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

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Post by JasonCEC »

Analytical Flavor Systems[0].

We built a AI for beer flavor profile consistency and quality optimization. NVIDIA wrote an awesome article about us here[1].

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Analytical Flavor Systems uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to build tools for the food & beverage industry. Our Quality, Process, and Market Intelligence services create real-time predictive decisions metrics at each stage of a products life-cycle. We leverage our predictive models across products & industries for flavor profile optimization, production process optimization, demographic targeting & cognitive marketing - helping companies create and sell the best product to their highest value consumers with every batch.

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__Quality Intelligence__: Real-time predictive quality control, assurance, and improvement from human sensory data.

__Process Intelligence__: Real-time predictive process control and optimization from human sensory data + manufacturing & LIMS data.

__Market Intelligence__: Linking flavor-profile, demographics, and sales data to find the highest value consumer demographics for a product's flavor-profile.

[0]www.Gastrograph.com

[1] http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/09/02/beer/

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

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Post by jmspring »

bdalgaard wrote: post #33

I just heard a story on NPR about a startup in Boston called Purpose Energy turning waste water from a brewery (Magic Hat brewing) and turning it into usable energy (methane). There are other efforts to use brewing waste more environmentally/economically in permaculture [1], but this is the first I'd heard of them using it to create energy. Here is the full story. http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-14/massachusetts-p…

The idea of fermentation to kill bugs and what not is mentioned in the documentary How Beer Saved the World.

If I remember rightly, they make a brew out of pond water towards the end

https://vimeo.com/23278902

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

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Post by dwightc »

kidlogic wrote: post #29

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.

ordered through drinkeasy's SMS bot for the first time (sits on top of ezras.com) a little while ago. Great service!

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

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Post by Nursie »

david-given wrote: post #31
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…

Someone downthread mentioned Brewdog --- apparently they make a low-alcohol beer worth drinking: https://www.brewdog.com/item/61/BrewDog/Nanny-State.html Reviews: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16315/53885/ Never tried it myself, so I'd be interested to hear about it.

The carbonation is a little unusual and the mouthfeel is a little different because of the lack of ethanol but after doing a few weeks dry I developed a taste for it and often have it in preference to 'normal' beer at home now.

It is a mid-brown, nicely hoppy ale, highly flavoured as you would expect from brewdog, best enjoyed good and cold.

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

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Post by spoonie »

jmspring wrote: post #42
bdalgaard wrote: post #33

I just heard a story on NPR about a startup in Boston called Purpose Energy turning waste water from a brewery (Magic Hat brewing) and turning it into usable energy (methane). There are other efforts to use brewing waste more environmentally/economically in permaculture [1], but this is the first I'd heard of them using it to create energy. Here is the full story. http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-14/massachusetts-p…

The idea of fermentation to kill bugs and what not is mentioned in the documentary How Beer Saved the World. If I remember rightly, they make a brew out of pond water towards the end https://vimeo.com/23278902

The only part of that documentary I don't like is that they purposely don't mention that they boil the pond water while brewing with it (like you would normal water when brewing). It would have been way cooler if they had shown that yeast alone was enough to kill off other bad organisms.

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

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Post by eymardfreire »

I'm a professional brewer and fermentation technologist, formally trained in Brewing Science and Technology, also in Microbiology and Microscopy. I'm in early stage development of a new software solution for breweries of any size and eventually expanding to wineries and distilleries. Prototype is already fully functional, it consists of constantly updated database of commercial raw ingredients along with its analysis, specifically for accurate recipe development, it will also assist and manage all of your operations from "grain to glass". Another big feature is the new and way more affordable technology the we are implementing of remote monitoring and eventually control and automation of all operations, both Hot Side, Cold Side and Storage. We also want to extend the software for management of Brewery QA & QC and Yeast Lab operations.

I'd love to discuss the project with whoever is interested, feel free to comment below :)

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

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Post by eymardfreire »

I'm a professional brewer and fermentation technologist, formally trained in Brewing Science and Technology, also in Microbiology and Microscopy. I'm in early stage development of a new software solution for breweries of any size and eventually expanding to wineries and distilleries. Prototype is already fully functional, it consists of constantly updated database of commercial raw ingredients along with its analysis, specifically for accurate recipe development, it will also assist and manage all of your operations from "grain to glass". Another big feature is the new and way more affordable technology the we are implementing of remote monitoring and eventually control and automation of all operations, both Hot Side, Cold Side and Storage. We also want to extend the software for management of Brewery QA & QC and Yeast Lab operations.

I'd love to discuss the project with whoever is interested, feel free to comment below :)

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

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Post by spoonie »

ben_hall wrote: post #26

https://ubrew.cc/ - an open brewery where you brew the beer

It's a U-brew store like they have in every small city, except a bit more modern and much more hip because it's under a railway arch in London. But all of the founders and employees are very nice and they are doing well. :)
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