David Favela

Training at Chico State and the University of California, San Diego gave David Favela a formal base before Hewlett Packard added a first professional layer in systems, process, and execution. Read that way, the early path is less a straight ascent than a working education in how to move ideas across different settings without losing shape. Border X Brewing is where that training turns into authorship. As founder, David Favela built a role around making concept legible in the real world: something with structure, repeatability, and a public life.

Founder is a craft role as much as a business one, and David Favela uses it that way at Border X Brewing. The job is not only to start something, but to maintain its internal logic, keep the work coherent, and make sure the original intent still reads in the finished product.

Border X Brewing’s listed signatures, saison brewed with jamaica (hibiscus tea) and Horchata Golden Stout, show a brewer working across reference points rather than within a single register. The saison brewed with jamaica (hibiscus tea) brings a floral, tea-based note into the format, while Horchata Golden Stout points to a richer, softer profile built from a familiar cue and then reshaped in beer form. Together, they signal a practice that uses flavor as structure, not decoration.

Bringing ideas into action has always been the through line in David Favela’s own description of his work. That emphasis matches the record: Chico State, the University of California, San Diego, Hewlett Packard, and Border X Brewing form a path that favors implementation over abstraction. Those statements point to a maker’s logic that travels. In David Favela’s case, Border X Brewing is the place where that logic becomes visible, with founder functioning as the name for taking an idea from premise to proof.

UC San Diego materials say he spent two decades at Hewlett Packard before opening Border X Brewing in 2014 in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood. he spent two decades at Hewlett Packard before opening Border X Brewing in 2014 in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood.