About
The person behind the picks.
No influencer. No brand deals dressed up as opinion. Just an Engineer who reads the small print.
Decades of precision Engineering, applied to your home.
Darren Emery B.Sc (Hons), M.Sc.
Senior Control & Instrumentation Engineer & Technical Authority
I started as an apprentice Instrument Artificer ('Tiffy') in 1983 and never really stopped. Forty years on, I've kept the control and safety systems running across Britain's heaviest industry — oil refineries, steelworks, gas terminals, fuel pipelines, chemical and power plants, and five years offshore on the rigs early on.
On High Hazard Refineries, Petrochemical Plants and Offshore Oil Rigs, a figure that doesn't add up isn't a typo — it's a safety case. That's the discipline I was trained in, and it's the eye I bring to everything recommended here.
These days that same discipline gets pointed at the glass, not the grid — alcohol-free drinks that overpromise, and the honest few actually worth pouring. If it isn’t good enough for my own evening, it isn’t on this site.
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.”
Matthew 5:16 · King James Version
“God is Enough.”
— Darren
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