Software Tuning of Recipes for Beer Brewing System

摘要

A beer making system may modify a beer ingredient/process recipe to adjust sensory characteristics of a desired beer. With a given ingredient list and starting recipe, a performance model of a brewing system may be used to generate an updated recipe when given a set of desired sensory characteristics of a desired beer. A user interface may permit a user to adjust characteristics such as thin/thick mouthfeel, dryness/maltiness, hops bitterness, hops flavor, hops aroma, and other characteristics. An updated recipe may change mashing schedules, boiling schedules, or other programmatically controlled aspects of a brewing system. The performance model may include heuristics as well as performance metrics derived from observing previous brewing sessions on one or multiple devices.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a hardware platform comprising a computer processor; a control system executing on said hardware platform configured to:
receive a performance model of a computer controlled brewing system, said computer controlled brewing system having a recirculating infusion mash flow path;determine a first recipe, said first recipe having a first set of ingredients and a first mashing schedule;determine a first set of beer characteristics for said first recipe, said first set of beer characteristics being based on a first mashing schedule;receiving a first user input to adjust a first flavor characteristic;changing said first mashing schedule to a second mashing schedule and determining a second set of beer characteristics for said second mashing schedule;storing said second mashing schedule as a second recipe for said computer controlled brewing system.