AI assistant for home brewing | Šárka Liolia

The project focuses on creating an AI assistant for novice home brewers who face challenges related to the complexity of home brewing, the availability of understandable information, and experimenting with recipes. The target group is mainly beginners who want to start home brewing but don't know where to start, and those who already have basic experience and want to improve their recipes and processes.

The AI assistant serves as an interactive guide covering the entire home brewing process—from recommending and compiling recipes based on available ingredients and user preferences, to step-by-step brewing assistance, problem diagnosis (e.g., "the beer is too bitter" or "the beer is not fermenting"), to analyzing results and learning from the history of previous brews.

The main output of the project is the e-book "AI for Home Brewing in 10 Steps," which provides practical guidance on the use of AI tools in brewing, an AI assistant for analyzing and suggesting beer recipes implemented as Custom GPT, and a promotional video created using the latest AI tools. The project was validated by a survey in a Facebook group of home brewers (117 respondents), which confirmed the relevance of the problem.

Ethics: The project comprehensively addressed ethical aspects using Tarot Cards of Tech and identified two main groups of risks: 1) AI gives bad advice – risk of mistrust, ruined brews, and health problems, 2) Relationships within the community begin to disappear – risk of weakening the brewing community and dividing it into "AI users" vs. "AI opponents." Proposed measures include clear warnings about the limitations of AI, support for community communication, and a chapter entitled "What AI cannot do."

AI TOOLS USED IN THE PROJECT

1. ChatGPT (free and plus) – brainstorming, script writing, prompting for other tools, recipe analysis, creating a Custom GPT assistant
2. Claude 3.7 Sonnet – comparison with ChatGPT, testing different approaches
3. Perplexity + Deep Search – resource research, searching for PDF documents on brewing
4. NotebookLM – analysis of uploaded PDF sources, generation of audio overviews, answering questions
5. Napkin.ai – creation of infographics and data visualizations from recipe analysis
6. Venngage – creation of dashboards and graphs from xlsx data generated by ChatGPT
7. Midjourney – image generation for e-books, layout inspiration, background creation
8. Canva AI – attempt at automatic design, final editing, video editing
9. Sora – generating video sequences for promotional videos
10. Suno AI – creating background music for videos
11. ElevenLabs – generating voice-overs for videos
12. HeyGen – creating avatar videos with testimonials
13. Gamma.ai, Galileo.ai – attempts at automatic layout creation

OUTCOMES AND PROTOTYPES

• E-book: AI pro domovarnictvo v 10 krocích
• AI assistant for recipe analysis
• Promotional video
• Visualization and analysis (embedded graphs from NotebookLM, Napkin.ai, Venngage)
• Verification of the problem through a survey (117 respondents in a Facebook group of home brewers)
• Audio overview from NotebookLM (used to prepare for an English presentation)