David is quite fond of brewing. For most of the 90's and Naughties, he bounced off making it a career designing the odd brewery here and there around the world amongst his other industrial engineering activities and doing some recipe consulting. For some reason he thought it was not the right career and in about 2011 ended up all but running a business bank! Seriously, what was he thinking, right?
He loves almost all beer, although his wine loving side makes it hard to approach beers with brettanomyces ferments or heavy use of wheat malt. What he loves more, however, is the process of making beer. Particularly with friends. He doesn't love the soulless factories where a person sitting in a control room makes millions of litres; they are fun technical challenges, but really not beer, not in any meaningful sense. He loves using different mill designs to change the mash bed characteristics. He loves working out how to extract starch or flavours from adjunct ingredients in the process. He loves experimenting with ancient techniques to create old flavours for new beer drinkers.
If we veer off into extreme beer nerdery, it is his fault. Probably.