First Beer Name Generated By Artificial Intelligence

First Beer Name Generated By Artificial Intelligence

|October 10th, 2017|

With more than 5,600 breweries currently operating in the US, coming up with unique names for all the beers they’re crafting has become increasingly difficult.But now in 2017, artificial intellegence is coming to the rescue.

 We recently reported on how one researcher, Janelle Shane, had decided to shop out the job of beer naming to an ‘artificial intelligence’ network with interesting results.

Shane, an engaging industrial research scientist, compiled a dataset of hundreds of thousands of beer names, encompassing 90 different beer styles which a friend was able to secure from BeerAdvocate.

She then plugged the info into a neural network program to see what it would come up with, and the results were as random as they were sometimes hilarious (Borb IPA anyone? How about Red Suck Mas Saison?).

Shane’s story quickly became its own internet phenomenon, and like many, we wondered if a brewery would ever end up using a neural network created beer name going forward.

And now it appears that a Michigan brewery has…

According to Gizmodo, Shane has announced that Williamston, Michigan’s Old Nation Brewing has actually named a new beer with the help of her neural network.

The beer’s name, The Fine Stranger, was crafted with input from the brewery (who had been struggling to come up with an original name up for a hazy Saison they’d brewed) and Shane’s program set at an even higher creative level (we’re thinking 11).

Billed as a “blend of New World and Old,” Old Nation’s The Fine Stranger is a hoppy (and hazy) 6.7% ABV Saison and the very first beer EVER named by a neural network.

 

 

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