I started home brewing as a student in 1997 when I lived in a student hostel in Nuremberg. I'm a mechanical engineer (focus on manufacturing engineering) but my engineering 'ticket' is not recognised in Australia. That doesn't bother me. I worked as a technical writer and illustrator for more than 6 years. I'm a handyman and prefer to work in the trades. So in 2001 I designed and built my first 70 litres brewery...
BeerDesignER
I also developped tools and programs in XLS, Java-Script and VBA to design and to calculate your (home) brew...