Beautiful Future: How Deschutes Uses Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to Brew Better Beer

Ask any brewer and they'll admit that while beer has likely been around since the dawn of civilization, we're all still learning new ways to brew it more efficiently, creatively, and quickly. But balancing the brewer's art with modern approaches to automation, measurement, and decision making requires brewers to toe a fine line. Take the personality out of the process, and you sacrifice the "craft" in craft beer. Ignore the best tools available, and you waste precious resources that could be better spent on the creative side of the brewing equation. From their outpost on the eastern edge of the Cascades in Bend, Oregon, Deschutes Brewery has tackled this problem in a forward-thinking way, embracing their brew team's passion for tech and programming. Through their operational technology team, they're using a cutting-edge approach to brewing technology aimed at saving time and money, making higher-quality beer, and in turn freeing up company resources for an aggressive innovation program.