Japanese brewery using generative AI to dream up new beverages With less than two weeks remaining in 2023, The Register thinks we've almost reached the point at which we can prove Nothing Is Safe From AI – thanks to an announcement that Japan's Kirin Holdings, purveyor of many fine beers, has enlisted a binary brainbox to brew ideas for new products. The announcement explains that the …
Why keep messing with a perfectly good drink???? Have they not heard of the Reinheitsgebot??
Already seen these out in the wild:
* strawberry milkshake flavoured beer
* bubblegum flavoured cider
* sour pineapple flavoured beer
The last one was accidentally served to me in a pub. It tasted like an off pint.
It's going to be a while before AI can top those ones.
>>Porridge flavoured beer
Been around for donkey's years in the form of oatmeal stout/porter (yes, they are two different styles of beer & no I don't care, at least in this context).
I imagine vanilla in Guinness (Custardy Guinness in your list) wouldn't be too much of a crime against your taste buds... still pretty shocking if you weren't expecting it though!
Many years ago I was told (so this might not be true, but it was my Dad who told me, and he'd just done some consulting work for Guinness) that in some African countries Guinness was usually mixed with condensed milk to make a sweeter and more dense drink. Guinness made a special variant to suit this market - small bottles of very alcoholic Guinness (9% I think). There must be some truth in this because I have drunk one of those bottles of super-Guinness (without condensed milk). It was good, but sadly not available in the UK.
This should kick LLMs right off of their pathetic genAI pedestal, especially on college campuses where text-to-text AI is so boring! Yes, let's have the AI do the text-to-booze part for us, and then let us do the booze-to-text part on our own! The joy of homework assignments and essay compositions will never be the same again!
The Diceman (sequel) did this decades ago, but in the world of automotive engineering rather than beer.
(TL:DR Spoiler alert - He chose to swap his counter-culture no-responsibility ideals for big money, and designed a randomised computer system that generated millions of unusual tweaks to existing car designs, providing the inspirational seed for breakthroughs that would never have been considered otherwise)
I thought Cava was also made by the champagne method. It's prosecco that isn't.
On the other hand I was once given a Christmas present of a bottle of fizzy vodka. In a champagne style bottle. We opened it for New Years (my friends didn't like champagne). Before the chimes had finished striking we were already reaching for the orange juice. Even that made it only barely palatable. So three of us moved to the whisky. While one person chugged on, and then covered their toilet in fizzy orange vomit. Happy New Year!
>>Or I once had a fizzy herbal garlic drink in Austria
Now that really IS taking one for the team... well done, sir, well done. Chapeau indeed. I am usually comkpelled to drink weird things but I am inordinately glad that I won't have to drink that now.
Beer to wash away the memories... ---->
Now that really IS taking one for the team...
Well you know how it is. I've never seen that before. I should try it. How bad can it be?
Oh those fatal words! That time I ordered a 13 course meal with sashimi in a Japanese restaurant - where everything was in Japanese. Actually the food was exquisite. Except for the raw prawns. Which I didn't know were even safe to eat. But in for a penny... They were truly horrible. Didn't get food poisoning though, so I guess they are safe. Just not good. Raw fish - yum! Raw prawns - ugh! I've still not faced raw oysters yet - so maybe there's something worse to come?
Oh, and I once drank Sunny Delight. But that was a mistake. I saw the picture of the orange, and thought I was getting orange juice. That was far worse than the garlic stuff. Probably on a par with the fizzy vodka. Perhaps mixing the two would work?
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