Dave Byrn, Brewmaster and Beardman joins us this week for our fifth episode to talk about how he got started in beer and why all beer good and bad is an infection. For all you beer nerds out there, this one's for you!

Dave's Bio: Like many that tire of fizzy lager, Dave was bitten by the homebrewing bug in 1999.  A wound from which he would never recover.  After nearly a decade in the automotive industry Dave left a successful but unfulfilling career with Jaguar/Land Rover in 2008, to take an 80% pay cut in order to clean kegs, fill bottles, and be genuinely happy again. After seven years of brewing up through the ranks of craft breweries such as Cigar City, Motorworks, and Highland Brewing Company, he was faced with a choice. Join in, and become one of the almost 6000 breweries in the US or move literally halfway around the world to be one of the first ones in Vietnam. Dave loaded his family and Basset Hound into a plane bound for Saigon in 2015 and has yet to look back.  He served as Brewmaster for Pasteur Street Brewing Company for nearly four years, leaving in May of 2019.  Mr. Byrn is currently pursuing new and exciting opportunities throughout South East Asia and abroad as the Managing Director of Crafted Beverage Consulting and, of course, starting another brewery as time allows.