The artificial intelligence could improve the taste of beer

A project, in which the Carlsberg brewery is currently working, aims to use AI to predict the taste of beer by badyzing its chemical components.

Beer Industry a tradition that has managed to maintain itself over the centuries, even millennia if its origins are revised, it renews its profile by opening the door to one of the most recent trends Technological: the Artificial Intelligence (IA). The reason that unites tradition to innovation is predicting the taste of beer and therefore presenting new varieties that many might consider better.

The Brewery Carlsberg a Danish company founded in 1847, is the basis of this project, which was exploited by advanced research in local universities and with the technological support of Microsoft .

The project, called the Beer Fingerprinting Project (Footprints of Beer), will use sensor technologies and data badysis to more effectively predict the flavors of beers.

"As we collect data and process these sensors accumulate, artificial intelligence creates patterns with which we can then badyze how a beer will know without having to produce it," says Edmundo Miralles, Direct r of the Microsoft Cloud segment, in his interview with El Espectador

Jochen Förster, also known as "Dc. Beer" (Doctor Beer), who is the director of yeast and of fermentation for the Carlsberg Research Laboratory, explains that in the production process of this alcoholic beverage hundreds of microliths of distillates and beers are produced, quantities so small humanly, it would be impossible to taste them, however, this possibility does not occur. Does not escape the capabilities of a machine.

"So we discovered this, if we had sensors that could tell us, at first, whether leaven can actually be used in large-scale beer production, and which could recognize chemical and aromatic compounds to predict the taste of a beer, that would help much our research, "said Dr. Beer

. project, it is expected that he will soon be able to present his first results since he has already completed six months after starting his operation.

Will the tasters disappear?

If there is a machine capable of identifying the chemical components of a beer to contribute to its production, does this mean that people who taste beer have days counted? for Miralles, the thing is not like that, since in any creative process the human being will always play a role; In this case, the machine will be responsible for the reports, the work of the tasters will create the best mixes and processes, with the advantage that they will not have to wait 21 days, the time that It is necessary to take one of these drinks, since the AI ​​predicts its taste.

This was not the only "crazy experiment" that Carlsberg made

Motivated by an investigation that revealed how light and sound affect plants, the brewer decided to install television screens. from their talons to play matches of Liverpoll 24 hours a day. In this way, the red hops cultures were constantly "bombarded" by the colors of this team and the songs of their fans, all this to make a special beer for the fans of this selection.