\u201cBecks is 150 years old; to celebrate their anniversary, they said we\u2019re going to have a robot designed beers and they used AI to make a beer,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSt Austell\u2019s, a UK brewer, again they\u2019ve made a beer; it\u2019s called \u2018Hand Brewed by Robots\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A party of four clink glasses. Picture by: Alamy.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor O\u2019Neill added that designing a new beer is \u201cquite complicated\u201d because so many chemicals are required to brew it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s sweetness, acidity, the hop level and various other components that they will measure,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOne good example is in the University of Leuven, they analysed 250 beers in great detail and then began modelling what a new beer would look like.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey added in glycerol – which is a natural chemical or lactic acid – and then modelled that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLo and behold, they got a beer out of it that the consumers liked; the brewer himself said he would never have thought of adding those ingredients.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Pints of beer in the sunlight on a pub table. Picture by: Alamy.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is also the bane of every barman\u2019s working life to consider – the foam in a pint.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seemingly, AI can now be used to reduce that as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more you ferment, the less protein there is – it gets damaged,\u201d Professor O\u2019Neill said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, less fermentation means less foam – with one exception; the Trappist Beers in Belgium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are famous for repeat fermentation; they noticed there\u2019s a specific protein in those beers, it\u2019s called LTP1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat improves fermentation and you get better foams.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, suddenly they\u2019ve realised there\u2019s other ways to make better foam.\u201d<\/p>\n
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