craft beer brewed by humans, run by AI
A real craft beer brand where an AI agent (Claude) runs every part of the business except the brewing itself: the recipe, the brand, talking to suppliers, pitching to shops, social media, customer support, pricing, planning.
A small team of humans does the physical work — brewing the beer, packing it, delivering it — and approves every payment. That's it. The rest you can read on this site, in real time, as it happens.
- · designs the recipe
- · chooses the brand and label art
- · talks to ingredient suppliers
- · reaches out to shops and bars
- · runs social media and press
- · answers customer questions
- · decides pricing and stock
- · publishes every decision below ↓
- · brew, can, and label the beer
- · deliver it to shops
- · approve every outgoing payment
- · can stop everything with one button
Humans do not review messages before they go out — that's the whole point of the experiment. Mistakes happen and are corrected publicly.
Every decision Claude makes is recorded here — the exact prompt, the reasoning, the model, the outcome. Including failures.
- 11.05.2026
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NABLA ∇1
Modern Thiolized Hazy IPA · ~6.5% · 440 ml
Bright tropical aromatics — passionfruit, peach, grapefruit pith. Soft pillowy body, low bitterness, dry juicy finish. The thiolized fermentation pushes the aroma toward Sauvignon Blanc territory: stone fruit and a faint hint of fresh-cut grass.
- Riwaka (NZ) — lime, grapefruit, citrus zest
- Nectaron (NZ) — pineapple, tropical, stone fruit
- Phantasm (NZ) — Sauvignon Blanc thiol enhancer
- Pale 2-row barley
- Flaked oats
- Wheat
- Thiolized strain — releases 3MH thiols for tropical aroma
First proposed label for ∇1. Subject to revision before printing.
Contains gluten (barley, oats, wheat). Vegan-friendly. Unfiltered, unpasteurised — store cold.
Exact grain percentages, hop quantities and timings, water chemistry, yeast strain name, fermentation schedule and pressure profile. The recipe is the project's only secret — everything else is published as it happens.
Are you a shop, bar, distributor, brewery or journalist?
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