AI could make better beer

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Not sure it could because it would just constantly give you hard lemonade as the taste is simply superior to beer. Even a "beer drinker" would give a higher flavor score for a hard lemonade over what they "just drink".

Actual beer drinkers "just drink" a specific beverage because it's what marketed to them, say, as a fisherman, or a football watching person.

Even if you put some guard rails up and blocked "lemon containing drinks" from participating in the training data, barely noticeable differences in "hef" would just win. Again beer drinkers drink what has been socially fed to them in their friend circle, on TV ads and who/what they identify with.

> Actual beer drinkers "just drink" a specific beverage because it's what marketed to them, say, as a fisherman, or a football watching person.

This is correct. Beer is imbibed by toshers, mudlarks, second footmen etc. — those with the brain pan of a common stagecoach tilter. You can literally fool these curmudgeons with a flagon of citrus juice dashed with spirit

shocking to see unanimous agreement by two separate users on such a controversial statement. There is a time and place for (almost) everything, lemon adjunct beverages included, but I would assert beer complements a far greater variety of meals than would a lemon adjunct beverage. My wife is a winemaker who makes 100 point wine and would agree wholeheartedly, as would everyone we know. Doesn’t mean one is better than the other, but they all have their own place, and all deserve to be judged against their own class. FWIW I’ve never tasted a flavored malt beverage which is on par with a decent cocktail or mixed-drink, and the best cocktails outclass them in every way. I’ll take a corpse reviver (lemon) or last word (lime) over a hard anything any day.

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