I have been using the Gemini AI on my phone for beer brewing related questions. Have found it exceptionally useful and time saving. Its soooo much better than chatgpt when it first came out. You just talk to it and explain what you want and it researches it and it tells you answer as both voice and text. I have been asking Gemini stuff that I would normally post here and or google. Like I ask it “what are some good substitutions for german tradition hops” and bang I get the answer. Not typing involved.
Alexa is stupid, siri is OK, gemini is a few orders of magnitude better than siri.
I’ll assume that the idea of using your imagination is not up to the task? Brewing isn’t about instant gratification… it’s the hands on “try and see”. Then the process…
I was trying to sell my brew stuff a few years ago. I got an offer that was Pennies on the dollar. I denied that, then the question back to me was, “why would I pay that much when I can buy sumptin for a lot less”. I told the person, mine is a mini brewery, those “plug and play” ones take the human effect out and you only brew what they offer.
Just like music, only a sequence of notes… but with a soul, it becomes a story, not just a tune.
Have I gone too far? I enjoy the human aspect.
Sneezles
I would imagine that AI would be successful in something’s related to brewing. However, it lacks true experience and only works on theory. Reality is a whole different thing. Sure, you can use 5-10% honey malt in your beer. But my experience says you use 10% you’ll be sorry.
Yeah when I do a search the Gemini is the first result. I usually just scroll past . The answer seems dry and impersonal. Facts only which I guess for some may be enough. I prefer the human component
Here’s a perfect example of how AI doesn’t work in brewing. I’m currently imbibing one of my favorite beers, New Glarus Moon Man. And for some reason I casually googled what yeast it uses to see if there was any info out there. For anyone who knows NG is VERY VERY tight lipped on anything in regards to beer, and IMO Dan Carey dislikes homebrewers.
Here’s what it said:
New Glarus Moon Man utilizes San Diego Super Yeast (White Labs WLP090) for fermentation. This yeast strain is known for its clean fermentation profile, making it well-suited for producing a crisp, refreshing beer like Moon Man. The [recipe on Brewer’s Friend]…’
Now I have had this beer a thousand times and have actually brewed a beer in homage to it. I’ve made it with Chico strains as well as building up dregs from the beer itself. It is not even close to a Chico strain . Again, experience will show you the way
Probably the algorithm saw that a majority of recipes by who knows who and of what quality used that yeast then gave the description of the yeast from the producer. Maybe qualify the search to only search 5 star recipes by award winners or something like that and se what comes up
. Again, experience will show you the way