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Tony and Kim Chbeir of What’s Brewing in SA, TX - Episode 29

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Send us Fan Mail Episode 29 – Tony and Kim Chbeir of What’s Brewing in San Antonio, TX. They sit down virtually with Jamie and discuss the origin of their Coffee Roaster named What’s Brewing. They...

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Highlights

  • What's Brewing has grown from 5 pinball machines in 2017 to 50 machines by 2024
  • The coffee roasting company was founded in the mid-1970s by an older couple; Tony's father purchased it in 1983 and began roasting operations in 1984
  • What's Brewing will host the 2025 state pinball finals in February or March and also host a Bells Rodeo in February
  • What's Brewing plans to launch Twitch streaming by end of June 2024 for tournaments and events
  • Ninja Eclipse homebrew machine is earning money at What's Brewing, performing comparably to expectations though not at the level of new Stern releases
  • Tony owns a 22-inch computerized telescope made by Obsession company in Wisconsin and has been doing astronomy outreach since the 1990s
  • What's Brewing has partnership with Mike McKenna (tech) and Chris (tournament coordinator) as core pinball team members
  • John Spates visited What's Brewing a couple months ago and praised how well the machines play there

Notable quotes

“We're not quite a bar. We're not quite a brewery, but we do have coffee. It's kind of fun, family arcade style.”
Tony Chbeir
“if you take either of those points of the triangle away from it, you don't have, like, what's brewing pinball”
Tony Chbeir
“I think a lot of the enthusiasm that I learned to share astronomy, I could also use that to kind of get people excited about pinball when they walk up...once they get into it, it's kind of like it snowballs”
Tony Chbeir
“there's still some nature there, you know, in the middle of it. So it's been a lot of fun. And I think it's part of what keeps me interested in Tony because he's amazing and he's so passionate about, you know, so many things.”
Kim Chbeir
“We set them hard. Long story short, we set them hard. We try to be fair, but about the only thing that I change on a regular tournament, as I might go through and set the ball save timers down to five seconds”
Tony Chbeir

Entities

  • What's Brewing· company
  • Wormhole Pinball· company
  • Ninja Eclipse· game
  • San Antonio Pinball League· organization
  • Chris· person
  • Collier· person
  • Cynthia· person
  • Jamie Birchall· person
  • John Spates· person
  • Kim Chbeir· person
  • Mike McKenna· person
  • Tony Chbeir· person

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