AI suggests how to make beer with whatever ingredients you have

Brewers could create new recipes that produce beers with desired properties using AI, and it will even work if you are missing some ingredients

By Matthew Sparkes

AI that mimics aspects of the behaviour of flies seeking food can be used to design new beer recipes. It can also accurately recreate an existing brew using alternative ingredients when supplies are unstable.

Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie at the University of Greenwich, UK, and his colleagues say that brewers traditionally follow existing recipes or create new ones using the time-consuming process of trial and error. He says that the AI tool is intended to “flip this whole equation around, so instead of …