Software Tuning of Recipes for Beer Brewing System
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.
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 boiling flow path having a plurality of hops addition flow paths;
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 boiling schedule;
receiving a first user input to adjust a first flavor characteristic;
changing said first boiling schedule to a second boiling schedule and determining a second set of beer characteristics for said second boiling schedule;
storing said second boiling schedule as a second recipe for said computer controlled brewing system.
2 . The system of claim 1 , said first flavor characteristic being hoppiness.
3 . The system of claim 2 , when said first user input indicates increasing hoppiness, increasing a circulation time for hops as part of said second boiling schedule.
4 . The system of claim 2 , when said first user input indicates decreasing hoppiness, decreasing a circulation time for hops as part of said second boiling schedule.
5 . The system of claim 1 , said first flavor characteristic being hops bitterness.
6 . The system of claim 5 , when said first user input indicates increasing hops bitterness, increasing a circulation time for an initial hops addition as part of said second boiling schedule.
7 . The system of claim 5 , when said first user input indicates decreasing hops bitterness, decreasing a circulation time for an initial hops addition as part of said second boiling schedule.
8 . The system of claim 1 , said first flavor characteristic being hops flavor.
9 . The system of claim 8 , when said first user input indicates increasing hops flavor, increasing a circulation time for a midpoint hops addition as part of said second boiling schedule.
10 . The system of claim 8 , when said first user input indicates decreasing hops flavor, decreasing a circulation time for a midpoint hops addition as part of said second boiling schedule.
11 . The system of claim 1 , said first flavor characteristic being hops aroma.
12 . The system of claim 11 , when said first user input indicates increasing hops aroma, increasing a circulation time for an ending hops addition as part of said second boiling schedule.
13 . The system of claim 11 , when said first user input indicates decreasing hops flavor, decreasing a circulation time for an ending hops addition as part of said second boiling schedule.