Tap That Az

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