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by: KTownTexican Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 22, '14 6:20am  
Next Glass app makes wine and beer selection a snap Mike Snider, USA TODAY 10:45 a.m. CST November 20, 2014The Next Glass app is used to scan wine and beer for ratings and information.(Photo: Next Glass)CONNECT 59 TWEET 50 LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMOREA bad wine recommendation led to the creation of Next Glass, a new app that predicts whether that next wine or beer you buy will taste good to you.The free app, out Thursday for Android and iOS, learns your taste profile as you rate wines and beers. Then when you shop, you can use the app to scan new bottles that you might want to buy. Next Glass displays ratings for you and friends who use the app. You also get a calorie count.After you download the app, you rate some wines or beers that you like and dislike. The app will use that to compare to its "Genomic Cellar," a growing database of more than 23,000 bottles of wine and beer. Each one is analyzed at the molecular level to create a taste DNA.When you use the app to scan a wine or beer label, the app predicts your compatibility within 96% accuracy, Next Glass' founders say."The more you rate, the more we learn about you," said Next Glass CEO Kurt Taylor. "We look through chemistry of the beers and wines you have given us your preference on and we are able to find correlations and trends within your profile to figure out what is driving your enjoyment of those bottles. Then, we can look through our database and score out each of those to let you know if you are going to like them or not."During a dinner two and a half years ago, Taylor, who at the time was an an investment analyst, and the rest of the table were having trouble selecting a wine. Their waiter suggested a bottle, they tried it and "none of us really liked the wine at all," he says."At that point, we were trying to figure out what happened. What we realized is there is no universal language for describing taste," Taylor said. "That is where the whole idea came up that if we could define how wine and beer objectively taste, then we could provide great recommendations and help people learn to discover all sorts of new things."About a year of lab testing and software development, he and co-founder and chief operating officer Trace Smith felt comfortable with the process. They raised some capital, tweaked the software and began cataloging wines and beers."Our goal with Next Glass is to make beer and wine fun, accessible and a little less intimidating for your average novice beer and wine drinker," Smith says.A photo illustration showing how the Next Glass app is used to scan a beer bottle for ratings and information.(Photo: Next Glass)But Next Glass also hopes to build a business by helping local retailers, restaurants and breweries better satisfy their customers. Next Glass can not only let them know what wines and beers consumers like the most, but also pass along to consumers when a brewery, winery, restaurant or retailer adds a new beverage that might appeal to a Next Glass user."This whole notion of marketing based on taste is a big component of what we are doing," Taylor said. 4951
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dmartin529 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 9 years ago   Nov 22, '14 9:03am  
I'm sitting here playing with it now.  Downloaded it after I saw your post. 4951
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