AI-powered beer rating apps are something I use regularly, and my assessment after several years of using them alongside traditional reference guides is that the AI features that actually improve the experience are different from the ones that get ma
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Lab-made alcohol alternatives are a category I’ve followed with genuine interest because they address a real consumer need — the social and sensory experience of drinking without the specific pharmacology of ethanol — but the pathway to products that
Space-aged beer experiments have evolved from novelty marketing into a small but genuine research area since the first ISS fermentation experiments in 2017–2019.
Non-fermentative beer production is a category that challenges the fundamental definition of what beer is.
AI curation of beer style databases is a topic I’ve thought about from both sides — as someone who uses style references constantly in recipe development and competition judging, and as someone who has noticed the limitations of existing style …
Robotics in large breweries is already operational reality rather than near-future technology, and the applications have expanded beyond the obvious (packaging line automation) into brewing process operations that require environmental sensing and ad
New hop hybrids are something I follow closely because the variety pipeline determines what will be available to brewers in 3–5 years — hop breeding programs have a long lead time between variety development and commercial availability.
Low-alcohol beer through gene editing is an application where the technology has progressed faster than consumer awareness, and the commercial beers already on the market using engineered yeast for alcohol reduction are some of the better-tasting low
Essential oil additions to beer are something I’ve experimented with carefully over several years — carefully because the margin between “interesting botanical complexity” and “soap/cleaning product” is narrow with many essential oils, and the concen
Centennial is the hop I associate with the generation of American IPAs that came just before the Citra revolution — the Sierra Nevada Torpedo era, when grapefruit-forward, assertive, floral-citrus was the definition of American craft.