All about the Data Driven NEIPA

The first fully data driven beer is a reality. In a collaboration between Uiltje Brewing Company and Data Science Lab, the perfect – data driven – New England India Pale Ale has been developed.Would you like to taste the beer?
Would you like to taste this beer to see if this is indeed the perfect NEIPA beer for you? You can order the Data Driven NEIPA from the Uiltje Brewing Company website here.

How did the beer recipe come about?

Through web-scraping, characteristics are extracted from the taste descriptions of beer reviews. These characteristics are eventually reduced to different categories through coding. These include: beer style, average score, hop flavors and aromas, , bitterness, sweetness, caramel, fruit flavors, et cetera. From this, a data file is created after which a model is created to determine the perfect flavor combination. This is not about the highest scoring characteristic but entirely about balance. The results were shared with the brewers at Uiltje who were able to translate this into a recipe derived entirely from this data analysis. Using the right combinations and proportions makes this NEIPA next level.

Want to know more?

We wrote two blogs about the beer.

• The technique behind the New England IPA
• Brewing beer with AI

And check out the video where the experts speak.