eventually, Gau found on a location off of 24th Street and Indian School with about 1,200 square feet of space. Evans was uneasy at first because of its lack of parking, but after about three days the lease was signed. Within a year they expanded even more, and since then they added a parking lot. All of it proved to be necessary because of not only the atmosphere created in the space but the amazing beer list that has been consistently provided. That, of course, does not happen by accident, with Evans and his team building relationships not only across the Valley but throughout all of Arizona and even into other markets. “You know, the first time we got Pueblo Vida in there…it still blows my mind to this day,” Evans said. If Evans is amazed by the beers he can get, imagine what everyone else thinks. Much of that success is directly due to the relationships Evans and his team have built. Be it Pueblo Vida, Arizona Wilderness or Dark Sky, or others like Modern Times, Pure Project or Bottle Logic, if it’s highly thought of, there’s a good chance you’ll see it at the Tortoise. And lately you are even starting to see beers named after the Tortoise’s pets, such as King Koda, Super Duper King Mr. and Good Girl Pearl, which are named after Evans’ and Gau’s dogs and made by The Shop and Wren House, respectively. Those are not the only collaborations the Tortoise has been a part of. They even had one with Modern Times, Technodrome, which was the first collaboration the brewery had ever done with a beer bar. “We did it on the L.A. system,” Evans said. Indeed, it’s not just about Central Phoenix. As noted, the Tortoise will soon be joined by the Sleepy Whale and Hops on Birch, with the former being in the East Valley and the latter in Flagstaff. “That was a space that I was approached about,” Evans said of the Whale. “I looked at it and was like, ‘this is just fantastic.’ I couldn’t say no to that.” Evans said he wasn’t in any rush to open another place, but instead this was just a matter of something seeming right. As for Hops on Birch, Evans said that was a “dream come true” but one he said he took advantage of only after he got his wife’s approval. That last line came with a laugh, but Evans – who also has a new baby daughter -- admitted there is plenty on his plate these days.  But if history is any indication, while it may mean a lot of work for Evans, it will also mean plenty of good beer for even more people who live in the 48th state.

In this episode, I sit down with Pete from Barn Town Brewing out of Iowa. These guys are doing a collab with Wren House, so be on the lookout for that, as well as doing a tap takeover at Wandering Tortoise on March 7th. Get there ASAP to grab some of their fantastic beers. Enjoy the show!

(NSFW) This week Nate and Chris are joined on the show friend of the show Ed Gomez aka Barley Legible. We talk about anniversaries that are happening all this month and next. How oatmeal chocolate raisin cookies are the best. That Nate wants all breweries to just move closer to him. The Wandering Tortoise is getting a second location in Chandler called The Sleepy Whale. Nate learns how to ride a bike. We debate if Watermelons are a fruit or vegetable. A fly terrorizes Chris now stop. Then Ed wants to know how petty we could get if we had f*$k you money. Also, a private insult is shared on the air. Lastly, we bring back a segment we called honorable mentions.   Our Guest Info: Barley Legible Show Info: Ab-Inbev "Craft is Dead" Anniversary Explosion Time of Year Pueblo Vida The Beer Research Institute 12 West Brewing Cider Corp  McFate Mother Road The Wandering Tortoise Our Information: Music Credit: Takotsubo Men The assorted sounds of three ageing humans hitting things in a studio for five days. Beautifully nasty and pretty vile at times but ultimately gorgeous. Enjoy! Intro: Skint But Free Outro: Takotsubo Man Follow them! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TakotsuboMen Twitter: https://twitter.com/TakotsuboMen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TakotsuboMen Contact us! Instagram: @hoppycraftsmen Twitter: @hoppycraftsmen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hoppycraftsmen/ E-mail: hoppycraftsmen@gmail.com Blog: http://hoppycraftsmenpodcast.com/ YouTube: Hoppy Craftsmen – Craft Beer Podcast Support US! Buy Us a Beer! For as little as a dollar a month you can help a bearded white guy drink a good craft beer. Your generous donation will help supply thousands with the gift of more podcasts and we are pretty sure inappropriate humor as well. Invest in Us!  Rate us on iTunes! Want to help us reach a bigger audience and keep the episodes coming? Then head over to iTunes and Give us a rating and feedback! Tell A Friend! Tell someone you know about our show! If you know that a friend likes or loves craft beer tell them to give us a listen. Or if you know someone who is new to craft beer and you are tired of telling them about the scene, let us be your soap box! Or have an amazing whale that you want to share with the world. Go on your social media platform of choice and give us a shout out. Use the hashtag #hoppycraftsmen and we’ll respond in kind. Probably in some form of emoji and maybe a super rad type of comment. You get the picture. Extra Special Thanks to: Beer and Other Shhhh for the Rapid Round inspiration. Give them a listen and a like on iTunes, or watch some videos on their YouTube

(NSFW) This week the guy’s head back to The Wandering Tortoise! We catch up with Justin and a get to meet a few other members of the Tortoise family, Sheldon and Sam. We treat them all to a dose of the rapid round, during which Todd from Arizona Wilderness joins in on the fun. Then Justin and Sam jump right into Wandering Tortoise’s amazing and somewhat overwhelming happenings at The Wandering Tortoise for AZ Beer Week. We go over the tons of collaborations they have in coming up and ones that are in the works. Sheldon joins in later on to give his answers to the rapid round hijinks. Nate thanks the Wandering Tortoise for what they do, and asks for highlights from their amazing first year. But, the show does not stop there, our week one Strong Beer Fest giveaway winner joins us, and we go over the bad news she received today. Our Guest Info: The Wandering Tortoise 2417 E Indian School Rd Phoenix, AZ 85016 (602) 441-3490   Facebook Instagram Super Secret Instagram   Our Information: Music Credit: Takotsubo Men The assorted sounds of three ageing humans hitting things in a studio for five days. Beautifully nasty and pretty vile at times but ultimately gorgeous. Enjoy! Intro: Skint But Free Outro: Takotsubo Man Follow them! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TakotsuboMen Twitter: https://twitter.com/TakotsuboMen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TakotsuboMen Contact us! Instagram: @hoppycraftsmen Twitter: @hoppycraftsmen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hoppycraftsmen/ E-mail: hoppycraftsmen@gmail.com Blog: http://hoppycraftsmenpodcast.com/ YouTube: Hoppy Craftsmen – Craft Beer Podcast Support US! Buy Us a Beer! For as little as a dollar a month you can help a bearded white guy drink a good craft beer. Your generous donation will help supply thousands with the gift of more podcasts and we are pretty sure inappropriate humor as well. Invest in Us!  Rate us on iTunes! Want to help us reach a bigger audience and keep the episodes coming? Then head over to iTunes and Give us a rating and feedback! Tell A Friend! Tell someone you know about our show! If you know that a friend likes or loves craft beer tell them to give us a listen. Or if you know someone who is new to craft beer and you are tired of telling them about the scene, let us be your soap box! Or have an amazing whale that you want to share with the world. Go on your social media platform of choice and give us a shout out. Use the hashtag #hoppycraftsmen and we’ll respond in kind. Probably in some form of emoji and maybe a super rad type of comment. You get the picture. Extra Special Thanks to: Beer and Other Shhhh for the Rapid Round inspiration. Give them a listen and a like on iTunes, or watch some videos on their YouTube

(NSFW) This episode finds us talking to Shay Gau and Justin Evans, proprietors of The Wandering Tortoise, home to all things hoppy, malty and wonderful.  The Wandering Tortoise is many things, bottle shop, beer mecca, brew geek clubhouse, dog friendly watering hole, and the mysterious yet inviting “shit beer of the week.”  Shay and Justin talk about how The Wandering Tortoise came to be, how they left their jobs in the hospitality business to become masters of their own domain, and opened a place the curates what is arguably one of the best tap lists in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix, AZ in case you hadn’t heard).  Shay and Justin know just what it takes to woo big name breweries to hook them up with some pretty hard to get beers, Modern Times, Cascade, Alpine to name drop a few, but there is also no shortage of great local staples that Phoenician’s have come to love and expect.  Sit down and listen to what it takes to be a successful beer entrepreneur, because these guys definitely know how to run a great beer shop / tap room. Their Information: 2417 E Indian School Rd Phoenix, AZ 85016 (602) 441-3490   Facebook Instagram Super Secret Instagram Our Information: Music Credit: Takotsubo Men The assorted sounds of three ageing humans hitting things in a studio for five days. Beautifully nasty and pretty vile at times but ultimately gorgeous. Enjoy! Intro: Skint But Free Outro: Takotsubo Man Follow them! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TakotsuboMen Twitter: https://twitter.com/TakotsuboMen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TakotsuboMen Contact us! Instagram: @hoppycraftsmen Twitter: @hoppycraftsmen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hoppycraftsmen/ E-mail: hoppycraftsmen@gmail.com Blog: http://hoppycraftsmenpodcast.com/ YouTube: Hoppy Craftsmen – Craft Beer Podcast Support US! Buy Us a Beer! For as little as a dollar a month you can help a bearded white guy drink a good craft beer. Your generous donation will help supply thousands with the gift of more podcasts and we are pretty sure inappropriate humor as well. Invest in Us!  Rate us on iTunes! Want to help us reach a bigger audience and keep the episodes coming? Then head over to iTunes and Give us a rating and feedback! Tell A Friend! Tell someone you know about our show! If you know that a friend likes or loves craft beer tell them to give us a listen. Or if you know someone who is new to craft beer and you are tired of telling them about the scene, let us be your soap box! Or have an amazing whale that you want to share with the world. Go on your social media platform of choice and give us a shout out. Use the hashtag #hoppycraftsmen and we’ll respond in kind. Probably in some form of emoji and maybe a super rad type of comment. You get the picture.