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THE SUNDAY SANTAN SUN NEWS | JULY 31, 2022
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Granddad’s avocado legacy inspires restaurant BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Managing Editor
A new Chandler restaurant is taking advantage of some family history and America’s love affair with a certain fruit. Patent 139 Brewing Company opened earlier this year and has adopted an avocado theme. Tim Hass, great grandson of the man who was awarded Fruit Patent 139 for the Hass Avocado, opened the brew pub at Ray and Dobson roads. You will find avocado-inspired dishes on the menu. And next month, you’ll find an avocado-inspired beer at the bar. Just don’t ask for any guacamole: they don’t make it. “It was my great grandfather, Rudolph Hass, who patented the first blackskinned avocado,” Haas explained. “It turned out it was actually an accident. He bought some farmland in La Habra Heights, was growing Fuerte avocados but they weren’t really growing very well.” Those, like most avocados in the 1920s, were green. And, like most avocados, they were difficult to grow. He purchased some seeds that he was told came from Central or South America. One of them became a tree that produced a black-skin avocado. Back in the 1920s, that was rare and the reason why he sought a patent. Now, most of the fruits sold, about 90%, are Hass Avocados.
Tim Hass and chef Jared Martinez of Patent 139 Brewing are turning their love for avocado into tasty dishes – and even beer. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)
“People loved it because of the fatty creaminess versus Fuertes (the traditional green avocados),” said Tim, who had opened up a few restaurants for others in California before deciding to open the Chandler eatery in January. “So he went on and saw it was a big success and submitted the patent back in 1935. “The green ones are very large, almost look like a small mango. The whole fat content with the black skin is what really makes it the difference. It’s buttery, creamy where the others are a little bit more hard, and not much flavor into it. The Hass avocados, those
are the ones that you get a lot of that flavor element.” Avocados show up in different ways on the menu. “Buffalo sauce (on wings) is usually your red-hot sauce, butter element,” said Jared Martinez, the restaurant’s chef. “We took avocados and replaced the butter on it. It actually created a vegan sauce. So we’re trying to utilize avocados in different ways.” One of those ways is avocado honey. How did they pull that off? “It’s bees that have only been allowed to pollinate with avocado flow-
ers,” Martinez said. “I’m not trying to be the guy who just throws avocado on everything and says, you know, it’s versatile,” Martinez said. “It is very versatile in the sense that it’s a source of fat that can actually be used in placement of egg, as well ... we can grill it.” One of their popular desserts is Avocado Crème Brûlée. Instead of using butter, they use avocados. The anniversary of Rudolph Hass getting Patent 139 approved is coming up, Aug. 27. To celebrate, Tim Hass plans to debut an avocado-inspired beer. “It’s only been done, that I know of, one other time,” Tim said. “It was at Angel City Brewery out of Los Angeles; they did an Avocado Ale on there. So this will be a little bit different. But yeah, we’re going to work with some of the local homebrew guys out here to kind of make this a new, special thing, celebrate the weekend. And, of course, it’ll be going right into Labor Day after that. So very excited to give something different here.” What will an avocado beer taste like? He said it won’t be green. “It’s actually going to add more of a creamy texture to the beer instead of, you know, some of the IPAs that are out there that are really heavy and hops and bitterness,” he said. “This will add more of a creamy texture with the malt, the German malt. You’ll get a little bit of the flavor, but not much.”
QC couple opening fitness studio in Chandler BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Managing Editor
Queen Creek resident Darin Day said he was a regular in his old gym, worked out often and thought he was in pretty good shape for his age. Then he was invited to visit a Fit Body Boot Camp by a neighbor. “I tried it, just blown away,” Day said. “I mean, the workouts are 30 minutes, so you’re in, you’re out, you’re sweaty, you’re worn out.” He became hooked, so much so that he’s about to open his own Fit Body Boot Camp in South Chandler at the corner of Arizona Avenue and Riggs. Day and his wife, MJ, plan to have their first official workouts on Aug. 1. Day said his previous workouts focused on weight training, building muscles. He said the Boot Camp workouts are more about all around fitness level. “Getting into this, it’s about strength, it’s about building a different kind of muscle, it’s about building that lean muscle that burns the calories and keeps you trim,” Day explained. “And so that’s what really appealed to me because since I joined two years ago, I’ve lost 20 pounds, but I’ve gained, you know, mass and muscle, but I’ve also dropped like 10% body fat.”
and the idea of owning his own business was appealing. Since he enjoyed the Fit Body Boot Camp, he checked out their website and came across a chance to buy a franchise. The company gives discounts to veterans. MJ served in the Army, so they qualified. As someone who has gone through a real boot camp, MJ said their workouts are not that intense and no one should be scared off by the name. She said she wants their new business to be a place that feels like family. “I belonged to another [gym], I just dropped it,” MJ said. “And they wanted to charge you for just having someone stand by you while you do your exercises. “I wasn’t getting much out of it. It’s like you standing here now, and they weren’t helping or doing anything, they were just kind of making sure I was doing my reps.” The Sun Lakes Fit Body Boot Camp will start by offering classes at Darin and MJ Day of Green Creek are about to 5 a.m. Monday-Friday. Each class lasts open Fit Body Boot Camp in South Chandler. 30 minutes and they vary the work(David Minton/Staff Photographer) outs so they don’t get repetitive. Day had worked for someone else Darin said they will have you in corporate jobs most of his adult life do something for say 40 seconds, then
take 20 seconds to catch your breath. And then repeat the process. The last morning class starts at 9:30. Darin said some parents requested that time because it allows them to drop their kids off at school before working out. Each class will have two instructors. One keeps time while the other helps people doing the workouts. “If the guy next to you can do, you know, 50 jumping jacks in a minute, and you can only do 20, if 20 is the best of your ability, that’s OK, our coaches are going to be they’re encouraging you. “They’re going to be pushing you saying, ‘Come on, maybe do one more, or do one more than you did yesterday.’ But it’s not going to be in an atmosphere where you know, he’s doing 50, you do 50.” Darin said like his wife, they want to make the workouts feel like a family gathering and not something that’s intimidating. The cost is $39 per week, but Day said they are offering a special for some founding members, $10 off a week for life. That will be good for the first 100 people who become members. If you are a member, you can come as many times a week as you like. In addition to their morning hours, they also have evening classes starting at 4 p.m. and a limited number of classes on Saturdays.
