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Londoners Tests A Self-Driving Beer Tap And An AI-Assisted Brewery (gizmodo.co.uk)
At a bar in London, they're now testing the prototype for a self-driving beer tap, according to drunkdrone. Gizmodo UK reports:
All you need to do is select your pint of choice on the touchscreen, pay with a tap of your contactless card and stick your pint glass at its base. The pump contains an electronic valve, which opens to allow beer to flow through. A liquid flow meter ensures the right amount of good stuff comes out.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg is also reporting on a London startup that's brewing beer with a special algorithm that constantly modifies the percentage of each ingredient -- hops, water, yeast and grain -- based on ongoing customer feedback. Levels of carbonation, bitterness and alcohol content all change based on how people are responding... The algorithm produces new recipes every month incorporating the feedback. "There are too many brands out there that just have one recipe for a beer, and they've had it for 60 years," said Hew Leith, co-founder of IntelligentX, the maker of the beer appropriately named AI. "We're not about that. We're about using data to listen to our customers, get all that feedback, and then brew something that's more attuned to what they actually want and need."
He believes the same process could also be used to design perfume, chocolate, and coffee.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg is also reporting on a London startup that's brewing beer with a special algorithm that constantly modifies the percentage of each ingredient -- hops, water, yeast and grain -- based on ongoing customer feedback. Levels of carbonation, bitterness and alcohol content all change based on how people are responding... The algorithm produces new recipes every month incorporating the feedback. "There are too many brands out there that just have one recipe for a beer, and they've had it for 60 years," said Hew Leith, co-founder of IntelligentX, the maker of the beer appropriately named AI. "We're not about that. We're about using data to listen to our customers, get all that feedback, and then brew something that's more attuned to what they actually want and need."
He believes the same process could also be used to design perfume, chocolate, and coffee.
"let me have something stronger!" and then fall on your face after a few more, unless they are monitoring the blood alcohol content of each customer this is just a retarded exercise in AI, and a dangerous one...not trying to sound like a killjoy I love getting smashed, but this shouldn't be a replacement for a sober bartender
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What's to stop people from going online and submitting bogus feedback. For example, demanding so much carbonation that all you ever get is a glass of foam?
serve the NO Tipping cheap beer drinkers. install the distraction dispenser far away from the most valuable bar "real estate".
And if you recall your chemistry, alcohol is a solution.
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Laws in the us will limit this but in the UK they don't seem to give a dam in some pubs and the drinking age is a lot lower there.
Miserable little rat-faced pope-git.
*Still* negative function...
I was literally thinking it was a self-driving keg that you hail like an ice-cream truck :(
http://drafttaproom.com/
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1. I saw one of those automatic beer taps at Hong Kong Airport. It still needed staffing, to make sure nobody who looked underage used it.
2. No, we drink it cold over here. Just not so cold you can't taste it (because our beer is worth tasting).
Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
Shut it, ye buftie coont ar I'll put me boot up yer arse.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Please stop slapping "self-driving" on any random news about devices totally unrelated to driving... The linked article doesn't even use the term, so it means it's some morons at /. that added it. And here I was rejoicing you stopped reposting the Hackaday crap...
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Beware of the Leopard.
Why does the title and article call it a "self-driving" beer tap rather than simply "automated"?
Because its just like airplane autopilot. Oh, wait a minute, I forgot where I was at...... BARTENDER!
2. No, we drink it cold over here. Just not so cold you can't taste it (because our beer is worth tasting).
Don't lie. You drink it at room temperature because Lucas makes you refrigerators...
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
We drink ale over here, and not at room temperature. We don't call the superchilled tasteless low alcohol content diluted horse piss you drink beer.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
I've had a few bartending jobs, like a lot of people. It takes a while to learn how to pour each beer from each tap so that it's the right balance between looking flat a too much head. When you change a barrel, it takes a while for the new beer to settle down. I'd like to see how these beer dispensers deal with less than ideal conditions. Or do they only work well with specific beers?
Cleaning the lines or the lack of is one of the worst things about taps. Using shared lines delivering different types of brews to the same tap would seem to compromise the taste of all the brews. Much the same way the coke free style delivery system makes your root beer taste like orange soda.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
http://www.circle7ranch.com/tabletaps.php A place called Circle 7 Ranch already does this near St. Louis, MO
Tell you what: we settle this like men. You line up your best football team against our best football team and we'll see who walks out of the stadium.
I will you give you one thing, though: your football fight songs are the best in the world. I have to tip my hat to the only team on Earth that has a fight song that's in 6/8 time.
https://youtu.be/XlP9KGjqXf4
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Those shits in the UK want to get rid of bartenders? Screw that. Who's gonna take my keys away and tell me my wife is being kind of a bitch and that I should lay down the law at home? Maybe the British should focus on inventing a self-driving dentist first, huh?
Oh..... BURN!
Anyway, they drink that shit warm over in England, so I don't think we should follow their lead on anything. It's no wonder their "football" players collapse in a screaming heap whenever the opposing team so much as breathes on them.
This seems like such a bitched up idea that It reminds me of an April Fools story. I'm not all that talkative, but some banal pleasantries with a barkeep or waitstaff is just a part of the experience. Where we go, it's enjoyable and informative to chat with the person about what they think about a particular beer or liquor.
So they are gonna trade this pleasant experience with a Robot that will serve you advertisements, will share what you are drinking with your Facebook page, your OHR, and law enforcement.
But does the robot have nice tits?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
We drink ale over here, and not at room temperature. We don't call the superchilled tasteless low alcohol content diluted horse piss you drink beer.
Yeah - ummm, You need to come over and try some of our Horse Piss beer. Presumably you are referring to BudMillerCoors. That shit is mainly for College student who just want to get pissed. I don't drink beer by country, but the proper beer that 'Murrica brews is the equal of anything brewed anywhere as far as quality goes. Ironically, my lawnmower beer is British,
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
We had one of these at a bar I frequent. It didn't last long as it was prone to breaking down and surprisingly difficult to use.
In theory it is a great idea, but many people don't know how to properly pour a beer. This would often result in a very foamy pour and unhappy customers. I don't think it lasted six months of actual use.
Film at 11.
They're been not uncommon in Prague for years, where some places have a large screen showing the per-table drink score, and a league table for other bars in the chain across central Europe..
As for nudging your recipe based on feedback, does these people really think the idea is new? Why do they think Guinness now brew something they call a stout which tastes like the blandest throwing lager? The process leads inexorably to bland crap, unless it gets hijacked by a few fanatics in which case you get totally unbalanced high bitterness crap.
They does?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
For the same reason people talk about open-source coffee tables and crowdfunded cardigans.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That depends. Are the skinny little bufties gonna keep their short-shorts and knee socks on? They look like refugees from 1970s gay porn.
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You're talking about "craft" beer, so called to differentiate it from so-called "beer" (the BudMillerCoors variety). I have no problem with that. It's the vague not-quite-lager that claims to be beer I'm not keen on, something I think we both agree about.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
We don't tend to play the kind of sports that require personal crumple zones, but we sent over a rugby team who won a game of American Football to show you bunch of prissy nancies how real men play contact sports.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
At least the rugby players look like refugees from 80's gay porn. A little more swole and more body hair.
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Why does the title and article call it a "self-driving" beer tap rather than simply "automated"? I thought this was going to be like that sequel to the Heineken walk-in fridge commercial where the guy misunderstands the request and makes a mini-fridge that walks into the living room on robot legs when summoned.
Hilarious. I would have loved seeing that.
Update: So I asked the Font of All Knowlege, and eventually got the reply: "5 Funniest Heineken Adverts of All Time [HD] " https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Trigger warning: disturbing images at 1:16. Not for the weak-hearted.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
You're talking about "craft" beer, so called to differentiate it from so-called "beer" (the BudMillerCoors variety). I have no problem with that. It's the vague not-quite-lager that claims to be beer I'm not keen on, something I think we both agree about.
The only positive thing I have to say about the Budweiser type light lager is that it is a very impressive example of consistency. Not good, but the same lame taste and aftereffects from every bottle. Or as my late departed mother would call them "PeeWaa".
My lawnmower beer? Newcastle. Hot from a hard day's work and it's enough taste to let you know you're drinking beer, but not heavy. The second one tastes just as good.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
America has a great wealth of craft brews and an equally amazing wealth of bourbons and ryes and other forms of whiskey.
It's just such a shame that your mainstream junk BudMillerCoors, Jack Daniels Old No. 7 (Gentleman Jack is great, though), Jim Beam and so on tends to completely overshadow it.
Eat the rich.
2. No, we drink it cold over here. Just not so cold you can't taste it (because our beer is worth tasting).
Don't lie. You drink it at room temperature because Lucas makes you refrigerators...
Actually, real ale is served slightly below room temperature this can be anywhere up to 8ÂC (yes C, none of that F nonsense, we'll drag your measurement systems in to the 18th century kicking and screaming if we have to) this happens to be room temperature in many places because a lot of pub landlords are too miserly to turn the heat up. It isn't flat either, ale is carbonated naturally rather than by an introduced gas like a Lager (which is the closest equivalent we have to American beer here in England). Ales are a traditionally made beer designed to be flavoursome.
Americans, you will be unfamiliar with the concept of Real Ale but it is a staple of English Drunkenness and lout culture. I dare say ordering that near frozen, over carbonated, low alcoholic, tasteless gnats piss that Americans call beer will get you turfed out of a Rough Pub faster than you say "Oi! Did you spill my pint", "Did you look at my girl" or "I'll fucking 'ave you".
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
It's just such a shame that your mainstream junk BudMillerCoors, Jack Daniels Old No. 7 (Gentleman Jack is great, though), Jim Beam and so on tends to completely overshadow it.
That would be the crowd with the only goal being to get drunk. And with the College students, get drunk cheaply.
Natty Light. These kids managed to get drunk on that nasty stuff. Eat packaged Ramen noodles all week, and drink cases and cases of Natty Light.
Fortunately they grow up eventually, and tend to graduate towards beverages with some taste. Life is too short to drink shitty beer.
We can go too far, with the present race to make Tequila some sort of ultra refined smoothness. I tried a shot of Patron a year or so ago. Expensive peewaa. I like a smooth bourbon, but in my book Tequila is supposed to kick back at ya.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Fight song? Fight songs go more like "If ye cannae dee the bouncy you're a tim" or "you're going home like Sandy Richardson".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."