Dirty Pool Podcast Ep08 – Brewing Beans & Flipping Dreams: Tony from What’s Brewing

We head south to San Antonio to talk to Tony, the owner of What’s Brewing, a coffee roastery that also happens to double as a pinball arcade. We get into the grind of running two very different scenes under one roof, from roasting beans to repairing flippers, and how a city like San Antonio shaped the culture of both. Turns out, coffee people and pinball people might just be the same weirdos. Praise the Great Pyramid 📡 Twitch – twitch.tv/dirtypoolpinball 📺 YouTube – youtube.com/@DirtyPoolPinball 📷 Instagram – instagram.com/dirtypoolpinball 📘 Facebook – facebook.com/dirtypoolpinball 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:40 - Surprise Pyramid Praising 00:01:05 - Where What's Brewing Came From 00:04:25 - What To Do In A Tornado / Emergency Info 00:07:18 - Pinball Enters What's Brewing 00:11:50 - Exotic Fruit and "The Nerd Tree" 00:14:45 - Pinball On Location Doesn't Make Money 00:17:16 - Chat Asks About Pinball 'named' Coffee 00:19:41 - Where do you acquire beans? 00:23:26 - What's up @CoffeeFlipper4 ! 00:23:51 - Lets talk poop coffee. (Yes Seriously) 00:29:21 - Lets break down coffee types. 00:38:00 - How Coffee is Roasted 00:45:46 - Jar Jar killed Pinball... temporarily 00:49:21 - Have you converted pinball non-believers? 00:51:41 - Booze at a roastery? Sure? 00:55:21 - What's Brewing Tournaments Have Diverse Games 00:57:41 - @sternpinballinc Release Tiers... 01:01:23 - Back When You Could Get Pins For Cheap 01:04:23 - Don't Trust Your Cable Colors. 01:08:00 - The Pinball Experience is Interactive and Challenging 01:13:11 - Remakes Feel Different... Doesn't Every Game Feel Different? 01:19:52 - Day Off Interview? Tony Says Some Nice Things To Me. 01:22:22 - Pinball For All Types Of People 01:23:12 - Drink Spills and Coffee Pinball Aroma. 01:26:31 - Pinball Innovation / Pinball Golden Age 01:30:21 - Completed Code? 01:33:51 - Small Companies Grow Smart 01:35:21 - Barry O's! 01:36:41 - What's Brewing Events 01:39:21 - Big Screen Dirty Pool?! 01:41:21 - Bye! #DirtyPoolPinball #PinballPodcast #WhatsBrewingSA #PinballArcade #PinballLife #CoffeeAndPinball #TexasPinball #SanAntonioArcade #PinballCulture #PinballTalk #CoffeeRoasterLife #ArcadeVibes #PinballCommunity #PinballMachines #ArcadeInterview #PinballHistory #RoasteryAndArcade #RetroGaming #LatteAndLockbar #PinballInterview #FlipperFreaks #PinballScene #CoffeeAndGames