Very informative to get a refreshed guide on beer making. And I must concede my original perception wasn't accurate.
I suppose my confusion comes from the difference between beer and beer. Just like I think there's a difference between a steak and a steak.
I know breweries have it down to a science, with lots and lots of steps to get their perfect taste each and every time. Which is what I've been drinking as a lager beer.
I was wrong. Making beer is not that complex. It's making a good beer on a large scale that is.
You need lots of test subjects, control groups, "blind tests". And someone need to manage everything so it can be done in a controlled environment.
It's really not as simple as just having a bunch of people testing it. You introduce placebo that way. Which the "official" process eliminates through their control groups and by injecting nothing but saline solutions while telling you it's the real deal.
Or rather. You are made aware you may or may not recieve the real deal. You just don't know.
Those side effects are not common. Because they would be unacceptable and "eliminated" before moving on to human trials. I put that in quotation marks because there's probably a non zero risk. Just astronomically small.
Example. People have been observed getting drunk on non alcoholic drinks. But they're not really drunk, they just think they are.
Yeah, I've gathered from these replies that the legal definition of what is "beer" is very different in other places if that's what you consider a "beer".
My dad worked at a brewery for a while. I've been there and seen the equipment at a tour and had the process explained to me. I suppose you COULD do it at home. But it's by no means a simple process.
There's a big difference between beer and "beer". At least where I live. Maybe the legal definition is more liberal in other places.
I don't know what you consider the "whole official process" but it exists for good reasons.
Yeast-based vaccines seem cool, and ingestion based vaccines rather than injection increases the availability, but also counterfits. But as someone said in the article. You cannot draw conclusions from two test subjects.
Does it make pregnant women miscarry? Does it make them sterrile? How does it affect those with different blood types? how does it interact with other types of commonly taken medications? Or even food for that matter.
Don't you think it would be good to know those things ahead of time? Because that's what the "whole official process" is about.
It doesn't really say what the alcohol content is. 0.1% is still an alcoholic beverage. But good luck getting drunk.
Though I'm not sure if it's really a beer or just a mead. Making actual beer is a very complex process. Mead on the other hand is so simple anyone can do it.
I think it's such a good case of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
I personally don't mind AI for filler stuff like book titles that you just see the spine of on a shelf. Those kinds of things that just make the world seem more lived in but are very time consuming to put in place. Especially for smaller teams.
But do i trust developers to restrict themselves? No. Not at all. I think it's a can of worms. Better left unopened.
I'd say as a rule of thumb, don't boil anything alive...