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Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by hood_syntax »

bovermyer wrote: post #19
hood_syntax wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I love Mikkeller (the Brunch Weasel stout was fantastic), but I just wanted to let you know they're not the only brewery doing low alcohol (note: personal reference) beers! Session beers are becoming more popular for just the reasons you describe, and although they may or may not fit your criteria for being low alcohol, the trend is there. I'd keep your eye out, there's definitely some exciting things developing…

Wait, there's a non-alcoholic stout? Now I'm intrigued.

No, sorry to burst your bubble. That's one of their regular beers I like, sorry for getting your hopes up...

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by theli0nheart »

colinramsay wrote: post #13

I'd love to get involved in creating a decent piece of brewery management software, I've heard it's all pretty horrific (from a sample size of two). What's the state of the art in brewing software?

Same! I've been interested for the longest time in doing the same. But no time. :(

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

themartorana wrote: post #15
dagw wrote: post #7

Mikkeller, who know a thing or two about brewing, seem to be making a big push into non-or-low alcoholic beers that actually taste interesting. And speaking personally I'd love to see more things happening in this front. As an old old man (ie past 35) who cannot drink like he did in his youth I'd love to go to the pub on a Wednesday, have 6 pints of varied and interesting beers and still be at work and ready to go th…

As an also-over-35, I don't think it's just the alcohol. (Feel free to slap me down with science.) A beer hangover is now more severe than an equivalent-amount-of-alcohol hangover from say, vodka.

Some more anecdotal evidence. I've noticed that the style/quality of the beer greatly affects if there will be a hangover or not regardless of alcohol content. Has anyone else noticed that? or know why?

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by Bartweiss »

colinramsay wrote: post #13

I'd love to get involved in creating a decent piece of brewery management software, I've heard it's all pretty horrific (from a sample size of two). What's the state of the art in brewing software?

Big or small?

I think the 'big' answer is all about low-level control logic and embedded systems. I can't speak to how horrifying it is relative to other industrial controls, but they're a world all their own.

On a homebrew scale, though, there's some awesome stuff like this: http://ohmbrewer.org/

The idea is that it's an actually valuable spot for an IoT product, because homebrewers would rather not sit for hours measuring exactly when to advance the brew. So you put together a monitoring-and-transition system, plug in your specs, and OhmBrew automates the process. Also, open source so you can check out what they're building.

(I'm not affiliated, but I met them and they seemed like awesome software & beer geeks.)

Re: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

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Post by kidlogic »

I am a fan of what the guys at http://www.swig.co/ and http://www.drinkeasy.co/ are doing (disclaimer: I know the founders).

Swig is a social application that enables you to discover new brews that you might like (based off of you and your friend's preferences); sort of like Pandora for your palette.

Drinkeasy is an extension of Swig and enables you to order those drinks.

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