Beverage-AI Radar: all 879 tracked companies

ABE Beverage Equipment (American Beer Equipment)

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active abeequipment.com

brewhouse assisted brewing automation

ABE Beverage Equipment, formerly American Beer Equipment and a division of Norland International, builds brewhouses, fermentation, grain handling and canning lines for craft breweries. Its named control offering is the Brewhouse Automation Plus assisted brewing package, standard on new brewhouses, which automates liquor blending, vorlauf and wort grant, sparge control, lauter to kettle and whirlpool transfers, knockout to fermenter at a regulated pitch temperature, and liquor tank management with volumetric auto-stop and remote viewing and control. BrewPilot is its entry-level system for nano and brewpub scale. ABE deliberately uses off-the-shelf automation components and makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://abeequipment.com/products/brewhouses/assisted-brewing/
• https://vigoltd.com/products/brewpilot-from-abe-beverage-equipment

Aber Instruments

beer · United Kingdom · Process & operations · none · active aberinstruments.com

inline yeast biomass measurement for pitching control

Aber Instruments makes radio frequency impedance biomass sensors that measure live yeast concentration inline during pitching and cropping, sold to breweries as the COMPACT inline system, the portable Perfect Pitch unit and the Countstar image analysis cell counter. It is a measurement and control vendor, not an analytics vendor: the site makes no machine learning or predictive claim, and the value proposition is replacing offline cell counts with a direct live-cell signal. The company is employee owned and names Heineken, SABMiller, AB InBev, Royal Unibrew, Meantime, Marble and Summit among its brewing users.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.aberinstruments.com/
• https://www.aberinstruments.com/applications/brewing/

Abstrax Tech

beer · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active abstraxtech.com

analytical aroma fingerprinting of hop varieties

Abstrax Tech is a flavour and aroma chemistry company that launched an Abstrax Hops division supplying TTB approved hop derived natural flavours, dry hopping aids and hop extracts to brewers. Its technical claim is analytical, not computational: Terplytics and what it calls a 3D Metabolite Fingerprint, a per varietal record of naturally occurring terpene and aroma compounds built from GC analysis of fresh and kilned hops, plus molecular distillation and emulsion technology. It sells a product line branded AI Terp Effects, but no substantive machine learning method, training data or model is described anywhere for it, and the supporting study used a 30 person human sensory panel. Treat the AI here as a product name.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://abstraxtech.com/blogs/press-releases/abstrax-launches-hops-division-to-supply-innovative-ttb-approved-natural-hop-flavors-100-hop-derived-and-cannabis-inspired-dank-flavors-to-global-beer-and-beyond-beer
• https://abstraxtech.com/blogs/press-releases/abstrax-tech-announces-groundbreaking-3d-metabolite-fingerprinting-technology

Agaram InfoTech (AgES Brewery ERP)

beer · India · Other · none · active agaraminfotech.com

Agaram InfoTech is a Chennai ERP and IT solutions company whose AgES Brewery ERP is a purpose-built brewery management system for the Indian market, one of very few Indian-domiciled brewery ERP vendors. Modules cover material management, brewing, fermentation, bright beer tracking, production planning, quality control, sales and distribution and plant maintenance, with automated excise duty calculation, batch traceability and keg tracking as the local differentiators. It is sold to craft breweries, contract brewers and regional operations, and the company claims over 100 clients across its product range. It makes no AI claim: the product offers real-time dashboards and production reporting only.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.agaraminfotech.com/about-us
• https://www.agaraminfotech.com/brewery-management-software

Amanda Dobbyn

beer · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

Built a public clustering and classification analysis of 45,000-plus beers to test whether beer styles hold up statistically, a well-known beer data science project.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://aedobbyn.github.io/beer-data-science/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-dobbyn/

Anderson-Negele (Negele Messtechnik GmbH)

beer · Germany · Process & operations · none · active anderson-negele.com

none claimed, hygienic process instrumentation

Anderson-Negele makes hygienic process instrumentation for dairy, food, beverage, pharma and life sciences, under a Hygienic by Design philosophy aligned to EHEDG, FDA and 3-A standards. Its sensors for temperature, level, flow, pressure, conductivity and turbidity are the measurement layer feeding brewery and beverage plant control systems, and the German entity Negele Messtechnik exhibits at BrauBeviale. It is a sensor vendor: the site makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.anderson-negele.com
• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

Anheuser-Busch InBev

beer · Belgium · Quality & inspection · shipping · active ab-inbev.com

quality control / computer vision

AB InBev applied machine learning (Google TensorFlow, via Pluto7) to filtration sensor data at its Newark brewery, increasing barrelage per filter run by about 60 percent while stabilizing beer taste. Its Beck's brand also released Autonomous, a beer with a recipe and branding generated by AI. Its current flagship digital asset is BEES, a proprietary B2B platform that has digitized its relationship with millions of retailers worldwide and is now offered to partners; AB InBev states no AI or machine-learning claim for BEES itself, so it is recorded here as digitization and route-to-market data, not as an AI product.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://cloud.google.com/customers/abinbev-pluto7
• https://www.ab-inbev.com/about-us/what-we-do/innovation
• https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/03/ab-inbev-launches-ai-beer-named-becks-autonomous/

Anton van den Hengel

beer · Australia · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active

applied machine learning for beverage recipe and consumer feedback modelling

Computer vision and machine learning professor, founding director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, listed as Director Applied AI on Deep Liquid's team page. Deep Liquid's model was trained on over 200,000 beer recipes with input from Barossa Valley Brewing.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/news/list/2025/03/19/deep-liquid-democratising-ai-one-beverage-at-a-time
• https://www.deepliquid.ai/

Aquacycl

beer · United States · Other · none · active aquacycl.com

remote real time control of modular wastewater reactors

Aquacycl treats ultra high strength food and beverage wastewater at source with BETT, a modular bioelectrochemical reactor using electrochemically active bacteria, avoiding dilution and cutting sludge. Every reactor is remotely monitored and controlled in real time from Aquacycl, which removes the need for a full time onsite operator, and probe data is used to read microbial colony health. Its own brewery case study documents 99 percent BOD and 85 percent TSS removal at Joshua Tree Brewery, and PepsiCo is named on the site; the company has also worked through AB InBev's 100+ Accelerator. No machine learning claim is made: this is instrumented process control, not modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://aquacycl.com/
• https://aquacycl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MBAA-TQ-Sustainable-Approach-to-Brewery-Wastewater.pdf

Arryved

beer · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active arryved.com

taproom/point-of-sale data & analytics for craft beverage operators

Arryved is a point-of-sale and operations platform built specifically for craft beverage businesses such as breweries, taprooms, cideries and distilleries. It unifies service, online ordering, production, payments and reporting into a single data model that delivers real-time, brewery-specific analytics. Its aggregate POS dataset spans more than 2,000 taprooms and is used, with the Brewers Association, to analyze industry taproom sales trends.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://arryved.com/platform/arryved-overview/
• https://arryved.com/products/brewery-management/
• https://www.arryved.com/products/

Asahi Group Holdings

beer · Japan · Supply chain · pilot · active asahigroup-holdings.com

supply chain production planning and packaging design generation

Top-five global brewer whose AI work is documented on its Japanese site but not its English one. With IBM Japan it built an AI system for production adjustment at Asahi Soft Drinks: a September 2018 proof of concept beat human judgement on accuracy and identified roughly 200 million yen of potential cost reduction through lower long-term inventory, test operation began in January 2019 across all Asahi Soft Drinks plants and contract plants, and the company stated an intent to extend AI across procurement, production and logistics. In March 2020 it announced an AI Creator System for packaging design, pairing a deep learning generation model trained on about 3,000 trend images with an evaluation model scored by about 300 creators, with trial operation from April 2020. Its Czech subsidiary Plzensky Prazdroj leads the separately tracked forHops hop-growing platform with Microsoft and Tenso AI, though the predictive models there are Tenso AI's. Graded pilot rather than shipping because the newest first-party evidence of production use is 2020.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.asahigroup-holdings.com/newsroom/detail/20190313-0103.html
• https://www.asahigroup-holdings.com/newsroom/detail/20200309-0101.html
• https://www.tensoai.com/post/how-tensoai-asahi-and-microsoft-are-transforming-hop-farming-through-the-forhops-project

Augury

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active augury.com

predictive machine health on brewery packaging lines

Augury sells continuous machine-health monitoring: wireless vibration, temperature and magnetic sensors on rotating equipment feeding ML diagnostic models that classify developing faults and prescribe repairs. Heineken is named as a customer on Augury's own beverage industry page, and Augury publishes a brewery case where an alert on a filler and seamer malfunction avoided the loss of roughly 960,000 cans of beer and eight-plus hours of line downtime, plus a Top 10 global brewing company quoted on servo motor defects. This is genuine supervised ML on sensor signals, not marketing framing, though it is asset reliability rather than anything about the beer recipe or fermentation itself.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• http://www.augury.com/blog/machine-health/save-the-beer-save-the-day-utilizing-machine-health-in-the-beverage-industry/
• http://www.augury.com/industries/beverage

B-Cart

beer · Australia · Process & operations · none · active b-cart.com.au

brewery wholesale ordering portal, no ai claim

B-Cart Technology Pty Limited is an Australian B2B wholesale ordering platform that markets a dedicated edition to craft breweries, replacing keg and case orders taken by phone, text and email with a branded self-service portal. Each venue logs in to its own catalogue and its own negotiated pricing, orders land in a single fulfilment dashboard with PDF invoices and packing slips, and delivery run cutoffs and free freight thresholds are configurable per customer. Orders, invoices, customers and products sync both ways with Xero and MYOB, with QuickBooks, Unleashed, MYOB Acumatica, Stripe and a public API alongside them; Shopify, GoCardless, Dynamics 365 Business Central and a sales rep module are listed as coming. Registered as an Australian private company with an ABN active from 30 June 2021 and a main business location in NSW postcode 2515, built and supported from the east coast of Australia. Checked in full across the brewery, overview and about pages: the site makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim anywhere, and a reporting and insights module is still marked Soon. It is wholesale order automation and accounting sync, tracked here as brewery commercial software rather than as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-09-01.

• https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=91651520802
• https://www.b-cart.com.au/about
• https://www.b-cart.com.au/breweries

BBULL Technology GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · none · active bbull.com

none claimed, inspection and track and trace on beverage packaging lines

BBULL Technology supplies inspection and rejection equipment plus a track and trace system for beverage packaging lines, covering glass bottles, beverage cans, one-way and refillable PET bottles, food cans, jars and cups. The track and trace product is the data-relevant part of the range: serialised code application and reading across the line for quality and conformity records. The company is part of the BBULL group, which also includes BBULL Computer. It makes no AI or machine learning claim. Exhibited at BrauBeviale and drinktec.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.bbull.com
• https://www.bbull.com/en/about-bbull-technology/about-us/
• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

BEERSOFT

beer · Canada · Process & operations · shipping · active beersoft.ca

brewery customer service and operations agents

BEERSOFT builds custom AI and agent implementations specifically for breweries, taprooms, brewpubs and beverage brands across the US and Canada. Products include RAG systems grounded in brewery documents such as menus and policies, customer service chatbots answering taproom hours, beer availability, events and reservations, and autonomous agents that process reservations and generate reports. It integrates with brewery systems including Square, Toast and Ekos. AWS Bedrock is one of the named deployment platforms alongside OpenAI API, LangChain and Azure AI, chosen for VPC integration and enterprise security. Offices listed in Fredericton, Saint John and North Vancouver.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/
• https://www.beersoft.ca/ai-solutions/ai-and-agent-solutions

Bar Analytics

beer · United Kingdom · Quality & inspection · shipping · active baranalytics.co.uk

beer sales and quality analytics with AI insights

Bar Analytics runs a beer analytics platform that provides real-time sales and quality data with AI insights on beer performance globally.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.baranalytics.co.uk/
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Bar.on

beer · Belgium · Sensory & recipe · pilot · active baron.bar

flavour compound modelling for on demand beer formulation

Bar.on built the One Tap, a molecular beer dispenser that constructs blond, brown, IPA, tripel and non alcoholic styles in seconds by combining flavour compounds with tap water, with alcohol level, bitterness, fruitiness, sweetness and spice adjustable per pour. The formulation work is built on the flavour compound dataset assembled over a decade by professor Kevin Verstrepen's VIB and KU Leuven lab, the same body of work behind the published Belgian beer flavour prediction models. Bar.on itself markets the dispenser and personalisation rather than a machine learning product, so treat the AI here as upstream research rather than a shipped model. Founded by CEO Dirk Standaert and CPO Valentijn Destoop, raised EUR 1.8 million seed in 2022.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://baron.bar/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-one-tap-uses-highly-innovative-molecular-recipes-and-dispensing-technology-to-combine-flavour-compounds-and-create-beer-that-caters-to-all-tastes-starting-with-water-from-the-tap-301788386.html

BarTrack

beer · unknown · Quality & inspection · shipping · dormant

quality control / computer vision

Draft beverage management company whose non-intrusive sensors and analytics platform track a dozen variables such as flow, temperature, pressure and line cleanliness to optimize draft beer quality and inventory.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2022-04-28.

• https://www.brewbound.com/news/bartrack-inc-completes-10-5-million-equity-financing/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bartrack
• https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/04/28/2431548/0/en/beverage-technology-and-inventory-management-company-bartrack-inc-completes-10-5-million-equity-financing.html

Bart Watson

beer · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

PhD economist who built the Brewers Association's craft beer production, sales, and market intelligence data program and was long the public face of US beer industry statistics.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://www.brewersassociation.org/association-news/bart-watson-named-president-and-chief-executive-officer-of-the-brewers-association/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-watson/

BarthHaas

beer · Germany · Other · none · active barthhaas.com

no substantiated ai claim

BarthHaas is the world's largest hop merchant and processor, founded in Nuremberg in 1794, supplying pellets, extracts and advanced hop products to brewers and running the BarthHaas Academy and the annual BarthHaas Report. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its public site. Its quality pages describe traceability, HACCP and ISO certification and residue analysis, and its hop variety and product pages are catalogue material, with no predictive model, sensory model or genomic breeding claim. Included because it is the largest single node in the hop supply chain and its lack of any public AI claim is itself a fact about the beverage data landscape.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.barthhaas.com/company/history
• https://www.barthhaas.com/hops-and-products/quality

Beer Institute

beer · United States · Compliance & licensing · active beerinstitute.org

us beer shipment and taxable removals statistics

The Beer Institute is the US national trade association for brewers, importers and supplier industries, and is the reference publisher of Key Beer Industry Statistics including monthly domestic taxable removals, import and export volumes, packaging mix and non-alcohol beer growth trends. Its estimates are the standard denominator that brewers and analysts use to size the US beer market alongside NIQ and Circana scanner data. It makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.beerinstitute.org/
• https://www.beerinstitute.org/data-economic/economic-impact/

Beer Marketer's Insights

beer · United States · Other · none · active beerinsights.com

no substantiated ai claim

Beer Marketer's Insights is the leading independent trade publisher of US beer market data, running for over 50 years on subscriber funding with no advertising. It publishes five subscription newsletters including the flagship Beer Marketer's INSIGHTS, Craft Brew News, Alcohol Issues Insights and Beverage Business Insights, plus the annual Beer Industry Update and two conferences a year. Its reporting reads shipment data from the Beer Institute and tracked off-premise scan channels, so it is a primary interpretation layer sitting on top of the syndicated measurement vendors. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; this is human analyst journalism over industry data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• http://www.beerinsights.com/
• https://beerinsights.com/about-us

BeerMenus

beer · unknown · GenAI & marketing · none · active beermenus.com

none claimed; beer availability catalogue and on premise menu marketing

BeerMenus, Inc. runs a consumer beer discovery service and a business product for bars, restaurants, bottle shops and breweries, comprising listed venue pages, digital TV tap menus and automatically generated print menus. The company reports 57,127 listed places, 449,021 catalogued beers and an audience of more than 7.3 million beer drinkers, which makes it one of the larger public catalogues of what beer is actually available where in the United States. It is route to market marketing infrastructure rather than an analytics vendor, and it makes no AI or machine learning claim. Headquarters and founding year are not published on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beermenus-find-great-beer/id917882057
• https://www.beermenus.com/

BeerRun (SWK Technologies)

beer · United States · Other · none · active beerrun.com

BeerRun is brewery management software for craft brewers, owned and sold by SWK Technologies, a US accounting and ERP reseller. It handles production logging with batch numbers, crew, date and tank capacity, a fermentation Gantt chart that reflows as batches move, and scheduling of future batches that are not committed until they hit the mash tun. It integrates with the brewery's accounting system so the reorder point is driven by projected brews against ingredients on hand rather than a static threshold, and it targets microbreweries in roughly the 1,000 to 50,000 barrel range. It has been on the market since at least 2013. The forecasting is deterministic projection arithmetic against planned batches, not machine learning, and no AI claim is made. Note that beerrun.com is a JavaScript single page app serving no crawlable text, so the product detail was verified on the owning vendor's own site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.beerrun.com/
• https://www.swktech.com/what-is-beerrun/

BeerSmith

beer · unknown · Other · none · active beersmith.com

none

BeerSmith is long running recipe formulation and brew session software for beer, mead, wine and cider, sold as BeerSmith 4 for Mac, PC and Linux plus a web version. It is aimed at home and small craft brewers and covers recipe design, ingredient and equipment profiles, mash and water calculations and brew day timers, with a companion Beer Recipe Cloud community recipe site at beersmithrecipes.com. The calculations are deterministic brewing formulas; the product makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://beersmith.com/
• https://beersmithrecipes.com/

Beerhive

beer · Belgium · Sensory & recipe · none · active beerhive.com

sensory data mining and beer recommendation

Beerhive, operated by Belgian company imkr BV in Leuven, runs a community beer tasting platform that scores beers against about 125 sensory flavour parameters rather than style categories, with roughly 10,600 beers and 2,170 breweries catalogued. It sells the resulting sensory data back to brewers as consumer perception insight, and offers venues a personalised digital beer advisor. The company describes itself as sensory data mining and offers preference based recommendations, but publishes no explicit machine learning claim and does not describe the underlying method. Founded by zythologists Jan Paesen and Wim De Bruycker and part of the Start it @KBC accelerator.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/beerhive-this-belgium-app-will-suggest-a-beer-for-you-based-on-your-personality/
• https://www.beerhive.com/

Bertsch Holding

beer · Austria · Process & operations · none · active bertsch.at

no ai claim; brewhouse and process plant engineering

Bertsch Holding is an Austrian industrial group in Bludenz, Vorarlberg, founded in 1925, whose BERTSCHfoodtec division builds process plant and brewhouse systems for the food and beverage industry alongside energy and apparatus engineering. Verified via a browser pass after the site returned 403 to every non-browser client. No digital, control-software or machine-learning product is claimed on its public site; recorded as the plant engineering layer.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertsch_Holding
• https://www.bertsch.at/

BevTrack (Taps + Tables)

beer · United States · Demand & pricing · active bevtrack.net

none, brewery field sales crm

BevTrack is brewery sales and distribution tracking software from Taps + Tables, a web firm operating out of Charleston and Nashville. Reps log account visits in about 30 seconds, record orders, plan routes and report against manually set targets across self distribution and wholesaler markets. Pricing starts at 95 dollars a month. The site makes no AI or predictive claim, so it is plain field sales data capture and reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://bevtrack.net/
• https://sourceforge.net/software/brewery/

Bevchek

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active bevchek.com

draft beverage flow telemetry and pour-to-sale variance reconciliation

Bevchek sells flow sensors and a cloud platform that meter every ounce of draft beer, wine and cocktail poured in bars, taprooms, stadiums and chain venues, then reconcile pour data against POS sales nightly to expose variance, overpour and waste. It integrates with over 150 POS systems including Oracle MICROS, and adds temperature, pressure and foam alerts plus live keg depletion tracking. The company states it has metered over 17 billion pints across 21 countries. Bevchek makes no machine-learning claim on its own site: the product is sensor telemetry plus rule-based reconciliation and alerting, and the word AI appears only in a partner press release headline, not in any described capability.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-07-19.

• https://bevchek.com/about/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/perlick-and-bevchek-partner-to-create-the-next-generation-of-draft-beverage-dispensing-through-game-changing-ai-bar-technology-302181874.html

BeveragePro AI

beer · unknown · Process & operations · pilot · active beverageproai.com

AIoT monitoring of brewhouse, fermentation and keg assets

AIoT platform for beverage production plants covering brewhouse processing, fermentation management, blending, filtration, filling, canning, packaging and distribution. Breweries are the lead named segment, alongside soft drinks, water, juice, dairy and RTD, but not wine or spirits. The bulk of what is described is sensing rather than modelling: RFID and BLE for workforce and asset location, industrial sensors for fermentation temperature, tank level and humidity, GPS for tankers, over LoRaWAN and cellular. AI is claimed only in general terms as predictive analytics and AI forecasting models for consumption rates and equipment failure patterns, with no model detail given. Developed inside Aperture Venture Studio with support from GAO.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://beverageproai.com/
• https://beverageproai.com/breweries

BinaryBeer

beer · Australia · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active binarybeer.io

smart keg supply chain insights

BinaryBeer builds KegLink, a low power IoT device that turns a keg into a tracked container reporting location, temperature and beer freshness, plus the Binary Cloud platform that brewers use for fleet maps, alerts and reporting. The company states the platform is "powered by machine learning and AI-driven algorithms" that "continuously refine its insights" for fleet activity and supply chain optimisation, though it does not name the models or specific predictions. Asahi Europe and International selected BinaryBeer for an international smart keg deployment, and the product is also sold in North America through a partnership with Kegshoe.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://binarybeer.io/solution/platform/
• https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/news/kegshoe-and-binary-beer-bring-new-keg-tracking-analytics-tech-to-north-america/

Bira 91 (B9 Beverages)

beer · India · Demand & pricing · pilot · dormant bira91.com

AI/ML digital core + data-lake analytics for demand and decisioning

Indian premium beer brand. In July 2023 Bira 91 partnered with Accenture to build a cloud digital core on SAP S/4HANA integrating its data lake with 'artificial intelligence and machine learning' plus intelligent search/analytics, to drive demand responsiveness and data-driven decision-making across its supply chain and operations.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2023-07-18.

• https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2023/bira-91-collaborates-with-accenture-to-accelerate-enterprise-reinvention-journey
• https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/accenture-to-transform-beer-company-bira91-s-technology-platform-123071800250_1.html

Block One Automation

beer · United States · Other · shipping · active blockone.com

warehouse execution orchestration for beverage dsd

Block One Automation sells a modular warehouse execution system called Pallet Factory built specifically for direct store delivery beverage distributors, combining a RoboArm palletizer, autonomous case-handling robots and very narrow aisle robotic forklifts, ERP integrated. Its own site markets the orchestration layer as smart AI software that makes real-time decisions, reroutes around issues and self-corrects exceptions such as a damaged case or a location mismatch. No model, training data or technique is named anywhere on the site, so the AI claim is marketing level rather than substantiated. Named beer distributor installations include Clark Distributing, Del Papa Distributing and King Beverage. Presented at the 2026 NBWA BIECC Innovation Showcase.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://blockone.com/
• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/

BrauKon

beer · Germany · Sensory & recipe · none · active braukon.de

brewhouse process automation and recipe control

BrauKon is a Bavarian brewhouse and brewery plant OEM serving craft and mid-size breweries. It ships two named control products: BrauControl, a full brewery process automation system covering malt intake through to bright beer tank and CIP, with 60 recipe positions of 30 steps each, weekly brew scheduling, a brewing log and remote maintenance over a network connection, built almost entirely on Siemens components; and BrauKon TControl for brewhouse steps such as mashing, lautering and wort boiling, also available with remote maintenance. BrauControl includes self-optimising fuzzy logic lautering control that adjusts rake height, pump speed and sparging, which is classical control engineering and not machine learning. BrauKon makes no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://braukon.de/en/produkt/braukon-braucontrol-en/
• https://braukon.de/en/produkt/braukon-tcontrol-en/

Brew Ninja

beer · Canada · Demand & pricing · none · active brewninja.net

brewery production, sales and keg management system of record

Canadian brewery management software covering production scheduling, inventory, sales and distribution, keg tracking, compliance and payments, with QuickBooks Online and Square integrations. Named brewery customers include Rebellion Brewing, Pile O Bones Brewing and Split Rail Brewing. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site and is a straight system of record. It is included because it is the integration partner that feeds production data into Grist Analytics, so it matters to the beer data landscape.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://get.brewninja.net/grist-partnership
• https://www.brewninja.net/

BrewLedger

beer · United States · Other · active getbrewledger.com

none, brewery operations ledger

BrewLedger is a mobile first brewery operations platform built around an immutable, append only inventory ledger, covering production, inventory, TTB compliance and taproom workflows with QuickBooks integration at a flat monthly price. It was founded in 2025 by John Jusko under the StoreGuard LLC holding company in Ohio, and also publishes an MIT licensed self hosted version. The company makes no AI claim; its own 2026 comparison article notes that none of the six brewery platforms it compares advertise AI.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://getbrewledger.com/blog/brewery-management-software-comparison-2026
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brewledger

BrewMan by Premier Systems

beer · United Kingdom · Other · active premiersystems.com

Premier Systems sells BrewMan, a cloud brewery and distillery management system used by over 300 producers globally, covering production and fluid movements, raw material traceability, cask and container tracking, dray planning and distribution, CRM, inventory and automatic UK alcohol duty calculation with audit reports. Variants are marketed for distilleries and wineries as well as breweries. The product is a system of record: nothing on the vendor site claims machine learning, and the only forward-looking feature is a rules-based forecast of stock required for upcoming production.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/brewman-premier-systems/
• https://www.premiersystems.com/

BrewTraq

beer · unknown · Other · none · active brewtraq.com

keg fleet tracking and delivery route optimisation

BrewTraq is a four-module brewery suite whose core product, Logistics, is keg tracking and delivery software for breweries and distributors. It covers barcode and QR keg scanning with full event history, multi-stop route building with vehicle compatibility checks and a mobile driver view, automatic deposit reconciliation, dwell tracking with account health scores, and reporting that includes demand forecasting, driver performance scorecards and seasonal demand patterns on the top tier. Pricing is public and starts at 79 US dollars a month. The site makes no machine learning claim: the forecasting and scoring features are described as reporting, not as models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.brewtraq.com/logistics
• https://www.brewtraq.com/pricing

BrewerSync

beer · Netherlands · Other · none · active brewersync.com

BrewerSync is a Dutch-built all-in-one management platform for craft breweries, sold on a freemium model with paid tiers at 49 and 99 euros per month. It handles orders and customer CRM, production and batch tracking, keg and cask tracking, delivery route planning, quality control logging, a customer self-service ordering portal, Moneybird accounting integration and Dutch excise duty filing. The site makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is a system of record with EU data hosting and GDPR positioning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://brewersync.com/
• https://brewersync.com/pricing

Brewers Association (Barley assistant)

beer · United States · Compliance & licensing · shipping · active brewersassociation.org

retrieval assistant over brewing technical and regulatory resources

The Brewers Association, the US craft brewing trade body, launched Barley in February 2026, a chat assistant that answers member questions about brewing techniques, industry data, legislative updates and regulatory guidance. It is deliberately constrained to Brewers Association content rather than the open web, and improves through thumbs up and down feedback from members. Technically this is a retrieval assistant over a curated corpus, not novel brewing ML, but it is a notable signal of institutional AI adoption in craft beer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://washingtonbeerblog.com/maintaining-the-human-touch-in-an-ai-driven-beer-world/
• https://www.brewersassociation.org/association-news/meet-barley-your-new-guide-to-brewers-association-resources/

Brewers Dashboard

beer · unknown · Other · none · active brewersdashboard.com

Brewers Dashboard is a brewery data acquisition, automation and visualisation product built on a full SCADA software suite, sold to breweries from nano scale to large distributed facilities. It provides fermentation and brite tank temperature control, brewhouse monitoring and step mash programming, tank level, glycol, chiller and boiler monitoring, alarming to phones, and batch reports combining live temperature traces with laboratory results against the recipe. It is supplied by Infinite Automation Systems, which also does custom PLC and integration work. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; this is deterministic process control and reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.brewersdashboard.com/
• https://www.brewersdashboard.com/how-it-works

Brewfather (Warpkode AS)

beer · Norway · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active brewfather.app

in app brewing assistant grounded in the brewer's own recipes, inventory and equipment

Brewfather is an all in one brewing app from Warpkode AS in Norway, covering recipe design, batch tracking, guided brew days, water chemistry and mash pH calculation, and live fermentation monitoring with Tilt hydrometer and other device integrations. It serves home brewers and small commercial brewers on web, iOS and Android. Its Premium Plus tier ships Brewfather AI, a conversational assistant built into the app and grounded in the user's own recipes, inventory and equipment profiles, metered at 500 AI credits per month, which can draft a recipe to a target style, gravity and hop bill.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://apps.apple.com/app/brewfather/id1488585822
• https://brewfather.app/

Brewing-AI

beer · Switzerland · Sensory & recipe · pilot · active brewing-ai.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Brewing-AI, a solution from AlpVision SA, offers breweries a deep-reinforcement-learning system that combines operator settings with near-infrared spectroscopy and sensor data to recommend optimal fermentation parameters and hold beer quality steady across batches. It is sold as a process-optimization service to brewers.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://brewing-ai.com/

Brewmation

beer · United States · Other · active brewmation.com

plc brewhouse and cellar control with remote access

Brewmation builds turnkey brew houses, distilling systems, cellar tanks and the control panels that run them, sold mainly to US craft breweries and small distilleries. Its advanced package is a PLC and touchscreen system offering temperature control and trending, pump and rake control, sparge control, kettle power control, recipe process parameter storage and remote access for monitoring a brew session or changing cellar tank setpoints. Cellar panels are modular 8 or 12 point units daisy chained over CAN bus, with a Remote Access Module sold as an upgrade. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim: this is conventional PLC automation and data trending, and it matters here as a layer where craft brewing process data originates.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://brewmation.com/brewing/brew-house-controls/
• https://brewmation.com/brewing/cellar-controls/

Breww

beer · United Kingdom · Other · none · active breww.com

brewery management software

Cloud brewery management software covering production, sales and CRM, distribution, container tracking, a private online trade store and reporting, used by over 800 breweries. Built in the UK with explicit support for the Indian Rupee and local-language invoicing. BREWW LTD, incorporated 2018, Harpenden. Breww makes no public AI or machine-learning claim; it is tracked here as a brewery system of record, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://breww.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/breww

Brokreacja (Browar Brokreacja)

beer · Poland · Demand & pricing · research · active brokreacja.pl

announced ai based sales and personalisation model for craft beer

Brokreacja is a Krakow craft brewery whose subsidiary Browar Brokreacja S.A. supplies craft and non alcoholic beer to Lidl, Kaufland and Carrefour in Poland. In August 2025 NewConnect listed Foothills S.A. signed a letter of intent to acquire Brokreacja Sp. z o.o. and Bromarket Sp. z o.o. and rename itself Brokreacja Holding S.A., with Bromarket building a brewery and distillery worth over PLN 20m net (PLN 14m net grant) that uses artificial intelligence in the sales process. Management describes the AI as a new sales model to personalise the offer; this is an announced project, not a shipped system, and the brewery's own website makes no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://brokreacja.pl/
• https://www.dlahandlu.pl/detal-hurt/sieci/w-polsce-powstaje-gigant-piwa-kraftowego-o-rynek-zbytu-zadba-ai,160444.html

BrooDoo (Top Bev)

beer · New Zealand · Process & operations · active broodoo.com

none, brewery production tracking and keg management

BrooDoo is brewery management software from Top Bev Limited in New Zealand, priced per litre produced. It records brews, transfers, packaging events, sales and shipments, gives full product traceability and files one click New Zealand Customs excise submissions, with accounting and POS integrations to Xero, MYOB and Vend. A sister product, BrooDoo Kegs, handles keg tracking. There is no AI or machine learning claim; the listed demand planning is conventional scheduling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://broodoo.com/
• https://sourceforge.net/software/product/BrooDoo/

Budejovicky Budvar

beer · Czech Republic · Other · none · active budejovickybudvar.cz

erp digital core and distribution route management

Budejovicky Budvar is the Czech national brewery, founded in 1895 and exporting to more than 70 countries. It replaced about a quarter of its legacy applications with SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition, implemented by NTT DATA Business Solutions, and now runs more than 200 domestic and export distribution routes on the single system, reporting 22 percent higher finance team productivity and 99.7 percent IT availability. The brewery makes no machine learning claim: this is a system of record and reporting modernization, with SAP Extended Warehouse Management named as the next step.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2025-09-11.

• https://news.sap.com/cz/2025/09/budvar-ridi-200-tras-pres-novy-system-cloudova-platforma-sap-nahradila-ctvrtinu-aplikaci/
• https://www.budejovickybudvar.cz/tiskove-zpravy/budejovicku-budvar-zaznamenal-po-zavedeni-sap-s-4hana-rekordni-distribuci

CDR (CDR BeerLab)

beer · Italy · Other · none · active cdrfoodlab.com

none claimed, benchtop photometric beer and wort analysis

CDR BeerLab is a compact benchtop analysis system that lets a brewery run a wide range of beer, wort and water quality tests in-house on one instrument, without sending samples to an external laboratory. It is aimed at brewers of all sizes for monitoring every stage of the brewing process, and the company publishes method validations against reference techniques. The output is measurement data for quality control; there is no AI or machine learning claim. Exhibited at BrauBeviale and drinktec.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.cdrfoodlab.com/cdrbeerlab

CHARVAT Pacovske strojirny

beer · Czech Republic · Process & operations · active pacovske.cz

no ai claim; brewery and distillery process plant engineering

Pacovske strojirny, part of the SAFICHEM group, is a Czech engineering manufacturer in Pacov with a named brewing practice: it designs and builds brewhouse vessels, whirlpools and cellar equipment for microbreweries from 125 hectolitres a year up to industrial breweries of a million hectolitres, and also builds industrial and small distilleries. It offers assembly, trial operation, operator training and an emergency service line for breweries and refrigeration plant. The company makes no AI, analytics or software claim; it is included as a Czech process engineering supplier underneath the brewing data layer, in a country the radar barely covers.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.pacovske.cz/en/
• https://www.pacovske.cz/en/products/beer-brewing-industry/

COPA-DATA (zenon)

beer · Austria · Sensory & recipe · none · active copadata.com

no ai claim; brewery scada, isa 88 batch recipe and energy data platform

COPA-DATA makes zenon, an independent SCADA and industrial software platform with a dedicated brewery automation practice covering ISA 88 batch control, recipe management for new brewing procedures, energy data collection and analysis, and central monitoring of filling and packaging lines. Its food and beverage pages describe deployments from small breweries to global players, including a large German brewery kept running on older applications through zenon's backward compatibility, and a herbal liqueur producer, but name no brewery customer directly. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim for the brewing solution.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.copadata.com/en/about-copadata/
• https://www.copadata.com/en/industries/food-beverage/
• https://www.copadata.com/en/industries/food-beverage/food-beverage-solutions/automation-in-the-brewery-industry/

CRM FIRST

beer · Germany · Other · shipping · active crmfirst.de

digital contract management for brewery and beverage supply contracts

CRM FIRST GmbH is a German Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform partner that publishes proCONTRACTS Beverage on Microsoft AppSource, a contract management extension built for the German beverage industry. It digitises Getraenkebezugsvertraege, the beverage supply contracts breweries and drinks wholesalers sign with pubs and hospitality customers, letting field sales create a contract on site instead of running up to eight manual steps through Excel and approvals, and surfacing cross-sell and upsell room during the visit. The beverage product itself is workflow and CRM rather than machine learning; the company markets a separate proCONTRACTS AI module, which is not beverage specific.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/crmfirst.procontracts_beverage_en
• https://www.crmfirst.de/procontracts-beverage/

Carlsberg

beer · Denmark · Sensory & recipe · research · dormant carlsberggroup.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Carlsberg's Research Laboratory runs the Beer Fingerprinting project, using high-tech flavor sensors with Aarhus University, DTU and Microsoft machine learning to map ingredient flavor profiles and predict how a new beer will taste. The aim is to cut taste-combination research time by up to a third.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2018-10-15.

• https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2017/12/05/beer-fingerprinting-project-artificial-intelligence-create-next-pint/
• https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2017/11/07/Carlsberg-turns-to-artificial-intelligence-in-Beer-Fingerprinting-project/

Carlsberg India (Carlsberg Group India GCC)

beer · India · Demand & pricing · pilot · active carlsbergindia.in

AI-driven pricing/demand forecasting + automation-led ops + GenAI reporting

Carlsberg launched its first-ever IT Global Capability Centre in Gurugram (Sept 2025, with GSPANN, 300+ staff, Hyderabad support) to drive automation and 'scale AI implementations' worldwide. The group runs concrete AI use cases including AI-driven pricing/premiumization analytics, demand forecasting, and GenAI that auto-generates ~80% of financial-reporting commentary, with India as a critical delivery hub.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-09-03.

• https://infotechlead.com/cio/carlsberg-accelerates-digital-transformation-with-ai-driven-pricing-premiumization-and-data-led-growth-strategy-94634
• https://www.bwmarketingworld.com/article/carlsberg-taps-into-indias-tech-talent-pool-with-first-gcc-embeds-ai-automation-571467
• https://www.carlsberggroup.com/newsroom/carlsberg-group-launches-its-first-ever-it-global-capability-centre-in-gurugram/

Centec

beer · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active centec.de

inline process measurement, no AI claim

Centec makes automated skid mounted process systems and high precision inline sensors for breweries and beverage plants, covering blending, carbonation and degassing, yeast management and dealcoholisation, plus inline measurement of oxygen, carbon dioxide, density and concentration. Founded in 1976 by Dr Hubert Koukol, who built the first Dimess beer measurement station. It is a Siemens Solution Partner and delivers conventional PLC based automation with its skids. Centec makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim on its own site. It belongs in this landscape as part of the plant layer where brewery process data originates: its inline sensors are frequently the measurement source that later feeds brewery analytics and MES systems.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.centec.de/en/
• https://www.centec.de/en/about

Cesky svaz pivovaru a sladoven (Czech Beer and Malt Association)

beer · Czech Republic · Process & operations · active ceske-pivo.cz

czech beer production, consumption and export statistics

The Czech Beer and Malt Association is the national body for Czech breweries and maltings, with contributing members drawn from hop growers, glass and label makers and brewing equipment suppliers. It compiles and publishes the reference statistics for the Czech beer market, including annual per-capita consumption, domestic production and export volumes, and runs consumer surveys on segments such as non-alcoholic beer. Its 2026 releases reported Czech beer consumption falling to a record low and weakening exports, alongside continued growth in non-alcoholic beer. The current organisation dates from 1991 and continues professional brewing bodies founded in the second half of the 19th century. No AI or machine learning claim is made.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://ceske-pivo.cz/
• https://ceske-pivo.cz/kontakt/

Charles Faram

beer · United Kingdom · Process & operations · none · active charlesfaram.com

searchable hop variety knowledge database

Charles Faram is a UK hop merchant and breeder supplying brewers worldwide from bases in Worcester, Yakima, Ontario and Poland, and the source of Jester, Olicana, Harlequin, Godiva and Opus. It makes no AI or machine learning claim: its Hop Development Programme is described as conventional crossing of new world hops with British rootstocks, evaluated by an in house sensory panel and brewer trials, with no mention of DNA markers, genomic selection or predictive models. Its data asset is the Hop Oracle, a searchable knowledge database of brewing, historical and agronomic information across hop varieties. Included for the ingredient data landscape, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://charlesfaram.com/hop-development/
• https://charlesfaram.com/the-hop-oracle/

Cirrus Tech

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active cirrustech.com

warehouse automation and control software for beer distributors

Cirrus Tech is a single source integrator of warehouse automation, control software and distribution software built specifically for beer and beverage wholesalers, and says it has been doing this for over 25 years across 18 beverage automation projects. Offerings span crane systems through fully automated buildings, plus 24/7 US based support with remote diagnostics. It makes no machine learning claim: the automation described is materials handling and control systems, not predictive modelling. It presented at the 2026 BIECC Innovation Showcase.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://cirrustech.com/
• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/

Coopers Brewery

beer · Australia · Supply chain · active coopers.com.au

tableau production and supply chain dashboards, no ai claim

Australia's largest family-owned brewery, founded 1862 and now in its sixth generation. It is the named beer company in Tableau's own customer-story library: the case study describes Tableau dashboards across more than 350 SKUs used to cut beer wastage, unify inventory, sales and demand visibility, and surface a correlation between mash temperature and foam stability, with a stated 70 percent reduction in potential revenue loss from wastage. The case study names Dr Jon Meneses, Brewing and Supply Chain Manager. This is visual analytics on brewery process and supply chain data, not machine learning: neither Tableau's write-up nor Coopers' own site makes any AI or predictive-model claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://coopers.com.au/
• https://www.casestudies.com/company/tableau-software/case-study/coopers-brewery-brews-better-beer-with-tableau
• https://www.tableau.com/solutions/customer/coopers-brewery-brews-better-beer-tableau

Corley

beer · Italy · Process & operations · shipping · active corley.it

industrial iot and ml anomaly detection on brewery production lines

Corley is an Italian AWS consulting partner in Turin selling cloud migration, industrial IoT, data platform and AI and ML services. Its named beverage work is Birra Menabrea, Italy's oldest continuously operating brewery, in Biella: Corley catalogued the brewing and kegging line, connected each machine to AWS with its own hardware connectors, and built data ingestion and real time production and efficiency dashboards. The machine learning in the deployment is Amazon Monitron, the AWS sensor and ML service that flags abnormal equipment conditions and predicts maintenance, applied to the production line; the models are AWS's rather than Corley's own. AWS separately covered the project in its Smart Business blog, where Menabrea reported a six month payback and 42 percent savings.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-06-04.

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/smb/gaining-deeper-insights-into-manufacturing-and-sales-with-cloud-technology/
• https://www.corley.it/industria-4-aws-menabrea.html

Craftpeak

beer · United States · Consumer & personalization · none · active craftpeak.com

none claimed; direct to consumer beer commerce and membership clubs

Craftpeak builds websites, online stores and membership club software for craft breweries, covering online pre order, taproom pickup, local delivery and shipping. It was acquired by the taproom point of sale company Arryved in June 2022, and the stated aim was to merge the online and on premise customer identity into one omnichannel profile for a brewery. It remains a distinct product and domain for brewery direct to consumer route to market. Craftpeak makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site: it is a commerce and content platform, and the customer data it captures is the interesting part for the beer data landscape.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://arryved.com/blog/arryved-acquires-craftpeak/
• https://craftpeak.com/

Czech Brewery System

beer · Czech Republic · Other · active czechminibreweries.com

microbrewery measurement and control systems

Czech Brewery System s.r.o. of Opava supplies complete microbrewery and small industrial brewery lines, plus cider production equipment, covering malt handling, wort brewing, fermentation, filtration, filling and support systems. Within the support systems it sells a named measure and control range: brewhouse automation for wort boiling and cooling, control systems for wort brew machines with automatic monitoring of the hot brewing process, temperature measurement and regulation for fermentation, maturation, storage and yeast tanks, and laboratory equipment for chemical analysis of beer. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is a plant and instrumentation supplier and one of the few Czech Republic entries on this surface. Registered in the Czech business register under ICO 05783011 since February 2017.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://ares.gov.cz/ekonomicke-subjekty-v-be/rest/ekonomicke-subjekty/05783011
• https://www.czechminibreweries.com/beer-production-technology/support-systems/measuring-control-systems/

DAUSCH Technologies GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · none · active dausch-technologies.de

inline beverage quality measurement with dashboarding

DAUSCH Technologies builds inline analysis systems for liquid production, including LiquiGuard Gen3, a LiquiGuard Gen3 variant with a Quality Dashboard, SyrupGuard Gen3 and a beer-specific BeerGuard unit. Its stated mission is raising product quality while saving raw materials, energy and time by optimising the process, under the slogan we analyse, you profit. It exhibited at both BrauBeviale and drinktec under measurement data acquisition. No AI or machine learning claim is made; the data product is inline measurement plus a quality dashboard.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.dausch-technologies.de/
• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

DESTILA Brno

beer · Czech Republic · Other · active destila.cz

brewhouse control panels with remote service access

DESTILA of Brno is a Czech manufacturer of breweries, restaurant microbreweries and filtration equipment for beer and wine, claiming more than 75 years of history and over 140 breweries commissioned. Its brewhouses ship with a control system that ranges from manual graphic panels to a touchscreen control panel at several levels of automation, up to fully automated brewhouse control, and its CIP and keg washing equipment run in automatic mode under the same panels. The company advertises quick service of the control system through remote access, which is the only connected element of the offer. No AI or machine learning claim is made anywhere. The current operating entity DESTILA Brno s.r.o. is registered under ICO 21751595 and the older DESTILA, s.r.o. is in liquidation.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://ares.gov.cz/ekonomicke-subjekty-v-be/rest/ekonomicke-subjekty/21751595
• https://www.destila.cz/en/breweries/

DFx Technology Ltd

beer · United Kingdom · Other · shipping · active dfxtech.co.uk

connected beer dispense monitoring

DFx Technology sells Intelligent Dispense hardware plus the DFx LiveView cloud platform, aimed at breweries, pub companies and dispense equipment OEMs. The platform lets an operator monitor an entire dispense estate in near real time, spot faults remotely, and extend line cleaning intervals through controlled keg-to-tap cooling, with claims of up to 84 percent less product waste and 25 percent better energy efficiency. It exhibited at both BrauBeviale and drinktec. The company claims no machine learning; LiveView is telemetry, remote diagnostics and reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://dfxtech.co.uk/
• https://dfxtech.co.uk/industry-solutions/breweries/

Damai Craft (Zhixi Information Technology)

beer · China · Sensory & recipe · none · active damaibeer.cn

craft beer recipe and ingredient reference database

Chinese craft and homebrewing platform run by Henan Zhixi Information Technology, offering a recipe builder, a community feed and reference libraries for hops, malt, yeast and BJCP styles, delivered on the web and as a WeChat mini program. It is one of the few Chinese language beer data references of its kind. It makes no AI claim, and the site's own article feed has not been updated since 2022 although the databases and recipe tool remain live.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.damaibeer.cn/
• https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1910381622148203522

DashBrew (KegMetrics)

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active dashbrew.com

no ai claim, brewery production and keg fleet analytics

DashBrew is an independent product developer for the craft beer industry, founded in 2016 by former Microsoft engineer Greg Shaw, and builds KegMetrics. The product covers keg fleet tracking and workflow management plus analytics over batches, yields and throughput, and connects distributor data back to brewery output to show what is actually moving. It is pitched at craft, regional and production breweries and at cider, kombucha, RTD and non-alcoholic producers. DashBrew makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere: this is operator dashboards and reporting, deliberately positioned against generic BI tools.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.dashbrew.com/
• https://www.kegmetrics.com/keg/tracking/

Deep Liquid

beer · Australia · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant deepliquid.ai

recipe / flavor prediction

Adelaide company using generative AI and machine learning to design personalized beverage recipes, starting in craft beer with the award-winning Rodney AI IPA and later expanding into wellness drinks.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-03-19.

• https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/news/list/2025/03/19/deep-liquid-democratising-ai-one-beverage-at-a-time
• https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/featured/how-deep-liquids-ai-improves-beer-recipes-and-engages-customers/
• https://www.deepliquid.ai/

Descartes Systems Group

beer · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active descartes.com

route optimization and fleet analytics for beverage distributors

Descartes sells route planning, route execution, fleet performance management and EDI software, with a dedicated food and beverage distribution practice and named beer and beverage customers including Silver Eagle Distributors, one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors, Pepin Distributing, Mitchell Companies and Swinkels Family Brewers. Its published Silver Eagle case study is about closing the planned versus actual data gap across 180 trucks and five depots delivering roughly 36 million cases a year. Descartes markets a Fleet Analytics and AI module that it says uses artificial intelligence and analytics to improve planning and execution, but it does not describe the model or method on the beverage pages. It presented at the 2026 NBWA BIECC Innovation Showcase.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.descartes.com/resources/knowledge-center/food-beverage-industry-supply-chain-resource-center
• https://www.descartes.com/resources/knowledge-center/silver-eagle-distributors-driving-beverage-distribution-efficiency
• https://www.nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/

Deschutes Brewery

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · dormant deschutesbrewery.com

fermentation optimization

Deschutes Brewery uses a machine learning system built on OSIsoft PI and Microsoft Azure (Cortana Intelligence) to predict fermentation phase transition times across its tanks, cutting fermentation by 24 to 48 hours and deferring a 750,000 dollar chiller purchase by staggering cooling load.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2019-08-12.

• https://fsd.servicemax.com/2017/06/06/deschutes-brewing-perfect-pint-iot/
• https://news.microsoft.com/transform/how-data-and-ai-are-helping-deschutes-brewery-respond-to-beer-trends-faster/

DigitalPour (Brewmium)

beer · unknown · Supply chain · none · active digitalpour.com

none claimed; draft inventory and keg profitability analytics

DigitalPour, operated by Brewmium, LLC, runs draft inventory management, digital tap list displays and a consumer facing pocket beer menu app for breweries, taprooms, growler stations and beer bars. It integrates with point of sale systems so pours decrement keg inventory in real time and the menus and app update automatically, and it reports revenue and per keg profitability analytics plus automated happy hour pricing. There is no AI or machine learning claim on the site: the value is keg level draft consumption data, which is one of the few reliable on premise beer depletion signals. The company does not publish a headquarters city or founding year.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/digitalpour-pocket-beer-menu/id1103969692
• https://digitalpour.com/

DirectSens GmbH

beer · Austria · Process & operations · none · active directsens.com

enzymatic biosensors for sugars and fermentation products

DirectSens makes enzyme-based biosensor systems that measure sugars and fermentation products in food and beverage production, with named products for alcohol, glucose, and maltose plus glucose. The company develops and manufactures in Austria and also sells its LactaZyme and GlucoZyme enzymes into diagnostics. It exhibited at drinktec 2025 under laboratory analysis and inspection. There is no AI claim; it is analytical sensing hardware that produces fermentation measurement data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://directsens.com/products/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/directsens-gmbh

Diversity Arrays Technology

beer · Australia · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active diversityarrays.com

genotyping and genomic selection for crop breeding

DArT is a genotyping service provider that describes itself as coupling modern genetic technologies with the power of big data analytics. It sells DNA extraction, sequencing, genetic mapping, QTL and GWAS association mapping, and genomic selection as a breeding service, backed by its own analysis software. Its beverage relevance is the ingredient breeding layer: DArT molecular markers were run through an international hop industry collaboration to determine sex phenotype in hop seedlings, adopted by Hop Products Australia, and the same platform is used across cereal breeding including barley. The company markets statistical genomics and data analytics rather than machine learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://hops.com.au/new-technology-separating-the-boys-from-the-girls/
• https://www.diversityarrays.com/

DraftLine Technologies

beer · United States · Market data & valuation · none · active draftlinetechnologies.com

draft line level market intelligence for beer distributors

DraftLine Technologies runs a draft beer service platform (Draftline Technician) plus Draftline Data, a market intelligence product built from what is actually pouring on tap lines in a territory. Draftline Brand Rater charts which brands are growing or dying in a market, Brand Targeter identifies accounts where a distributor holds a competitive advantage, and the open line tracker reports how long each tap line has been empty and what was poured on it last. It is a proprietary observational dataset rather than a modelling product: the site makes no machine learning or AI claim of any kind. Exhibited at NBWA 2026, booth 312.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/eBooth.aspx?BoothID=354379
• https://www.draftlinetechnologies.com/data

E2M COUTH Vision Systems

beer · Spain · Quality & inspection · shipping · active e2mcouth.com

deep learning machine vision inspection

E2M COUTH Vision Systems builds industrial machine-vision and traceability systems and exhibited at drinktec in Munich. Its own site states that it uses artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques so that machines analyse images, learn from technical examples and detect defects. The beverage relevance is through packaging-line inspection, coding and marking verification rather than a beverage-specific product line.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://e2mcouth.com
• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

Ecolibrium

beer · India · Other · shipping · active ecolibrium.io

brewery refrigeration energy and emissions optimisation

Ecolibrium sells SmartSense, an energy and emissions intelligence platform for industrial sites, and its own site publishes a brewery deployment: the Goa brewery of what it calls India's largest beer company, where the plant could not reliably track chiller efficiency (ikW/TR). Ecolibrium states the platform used AI and ML across chillers, plate heat exchangers, compressors, condensers and desuperheaters to detect temperature logic faults and capacity overruns, cutting glycol outlet temperature by 41.8 percent, in a process where refrigeration is 30 to 40 percent of brewery energy. The company says the deployment is now expanding to 11 more sites. The brewery customer is described but not named, and the emissions benefit is framed as a consequence of the energy optimisation rather than a separate carbon accounting product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.ecolibrium.io/contact/
• https://www.ecolibrium.io/manufacturing/improve-refrigeration-energy-efficiency/

Elevated BI

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active elevatedbi.com

power bi reporting for beverage wholesalers

Elevated BI is an independent BI consultancy serving beverage wholesalers, run by Austin Bristow who previously managed Power BI reporting at fairlife from 2018 to 2024. Its BevBridge product refreshes distributor RAS data daily into ready made Power BI dashboards as a single source of truth for sales and operations. This is plain business intelligence and consulting with no AI or machine learning claim. It presented at the 2026 BIECC Innovation Showcase.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/
• https://www.elevatedbi.com/

Endress+Hauser

beer · Switzerland · Process & operations · none · active endress.com

inline brewing process measurement and spoilage detection

Endress+Hauser runs a dedicated beer quality control practice covering inline density, flow, dissolved oxygen, conductivity and colour measurement through fermentation, maturation and filtration, plus the Fermentation Monitor QWX43 and the BioSense PCR system that identifies spoilage bacteria on the plant floor in hours instead of days. Named brewery references on its own site include Riegele, Hofbrauhaus Munich and Hacker-Pschorr. To be plain about it: this is process instrumentation and sensor-based early deviation detection, with no machine learning claimed anywhere on the brewing pages. It belongs on the radar as the measurement layer that brewery AI depends on, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://portal.endress.com/wa001/dla/5000581/3669/000/00/SO00008B24EN_US%20Brewing.pdf
• https://www.endress.com/en/industry-expertise/food-beverage-productivity-quality-cost/beer-quality-control

Enzo Unified

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active enzounified.com

data pipelines with AI/ML endpoints for beer distributors

Enzo Unified is a managed integration platform (iPaaS) that moves data between operating systems used by beer and beverage wholesalers, offering data pipelines, ETL and synthetic change data capture. Its own site names beer and beverage distributor customers including Alliance Beverage, Summit Beverage, Clark Beverage, Frank Beverage and Coca-Cola High Country. The AI element is the ability to call statistical and AI/ML cloud endpoints, such as image analysis and predictive scoring, from inside a pipeline; the models are external services, not proprietary models trained by Enzo. Partner CV Eaton writes for the NBWA on closing the collection-to-action gap in wholesale beer data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://nbwa.org/blog-post/data-flows-in-wholesale-distribution-turning-what-we-collect-into-real-time-wins/
• https://www.enzounified.com/

Epical

beer · Sweden · Process & operations · none · active epicalgroup.com

maintenance data and reporting for brewing operations

Nordic data and asset management consultancy with more than 400 employees across nine offices, and the IBM Platinum Business Partner that delivered IBM Maximo Manage, Mobile and Scheduler to Swedish brewing group Spendrups Bryggeri across three breweries. It also built the business intelligence dashboards Spendrups uses to measure maintenance results from Maximo data. Its brewing work carries no AI claim: the AI services it advertises are for other clients, such as call classification and summarisation for Ropo.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ibm. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.epicalgroup.com/
• https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/spendrups

Erin Schmidt

beer · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

Leads commercial and business analytics for Molson Coors across the Americas, with a decade in beverage revenue management and business intelligence.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://business.wisc.edu/centers/nicholas/blog/erin-schmidt-director-commerical-analytics-molson-coors/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-schmidt-92a18a4/

Esau & Hueber

beer · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active esau-hueber.de

brewery process control and remote service, no AI claim

Esau & Hueber is a German plant engineering firm supplying turnkey fermentation, cellar and process technology to the global brewing and beverage industry, and since September 2024 it is part of the Buhler Group. Its automation arm builds customised process control systems around three stated functions, controlling, monitoring and logging, together with control centre and measurement hardware planning and a remote service that gives its engineers remote access to a customer's process control technology. There is no named control product brand, no MES or IoT platform and no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim anywhere in its automation and service material. It matters here as a fermentation cellar automation supplier, that is, the layer that produces the tank and process logs brewery analytics later consumes.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.esau-hueber.de/en/
• https://www.esau-hueber.de/en/automation-service

Escarpment Labs

beer · Canada · Other · none · active escarpmentlabs.com

genome sequencing guided yeast strain development

Escarpment Labs propagates and sells brewing yeast cultures to craft brewers across Canada and the US, and runs its own strain development programme using yeast breeding, adaptive laboratory evolution and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. Its published R and D method states that it collects whole genome sequencing data alongside aroma compound production and growth rate data, and uses that sequencing data and analytics to improve its predictions and strain pairings. This is genomics plus statistical analytics, not machine learning: the company makes no AI or ML claim anywhere on its site. It also sells brewery QC and cell counting services.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://escarpmentlabs.com/blogs/resources/techniques-to-develop-innovative-new-yeasts
• https://escarpmentlabs.com/pages/about

Evergreen

beer · unknown · Supply chain · none · active evergreenhq.com

digital tap list and beer menu boards driven by pos and inventory data, no ai claim

Evergreen Technology sells digital menu board, QR menu, print menu and website menu software for bars, restaurants and craft breweries, and is the platform the former TapHunter beer menu tools now live inside. Its brewery product is aimed at the brand side: a brewery controls how its beers appear on tap lists and digital boards across the bars and taprooms that pour them, so tap list accuracy and brand consistency are maintained off-premise. Menus update from inventory and from POS integrations with Square, Clover, Toast, Shift4 and GoTab; Oracle MICROS and Simphony are not among the listed POS integrations. Evergreen makes no AI or machine learning claim: the product is menu content management fed by live stock and sales data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.evergreenhq.com/products/brewery-tools/
• https://www.evergreenhq.com/products/pos-integration/

Evocon

beer · Estonia · Process & operations · shipping · active evocon.com

brewery oee and downtime monitoring

Evocon is a cloud OEE and production monitoring product that pulls machine signals automatically and visualises availability, performance and quality losses per line. Its published brewery customer is Kalnapilis, a Lithuanian brewery in the Royal Unibrew group running four shifts around the clock, which uses Evocon for real-time line monitoring, shift handover and production scheduling. There is no AI or machine learning in this product; it is automated data collection, downtime reason coding and dashboards. Included because it is a verified, named brewery deployment of a production data layer, not because it is an AI vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://evocon.com/articles/case_study/kalnapilis-running-production-smoothly-during-the-pandemic/
• https://evocon.com/case-studies/

Explorex

beer · India · Process & operations · active explorex.co

consumption intelligence for taproom and keg operations

Indian restaurant and brewery operating system, run as Explorex Technologies Pvt Ltd in Bangalore with a US entity in San Francisco, and says it serves over 300 breweries. The brewery product covers taproom POS, QR ordering, real-time liquor and keg inventory tracking, GST billing and Swiggy and Zomato integration. It markets itself as an AI operating system for dining out and offers a Consumption Intelligence module, but names no specific machine-learning model on its brewery pages.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://explorex.co/
• https://explorex.co/solutions/breweries

FILTEC

beer · United States · Quality & inspection · none · active filtec.com

inline container and fill level inspection

FILTEC supplies inline container inspection for glass, PET and can filling lines, covering empty container inspection, fill level verification, closure and pressure checks, foreign object detection and label inspection, using machine vision, photon, thermal and X-ray sensing. Its INTELLECT platform is the data layer: a touchscreen station that tracks, monitors and reports container quality through each packaging step and stores operator events and diagnostics in a database. There is no AI or machine learning claim on the product pages; INTELLECT is quality reporting, not prediction. FILTEC serves breweries and cideries and is part of the Kestrel Vision group alongside Pressco.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.filtec.com/
• https://www.filtec.com/products/intellect/

Factry

beer · Belgium · Process & operations · none · active factry.io

no ai claim; open process historian and mes for fermentation plants

Factry sells Factry Historian, a time series historian that collects and structures real time process data, and FactryOS, a web based MES for production execution, downtime tracking and order management. It markets itself directly against legacy historians including the PI System. Its named food and beverage customers are fermentation adjacent rather than brewers, notably the brewing and baking yeast producers Lesaffre and Algist Bruggeman, plus Agristo, Puratos and Jacques Ijs. Factry also ran Factry Historian against a real 40 hL beer lot brewed on its behalf and published the fermentation temperature, density, pH and CO2 saturation trends. A previous sweep on 2026-08-01 rejected Factry for having no brewing tie; that brewing lot and its published dashboards are the new evidence. There is no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.factry.io/
• https://www.factry.io/customer-stories
• https://www.factry.io/factrybeer

Fermly

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active fermly.com

subscription brewery QA/QC lab with a batch data platform

Fermly is a TTB certified craft beer QA/QC laboratory that ships monthly subscription sample boxes and returns results into a cloud data portal, covering ABV, pH, dissolved oxygen, bitterness and microbial contamination. Its lab data feeds brewery management systems: it has an integration with Beer30 from The 5th Ingredient so lab metrics sit alongside production and cost data. Fermly makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is a testing service plus a data platform.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/equipment-systems/this-beer30-fermly-integration-combines-brewery-data-management-with-quality-control/
• https://www.fermly.com/

Flowsight GmbH

beer · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active flowsight.de

brewery maintenance software with sensor data

Flowsight makes Brewcast, maintenance software developed specifically for breweries that unifies tasks, spare parts inventory, and sensor data. It replaces spreadsheets and paper workflows to make brewery maintenance more transparent.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://flowsight.de/
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Forbes Marshall

beer · India · Other · none · active forbesmarshall.com

brewery steam and energy benchmarking and monitoring

Forbes Marshall is an Indian steam engineering and process instrumentation company with a dedicated brewery practice covering the steam circuit, flow and level control, water analysis and effluent. It pioneered specific energy benchmarking for breweries, measuring energy per hectolitre of beer across plants and closing the gaps it finds, and says two decades of that work cut the industry benchmark by over 40 percent. Its SteamHUB platform provides online monitoring and instrument uptime analysis. The company makes no machine learning claim for its brewery work, and names no individual brewery customer publicly; it is listed here because it is the dominant utilities data layer inside Indian breweries.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.forbesmarshall.com/digital/
• https://www.forbesmarshall.com/industries/brewing-industry/

GEA Group

beer · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active gea.com

real-time brewhouse and fermentation performance analytics

GEA is a process-equipment supplier with a dedicated brewery systems line (brewhouses, fermentation, separation) and a software product, GEA InsightPartner Brewery, that captures live process data across more than 120 parameters and flags deviations against target benchmarks during the brew rather than after it. Named brewery users include Stortebeker Braumanufaktur in Stralsund, Germany, which reported a 5 to 8 percent productivity gain in the pilot phase, plus pFriem Family Brewers and Brique House on the automation side. Honest read on the AI: InsightPartner as documented is real-time rule-based comparison and KPI benchmarking, not machine learning. GEA trade press separately promotes an OptiPartner autopilot optimisation concept with AI framing, but the brewery product pages do not substantiate ML models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.gea.com/en/news/trade-press/2021/gea-insightpartner-brewery/
• https://www.gea.com/en/products/brewery-systems/

GRUEN GQM GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · none · active gqm.de

mes and quality management software for beverage producers

GRUEN GQM (written GRUEN GQM GmbH, part of the GRUEN Software Group) sells MES software specifically for the food and beverage industry, covering production planning, recipe management, production management, laboratory information management (LIMS), warehouse management, quality assurance and energy management. It states over 30 years in the beverage industry and more than 150 installations. It exhibited at BrauBeviale in the software and IT solutions categories. No AI or machine learning claim is made anywhere on the product pages; it is plain process and quality data software.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.gqm.de/loesungen/getraenkeindustrie/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/gqm-mbh

Gabert Rebstock Software (GRS)

beer · Germany · Other · none · active grs-systeme.de

none claimed, industry ERP for breweries and beverage wholesalers

GRS sells vertical business software for beverage producers and the beverage trade, with separate module sets for breweries, mineral water bottlers, juice producers and beverage wholesalers. Brewery functions include field sales information, order processing, customer information, beer duty accounting, indirect customers, returnable container and loan inventory tracking, purchasing and warehouse, dispatch, event pitch costing and statistics, alongside financial, asset and cost accounting. It is a German-language system of record with no AI or machine learning claim. Exhibited at BrauBeviale.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.grs-systeme.de

GoTab

beer · United States · Demand & pricing · pilot · active gotab.com

natural language analytics assistant over taproom and brewery sales data

GoTab is a point of sale and mobile order and pay platform for breweries, taprooms, bars, food halls and entertainment venues, covering handheld POS, kitchen display, self ordering kiosks, RFID passes, memberships and loyalty. Breweries are a core segment: it partners with the California Craft Brewers Association and the Texas Craft Brewers Guild and integrates with the Beer30 brewery production system. On 27 July 2026 it launched Lovey by GoTab in beta, an AI assistant inside the GoTab Manager Dashboard that answers plain language questions about an operator's own GoTab Data Hub sales and depletion data and returns visualisations and downloadable supporting data. AWS published a GoTab hospitality story in its industries blog, and the assistant is described as beta rather than generally available.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-07-27.

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/hospitality-operators-shift-toward-experiential-dining-with-gotab/
• https://gotab.com/latest/gotab-ai-assistant-hospitality-data-business-insights

Grantek Systems Integration

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active grantek.com

no ai claim; brewery mes, process historian and oee integration

Grantek is a food and beverage focused systems integrator of over 150 engineers across nine North American offices plus India, working on process design, packaging automation, MES and ERP integration, process historians, statistical process control, OEE and downtime measurement, vision and label verification, and IIoT and cloud data enablement. MillerCoors is named on its food and beverage page alongside Agropur and Tassimo. Note for the record: a previous sweep on 2026-08-01 rejected Grantek as having no named brewery; the MillerCoors reference on its own industry page is the new evidence. No AI or machine learning capability is claimed anywhere on those pages.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.grantek.com/about-us/
• https://www.grantek.com/industries/food-beverage/

Greater (Greater Industries Labs)

beer · United States · Supply chain · active greater.co

order, route and inventory decision optimisation for beverage distributors

Greater describes itself on its own site as an AI operating system for beverage distribution that recommends the most profitable decision for every item, account, rep, truck and route in real time, covering order composition, routing efficiency and asset utilisation. The company presented at the 2026 NBWA Beer Industry Electronic Commerce Coalition Innovation Showcase and exhibited at booth 605 as Greater Industries Labs, Inc. The site states the outcome claims but does not name the underlying models or techniques.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.greater.co/
• https://www.nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/

Grist Analytics

beer · United States · Quality & inspection · none · active gristanalytics.com

brewery production and quality analytics using statistical process control

Production and quality analytics software for breweries, deliberately positioned as not an ERP. It covers brew deck data capture, automated brewhouse calculations, real time fermentation analytics, yeast tracking, quality data management and cellar scheduling, and it integrates with the Brew Ninja brewery management system. The published method is classical statistical process control, control charts, standard deviations and process capability, not machine learning. Grist makes no machine learning claim on its own site and this is a plain statistics and analytics product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://get.brewninja.net/grist-partnership
• https://www.gristanalytics.com/
• https://www.gristanalytics.com/between-two-fermenters/statistical-process-control

HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · shipping · active heuft.com

deep learning machine vision inspection of empty and full bottles on brewery filling lines

German maker of inspection, fill management and X-ray systems for beverage filling lines. Its own site describes HEUFT reflexx A.I., an image processing stack using multi-layer neural networks pre-trained on thousands of defect-free bottle images that classify containers as good or bad on overall pattern rather than single features, plus anomaly detection for previously unseen defect types, shipped inside the InLine II IX empty bottle inspector. A December 2025 HEUFT reference names the Austrian private brewery Zwettl (Karl Schwarz GmbH, Lower Austria), where an InLine II IR, two Spectrum II VX units and three reflexx A.I. cameras built into the labeller check labelling quality and best-before dates at up to 36,000 bottles per hour. The AI is packaging line quality inspection, not process or fermentation modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2025-12-22.

• https://heuft.com/en/actual-news/news-overview/drinktec-deep-learning-for-empty-bottle-inspection
• https://heuft.com/en/actual-news/news-overview/zwettl-brewery-successful-partnership-empty-bottle-inspection-full-container-check-fill-management

Haber

beer · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · active haberwater.com

quality control

Industrial AI and autonomous process-optimization company that sells to process manufacturers including breweries. It applies AI to brewing water treatment, ingredient dosing, and process control to improve consistency and reduce cost.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://haberwater.com/post/ai-in-beer-brewing

Hach

beer · United States · Quality & inspection · none · active hach.com

inline and lab water and beer quality analysis

Hach, a Veralto company, sells water and process analysis instruments and has a declared craft brewing vertical. Its beverage line includes the VitalSensors inline brewing analyser, Orbisphere dissolved oxygen and CO2 instruments used for in-line and grab sample checks in breweries, and DR6000 spectrophotometer software preloaded with MEBAK and ASBC brewery analysis methods. This is measurement and lab instrumentation only: Hach makes no machine learning claim for its brewing products, but it is a primary source of inline quality data on brewery process lines.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.hach.com/industries/beverage/craft-brewing
• https://www.hach.com/products/online-instruments/online-analyzers/beer-analyzer/vitalsensors-brewing-analyzer

Hamilton Company

beer · Switzerland · Process & operations · none · active hamiltoncompany.com

no ai claim; inline process sensors for brewhouse and fermentation

Hamilton Company builds inline process analytics sensors used through the brewhouse and fermentation, measuring dissolved oxygen, dissolved CO2, pH and conductivity in real time, with ArcAir software for sensor management and GMP compliance. Verified directly on the vendor site, which runs a dedicated brewing applications section. Hamilton makes no machine-learning claim: this is instrumentation and real-time measurement, recorded here as the sensing layer that brewery process data originates from, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.hamiltoncompany.com/process-analytics
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-company/about/

Heineken

beer · Netherlands · Demand & pricing · shipping · active theheinekencompany.com

demand forecasting

Heineken uses AI across production and supply chain, including predicting beer color in production, AI vision systems for bottle and can inspection, and machine learning demand forecasting that integrates sales, weather, events and social sentiment. Its DataPrime platform unifies data across 70-plus operating companies.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-08-19.

• https://aimagazine.com/machine-learning/heineken-use-ai-control-volatile-demand
• https://www.theheinekencompany.com/newsroom/brewing-with-ai/

Hixson Architecture, Engineering and Interiors

beer · unknown · Process & operations · active hixson-inc.com

no ai claim; beverage plant design with controls and automation

Hixson is a design and engineering firm founded in 1948 that has specialised in food and beverage manufacturing plants for about 60 years. Its beverage practice lists alcohol and beer among the product types it designs for, alongside juices, soft drinks, dairy, coffee and tea, and its in-house disciplines include process engineering, controls and automation, industrial refrigeration and industrial wastewater. There is no AI or analytics claim anywhere in its published capability list; it is a plant design and controls firm, relevant to the beverage data landscape as the layer that specifies the control and instrumentation from which brewery data later comes.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.hixson-inc.com/markets/food-beverage/
• https://www.hixson-inc.com/markets/food-beverage/beverage/

Hop Control

beer · Italy · Sensory & recipe · none · active hopcontrol.it

hop aroma profile prediction from essential oil composition

Hop Control is a hop aroma and dry hopping calculator built by the Italian craft brewery Birrificio Dada s.r.l. for breweries and homebrewers. It composes the essential oil profiles of every hop addition in a recipe, weighting them by boil time and dry hop contact, and outputs a predicted final aroma as a radar chart so brewers can model a hop schedule without trial brews. The database covers over 330 hop varieties with alpha and beta acids plus full aroma oil and sensory data, and the tool is available on web, iOS and Android for 19.99 euro per year after a seven day trial. The company is explicit that this is a deterministic algorithm grounded in published hop essential oil research and validated against test brews at Birrificio Dada, not machine learning; it makes no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://beersmith.com/blog/2024/10/23/the-hop-control-web-tool/
• https://hopcontrol.it/

Hop Products Australia

beer · Australia · Other · shipping · active hops.com.au

molecular marker assisted hop breeding

Hop Products Australia is Australia's hop grower and breeder, part of the BarthHaas group, and the source of Galaxy, Enigma, Vic Secret, Ella, Eclipse and Topaz. Its breeding programme dates to the 1950s and is described on its own site as expert pairing of plants for desirable traits, with no AI, machine learning or genomic prediction claim. It does use molecular genetics: HPA reports adopting DArT (Diversity Arrays Technology) molecular markers, converted to PCR markers, to identify hop plant sex early in the growth cycle, work led by the Slovenian Institute of Hop Research and Brewing through an international hop industry DArT collaboration. Marker assisted selection, not modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://hops.com.au/hop-breeding-program/
• https://hops.com.au/new-technology-separating-the-boys-from-the-girls/

Hop Research Institute Zatec (Chmelarsky institut)

beer · Czech Republic · Other · none · active chizatec.cz

none claimed; hop breeding, HPLC analysis and variety data

The Hop Research Institute in Zatec is owned by the Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic and was established in 1950, succeeding a hop station from 1925, with research sites at Steknik near Zatec and Trsice near Olomouc. Its five departments cover hop genetics and breeding, chemical analysis, biotechnology, pest and disease protection and cultivation technique, and it is the breeding origin of the Czech aroma and bitter varieties used across the brewing supply chain. Commercial services include HPLC hop chemistry analysis, pesticide efficacy and fertiliser trials, cultivation consulting and brewing verification in an experimental brewery. It makes no AI or machine learning claim: it matters here as the source of Czech hop chemistry and variety reference data that brewing supply chain models depend on.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• http://www.chizatec.cz/en/about-us/?arc=2
• https://www.czhops.cz/index.php/en/

Hopsteiner

beer · Germany · Other · none · active hopsteiner.de

genomics assisted hop breeding, no machine learning claim

Hopsteiner, trading as Simon H. Steiner Hopfen GmbH, is a sixth generation global hop supplier of varieties, pellets and extracts, founded in 1845 and headquartered in Mainburg, Germany with US operations. Its research and development function under Dr Martin Biendl runs a breeding program for drought, heat and pest tolerant cultivars and novel flavour profiles, with partners including the Fraunhofer Institute and the Technical University of Munich, and the company has published chromosome-scale haplotype-resolved hop genome assemblies to support genomics-assisted breeding. Its own R and D pages make no machine learning or AI claim: the work described is genomics and conventional breeding science. Included because the hop breeding layer is otherwise absent from the database.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.hopsteiner.de/en/
• https://www.hopsteiner.de/en/about-hopsteiner/research-and-development

Hy-Tek Intralogistics

beer · United States · Other · none · active hy-tek.com

warehouse execution and orchestration software for beverage distribution

Hy-Tek Intralogistics is a systems integrator whose IntraOne software stack spans warehouse orchestration, WES, WMS, WCS and TMS, and it runs a dedicated beverage distribution solution line aimed at beer wholesalers facing SKU proliferation and labour scarcity. Its published beverage claims are throughput and density figures, up to 80 percent less picking labour and roughly 3x pick speed, recovered pallet positions, rather than any modelling claim. The site makes no machine learning or AI claim on the beverage pages; it is orchestration software and robotics integration. Presented at the 2026 NBWA BIECC Innovation Showcase and exhibited at booth 216.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://hy-tek.com/solutions/by-industry/beverage/
• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/

Hypro Engineers

beer · India · Sensory & recipe · none · active hypro.co.in

brewhouse process control, recipe management and batch data logging

Hypro Engineers is an Indian turnkey process plant manufacturer for breweries, supplying brewhouses, unitanks, CIP, yeast management, filtration and CO2 recovery, and claims over 85 percent share of CO2 recovery plants in India. It ships a named proprietary brewery software, Brew iT, which runs PC workstation and PLC based brewhouse control with precise process parameter control, a standard MIS for data collection and reporting, real time monitoring with batch history and trend analysis, and fail safe feedback from valves and instruments. Brew iT also ships on the HyMi craft and pilot brewery range. Hypro makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is recorded here as India's most digitally instrumented brewhouse OEM.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://hypro.co.in/products/brewing/craft-brewery/
• https://hypro.co.in/products/brewing/turnkey-industrial-brewery/industrial-brewhouse/

INDSPECT Industrielle Pruftechnik GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · none · active indspect.de

none claimed, beverage line inspection controllers

INDSPECT builds inspection controllers for beverage packaging lines in three tiers (PRO, BASIC, ECO), covering fill-height control, label control, crate and empties control, completeness checks, closure control, date-code control, sorting and reject handling. Beverages are the first named application sector on its own site, ahead of automotive, pharma and food. It also lists a data acquisition product line. The company makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.indspect.de

INTRAVIS GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · shipping · active intravis.com

deep learning vision inspection of packaging

INTRAVIS builds vision inspection systems for plastic packaging, including the preforms, caps, closures, bottles and labels used by beverage producers, and lists food and beverage as its lead industry. Its software line (IntraVision, IntraVisualizer, IntraRecommender) includes a dedicated Artificial Intelligence offering, and the company states that deep learning algorithms boost its inspection systems for quality control, with tethered caps cited as an application. It exhibited at drinktec 2025 in the inspection and analysis category. The AI is applied to defect classification in images, not to the beverage process itself.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.intravis.com/en/products/software/artificial-intelligence
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/intravis

Improvin'

beer · Sweden · Agriculture & crop · none · active improvin.com

farm level barley supply chain emissions modelling

Improvin' builds farm level data infrastructure for agri-food supply chains: collecting, standardising and modelling grower data so processors can track sourcing and emissions. Its beverage relevance is the malting barley layer. Viking Malt is a named customer and runs the platform across more than 1200 European barley farmers, and Viking Malt describes it on its own site as an AI-driven platform for measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of its malting barley. Improvin's own site makes no explicit AI or machine learning claim, referring only to multi-source modeled data, so the AI framing here is the customer's word, not the vendor's.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://vikingmalt.com/innovation/
• https://www.improvin.com/

InflexionPoint

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active inflexionpoint.ai

brewery mes and electronic brew book, no ai claim

Independent systems integrator (formerly Automated Control Concepts) serving life sciences, food and beverage and critical infrastructure, and an AVEVA PI system specialist. Its published brewing case study describes building a configurable MES and digital brew book for one of the world's largest brewers, identified in the document as ABI, standardising in-process, lab and inline quality data across 150-plus facilities on COPA-DATA zenon SCADA. The company markets an AI/ML and analytics service line generally, but the brewing deployment is MES, SCADA and historian work with no machine-learning component claimed.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.inflexionpoint.ai/
• https://www.inflexionpoint.ai/assets/docs/cs/InflexionPoint_CS_Brewery.pdf

Institut Romeis Bad Kissingen GmbH

beer · Germany · Process & operations · none · active institut-romeis.de

none claimed, accredited beverage analytics laboratory

Institut Romeis is an independent accredited and GMP-certified laboratory with over 50 staff, analysing water, beverages, food and plant hygiene for the German drinks industry, and it exhibits at BrauBeviale. It combines analytical testing with consulting, training and its own in-house institute brewery used for product development and technology trials. It generates a large amount of the brewing quality data in the German market but makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.institut-romeis.de

IntelligentX

beer · United Kingdom · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant

recipe / flavor prediction

London brewing venture that used reinforcement learning and Bayesian optimization on customer feedback to iterate beer recipes. Credited with the first beer brewed with the help of AI in 2016.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2019-02-01.

• https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2016/08/09/IntelligentX-beer-brewed-by-artificial-intelligence-AI/
• https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ai-beer-intelligentx-brewing-company/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/02/01/how-artificial-intelligence-is-used-to-make-beer/

Interstates

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active interstates.com

industrial automation and analytics for food and beverage plants, no ai claim

Interstates is a US electrical engineering, industrial automation and operational technology firm whose food and beverage practice explicitly includes breweries and beverage manufacturing. It offers control automation and design, recipe tracking and ERP integration, OT networking and cybersecurity, an in-house automation platform called I-Control, and an industrial analytics service. Neither its food and beverage page nor its services pages make any artificial intelligence or machine learning claim, and it names no individual brewery, distillery or winery client. Included as an automation and OT consultancy with a stated brewing practice and no substantiated ML claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.interstates.com/about
• https://www.interstates.com/industries/food-beverage

Jamie Sherrah

beer · Australia · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active

machine learning on beer recipes and consumer review data

PhD machine learning and computer vision researcher with over 20 years in the field, serving as CTO of Deep Liquid, which trained a recipe model on more than 200,000 beer recipes and analyses QR-collected drinker feedback for brewers. Also Technical Director for Defence at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning. Role stated on Deep Liquid's current site.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/news/list/2025/03/19/deep-liquid-democratising-ai-one-beverage-at-a-time
• https://www.deepliquid.ai/

KHS Group

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · shipping · active khs.com

deep learning vision inspection of closures and can codes on filling lines

Filling and packaging line OEM for breweries and soft drink producers, wholly owned by Salzgitter AG. Its own July 2025 press release describes patent-pending deep learning models inside the Innocheck TSI closure inspection unit that evaluate high-resolution 360 degree images from two cameras in real time and can be retrained on newly discovered defect types, driven by the EU tethered cap mandate. KHS also markets the Innocheck CIC-R can base code reader as AI-assisted, and sells predictive maintenance service contracts built on machine data. The AI here is machine vision quality inspection on the packaging line, not process or fermentation modelling. Carlsberg Bulgaria is a named KHS can filling customer in trade coverage.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.khs.com/en/company/news/press-releases/detail/tethered-caps
• https://www.pandct.com/news/do-it-yourself-carlsberg-bulgaria-goes-for-cutting-edge-filling-technology

KROPF Solutions (Prozesstechnik Kropf GmbH)

beer · Germany · Process & operations · none · active kropf-solutions.com

none claimed, production and machine data acquisition

KROPF Solutions is an owner-run German systems integrator of about 70 staff across four sites, specialising in production data acquisition, machine data acquisition, energy data management and production automation. It is a COPA-DATA Gold Partner and builds its plant data and visualisation layer on zenon, and it lists the food and drink industry among its reference sectors and exhibited at drinktec 2025. The offer is process digitalisation, data collection and visualisation; the company makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.kropf-solutions.com
• https://www.kropf-solutions.com/de/loesungen/betriebs-und-maschinendatenerfassung

Keg Logistics

beer · United States · Supply chain · none · active keglogistics.com

keg rental and return logistics, no ai claim

Keg rental and rent to own provider serving over 2,800 craft brewery customers across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, with lease terms up to eight years and buyout options rather than a pooled fleet. It also ships full kegs outbound, retrieves empties from distributors and delivers dry goods, so it sits on keg movement data across a large fleet. The company advertises technology and support but names no tracking platform and makes no AI or machine learning claim. Included as a major keg fleet incumbent alongside MicroStar and Konvoy.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://keglogistics.com/about/
• https://www.sagemount.com/portfolio/keg-logistics/

KegChek

beer · Canada · Other · none · active kegchek.com

keg and draught asset tracking

KegChek is a keg tracking and fleet management system for breweries, operated by UBC COOL CANADA INC, part of the UBC Group. It tracks kegs by barcode, QR, RFID and Bluetooth scans at each stage of keg rotation and shows location and status on a map, and it extends the same tracking to trade marketing and dispensing assets such as tap handles, jockey boxes, kegerators and patio umbrellas. The product makes no AI or machine learning claim: reporting is standard inventory and status reporting exported to PDF or Excel.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://kegchek.com/
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubc.kegchekubc

KegID

beer · unknown · Quality & inspection · none · active kegid.com

keg scan tracking and traceability

KegID is a low cost keg tracking subscription, run by the Hillebrand keg team inside DHL, that lets brewery staff scan kegs with a smartphone camera and see fleet location, keg age and days in circulation. It covers batch traceability and quality control reporting and integrates with the Kegspediter keg management service. Pricing runs from USD 25 a month for 150 kegs to USD 100 a month for 500 or more. KegID makes no AI or machine learning claim: it is barcode scanning plus reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://kegid.com/
• https://www.hillebrandgori.com/

KegSpeed

beer · unknown · Other · none · active kegspeed.com

cellular smart keg trackers

KegSpeed sells patented smart trackers that attach to any keg brand and report location and status over cellular and GPS, with embedded sensors for motion, temperature and pressure, aimed at brewers and distributors trying to cut keg loss. It positions itself as an open system with an API that works across keg makers and brewery inventory software rather than a closed fleet. KegSpeed makes no AI or machine learning claim: it refers only to analytics and data insights on top of the tracker feed.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.kegspeed.com/about/
• https://www.kegspeed.com/intelligent-keg-tracker/

Kegshoe

beer · Canada · Demand & pricing · none · active kegshoe.ca

keg fleet tracking / sales CRM

Keg tracking and management software plus a sales CRM for breweries: scan-based fills, deliveries, returns and lookups across the keg fleet, with inventory levels and pickup timing. Founded 2015 by Torin Regier and Adrian Pawliszko. Kegshoe makes no public AI or machine-learning claims; it is tracked here as the system of record for keg fleet and account data, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://kegshoe.ca/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kegshoe

Kegstar

beer · Netherlands · Other · none · active kegstar.com

keg fleet pooling and tracking

Kegstar runs a shared stainless steel keg pool for brewers on a pay-per-fill basis, handling collection, cleaning, quality inspection and redistribution so brewers do not own a keg fleet. It is the international division of MicroStar Logistics, operating in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, and the combined MicroStar and Kegstar pool is stated at over 6 million kegs. Keg movements are managed through its TAP management platform. The company makes no machine learning or AI claim on its site; the platform is presented as tracking and fleet administration.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/09/12/3149341/0/en/Kegstar-the-International-Division-of-MicroStar-Logistics-Accelerates-Growth-in-the-UK-and-Across-Europe.html
• https://www.kegstar.com/

Kegtron

beer · United States · Other · none · active kegtron.com

keg level and pour monitoring

Kegtron makes inline smart keg monitors that sit between the keg and the tap, using a flowmeter and a wireless processor to report how much beer has been dispensed and how much remains, for both home kegerators and multi tap venues. Products are the Kegtron Pro and Gen 1 lines plus SAFECID line cleaners, and the platform adds reporting and an Untappd integration. Kegtron makes no AI or machine learning claim: the value is direct volume measurement and real time reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://kegtron.com/
• https://kegtron.com/about/

Kirin Holdings

beer · Japan · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active kirinholdings.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Kirin built a proprietary AI recipe system, developed with Mitsubishi Research Institute, that draws on roughly 20 years of internal ingredient and tasting data to translate desired sensory profiles into ingredient combinations. Kirin plans to bring AI-supported beers to market from March 2026.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-06-01.

• https://www.inside.beer/news/detail/japan-kirin-accelerates-beer-innovation-with-ai-driven-brewing
• https://www.kirinholdings.com/en/newsroom/release/2021/0831_01.html

Konvoy Kegs

beer · Australia · Process & operations · none · active konvoykegs.com

iot keg fleet tracking

Konvoy rents, services and tracks kegs for brewers across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and describes itself as operating the largest IoT tracked keg fleet globally with automated location tracking on every keg and no scanning required. The trackers were built by UnaBiz on the Sigfox 0G network operated by Thinxtra, and report keg location, temperature and usage. Konvoy makes no machine learning claim: the platform is asset telemetry and fleet visibility rather than modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://thinxtra.com/blog/konvoy-iot-beer-keg-tracking/
• https://www.konvoykegs.com/

L2L (Leading2Lean)

beer · United States · Other · shipping · active l2l.com

ai over shop floor data and digital sops

L2L is a connected manufacturing operations platform covering maintenance, production monitoring and digital work instructions, and it markets Execution AI that turns shop floor data into suggested fixes. HEINEKEN is a named customer on the homepage with a stated 50 percent reduction in training time from digital SOPs. L2L now absorbs SwipeGuide, the Amsterdam digital work instruction vendor whose domain redirects to l2l.com. The AI claim is about surfacing fixes from operational data, not a documented LLM retrieval stack.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.l2l.com/
• https://www.swipeguide.com/

Lallemand Brewing

beer · Canada · Process & operations · none · active lallemandbrewing.com

no ai claim; brewing yeast and fermentation science

Lallemand Brewing is the brewing division of Lallemand Inc, producing dried pure culture brewing yeasts and fermentation products and running an extensive technical education and research programme spanning thiols, yeast strain behaviour and fermentation management. Verified directly on the vendor site after a browser pass cleared its Cloudflare challenge. Lallemand makes no public machine-learning or AI claim for its strain development; it is tracked here as the fermentation science and ingredient layer underneath brewery data, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.lallemandbrewing.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/lallemand-brewing/about/

Lehui International

beer · China · Process & operations · none · active lehui.com

brewhouse automation and plant management software

Ningbo Lehui International Engineering Equipment builds turnkey breweries, from raw material handling and brewhouse to cellar, filtration and packaging lines, and is one of the largest brewing equipment OEMs in Asia. Its named digital line is a Digital System group covering a Standard Production Line Operation Management System and a Standardized Manufacturing Business Management System, alongside a Turn-key Brewery Automation category and an Automated Remote Services offering, staffed by more than 40 automatic control engineers. The control layer is conventional PLC and SCADA with recipe handling and remote diagnosis. Lehui makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its own site; it matters to this database as the plant layer where Chinese brewery process data originates.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://en.lehui.com/about.html
• https://www.lehuicraft.com/about-us/

Leuven Institute for Beer Research

beer · Belgium · Sensory & recipe · research · active libr.be

machine learning prediction of beer flavor and consumer appreciation

LIBR is an independent beer research institute embedded in KU Leuven that sells consultancy, R and D projects, pilot malting and two pilot breweries to the brewing industry, alongside genetics, microbial ecology and sensory analysis services. Its team, with the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, measured over 200 chemical properties across 250 commercial Belgian beers in 22 styles, combined trained panel sensory data with more than 180,000 consumer reviews, and trained machine learning models that predict flavor and consumer appreciation and recommend aroma compounds to add. The models were validated by improving a commercial Belgian ale and an alcohol-free variant in blind tasting, published in Nature Communications in 2024. This is contract research and industry consultancy, not a productized software vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://press.vib.be/ai-predicts-the-taste-and-quality-of-beer
• https://www.libr.be/

Limble

beer · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active limble.com

maintenance analytics with anomaly detection and forecasting

Limble is a CMMS and maintenance management platform that markets directly to breweries and exhibits at the Craft Brewers Conference. Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine is a named customer, replacing a slow legacy CMMS and using Limble work and asset data to rebalance preventive maintenance across its equipment. Limble's Practical AI line includes anomaly detection, forecast and planning, and a PM builder, so the AI is a shipping product feature, though the published Allagash story describes conventional CMMS use rather than machine learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://limble.com/customer-story/allagash-brewing
• https://limble.com/practical-ai/

Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC

beer · Sri Lanka · Demand & pricing · pilot · active lionbeer.com

demand forecasting and predictive maintenance on google cloud

Sri Lanka's largest brewer, based in Biyagama. It moved its SAP system and analytics stack to Google Cloud, running BigQuery and Looker Studio Pro for reporting, and is targeting a 10 percentage point improvement in demand forecast accuracy using Google Cloud AI against weather, market and geopolitical volatility. It also plans to apply Google Cloud AI and ML services to IoT-ready brewery machines for predictive maintenance. The forecasting and maintenance AI are stated as targets and plans, so treat as pilot rather than proven production.

Provenance: Scout: scout:google. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://cloud.google.com/customers/lion-brewery
• https://www.lionbeer.com/

MADIC dynamics

beer · United Kingdom · Process & operations · none · active madic-dynamics.com

no ai claim, brewery erp and batch analytics

MADIC dynamics is the drinks industry arm of MADIC UK, part of the French MADIC Group, and says it was the first UK partner to build a drinks industry solution on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Its brewery and pub company product handles real time stock, batch tracking, volume reporting, trade invoicing, EDI, direct debits and an eSales24 e commerce and SalesTalk field sales layer. It makes no machine learning claim, the analytics are conventional Business Central reporting, and it matters here as a system of record for UK brewers and pub estates.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://madic-dynamics.com/breweries/
• https://madic-group.com/en/companies/

MaintainX

beer · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active getmaintainx.com

maintenance work order management with AI generated procedures

MaintainX is a mobile CMMS and enterprise asset management platform with a food and beverage manufacturing vertical. SanTan Brewing Company in Chandler, Arizona is a named customer: in six months it completed close to 450 work orders and brought about 340 assets onto the system across eight teams, replacing untracked reactive maintenance at its brewery and pub. MaintainX ships AI features across the product, including AI generated maintenance procedures and anomaly detection on asset data, but the published brewery deployment itself is plain work order and preventive maintenance tracking with no machine learning described.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.getmaintainx.com/case-studies/santan-brewing-co-uses-maintainx-to-open-up-maintenance-management
• https://www.getmaintainx.com/use-cases/ai-powered-maintenance-operations

MarshallAI

beer · Finland · Quality & inspection · shipping · active marshallai.com

deep learning machine vision for production line quality assurance

MarshallAI is a deep learning computer vision platform that runs on any camera or sensor and integrates with MES, SCADA and ERP systems. In manufacturing it does automated optical inspection for defect detection, assembly verification, and OCR of barcodes and expiry or batch codes, with the site showing AI-powered OCR read from an aluminium can. It exhibited at BrauBeviale Nuremberg, which is where it enters the beverage landscape. Bittium invested in the company in 2017.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://marshallai.com/about/
• https://marshallai.com/industries/manufacturing-industrial-qa/
• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

McEnery Automation

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active mceneryautomation.com

brewery historian and mes standardisation

McEnery Automation is a CSIA member systems integrator whose brewing work is a named practice area rather than a sideline: its principals present at the Master Brewers Association conference and sponsor its events. Its published brewery projects are a research pilot brewery control system built on ControlLogix, FactoryTalk ViewSE and FactoryTalk Historian with recipe management for unlimited master recipes and a bridge into an existing Oracle MES, a packaging line automation project at a flagship brewery, and a brewing MES standard rolled out across eighteen North American sites of a global beverage producer. That MES standard runs FactoryTalk Historian with OSIsoft PI Asset Framework, Coresight, DataLink and the PI Integrator for Business Analytics over SQL Server, collecting more than 50,000 tags per site and feeding LineView OEE dashboards, statistical process control and PI Notifications for predictive maintenance alerts. The end customers are described only as major global brewers and are not named. There is no machine learning in the delivered stack.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.mceneryautomation.com/case-study/brewery-control-system
• https://www.mceneryautomation.com/case-study/brewing-mes-standard

Meura

beer · Belgium · Other · none · active meura.com

mash filtration and brewhouse technology

Brewing and distilling process technology, best known for the Meura 2001 thin-bed membrane mash filter, used in production of more than 25 percent of global beer volume; the 500th unit sold in 2023. Founded 1845 by Jean-Baptiste Meura; a Boccard subsidiary since the Boccard family entered the shareholding in 1987. Meura makes no public AI or machine-learning claim; it is tracked here as brewhouse process technology, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://brauwelt.com/en/news/company-news/645631-meura-sells-500th-meura2001-mash-filter-in-2023
• https://www.meura.com/corporate/history.html

MicroStar Logistics

beer · United States · Supply chain · none · active microstarlogistics.com

shared keg pool logistics

MicroStar runs the largest shared keg pool in the beer industry on a pay per fill model, so brewers use pooled kegs instead of owning a fleet, and it claims to remove 4.1 million truck miles of empty keg returns a year. Its international arm is Kegstar, which serves brewers in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand and offers a customer platform called TAP. MicroStar makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site: it is a physical keg logistics network with a customer portal, and it is included here because it is the incumbent that owns most of the keg movement data in the sector.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.kegstar.com/
• https://www.microstarlogistics.com/

Mitsubishi Research Institute

beer · Japan · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active mri.co.jp

brewing recipe prediction and inverse recipe search

Mitsubishi Research Institute is a Japanese think tank and consultancy whose DX practice co-developed the Brewing Takumi AI (jozo takumi AI) with Kirin Holdings. The system has a forward prediction function that estimates the result of a beer trial brew that would normally take about a month, and a reverse search function that proposes a recipe from a target beer specification. MRI states the aim was both development cost reduction and transfer of veteran brewers' tacit knowledge to younger staff, and it sells the underlying Takumi AI approach as a productised service. The named brewing customer is Kirin Holdings.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://dx.mri.co.jp/cases/new-product-development/
• https://dx.mri.co.jp/service/service-224/

Molson Coors (Atwater Brewery)

beer · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant molsoncoors.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Molson Coors-owned Atwater Brewery released an Artificial Intelligence IPA whose recipe was developed using ChatGPT, using Centennial, Citra, Amarillo and Hull Melon hops. The 6.9 percent ABV beer was served on draft across Atwater taprooms in Michigan.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2023-01-31.

• https://craftbusinessdaily.com/atwater-brewery-launches-ai-developed-beer/
• https://www.molsoncoorsblog.com/atwater-ai-chatgpt-beer

MugClub.beer

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active mugclub.beer

brewery taproom loyalty and membership data

MugClub.beer is membership software for craft brewery mug clubs, handling club build, tiers, benefits, subscription payments and member record keeping for taprooms. It is listed under Software and Technology in the Brewing Industry Guide supplier directory. It captures taproom loyalty and repeat visit data for breweries, and makes no AI or machine learning claim on its own site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:directories. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.brewingindustryguide.com/suppliers
• https://www.mugclub.beer/about

NEC Corporation

beer · Japan · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active nec.com

generative AI craft beer recipe and brand copy co-creation

NEC runs a long-standing applied AI programme with Coedo Brewery in Japan called Agentic AI x Craft Beer, first released in 2020 and relaunched on generative AI. NEC's own large language model, NEC cotomi, generated the recipes, product statements, brand introductions and accompanying short fiction for a four-beer range built around drinkers in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, with Coedo's brewers keeping design authority over what was actually brewed. The work sits under NEC BluStellar and won a Newsweek AI Impact APAC and EMEA award in the marketing and creative category in December 2025. The AI is NEC's, not the brewery's, so this is a vendor entry rather than an operator one.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2025-12-16.

• https://www.coedobrewery.com/en/
• https://www.nec.com/en/global/solutions/ai/ai_craft/index.html

National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA)

beer · United States · Demand & pricing · active nbwa.org

forward-looking beer demand index from distributor purchase surveys

NBWA is the US trade association for independent beer and beverage distributors and publishes the Beer Purchasers' Index, a monthly net-rising survey index of distributor beer purchasing built on the Purchasing Managers' Index model and segmented by beer category. The BPI is the only forward-looking industry indicator of expected beer demand one month ahead, and NBWA also releases Compiled Industry Data and Distributor Reported Data. This is survey-based statistical measurement with no machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://nbwa.org/about/
• https://nbwa.org/resources/beer-purchasers-index/

Net Zero Now

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active netzeronow.org

brewery carbon accounting and net zero reporting

Net Zero Now runs a sector-specific carbon accounting platform and has offered a dedicated brewery pathway since 2022, built with keg pooler Konvoy and Toast. Breweries enter operational, ingredient and packaging data and get Scope 1, 2 and 3 footprints, science-based targets and a reduction plan; named brewery users include Adnams and Renegade Brewery, and the platform integrates with the BrewMan brewery management system. It makes no machine learning claim: the site describes standard GHG Protocol calculation and reporting tools, not models. The company is now part of Ecologi.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://netzeronow.org/post/net-zero-brewery-initiative-guide
• https://www.renegadebrewery.co.uk/2024-net-zero-update/

New Zealand Hops Ltd (NZ Hops)

beer · New Zealand · Other · none · active nzhops.co.nz

none (hop breeding and supply)

NZ Hops is the grower cooperative that markets almost all New Zealand hops, with 28 member growers exporting around 80 percent of the harvest to more than 40 countries, and it supplies the New World aroma varieties craft brewers buy by name. It has backed a professional hop breeding programme since the 1950s and signed a formal breeding partnership with Plant and Food Research in 2020 covering new cultivar development and grower trials. The breeding described on its own site is conventional crossing, selection and trialling led by breeders, with a stated ten year or more cycle per cultivar; there is no marker-assisted selection, genomic prediction or machine learning claim. Tracked as a major hop-layer supplier with no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://nzhops.co.nz/blogs/news/new-collaborative-research-agreement-locks-in-a-sustainable-future-for-the-new-zealand-hops-industry
• https://nzhops.co.nz/pages/innovation

Next Glass

beer · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active nextglass.co

consumer consumption data analytics and generative menu design

Next Glass is the parent of Untappd, Untappd for Business, Untappd Insights, Oznr, Ekos and Ollie, giving it both brewery production software and the largest consumer beer consumption dataset, over 1.5 billion logged check ins. Untappd Insights sells that data back to breweries, distributors and retailers as reports, dashboards and custom analyses covering style and flavour trends, regional consumption and sentiment. The verified AI is narrower than the data asset suggests: a generative AI design tool for digital menus in Untappd for Business, with trend work still largely aggregate analytics rather than published predictive models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.nextglass.co/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/untappd-for-business-revolutionizes-digital-menu-customization-with-ai-powered-design-tool-302282240.html

NuMove Robotics and Vision

beer · Canada · Agriculture & crop · none · active numove.ca

none, machine vision and robotics for mixed SKU beer pallet building

NuMove is a Montreal systems integrator building robotic palletising, depalletising, case packing and warehouse picking systems, with a machine vision practice and its own NuLogik control software. It is an NBWA associate member and writes for beer wholesalers on mixed SKU pallet preparation, the core warehouse problem in beer distribution as SKU counts and variety packs proliferate. The site describes machine vision and proprietary software but makes no machine learning or AI claim, so it is recorded here as automation rather than AI.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• http://numove.ca/en/industries/food-beverage/
• https://nbwa.org/blog-post/a-comparative-solutions-overview-to-mixed-sku-pallet-preparation-in-beer-distribution/

OMRON Kirin Techno-System

beer · Japan · Quality & inspection · none · active kirintechno.automation.omron.com

machine vision inspection of filled and empty beer bottles and cans

OMRON Kirin Techno-System was spun out of Kirin Brewery's engineering division and is 60 percent owned by OMRON and 40 percent by Kirin Brewery. It builds the inspection machines that sit at the end of beer and beverage filling lines: filled bottle inspection, empty glass and PET bottle inspection, preform, cap, X-ray fill level and coding verification machines. Its own technology pages describe in house high speed image processing engines and an optimised template matching method for detecting checks and cracks in glass, explicitly framed as reproducing an expert operator's skill; there is no deep learning or AI claim anywhere on the site. It matters here as a brewery owned OEM that generates per container quality data on Japanese beer lines.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://kirintechno.automation.omron.com/eng/technology/imageprocessing/
• https://www.kirinholdings.com/en/newsroom/release/2022/1018_01.html

ORTEC

beer · Netherlands · Other · shipping · active ortec.com

route and load optimization for beer distribution

ORTEC is a Dutch optimization software company that sells a purpose-built Beer and Beverage Distribution Solution Suite to US beer wholesalers, covering order management, route planning, truck load building, real-time execution monitoring and KPI analytics. Its 2025 Integrated Routing and Loading product is embedded inside SAP ERP and optimizes routes and load plans simultaneously. The company describes the underlying technology as mathematical optimization and advanced analytics with prescriptive planning and predictive ETAs informed by traffic, weather and resource availability, not as machine learning. ORTEC Americas is based in Atlanta and exhibits at the NBWA Annual Convention.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://ortec.com/resources/news/ortec-beer-beverage-distribution-suite
• https://ortec.com/resources/news/sap-loading-routing-beverage-distributors
• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/eBooth.aspx?BoothID=354404&Nav=False

Ollie

beer · unknown · Demand & pricing · none · active getollie.com

brewery production and sales management software

Ollie is brewery management software for craft producers from 1 BBL to 20,000+ BBL, covering production planning, inventory, order fulfilment, TTB compliance reporting, QuickBooks integration and sales analytics. It is now part of Next Glass, alongside Ekos, Untappd and Oznr. Checked its own site and its Next Glass product page: Ollie makes no AI or machine learning claim, it is a system of record with reporting and dashboards.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://getollie.com/
• https://www.nextglass.co/ollie/

Omega Yeast

beer · United States · Other · active omegayeast.com

no substantiated ai claim

Omega Yeast propagates liquid brewing yeast to order for craft brewers from Chicago, founded in 2013, and sells a set of engineered strains and technologies branded Thiolized, DKO, Lumina and Zing, described on its own site as years of R and D producing engineered strains. That work is strain engineering and screening, not data science. There is no mention of genomics pipelines, machine learning, predictive flavour modelling or analytics anywhere on the public site. Included as an honest null for the yeast layer, where engineered strains are often mistaken for AI-driven strain design.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.omegayeast.com/
• https://www.omegayeast.com/pages/about

Orion Breweries

beer · Japan · Other · none · active orionbeer.co.jp

no AI claim; brewery IT and business systems moved to cloud

Orion Breweries is Okinawa's brewer, founded in 1957 as Okinawa Beer Company and now the Orion Group, spanning beer production and sales plus hotel and tourism businesses. Its AWS customer story, published with AWS partner Ryucom, covers migrating on-premises internal business systems to AWS in about six months around a head office move, freeing IT staff from server rebuilds and hardware maintenance and hardening business continuity against typhoons. The evidence is an infrastructure migration only. Orion makes no machine learning or analytics claim in that story or on its own corporate site, so this is a beer operator in the cloud rather than an AI adopter.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://aws.amazon.com/jp/solutions/case-studies/orionbeer-ryucom/
• https://www.orionbeer.co.jp/company/

Orise

beer · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active orise.com

anomaly detection and asset health monitoring on brewery production lines

Orise is a German industrial automation, digitalisation and optimisation firm that absorbed the brewery engineering expertise of Rolec Prozess- und Brautechnik as Rolec winds down through liquidation in 2026, and now sells a Brewery Optimization Services line. Its named digital products include Performance Monitor, Lean Shopfloor Manager, Asset Health Monitoring, and a Manufacturing AI line covering Anomaly Detection, Micro-Stop Detection and custom AI solutions. Orise states plainly that this was a transfer of people and know-how, not an acquisition of the Rolec business. The AI claim sits in the Manufacturing AI product line rather than in the brewery process control itself.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://orise.com/brewery-optimization-expertise/
• https://www.cft-group.com/rolec-the-brewery-experts/

PLAATO

beer · Norway · Process & operations · shipping · dormant plaato.ai

fermentation optimization

PLAATO is a Norwegian manufacturing-intelligence platform for brewing and distilling whose Pro sensors feed real-time gravity and temperature data into predictive models that forecast when and at what final gravity a fermentation will end. It serves 250-plus breweries, cideries and distilleries.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2024-05-28.

• https://plaato.ai/blog/2024/05/28/inside-the-development-of-plaatos-predictive-brewing-models
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/danieladelorenzo/2023/06/08/norwegian-startup-plaato-is-brewing-the-largest-revolution-in-the-food-tech-industry/

PRECOGIT GmbH

beer · Germany · Consulting · none · active precogit.gmbh

none claimed, SAP-based digitalisation consulting for breweries

PRECOGIT is a consultancy and implementation partner for digitalisation in the brewing and beverage industry, working on SAP technology with pre-built templates for process manufacturing so customers evaluate against a working demo system before committing. Services run from a fixed-price scoping workshop through implementation to support, with a stated focus on manufacturing execution systems and warehouse management. Founded in October 2021 by Dr Michael Eberhard, a brewing and beverage technologist, and Christian Gradt, an SAP specialist. It makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.precogit.gmbh/produkte/
• https://www.precogit.gmbh/unternehmen/

Peco InspX

beer · United States · Quality & inspection · none · active peco-inspx.com

x-ray and fill level inspection of beverage containers

Peco InspX builds x-ray systems, fill level monitors and dud detectors for beverage and food packaging lines, with a dedicated beverage applications section covering empty and filled cans, glass containers, can seam defects and foreign material detection. It exhibited at drinktec 2025 under inspection, control and analysis. The site references detection algorithms but makes no machine learning or AI claim; it is inspection instrumentation generating per-container quality data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/pecoinspx
• https://www.peco-inspx.com/applications/comparing-beverage-applications/

Peerox GmbH

beer · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active peerox.de

ai assistant for machine fault resolution

Peerox sells MADDOX, a self-learning assistance system for machine operators and maintenance staff in food and beverage production lines. The company describes MADDOX as a KI-based (AI-based) assistance system that connects to machine data so it can suggest fixes for the specific fault state a line is in, and it captures operator knowledge that would otherwise stay in notebooks and heads. It exhibited at drinktec 2025 under the digital solutions and MES categories. The AI is a recommendation and knowledge-retrieval layer over machine and incident data rather than a process control model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://peerox.de/produkt/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/peerox

Pentair Haffmans

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active pentair.com

no ai claim; inline and at-line dissolved co2, o2 and total package oxygen measurement for breweries

Haffmans is Pentair's beverage quality control instrument line, selling inline optical CO2 and O2 meters such as the AuCoMet-i and OGM plus portable c-DGM and o-DGM total package oxygen meters to breweries. Pentair's own case study names Carib Brewery USA, formerly Florida Beer Company, which used the c-DGM with the ISD 2.0 sampling device during a 2014 expansion, found elevated oxygen from insufficient CO2 purging within two days, overhauled its fermenter to bright tank transfer and now reports 0 to 15 ppb oxygen in bottled product. No AI or predictive analytics is claimed; this is sensor instrumentation that generates the quality data other tools model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://foodandbeverage.pentair.com/en/case-studies/carib-brewery-usa.html
• https://foodandbeverage.pentair.com/en/products/haffmans-optical-in-line-co2-o2-meter-aucomet-i.html

Pluto7

beer · India) · Consulting · shipping · active pluto7.com

AI consulting

AI and machine learning consultancy and Google Cloud Premier Partner building supply chain and manufacturing planning solutions, with specialisations in Machine Learning, Analytics and Application Development across North America and APAC, and an office and employee base in Bengaluru, India. Products include Planning in a Box and the Pi Agent agentic platform, positioned to co-exist with SAP, Oracle and Salesforce. Delivered the machine learning model that optimised beer filtration and demand forecasting for AB InBev.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://pluto7.com/about-us/
• https://pluto7.com/googlecloud/ab-inbev-with-machine-learning-this-buds-for-you/

PourMyBeer

beer · United States · Demand & pricing · pilot · active pourmybeer.com

self pour taproom pour level sales analytics

PourMyBeer supplies self serve tap walls, stations and trailers for taprooms, breweries, hotels and stadiums, with pay by the ounce dispensing via QR, RFID or card, and gives operators pour level sales and customer behaviour reporting. Coca-Cola European Partners Ventures has invested. Honest read on the AI: the site mentions predictive analytics in its reporting but publishes no evidence of actual machine learning, so treat this as high quality pour telemetry and dashboards rather than an AI product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://barrelsahead.com/the-future-of-draft-beer-with-ai-and-robotics-powered-internet-of-beer-with-can-algul-of-pubinno/
• https://pourmybeer.com/

Praj Industries

beer · India · Process & operations · pilot · active praj.net

AI-enabled precision fermentation / brewery plant engineering

Process solutions company for bio-energy, high-purity water and brewery plants, with a brewery division running since 1994, over 70 percent market share in India and installations across Africa and Southeast Asia. In 2025 Praj opened an Advanced Precision Fermentation Lab at its Praj Matrix R&D centre in Pune with a research partnership with BRIC-NCCS, designed to support high-capacity AI-enabled fermentation processes across food, pharma, biofuels and beverages, aimed at reducing scale-up risk and improving process reliability. The AI claim attaches to the fermentation R&D facility, not to the brewery plant product line. Praj's own resources index also lists Remote Bridge, an application for remote monitoring and management of plants, described publicly in terms of higher site availability and reduced downtime; its product page currently returns 404. On public evidence Remote Bridge is plant monitoring and reporting, and carries no AI or machine learning claim of its own.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://cultivated-x.com/fermentation/ai-integrated-fermentation-capacity-expands-praj-matrix-india-targets-bio-based-economy/
• https://www.praj.net/businesslines/beverages/
• https://www.praj.net/businesslines/industrial-brewery/
• https://www.praj.net/resources/

Precision Fermentation (Sennos)

beer · unknown · Quality & inspection · shipping · active precisionfermentation.com

quality control / computer vision

Maker of the BrewMonitor real-time fermentation monitoring system for breweries, using IoT sensors and adaptive analytics trained on tens of thousands of fermentations to flag events and anomalies. Rebranded to Sennos.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-01.

• https://aithority.com/technology/analytics/precision-fermentation-streamlines-craft-beer-quality-control-with-data-management-capabilities/
• https://www.precisionfermentation.com/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/precision-fermentation-advances-the-automation-of-brewery-production-insights-with-brewmonitor-system-2-5--301365975.html

Premier Stainless Systems

beer · United States · Consumer & personalization · active premierstainless.com

brewhouse and cellar automation panels with data trending

Premier Stainless Systems has supplied brewhouses, fermenters, brite tanks and keg washers to craft breweries since 2000 and sells a brewhouse and cellar automation line alongside the vessels. Its 16 and 32 zone automated cellar panels provide remote setpoint access and alarms, zone and glycol data trending, glycol header pressure and temperature alarming, automated step chilling and data entry for tank status and beer information. The brewhouse touchscreen upgrade uses an Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLC with a Beijer HMI and adds recipe storage for control setpoints and hop addition alerts, flow totalizers, alarm history with a troubleshooting guide and an Ewon WiFi module for remote access. No AI or machine learning is claimed anywhere in the offering; it is process control plus historised trend data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://premierstainless.com/
• https://www.premierstainless.com/brewhouse-and-cellar-automation/

Pressco Technology

beer · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · active pressco.com

high speed vision inspection of beverage containers

Pressco Technology builds high speed optical inspection and process analysis systems for food and beverage packaging, with beer and beverage cans, can ends, closures, labels and date codes explicitly among the applications, and over 8,000 systems installed. The flagship INTELLISPEC platform runs up to eight cameras per processor and includes RETRO-SPEC, which charts good and defective parts so operators tune the batch rather than react to single rejects. The company homepage refers to AI features on an INTELLISPEC FOCAL POINT product, but no published detail substantiates a machine learning model, and the documented INTELLISPEC platform is conventional rule based machine vision with SPC output. Part of the Kestrel Vision group.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.pressco.com/
• https://www.pressco.com/products/intellispec/

ProcesTeh d.o.o.

beer · Croatia · Process & operations · none · active procesteh.com

automation and mes software for filling lines

ProcesTeh is a Croatian automation house supplying software, electrical engineering, retrofits and filling plants to beverage producers, working with AutomationX and as part of the GAW Group. It exhibited at drinktec 2025 under automation and process control, digital solutions, and networking, control and MES solutions. Its own site gives little product detail beyond the software and retrofit service lines, and it makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://hr.linkedin.com/company/procesteh
• https://procesteh.com/

Process and Data Automation (PDA)

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active processanddata.com

none claimed, oee and line performance data services

Process and Data Automation is a CSIA-certified industrial control systems integration and data services firm founded in 2002 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and now a member of the Krones Group, which is why it exhibits at drinktec alongside the beverage filling business. Its offer centres on OEE consulting, line performance assessment, an Agnostic Performance Boosting tool, a digitalization group and the eQS quality system. The work is line data capture, integration and continuous improvement; the site makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.processanddata.com

Propagate Lab

beer · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant propagatelab.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Propagate Lab, a Colorado craft-beverage yeast supplier, launched Yeast Buddy in 2024, a conversational LLM chatbot trained on its internal knowledge that guides brewers through a library of more than 120 yeast strains to select the right pitch for a target flavor and ABV.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2024-08-13.

• https://www.brewbound.com/pr/2024/08/13/propagate-lab-puts-artificial-intelligence-to-work-for-brewers
• https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/news/propagate-lab-launches-ai-bot-yeast-buddy-to-help-find-the-perfect-pitch/

Pubinno

beer · Turkey · Process & operations · shipping · active pubinno.com

AI-powered draft beer operating system

Pubinno makes an AI-powered draft beverage operating system with connected smart taps that manage pouring, cleaning, and performance monitoring. Its systems run across thousands of venues in multiple countries.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://pubinno.com/
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Qualflow Systems Ltd

beer · Ireland · Process & operations · none · active qualflow.com

none claimed, beer line cleaning verification data

Qualflow makes automatic beer-line cleaning equipment for pubs and brewers, plus VerifyClean, a paired mobile app and web dashboard that records every cleaning cycle. The app carries the technician or pub cleaning schedule and transfers data from the beer-line cleaner into an encrypted customer database, so a brewer or pub company can confirm from head office that draught systems were cleaned correctly and on time. It is a monitoring and compliance data product with dashboards, and the company makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.qualflow.com
• https://www.qualflow.com/verifyclean-software

Quantiphi (OrderSmart)

beer · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active quantiphi.com

demand forecasting

Quantiphi is an AI services firm that publishes OrderSmart on Azure Marketplace, an Azure AI based demand forecasting and predictive ordering SaaS for FMCG and beverage direct-store-delivery distributors, built in partnership with CONA Services. It ships a beer distributor edition and has presented predictive ordering to the Brewers Association, with the vendor claiming more than 10,000 sales associates using it daily and up to 60 percent reduction in per-store servicing cost. The AI is a proprietary machine learning sales forecasting model that pre-generates suggested orders for reps.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/quantiphiinc1636476144213.ordersmart_saas?tab=overview
• https://cdn.quantiphi.com/2021/08/ab61955e-ordersmart-for-beer-distributors.pdf
• https://quantiphi.com/blog/advanced-ai-in-erp-systems-the-future-of-beer-beverage-retail/

RAMP RFID

beer · unknown · Other · shipping · active ramprfid.com

rfid keg tracking

RAMP RFID is an RFID systems integrator covering returnable asset tracking, inventory tracking and automated vehicle identification, with food and beverage as a named industry. It delivers KegFlow, a keg tracking solution built for brewing that uses UHF RFID tags able to survive keg washing and sterilisation, plus reading stations on filling lines and portals at warehouse gates, so brewers can locate individual kegs at each supply chain stage. RAMP states KegFlow was developed by its partner Alizent and is used by brewers including Carlsberg and AB InBev. Alizent's own KegFlow site no longer resolves, so RAMP is the live channel for the product. The claim is algorithms and reporting over RFID reads, not machine learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://ramprfid.com/learn/technology/rfid-asset-tracking-software/
• https://ramprfid.com/product/kegflow/

RaspberryPints

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active raspberrypints.com

taproom digital taplist and menu synchronisation

RaspberryPints is digital taplist and beer menu software for breweries, taprooms and bars, syncing TV displays, website embeds, QR codes and printable PDFs from one dashboard, with keg and inventory tracking, Untappd feeds and a public API for POS integrations. It grew out of a 2014 open source Raspberry Pi taplist project into a hosted SaaS with a free tier. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; FlowBox pour level hardware is listed as coming soon.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://github.com/RaspberryPints/RaspberryPints
• https://www.raspberrypints.com/

ReFlow Tech

beer · India · Process & operations · shipping · active reflowtech.in

AI-driven batch-consistency analytics on fermentation IoT data

Indian smart-manufacturing vendor whose brewery product monitors temperature, pressure, specific gravity, pH and DO in real time and layers 'AI-driven analytics' on the historical batch data to improve batch-to-batch consistency scientifically, replacing manual brew logs. Live product with at least one named brewery client (2Pints).

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-06-01.

• https://reflowtech.in/brewery
• https://www.imarcgroup.com/insight/ai-is-transforming-india-beer-industry

Redfaire

beer · Ireland · Process & operations · active redfaire.com

oracle jd edwards and oci for brewery and distillery production, shelf life and distribution data

Redfaire is an Oracle JD Edwards and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure partner of roughly 180 people, headquartered in Limerick with UK and US offices, and a founding partner of the Redfaire International network. Its published beverage reference is Adnams, the Suffolk brewer and distiller, migrated from legacy System 21 to JD Edwards on OCI from 2019, unifying brewery, distillery, distribution centre, retail stores and hotels on one data set with automated beer shelf life expiry alerts and daily rather than weekly planning decisions. It serves a Beverages and Dairy segment inside its Food and CPG practice and markets an AI workshop and AI-driven JD Edwards insights via the eyko reporting tool, but the Adnams work itself involves no machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.redfaire.com/about-us/
• https://www.redfaire.com/customer-success/adnams
• https://www.redfaire.com/industries/jdedwards-erp-food-and-cpg

Repify AI

beer · unknown · Demand & pricing · none · active repifyai.com

automated sales incentive and execution tracking for beverage distributors

Repify AI is a sales execution platform for beer and beverage distributors that ties incentive programmes to tracked field actions such as volume drives, display execution and new point of distribution win backs, then automates commission payout. It states over 500,000 order to payout matches automated and pricing from 25 dollars per user per month. Despite the name, the site describes rule based automation and matching rather than any specific machine learning model, and no ML claim should be read into it. It presented at the 2026 BIECC Innovation Showcase.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/
• https://www.repifyai.com/

Repsly

beer · United States · Other · shipping · active repsly.com

shelf image recognition and ai territory planning for beverage field teams

Repsly is a retail execution platform for consumer goods field teams, with a stated push into the beverage category and Asahi named as a customer on its own site. Its AI is real and named: image recognition that returns shelf insights from photos in under 60 seconds at a claimed 98 percent SKU accuracy, delivered through a September 2025 partnership with ParallelDots, plus an AI-powered Territory Advisor launched in July 2025 that reworks rep territory assignments. A November 2025 release added Calypso Lemonade, Mela Watermelon Water, Health-Ade and So Good So You to its beverage portfolio, so the alcohol exposure is beer-side while the wider book is non-alcoholic drinks.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2025-11-06.

• https://www.repsly.com/
• https://www.repsly.com/blog/repsly-expands-beverage-industry-leadership-adding-major-brands-to-its-growing-portfolio

Research Institute of Brewing and Malting (Vyzkumny ustav pivovarsky a sladarsky)

beer · Czech Republic · Agriculture & crop · none · active beerresearch.cz

none claimed; accredited brewing and malting analysis

The Research Institute of Brewing and Malting is the only Czech institute that has worked systematically on brewing and malting since the second half of the nineteenth century, with accredited laboratories in Prague and Brno. It runs analytical testing on cereals, hops, malt, wort, beer, water, metals, pesticides and contaminants, certifies brewery sensory assessors, supplies brewing yeast from a collection established in 1946, and is authorised to recommend varieties for the protected geographical indication Czech Beer. It publishes the open access peer reviewed journal Kvasny prumysl, which is indexed in Web of Science and DOAJ and is a primary reference source for Czech brewing method data. It makes no AI or machine learning claim: this is reference analytical and sensory data infrastructure, not a modelling vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.beerresearch.cz/en/
• https://www.kvasnyprumysl.cz/

Rockwell Automation (FactoryTalk, Plex)

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active rockwellautomation.com

brewery automation and MES production data

Rockwell Automation sells brewery production automation, with FactoryTalk software and the Plex manufacturing execution system unifying brewhouse, cellar and packaging data in one production ecosystem. It publishes brewery-specific automation solutions and named brewing customers including Sleeman. The brewery offer is primarily control, MES and visibility rather than machine learning, and is tracked as the operational data source under brewery analytics.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://storybook.link/RockwellSleeman/
• https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/industries/food-beverage/brewery-production-automation.html

Rohit Jafa Brewing Solutions

beer · unknown · Other · none · active microbreweryindia.com

plc based microbrewery control systems

Rohit Jafa Brewing Solutions, a venture of Sino Trade Corporation, is an Indian microbrewery equipment supplier that set up India's first brewpub, HOWZATT in Gurgaon, in 2008 and says it has commissioned over 60 plants across Gurgaon, Delhi, Chandigarh, Punjab, Pune and Bangalore plus one in Seoul. It supplies brewhouse, fermentation, CIP, filtration and packaging equipment from 2 to 20 hL per batch, with a Siemens PLC and industrial PC control system in which heating, cooling and process parameters can be programmed and run automatically or manually. There is no AI or machine learning claim on its site; it is listed here as the dominant plant layer under India's brewpub sector.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://asiabrewersnetwork.com/suppliers/rohit-jafa-brewing-solutions
• https://www.microbreweryindia.com/microbrewery-equipment/

RoviSys

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active rovisys.com

multi-brewery historian data standardisation, no ai claim

Systems integrator and automation consultancy with a food and beverage practice and long-standing OSIsoft (now AVEVA PI) and Rockwell relationships. Its Brewing Up A Data Storm success story covers a thirteen-week project unifying process and quality data across more than 15 breweries of an unnamed international brewing company in the US and Canada, replacing per-plant HMI databases with a single enterprise data record. RoviSys markets an industrial artificial intelligence capability across its business, but the brewery engagement is described purely as historian and data integration work with no machine learning claimed.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://inductiveautomation.com/news/rovisys-becomes-inductive-automation-premier-integrator
• https://www.rovisys.com/success-stories/brewing-up-a-data-storm/

SAPTOOLS (a valantic company)

beer · Spain · Demand & pricing · shipping · active saptools.es

machine learning demand forecasting in sap ibp for a brewing group

SAPTOOLS is a Spanish SAP supply chain consultancy, now part of the valantic group, specialising in SAP IBP, APO, PP/DS and Digital Manufacturing. It delivered SAP IBP demand planning and DRP plus tactical S&OP at Hijos de Rivera, the Galician brewing group behind Estrella Galicia beer, 1906, Maeloc cider and Ponta da Boga wine, using its own easyDP accelerator over a 5.5 month project. The forecasting capability is SAP IBP's built-in statistical and machine learning models rather than SAPTOOLS' own algorithms; the firm also lists machine learning in supply chain as a separate service line.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.saptools.es/en/
• https://www.saptools.es/en/sap-integrated-business-planning-ibp-demand-and-drp-in-hijos-de-rivera/

SMARTCRM

beer · Germany · Demand & pricing · none · active smartcrm.de

brewery sales CRM and business intelligence

German B2B CRM vendor with a named vertical for breweries and the beverage industry, exhibiting at BrauBeviale. The product carries a business intelligence module and ships prebuilt interfaces to the ERP systems breweries actually run, including GRS, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP and proALPHA. It is a sales and reporting system of record and makes no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.smartcrm.de

Samsara

beer · unknown · Other · shipping · active samsara.com

fleet telematics, AI dash cams and reefer temperature monitoring for beer distribution

Samsara sells connected fleet operations: GPS tracking, routing and dispatch, equipment and trailer tracking, reefer temperature monitoring and AI dash cams that detect risky driving events in cab. Two of its published customer stories are beverage alcohol operators: Glazer's Beer and Beverage, a large US beer wholesaler, reports an 86 percent reduction in at-fault accident costs after deploying AI dash cams, and craft brewer Fort Point Beer Company uses live GPS, dash cams and temperature monitoring to run its own in-house distribution fleet. This is the telematics and cold chain slice of beverage logistics that the radar had almost no coverage of.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.samsara.com/blog/customer-spotlight-samsara-x-fort-point-beer
• https://www.samsara.com/customers/glazers-beer-beverage

Sapporo Breweries

beer · Japan · Sensory & recipe · pilot · dormant sapporoholdings.jp

recipe / flavor prediction

Sapporo partnered with IBM Japan to build an AI system for product development, where marketers input a concept plus up to ten flavor descriptors and a reference product from 170 past Sapporo beverages to generate new recipe candidates.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2023-03-04.

• https://www.techtimes.com/articles/288536/20230304/sapporo-is-now-using-artificial-intelligence-to-develop-new-products.htm

Seeq

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active seeq.com

self service time series analytics and golden batch profiling on brewery process historian data

Industrial advanced analytics vendor that sits on top of process historians such as OSIsoft PI and lets process engineers cleanse, contextualise and model time series data without a data science team. Its own resource library carries a brewery use case in which engineers built a reference profile from five historically good batches, then used average plus and minus three standard deviation boundaries to flag temperature deviations during the diacetyl rest, giving early warning on batch quality when offline diacetyl results lag. The brewery case is statistical boundary monitoring rather than machine learning, though the wider platform also offers ML tooling on the same data. Seeq is a cross industry vendor, not a beverage specialist.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/seeqs-advanced-analytics-on-aws-boosts-manufacturing-sustainability/
• https://www.seeq.com/resources/use-cases/monitor-batch-quality-reference-profile/

Sennos (formerly Precision Fermentation)

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active sennos.com

predictive fermentation monitoring and analytics

Sennos sells in tank fermentation sensors and the BrewIQ analytics platform to breweries, giving continuous readings on fermentation state so brewers can shorten tank turns and catch failures early. The company describes an AI and analytics engine trained on tens of thousands of real fermentations that converts live sensor data into predictive insight. Precision Fermentation rebranded as Sennos in March 2025, launched the M3 in tank sensor stack in April 2025 and raised $15m to expand beyond brewing into alternative proteins, biofuels and pharma. This is a refresh of an already tracked company, not a new one.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://sennos.com/
• https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/featured/sennos-brings-intelligent-fermentation-control-to-craft-beer-with-m3-sensor-rollout/

Sepasoft

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active sepasoft.com

no ai claim; mes modules for oee, downtime, batch procedure and spc on brewery lines

Vendor of MES modules that run on top of Inductive Automation Ignition, covering OEE and downtime, Batch Procedure, Track and Trace, SPC and the SepaIQ analytics layer. Its own case study page names Stone Brewing, described as one of the largest craft breweries in the United States, which upgraded brewing automation using Ignition plus the Sepasoft Batch Procedure Module for real-time batch control, recipe management and access to historical batch data. Sepasoft makes no machine learning claim; this is structured production data capture, which is the prerequisite layer for any later brewing analytics.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/casestudy
• https://www.sepasoft.com/case-studies/

Shipsy

beer · India · Other · shipping · active shipsy.ai

transportation management and returnable asset tracking for brewery distribution

Shipsy is an India headquartered transportation management platform covering route optimisation, carrier allocation, live tracking, predictive ETAs and electronic proof of delivery, with offices in Gurugram, Dubai, Amsterdam and Singapore. Its published customer story describes Heineken standardising primary (brewery to depot) and secondary (depot to outlet) logistics across Brazil on Shipsy, covering more than 2 million trips a year, with returnable packaging material tracking for kegs and crates that had previously been manual. Reported results are a 28 percent cut in excessive stay payments to logistics providers, a 50 percent cut in failed deliveries and automated route settlement rising from 70 percent to over 90 percent. The company markets an agentic AI layer for planning and settlement decisions on top of the TMS.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.shipsy.ai/
• https://www.shipsy.ai/insights/heineken-primary-secondary-distribution-automation

Sidel

beer · Italy · Process & operations · shipping · active sidel.com

packaging line performance and predictive maintenance analytics

Sidel is a filling and packaging line OEM with a large brewery installed base, including Birra Peroni's Bari plant (EvoFILL Glass filler at 50,000 bottles per hour, EvoDECO labeller, SWING pasteuriser) and Bali Hai Brewery's canning line in Indonesia. Its Evo-ON cloud suite adds Care and Performance apps that rank the machine faults causing efficiency loss and time maintenance of specific parts, with the Efficiency Improvement Tool installed at Birra Peroni for real-time line status. Sidel markets Evo-ON as having built-in intelligence and predictive capability, but its own pages describe no models or ML method, so read the predictive claim as condition-based analytics until proven otherwise.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.sidel.com/en/about/media/evo-on-impact/
• https://www.sidel.com/en/about/media/press-releases/birra-peroni-and-sidel/

Siemens (Opcenter)

beer · Germany · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active siemens.com

brewing MES, R&D formulation and production scheduling

Siemens sells the Opcenter portfolio into brewing: Opcenter Execution as a brewery MES, Opcenter APS for production planning and scheduling, and Opcenter RD&L for formulated product development and laboratory management. Coopers Brewery in Australia uses Opcenter RD&L for recipe development and lab management. The value is captured manufacturing data turned into decisions rather than a specific brewing ML model.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://www.indx.com/en/posts/mes-for-the-brewing-industry-based-on-siemens-simatic-it-product
• https://www.pepsico.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/pepsico-announces-industry-first-ai-and-digital-twin-collaboration-with-siemens-and-nvidia
• https://www.siemens.com/en-us/products/opcenter/research-development-laboratory/

Sigrist-Photometer

beer · Switzerland · Process & operations · none · active sigrist.com

inline turbidity and colour measurement in brewing

Swiss photometer maker founded in 1946 around the first online turbidity device for continuous monitoring of beer filtration. Current brewery instruments include TurBiScat, TurbiGuard, PhaseGuard and ColorPlus, now paired with the SiCon XX 40 multichannel control unit that adds data acquisition and storage for up to a year plus dashboard configuration for quality verification. It is an inline measurement and data logging vendor and makes no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.sigrist.com

Simon Lucey

beer · Australia · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active

machine learning on beer recipes and consumer review data

Director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and a former associate research professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, listed as Director Machine Learning on Deep Liquid's team page. Deep Liquid applies ML to craft beer recipe development and drinker feedback analysis.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/news/list/2025/03/19/deep-liquid-democratising-ai-one-beverage-at-a-time
• https://www.deepliquid.ai/

Small Batch Standard

beer · United States · Other · none · active sbstandard.com

no ai claim, craft brewery financial benchmarking

Small Batch Standard is a financial agency built specifically for craft breweries, providing brewery bookkeeping, tax and financial consulting to over 100 breweries in the United States. Its data product is a Benchmarks Assessment that segments participating breweries by revenue band, from under 750 thousand dollars to over 10.1 million, and reports financial performance against peers. It matters to the beverage data landscape as one of the few sources of pooled craft brewery financial benchmarks, but it makes no AI or machine learning claim of any kind: this is accounting, reporting and peer comparison.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://sbstandard.com/
• https://sbstandard.com/benchmarks-cbp/

Softysol GmbH

beer · Germany · Process & operations · none · active softysol.com

brewery process control and mes software

Softysol designs and implements process control (PCS) and manufacturing execution (MES) software for process industries, with brewing and beverage named as target industries covering malt, beer, kvass and spirits. Its portfolio includes Plant iT and brewmaxx alongside its own modules for CIP, lab and traceability, raw material intake, energy, OEE and recipe handling. It exhibited at BrauBeviale under software and IT solutions for production control. The company makes no machine learning or AI claim; this is a system of record and automation layer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/softysol
• https://www.softysol.com/

Soil Capital

beer · unknown · Other · none · active soilcapital.com

regenerative agriculture carbon and soil outcome measurement

Certification and payments programme that measures farm environmental indicators, quantifies carbon reduced or removed as Soil Capital Units of one tonne CO2e each, and pays farmers on measured outcomes across France, Belgium, the UK and Ireland. In August 2026 it was named the measurement partner for the Heineken UK regenerative malting barley programme alongside maltsters Muntons and Boortmalt and merchant Cefetra, tracking more than thirty indicators including soil health, biodiversity and water management, with first harvest in 2026 and beer from 2027. Soil Capital makes no AI or machine learning claim of its own; its site points to a partnership with Regrow for MRV rather than to in house models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2026/08/04/heineken-introduces-uk-regenerative-agriculture-initiative-to-support-sustainability-goals/
• https://www.soilcapital.com/news/heineken-uk-launches-one-of-the-uks-largest-regenerative-agriculture-malting-barley-programmes

Spectramatics

beer · Denmark · Process & operations · shipping · active spectramatics.com

inline mid-infrared mash monitoring with chemometric models

Spectramatics sells SIBA, an in-line mid-infrared spectroscopy analyser that monitors mash and cereal cooking in a brewhouse in real time, reporting gelatinisation, sugar conversion and fermentability without manual sampling. The raw infrared spectra are interpreted by chemometric prediction models, and the EU OptiSpec grant that funded the work describes machine learning algorithms trained specifically for beer mashing. The company is the successor to Specshell, a 2014 Danish spin-out from DTU and MIT work that installed SIBA units in breweries in Europe, America and Africa before going bankrupt in 2022; Spectramatics took over the assets and IP and restarted the business with a new software package in 2023. A sister product, ZYMON, applies the same technique to bioethanol fermentation.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/430634-online-monitoring-delivers-beer-and-bioethanol-production-efficiencies
• https://spectramatics.com/about

Spendrups Bryggeri

beer · Sweden · Process & operations · none · active spendrups.se

condition based maintenance on brewing assets (no ai claim)

Family owned Swedish brewing and beverage group, the largest in Sweden, with three production sites and an 80 person maintenance team. It deployed IBM Maximo Manage, Mobile and Scheduler with Epical, an IBM Platinum Business Partner, to move from schedule based to condition based maintenance across the brewery estate, supporting about 380 million euros of annual revenue. The published case study makes no machine learning claim: predictive maintenance is stated as a future goal, and the shipped capability is asset management and condition monitoring. Any AI in the stack belongs to IBM Maximo, not to Spendrups.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ibm. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/spendrups
• https://www.spendrups.se/

Spicetech GmbH

beer · Germany · Other · shipping · active spicetech.de

custom data and ai platforms for food and beverage

Spicetech is a Stuttgart software house that describes its work as digital solutions built from data, software and AI, combining software engineering with data science to deliver product-as-a-service platforms. It was founded in 2015 and its own site dates its first data-driven applications and AI models to 2018 and describes current work as AI-supported software and predictive analytics. It exhibits at BrauBeviale and recruits a Solution Consultant Food and Beverage, so the beverage work is a named practice area, but no specific brewing or beverage AI product is described publicly.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.spicetech.de
• https://www.spicetech.de/ueber-uns/

Stravito

beer · unknown · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active stravito.com

rag assistant over consumer research and insights

Stravito is an enterprise customer intelligence platform that centralises market research, consumer studies and internal reports and lets teams query them in natural language through Stravito Assistant, which returns source cited answers grounded in the company's own library. HEINEKEN and Carlsberg are named customers, and Stravito publishes two HEINEKEN case studies, one titled 'How HEINEKEN is Amplifying Insights with Generative AI'. Pepsi-Lipton and Danone are also named on the customer logo wall. The AI is retrieval over a private document corpus with citations rather than a model trained on brewing data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.stravito.com/case-studies
• https://www.stravito.com/resources/how-heineken-is-amplifying-insights-with-generative-ai

SymphonyAI

beer · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active symphonyai.com

brewing line drift detection and root cause analysis

SymphonyAI's industrial division launched a set of eight AI applications built specifically for CPG food and beverage plants, and its own announcement calls out brewing by name: full 3D modelling of brewing, thermal processing, canning, packaging and utilities for throughput simulation. The apps target high-speed lines, thermal variability, CIP and SIP complexity and micro-stoppages, combining domain models with causal reasoning to catch drift and surface root cause before yield or quality slips. Caveat: no named brewery customer has been published and the release does not identify the underlying models beyond the Microsoft Foundry and Azure stack, so this is a credible brewing-targeted product with unproven brewery deployments.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.foodengineeringmag.com/articles/103508-symphonyai-debuts-8-apps-for-food-and-beverage-manufacturing
• https://www.symphonyai.com/news/industrial/symphonyai-industrial-ai-apps-cpg-food-beverage-nrf2026/

Syscona Kontrollsysteme GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · none · active syscona.de

none claimed, container and pallet inspection vision

Syscona builds optical inspection systems for beverage filling lines, covering empty-bottle inspection, empty-can inspection, foreign-bottle detection, fill-height, closure, vacuum and residual-liquid checks, keg inspection, pallet inspection and crate sorting. Its own industry page names breweries from small private brewers to industrial plants, plus beverage logistics, as its core market, and it publishes a Getraenkeindustrie 4.0 digitalisation piece with LinMot. The systems are camera and sensor based image processing; the company makes no AI or machine-learning claim on its site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.syscona.de
• https://www.syscona.de/de_de/branchen/

TIANTAI Brewtech

beer · China · Process & operations · none · active tiantaibeerequipment.com

brewhouse and cellar automation control systems

Shandong Tiantai, trading as TIANTAI Brewtech, is a Chinese brewery OEM founded in 2001 that supplies turnkey micro, pilot and industrial brewhouses, fermentation and brite tanks, filtration and filling lines, plus distilling and kombucha equipment, exporting to breweries in the US and Australia among others. It sells alongside its equipment a control system engineering capability, describing custom automatic control and what it calls datalised management, and also trades as grainbrew.com. There is no named software product and no AI or machine learning claim on its site; it belongs here as one of the high volume Chinese plant vendors whose PLC layer is where craft brewery process data starts.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://asiabrewersnetwork.com/suppliers/tiantai
• https://www.tiantaibeerequipment.com/about/

TeepTrak

beer · France · Process & operations · shipping · active teeptrak.com

filling line micro-stop and oee monitoring

TeepTrak sells retrofit OEE and performance monitoring hardware plus software and publishes a dedicated brewery operations page describing filling-line micro-stop analysis, with an example of a mid-size brewery halving filling-line downtime by adjusting rates and preventive maintenance off the real-time data. The brewery example is anonymised, so the evidence here is an explicit brewing product page rather than a named customer. The core product is monitoring and analytics with no ML; TeepTrak lists machine learning separately as a complementary offering under a jemba.ai link, which is not part of the brewery case described.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://teeptrak.com/en/optimizing-brewery-operations-with-oee/
• https://teeptrak.com/en/us-food-beverage-oee-case-study-2026/

Tenso AI

beer · Canada · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active tensoai.com

hop yield, irrigation and plant stress forecasting

Tenso AI builds machine learning models for growers covering precision irrigation, soil intelligence, harvest timing and climate risk. Its beverage work is in hops: it supplies the predictive models behind forHops, a hop-farming programme run with Asahi Group Holdings and Microsoft, forecasting yield, water requirement and plant stress from sapflow sensors, weather stations, soil moisture probes and satellite imagery, plus an ML-powered digital twin of the farm. Its own history page records a 2022 start with Microsoft AI for Earth on six pilot farms in the Czech Republic, growth to 30 farms in 2023 and 75 farms worldwide in 2024, and an Agrinexus launch with the Hops Institute in 2025.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.tensoai.com/
• https://www.tensoai.com/our-history
• https://www.tensoai.com/post/how-tensoai-asahi-and-microsoft-are-transforming-hop-farming-through-the-forhops-project

Terra Bioindustries

beer · unknown · Process & operations · none · active terrabioindustries.com

No AI claim. Enzymatic upcycling of brewers spent grain into protein, fibre, malt syrup and fermentation feedstock. Sells TERRA Malt back into brewing. Process biotech, no model.

SOSV / IndieBio backed biotech turning brewery spent grain into B2B food ingredients and a brewing malt syrup.

Provenance: Scout: scout:directories. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://sosv.com/company/terra-bioindustries/
• https://terrabioindustries.com/

The 5th Ingredient

beer · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active the5thingredient.com

demand forecasting

Maker of Beer30 brewery-management software whose demand-planning module uses sales forecasts to predict production needs, plus a Brewery Command Center analytics platform. Serves 500-plus breweries across 20-plus countries.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-04-15.

• https://the5thingredient.com/package-forecasting-with-the-beer30s-demand-planning-module/
• https://the5thingredient.com/story/

The Smart Container Company (KegTracker)

beer · United Kingdom · Process & operations · none · active smartcontainer.co.uk

iot keg telemetry and fleet visibility

Builds KegTracker, a patented battery powered sensor that turns returnable kegs and casks into connected containers, reporting location, volume, temperature and motion over cellular with a stated five year plus battery life. It sells to brewers, keg lessors, distributors and pub operators trying to cut keg loss, spoilage and wasted collection trips. The company describes reports, real time visibility and data driven decisions, and makes no machine learning claim on its own site. Founded in Cardiff and grant supported by the Welsh Government Smart Cymru programme with engineering support from Swansea University.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://businesswales.gov.wales/expertisewales/product/smart-container-company-ltd/smart-cymru-supports-smart-container-company-ltd-develop
• https://www.smartcontainer.co.uk/

UNISENSOR Sensorsysteme GmbH

beer · Germany · Process & operations · none · active unisensor.de

none claimed, inline spectroscopic beverage measurement

UNISENSOR is a family-owned German instrument maker building spectroscopic process-analysis systems, with a dedicated beverage-industry product line. CARBOSCAN 150 is a factory-calibrated system for fully automatic online CO2 process control during carbonation, ALCOQUICK 4000 determines alcohol content in all types of alcoholic drinks by a patented multi-beam spectroscopic method, and AQUASCREEN and UNISPECTRE sniff returnable containers for contaminants at up to 4000 containers per hour. These are physics-based measurement instruments and the company makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.unisensor.de
• https://www.unisensor.de/produkte/product-details/getraenkeindustrie.html

United Breweries Limited (Kingfisher, Heineken-owned)

beer · India · Demand & pricing · shipping · active unitedbreweries.com

ML demand forecasting (SKU/retailer level) on a shared data platform

India's largest brewer (Kingfisher), majority-owned by Heineken. Heineken's Databricks-based DataPrime data platform runs ML demand forecasting at SKU and retailer level plus Promo Advisor / pricing tools in production; the group's data pipelines into the central data lake are managed from a shared-service center in India. India is thus an operating node of the production ML data platform, not just a consumer.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-04-01.

• https://diginomica.com/cdo-interview-jelle-van-etten-brews-heinekens-data-standards
• https://www.databricks.com/customers/heineken-international

VETTE EDV-Beratung & Entwicklung

beer · Germany · Process & operations · none · active vette-edv.de

brewery lab and production data management

German software house selling TransGraph, a configurable system for brewery laboratory management, production data capture, machine data acquisition, batch traceability and maintenance planning, with a Power BI reporting layer. Brewery customers named on its own reference page include Brauerei S. Riegele in Augsburg, which uses it to document and control flash pasteurisation during filtration. It markets data-based forecasting models inside TransGraph but describes no machine learning technique, and makes no AI claim anywhere on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.vette-edv.de/referenzen/

VLB Berlin (Versuchs- und Lehranstalt fuer Brauerei)

beer · Germany · Other · research · active vlb-berlin.org

brewing research institute with an AI and energy optimisation unit

Berlin brewing research and teaching institute that runs beer, raw material, sensory and spirits analytics laboratories for the industry and is a fixture of the German brewing supplier orbit. One of its research institutes is formally named FINEK, the Research Institute for Sustainability, Energy Supply and Optimisation and AI, so AI sits in the institute charter alongside energy optimisation. The public pages name the unit but do not describe a specific model or deployed AI product, so the grade here reflects a research charter and not a shipped system.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.vlb-berlin.org/finek

VXP Technologies (Volume x Profit)

beer · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active vxptech.com

sales execution analytics and incentive tracking for beer distributors

VXP builds sales analytics and incentive management software for beer and beverage distributor sales teams, covering supplier incentive tracking, variable compensation tracking, distributor targeted objectives and finished product loss reduction. It says over 1,500 distributor sales reps use the platform. The site lists a Sales Execution Agent feature but does not describe an underlying machine learning model, so this reads as workflow automation and reporting rather than ML. VXP presented at and sponsored the 2026 BIECC Innovation Showcase.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/
• https://vxptech.com/

Vertech

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active vertech.com

brewery MES and packaging line downtime tracking

Vertech is a US industrial automation and information integrator building SCADA, batch control and MES on Ignition and Sepasoft, with food and beverage as a named sector. Its published brewery work is an MES for Anchor Brewing in San Francisco that automatically captured production rate, waste and downtime on a running packaging line without interrupting production, plus operator dashboards and a supervisor cost calculation view. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; the offering is data capture, OEE style reporting and control.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.vertech.com/blog/craft-breweries-mes-software
• https://www.vertech.com/case-studies

Vicinity Software (VicinityBrew)

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active vicinitysoftware.com

production data

Vicinity Software builds process manufacturing ERP add-ons for Microsoft Dynamics, with VicinityBrew listed on Microsoft AppSource as a brewery management app for Dynamics 365 Business Central (Essentials and Premium). It covers brewhouse and cellar operations, beer formula management, production scheduling, batch costing, quality control and TTB style compliance reporting. The company makes no public AI or machine learning claims; tracked as the system of record that brewery production and cost data comes out of.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365-business-central/TYPE.connect%7CPUBID.vicinitymanufacturinginc1611072213539%7CAID.vicinitybrew_102021%7CPAPPID.cea2aa9f-b8d7-4d91-8a13-fc5822dd1d2e?tab=Overview
• https://vicinitybrew.com/solutions-software/

Wahtari nScan GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · shipping · active wahtari.ai

ai optical inspection and anomaly detection

Wahtari nScan is a German full-service provider of AI-powered optical inspection for industrial quality control, and it exhibits at BrauBeviale to the beverage industry. Its nScan modular inspection system combines three integrated high-speed cameras with trained anomaly-detection models for real-time defect detection on the line. The company sells the hardware and the AI software together, and states plainly on its own site that the inspection is AI-based machine vision rather than rule-based image processing.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://wahtari.ai
• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

Waterplan

beer · United States · Other · shipping · active waterplan.com

water risk and replenishment modelling

Waterplan is a water risk platform that combines a site's operational data with hydrological models and satellite remote sensing to quantify water risk in financial terms and validate volumetric water benefits from replenishment projects. Its own case study covers Ambev, the AB InBev brewing subsidiary in South America, which uses the platform to measure and validate watershed and restoration projects in three high water risk basins and to auto-generate the evidence log for sustainability reporting. The company describes itself as an AI native platform and cites AI agents for data collection and anomaly detection in resource use; the substantive modelling described is hydrological plus remote sensing rather than a named ML model. Y Combinator Summer 2021.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-07-29.

• https://www.waterplan.com/case-studies/ambev
• https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/waterplan

Willy Lin

beer · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

At AB InBev he moved plant-floor brewery data to the cloud and built predictive analytics to make breweries more efficient; profiled by Cornell Tech before moving on.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://admissions.tech.cornell.edu/2022/01/05/data-science-in-brewing-willy-lin-orie-20/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/willy-lin/

Wise Systems

beer · United States · Other · shipping · active wisesystems.com

autonomous route planning and delivery optimisation

Wise Systems sells autonomous routing and last mile delivery software, with beverage distribution as one of its named industry verticals. The company runs a dedicated AI page stating that machine learning is the foundation of every product rather than a bolt on feature, and that the system learns each operation's actual driving and service patterns from the first route and keeps adapting. Products include Route Planner Engine, Dispatcher, Strategic Planner and Performance Manager. It presented at the 2026 BIECC Innovation Showcase run by NBWA for beer and beverage distributors.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/
• https://wisesystems.com/ai-at-wise-systems/

Worter

beer · India · Sensory & recipe · none · active worter.tech

brewery ERP / mass-balance recipe engine

Grain-to-glass brewery management ERP for craft breweries and fermentation businesses: equipment register with auto QR tagging, batch lifecycle records, inventory with PAR and expiry alerts, QC approvals, and a mass-balance based recipe engine that calculates expected COGS as a recipe is built and flags process deviations against recipe intent in real time. Worter Technologies Private Limited, CIN U62013PN2024PTC234801, incorporated 7 October 2024 in Pune; directors Shaju Balakrishnan and Kranti Satyanarayan Mamidpalliwar. Worter makes no public AI or machine-learning claim; it is tracked here as an Indian brewery system of record, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://worter.tech/
• https://www.indiafilings.com/search/worter-technologies-private-limited-cin-U62013PN2024PTC234801

Yakima Chief Hops

beer · United States · Supply chain · shipping · active yakimachief.com

predictive inventory modelling and brewing supply analytics

Yakima Chief Hops is a grower owned hop supplier selling pellets, Cryo products and extracts to brewers worldwide, and runs an extensive GC-QTOF and GC-SCD analytical and sensory programme to characterise beer soluble hop aroma compounds. A previous sweep rejected it for having no AI claim; the new evidence is a vendor case study describing its Business Technology team, an enterprise data warehouse with a dedicated data science sandbox, near real time BI across six business units and a model that predicts the probability of over and under inventory so overstock hops can be released for sale, targeted at a 5 to 10 percent revenue improvement. The verified modelling is commercial and supply analytics, not aroma or breeding prediction: the hop chemistry work is analytical chemistry with no machine learning claim attached. The corporate site returned HTTP 429 on repeated fetches during this sweep, so its own pages could not be quoted directly; the tools subdomain resolved.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://baufest.com/en/yakima-chief-hops/
• https://tools.yakimachief.com/
• https://www.yakimachief.com/about-us/how-we-lead

Yeastime

beer · Italy · Process & operations · none · active yeastime.com

ultrasound fermentation acceleration with remote monitoring

Yeastime S.R.L. is an Italian fermentation hardware startup selling a non-invasive, retrofittable ultrasound device that clamps onto existing tanks and bioreactors, claiming up to 30 percent higher fermentation productivity with lower time, cost and energy. It publishes a brewery testimonial from Birra Gaia and co-finances three PhD programmes with the University of Tor Vergata on ultrasonic effects in fermentation. It ships a remote management platform and dashboard alongside the hardware, but makes no substantiated machine learning claim anywhere on its site; this is process hardware plus telemetry, and it is listed here because tank-level fermentation data is part of the beer data landscape. Backers named on the site include EIT Food, CDP Venture Capital, Big Idea Ventures, Plug and Play, MassChallenge and StartLife.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.failory.com/startups/brewing
• https://yeastime.com

YoLong Brewtech

beer · China · Process & operations · none · active yolongbrewtech.com

none claimed, plc brewery control and process automation

Chinese brewery equipment manufacturer in Xiangshan County, Ningbo, supplying nano, micro, brewpub and commercial brewing systems plus in-house automated control systems. Its control panels are built on Siemens, Allen-Bradley and Omron platforms with CE and UL certification, and range from semi-automatic temperature controllers for nano breweries up to full PLC and HMI brewhouse automation. No AI or machine-learning claim is made; the value is process data capture and batch-to-batch consistency control.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://yolongbrewtech.com/
• https://yolongbrewtech.com/automated-brewery-control-systems/

Yokogawa Electric

beer · Japan · Process & operations · none · active yokogawa.com

reinforcement-learning autonomous control of fermentation temperature scheduling

Japanese industrial automation and measurement group. Its autonomous control AI, Factorial Kernel Dynamic Policy Programming (FKDPP), was applied to beer fermentation in a 2025 proof of concept run by Yokogawa Digital with Craft Bank, a Kyoto Prefecture craft brewer: brewers manually implemented the AI-generated temperature setting schedule and cut fermentation from 336 hours to 240 hours, a 28 percent reduction, as stated in Yokogawa's own release. The AI claim is specific and quantified rather than promotional. Yokogawa also sells conventional beer fermentation instrumentation, including continuous monitoring by liquid density meter, which carries no ML claim. Recorded as pilot, not shipping: this is a published proof of concept, not a productised brewing offering.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.yokogawa.com/library/resources/application-notes/automatic-and-continuous-monitoring-of-the-beer-fermentation-process-with-a-liquid-density-meter/
• https://www.yokogawa.com/news/press-releases/2025/2025-09-26/

Zap (Zap Data Hub)

beer · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active zapbi.com

erp data warehouse automation with analytics copilots

Zap builds a data warehouse automation and governed analytics platform for ERP data, with a supported connector for SAP Business One alongside Sage, Syspro and Dynamics. Beavertown Brewery, the London craft brewer, uses Zap Data Hub on top of SAP Business One to replace manual SQL and spreadsheet reporting across sales, supply chain and finance, and for specialist beer duty and traceability reporting. Zap AI is the vendor's own LLM layer, offering an analytics copilot, a modeling copilot and a natural language query experience called Talk Data To Me, which the company states is in active rollout.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi/zap-bi.sapb1_analytics_2025?tab=Overview
• https://www.zapbi.com/case-study-beavertown-brewery

Zero Carbon Forum

beer · United Kingdom · Other · none · active zerocarbonforum.com

sector carbon benchmarking and reduction roadmaps

Zero Carbon Forum is a not for profit collaborative representing over a third of the UK brewing and hospitality sector across roughly 35,000 sites, providing carbon footprinting, benchmarking, sector roadmaps and carbon coaching rather than software. Named brewer members include Adnams, St Austell Brewery, Gipsy Hill Brewing, Thornbridge Brewery, Stewart Brewing and Wells and Co, with BrewDog, Fuller's, Greene King, Marston's, Shepherd Neame and Young's cited in trade coverage of the membership. It launched a brewing sector specific decarbonisation roadmap in 2022 and partners with Mondra for product level carbon data. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; it matters here because it is where a large slice of UK brewing emissions data is actually pooled and benchmarked.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-07-30.

• https://www.foodserviceequipmentjournal.com/energy-emissions-cut-in-half-by-zero-carbon-forum-members-in-past-5-years/
• https://www.zerocarbonforum.com/news

Ziemann Holvrieka

beer · Germany · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active ziemann-holvrieka.com

brewery digital twin with ai-supported process recommendations

Ziemann Holvrieka builds brewhouses, tanks and process plant for breweries and sells Ziemann AnalytiX, a brewery digitalisation platform delivered in partnership with Indeex that spans brewhouse, fermentation, filtration, utilities and packaging as a process digital twin. The platform markets real-time process monitoring, automated batch tracking, recipe optimisation and what it calls AI-supported recommendations for cutting energy, water and raw material use. The vendor does not disclose the model type or publish named brewery customers for AnalytiX, so treat the AI claim as vendor-asserted rather than independently evidenced; the underlying brewery hardware and automation business is unambiguously real.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://indeex.ai/indeex-and-ziemann-holvrieka-announce-strategic-cooperation-and-joint-presence-at-drinktec2025/
• https://www.ziemann-holvrieka.com/en/beer/ziemann-analytix/

ZoomAgri

beer · Argentina · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active zoomagri.com

computer vision barley varietal purity and grain quality grading

ZoomAgri sells scanner devices plus software that identify barley varieties and grade physical grain quality from images, described on its own site as computer vision and machine learning delivered as vision as a service. Malting barley is a core commodity: the site cites MEBAK approval for barley varietal purity and Syndicat de Paris and Bipea testing for malting barley. Grain Trade Australia endorsed ZoomAgri One for varietal purity assessment in the Barley Trading Standards from the 2026-27 crop year, and GrainCorp has bought more than 40 devices for its east coast sites and ports. This is the clearest verified machine learning claim on the malt and barley raw material layer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.indexbox.io/blog/graincorp-to-use-ai-for-barley-variety-assessment-from-2026-27-crop-year/
• https://www.zoomagri.com/

Zymoscope

beer · Denmark · Process & operations · shipping · dormant zymoscope.com

fermentation optimization

Zymoscope was a Danish drinktech startup offering a non-invasive fermentation management platform combining proprietary sensors, algorithms and a mobile app for real-time remote monitoring of beer fermentation. It raised a roughly 960K euro seed round in 2021 and filed for bankruptcy in August 2024.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2024-08-01.

• https://agfundernews.com/zymoscope-raises-1m-for-its-data-driven-beer-brewing-tech
• https://www.eu-startups.com/2021/02/danish-drinktech-startup-zymoscope-lands-e960k-to-disrupt-the-beer-industry-with-its-data-driven-fermentation-tech/

beON consult GmbH

beer · Germany · Consulting · shipping · active beon.net

IT, data, and AI consultancy for breweries

beON consult is an IT consultancy focused on IT, data, and AI for breweries and brewery groups. It helps brewers connect and evolve digital brewing processes across the full IT lifecycle.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.beon.net
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

forHops

beer · Czech Republic · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active prochmel.cz

hop irrigation and yield prediction for growers

forHops (Pro Chmel) is a hop-growing advisory platform created and led by Plzensky Prazdroj, part of Asahi, with Microsoft, Tenso AI, the Czech studio Ackee, the Hop Research Institute, the Hop Growers Union and the Czech University of Agriculture. A phone app tells Czech hop growers when, where and how much to irrigate, and estimates seasonal water requirement, expected yield and alpha acid content. The site states the predictive model runs in Microsoft Azure and uses machine learning methods over hundreds of millions of sensor readings from soil sensors, weather stations, satellite imagery and plant-mounted hop ECG sensors. Six farms were instrumented in autumn 2021, six more joined in 2024 for 28 fields, 40 further weather stations went in during spring 2025, and expansion to Slovakia is planned for 2026.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://prochmel.cz/en/
• https://www.tensoai.com/post/how-tensoai-asahi-and-microsoft-are-transforming-hop-farming-through-the-forhops-project

iGulu (AlBrew Corp)

beer · China · Sensory & recipe · none · active igulu.com

automated brewing control with app and cloud recipe platform

Shanghai company selling smart all in one brewing machines together with recipe and ingredient kits, in two lines: Pro Brewing M and N series for restaurants, bars, hotels and event venues, and home units sold internationally as iGulu F1 and S1. Its own description of the product system is smart device plus multiple recipes plus an app cloud platform, with patents around the device structure, control system and brewing flow. Products were recognised at CES, CES Asia and IFA in 2017. No machine learning claim is made: the intelligence described is automated process control and app connectivity.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://igulu.com/
• https://www.igulu.com.cn/

iPourIt

beer · United States · Process & operations · none · active ipouritinc.com

self-pour tap wall metering and per-ounce consumption analytics

iPourIt builds self-pour beer and wine wall systems for taprooms, breweries and restaurants, where guests tap an RFID band and the system meters every ounce poured, enforces pour limits, and feeds real-time inventory and consumption data back to the operator. It reports over 500 million ounces poured and thousands of installed taps across the United States, with an open API for POS integration. The product is branded SMARTS Technology but iPourIt makes no machine-learning claim: what ships is flow metering, access control and reporting, not predictive modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ipourit
• https://www.ipouritinc.com/

iSellBeer

beer · unknown · Demand & pricing · none · active isellbeer.com

sales performance management and display execution reporting

iSellBeer sells a sales performance management app for beer distributors, focused on evidencing retail execution: reporting floor displays, tracking incentive programmes and settling chain feature execution disputes with suppliers. It is a system of record for field execution data rather than an analytics or AI product, and the site makes no machine learning claim. It presented at and sponsored the reception of the 2026 BIECC Innovation Showcase.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://isellbeer.com/
• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/

iSystems (I.Systems)

beer · Brazil · Process & operations · shipping · active isystems.ai

ai advanced process control for brewery utilities and thermal processes

Brazilian industrial software company selling Leaf, an advanced process control product built on a patented fuzzy logic multivariable control algorithm, plus Sunflower for real-time setpoint optimisation. Its own site carries a named case study with Ambev, the AB InBev Brazilian brewing business, running Leaf on 77 pieces of equipment including boilers, evaporators and refrigeration compressors across brewing hot and cold blocks. Reported results are a 76 percent cut in the standard deviation of temperature process variability, a 70 percent cut in evaporation rate deviation and a 4 percent reduction in energy consumption. The case states Ambev has been a customer since 2015.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://isystems.ai/en/case/ambev/
• https://isystems.ai/en/who-we-are/

iWort

beer · India · Sensory & recipe · pilot · active iwort.com

consumer-preference NLP, recipe optimization ML, predictive maintenance, demand forecasting

India-based data-science and AI platform for the brewing industry founded by brewmaster-turned-data-scientist Ankur Napa (ex-AB InBev, SABMiller, United Breweries). It runs algorithms that analyze consumer reviews to detect beer-preference shifts, ML models that correlate ingredients/methods with consumer satisfaction for recipe optimization, predictive-maintenance and demand-forecasting models, on a Python/Azure/GCP/Power BI + IoT stack.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-01.

• https://www.brewer-world.com/smart-brewing-at-iwort-using-algorithms-to-keep-up-with-beer-tastes/
• https://www.imarcgroup.com/insight/ai-is-transforming-india-beer-industry

miho Inspektionssysteme GmbH

beer · Germany · Quality & inspection · none · active miho.de

none claimed, optical and 3D inspection on beverage filling lines

miho is a German Mittelstand maker of inspection systems for beverage filling and returnable container logistics, active for over 45 years. Its product range covers empty bottle sorting before the unpacker (foreign body, lying and inverted bottle detection with 3D measurement), embossing recognition, bottle shape and colour discrimination with sorting into up to eight channels, and residual caustic detection. The site describes optics, high frequency measurement and 3D metrology; it makes no machine learning claim. Exhibited at BrauBeviale and drinktec.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.miho.de/
• https://www.miho.de/ueber-uns/

optek-Danulat

beer · Germany · Process & operations · none · active optek.com

no ai claim; inline optical sensors feeding brewery process control

German maker of inline optical process sensors measuring turbidity, colour, UV-VIS-NIR absorbance and concentration in process liquids, with a dedicated brewing product line. Its own brewery pages cover beer filtration control, separator control, yeast management and harvesting with the AS16-VB-N beer and yeast interface sensor, brewhouse turbidity and ASBC and EBC beer colour measurement. The company states more than 30,000 installations worldwide and offices in Germany, the United States, Singapore and China, but names no individual brewery on these pages. optek makes no machine learning claim; it matters to the beverage data landscape because these sensors are where much of the continuous measurement data in a brewery originates.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.optek.com/en/about-optek.asp
• https://www.optek.com/en/brewery/applications.asp

seedalive GmbH

beer · Germany · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active seedalive.de

AI evaluation of malting barley germination

seedalive offers a test-kit method that determines germination energy and water sensitivity of malting barley in about three hours. Its method is based on AI-based evaluation of a dynamic bioassay usable at goods receiving.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://seedalive.de
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

vision-tec gmbh

beer · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active vision-tec.de

machine learning bottle and embossing recognition on returnable beverage lines

vision-tec builds inspection and rejection systems for beverage filling and returnable crate handling: crate checks, bottle checks, pallet checks and robot cells. The company states it has used machine learning in image processing for years to identify individual bottle shapes inside a crate, a problem that has grown harder as the number of proprietary bottle designs increased, and gives embossing recognition as a worked example where the model learns characteristic features from a few sample images. Exhibited at both BrauBeviale and drinktec.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.vision-tec.de
• https://www.vision-tec.de/technologie/kuenstliche-intelligenz/

3 Tier Beverages

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · none · active 3tierbeverages.com

syndicated scan and depletion dashboards for drinks brands

3 Tier Beverages is a Chicago data services firm that sits on top of the two main US beverage alcohol data sources: it is an NIQ Connected partner for syndicated scan data and a founding member of the VIP Collective for distributor depletion data. It builds depletion and scan dashboards, pricing and promotion analysis, distribution tracking and distributor or retailer presentations for suppliers, distributors, retailers and trade associations, with over 300 clients across beer, wine and spirits and named customers including Terlato Wines. This is exactly the reseller and analytics layer the market measurement vendors feed. The company makes no AI or machine-learning claim anywhere on its site; the work is dashboards, analysis and consulting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://3tierbeverages.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnbichsel

4T2 Sensors

multiple · United Kingdom · Process & operations · none · active 4t2sensors.com

no ai claim; inline fluid identification and CIP sensing

4T2 Sensors, based in Birmingham UK, builds CIPSense, a fluid sensing sensor marketed for inline clean-in-place monitoring and fluid identification in food and beverage plants. A drinktec 2025 exhibitor. The vendor site is largely visual and states accuracy and process insight without describing any model, so it is recorded here as sensing hardware with no substantiated machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://4t2sensors.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/4t2-sensors/about/

6Street Digital

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · none · active 6st.co

salesforce b2b commerce accelerator for alcohol distribution

6Street Digital is a Salesforce commerce partner that ships an AlcBev Storefront Accelerator, a preconfigured Salesforce B2B Commerce storefront for alcohol distributors with industry components such as mix and match promotions and inventory checks to cut ordering errors. It reports 70 plus B2B commerce implementations and works across Austin, San Antonio and Carrboro. The accelerator page makes no AI claim at all and none should be read into it; the homepage lists AI and automation only as a general service line. It matters to the beverage data landscape as the ordering front end feeding distributor Salesforce data, not as a machine learning vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://6st.co/
• https://6st.co/alcbev-storefront-accelerator/

99 Bottles

multiple · United States · Market data & valuation · none · active nnbottles.com

no ai claim, three tier alcohol pricing and new item data exchange

99 Bottles standardises how alcohol pricing and new item information moves between suppliers, distributors and retailers across the US three tier system, replacing manual spreadsheet and email price posting. It runs a parallel product for tobacco pricing and has a stated partnership with beverage distributor ERP vendor Encompass Technologies. The company makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim anywhere on its site; it is a data exchange and communication layer for a fragmented regulated market. Exhibiting at the NBWA 89th Annual Convention Product Showcase, October 2026.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/EventMap.aspx?shMode=E
• https://www.nnbottles.com/

ACM Automation Computertechnik Messsysteme

multiple · Austria · Process & operations · none · active acm.co.at

inline and lab measurement of gravity, alcohol and dissolved CO2

Austrian supplier of inline analysis sensors, controllers and non-invasive laboratory measurement for breweries, wineries, cider and cava producers, distilleries, juice and soft drink plants. Measured values include Brix, density, original gravity, alcohol and dissolved CO2, and all operator programs and software are developed in house. End customers are exclusively the beverage, brewing and food industries. It is a measurement and control vendor and makes no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.acm.co.at
• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

ALBERT FREY AG

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · none · active albertfrey.de

brewery and distillery process control software

Albert Frey AG is a German mid-size plant builder for breweries, soft drink plants and distilleries that also develops its own ALFlex automation software suite, with modules for machine and process control, trending, reporting, recipes, container handling, traceability (ALFlex Trace) and robotics. It also offers process control and laboratory analytics services and remote maintenance. It exhibited at both BrauBeviale and drinktec under software and IT solutions for production control. No AI or machine learning claim is made; ALFlex is process control and production data software.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://de.linkedin.com/company/albert-frey-ag
• https://www.albertfrey.de/

AVEVA (PI System, formerly OSIsoft)

multiple · United Kingdom · Process & operations · shipping · active aveva.com

process data historian + predictive analytics

AVEVA sells the PI System, the operations data historian it acquired with OSIsoft in 2021, which collects, stores and contextualises real-time plant sensor data at sub-second granularity. AVEVA Predictive Analytics layers machine-learning anomaly detection on that data for early equipment-failure detection. AVEVA publishes no beer, whiskey or wine specific AI product: it is tracked here as the plant data layer that brewing and distilling analytics are built on top of, not as a beverage AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://resources.osisoft.com/presentations/ai-and-ml-based-analytics-using-aveva%E2%84%A2-pi-system%E2%84%A2-data/
• https://www.aveva.com/en/products/aveva-pi-system/

AccelPay

multiple · unknown · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active accelpay.io

order routing and marketing automation for alcohol dtc

AccelPay provides commerce infrastructure that lets alcohol brands sell direct from their own websites while staying inside the three tier system, routing each order to a licensed retailer in its network and handling age verification, payments and last mile delivery. It says it serves over 400 alcohol brands and offers native Shopify and iframe embeds. The AI content is modest: algorithmic order routing plus AI marketing automation and AI search visibility tooling. There is no evidence of substantive proprietary ML.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.accelpay.io/
• https://www.accelpay.io/blog/how-to-sell-alcohol-online/

Accela

multiple · United States · Compliance & licensing · shipping · active accela.com

ai assisted alcohol licensing intake and compliance review for regulators

Accela is a US govtech company whose cloud platform includes an Alcohol Beverage Control solution used by state and local ABC agencies, listed on Microsoft AppSource. It runs the full alcohol licence lifecycle: application intake and routing, concurrent review by licensing staff, law enforcement and fire reviewers, issuance and renewals, mobile field inspections and enforcement. Its CivicAI layer is applied to this workflow to guide applicants to the correct licence type at intake, flag missing documentation before submission and surface relevant compliance requirements during review. Accela cites the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission cutting licensing time from nearly a month to days.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/accela.alcoholic_beverage_control
• https://www.accela.com/solutions/alcohol-beverage-control/

AccountTouch

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active accounttouch.com

sales intelligence / depletions analytics

AccountTouch is a CRM and sales intelligence platform built specifically for beverage alcohol brands and distributors. Its AI Depletion Insights feature lets reps ask plain English questions of their depletion data instead of reading dashboards, and turns visit notes, orders and product drop-offs into a prioritised briefing per account. The AI Insights capability launched in November 2025.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://accounttouch.com/
• https://www.brewbound.com/pr/2025/11/11/accounttouch-releases-ai-insights-the-new-way-to-sell-in-beveragealcohol

Acrolon Technologies (TankNET)

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · pilot · active acrolon.com

fermentation temperature control with early trend detection

Acrolon Technologies builds TankNET, a wireless tank temperature control and fermentation management system used by wineries and breweries, with hardware controllers plus cloud software and integrations into InnoVint and Vintrace. The shipping analytics are rule based rather than learned: real time Brix and fermentation curves plus an Early Trend Detection feature that flags slowing fermentation kinetics before a stuck ferment. The company describes an AI Initiative that would combine live tank data with historical winery datasets to anticipate fermentation outcomes, but presents it as a forward commitment rather than a released model. Named users include Opus One, Robert Mondavi, Harlan Estate, Jackson Family Wines, Palmaz Vineyards, Hanzell Vineyards, Bedrock Wine Co, Ninkasi Brewing and Cigar City Brewing.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.acrolon.com/
• https://www.acrolon.com/For-Wineries

Advanced Sys-tek Limited

multiple · India · Process & operations · none · active advancedsystek.com

brewery and distillery plant automation and reconciliation

Gujarat automation company, best known in oil and gas terminal automation and fiscal metering, that also sells automation for distilleries, breweries and bottling plants covering receipt, production and dispatch. The system captures real time process data from field sensors and transmitters, measures density, concentration and volume flow at inlet, intermediate and outlet points, and produces reconciliation, stock loss and quality assurance records with integration into track and trace and central remote monitoring. It also sells a Terminal Analytics software product. No AI or machine learning claim is made.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://advancedsystek.com/
• https://advancedsystek.com/business/brewery-plant-automation/

AeriTek

multiple · Canada · Process & operations · none · active aeritekna.com

iot telemetry on refrigerated beverage merchandisers

AeriTek is the North American refrigeration group behind the Imbera, Minus Forty, QBD, Torrey, Federal and Continental merchandiser brands, and sells refrigerated beverage coolers into beer and beverage distribution, convenience retail and unattended retail. Its SmartConnect platform connects Minus Forty merchandisers to a cloud dashboard tracking cabinet and evaporator temperature, door opening status and alarms, with remote lock and setpoint control and historical temperature reporting; SmartLock is a temperature-triggered health lock. The company also integrates Intuitivo APOP telemetry for large cooler fleets. AeriTek makes no machine learning claim: this is connected-asset telemetry and rules-based food safety monitoring, which matters to the beverage radar as a cold-chain data source at the point of sale. It exhibits at the 2026 NBWA show, booth 217.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://aeritekna.com/innovations/proprietary-technologies/
• https://aeritekna.com/solutions/beverages/
• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/eBooth.aspx?BoothID=354368&Nav=False

Aforza

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active aforza.com

vertical ai assistant and shelf image recognition for beverage route to market

Aforza sells a suite of consumer goods cloud and mobile apps built on the Salesforce Platform and distributed through AppExchange, covering trade promotion management, revenue growth management, retail execution, distributor management and B2B commerce. Its named AI is Ava, described on its own site and AppExchange listing as a vertical AI assistant giving reps real time next best action and instant promotional scenario modelling, alongside a photo automation feature that turns store shelf photos into audit data at a claimed 96 percent accuracy. Its own customer page names a heavy concentration of drinks companies: Molson Coors, Asahi, Suntory Global Spirits, Edrington, Whyte and Mackay, Super Bock Group and AG Barr. Founded April 2019 and raised a 22 million USD Series A in August 2021.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://aforza.com/about/
• https://aforza.com/customers/
• https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000FtTeZUAV

Agricolus

multiple · Italy · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active agricolus.com

satellite vigour mapping and phytopathology forecast models for vineyards

Agricolus is an Italian precision farming platform combining satellite crop monitoring, weather station and sensor integration, scouting apps and prescription maps, with viticulture as a supported crop. Its own site cites winery customers such as Cantina Roccafiore using chlorophyll and vigour indices to find vineyard water stress, and reports 2.3 million satellite images processed across 104 countries. Honest read on the AI: the platform advertises phenology, irrigation, insect and phytopathy forecast models, which are agronomic simulation models, and it does not publicly document machine learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.agricolus.com/en/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/agricolus

Ai Palette

multiple · Singapore · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active aipalette.com

flavour and consumer trend prediction for drinks product development

Ai Palette runs an AI consumer-insights platform for food and drink companies, with three products: Foresight Engine for emerging trend detection, Concept Genie for AI product-concept generation and Screen Winner for virtual concept validation. Its models sit on 61 billion data points from search, social and e-retail across 24 countries and 18 languages. Diageo is a named client, using the platform to track health and wellness trends in beverage alcohol to steer R and D; it is also the vendor behind Diageo flavour-forecasting work. Offices in Singapore, Bengaluru and New York; now part of GlobalData.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://aipalette.com/
• https://www.mack-brands.com/blog/ai-in-the-spirits-industry-where-tradition-meets-technology

Aigora

multiple · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active aigora.ai

genai knowledge base and synthetic panels for sensory and consumer research

Aigora builds AI infrastructure for consumer insights and sensory science teams at large food and drink companies. Its named products are THEUS, a source-traceable knowledge layer over a company's historical research reports and study data, Forethought, which runs synthetic consumer panels grounded in that cited evidence to simulate product and claim decisions before fieldwork, and custom Decision Systems. The firm states it has published or presented work with Diageo, PepsiCo, Danone, General Mills, Symrise and DSM-Firmenich, which puts it directly on the drinks consumer-intelligence layer. Founded by Dr John Ennis, a mathematician working in sensory science.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://aigora.ai/
• https://aigora.ai/about

AlcOS

multiple · unknown · Compliance & licensing · pilot · active alcos.ai

agentic compliance filing and distributor chargeback validation

AlcOS is an operations and compliance platform for independent and craft alcohol brand owners in the US, covering beer, wine and spirits portfolios. It tracks TTB federal filings, 50 state ABC obligations, product registrations, price posting and license renewals on an auto-generated calendar, and uses AI agents to prepare and file reports from the brand's own invoice and inventory data, with manual override. A second AI component stores each distributor contract as structured data and validates every chargeback and deduction against the contract terms, price posting records and excise data, returning approve or deny recommendations with stated reasoning rather than a score. The product is at request-early-access stage and the site names no founders, HQ or funding; no independent coverage could be verified.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.alcos.ai/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/alcos-ed1a

Alcohol Compliance Company

multiple · United States · Compliance & licensing · shipping · active alcoholcompco.com

compliance & licensing

AI-assisted alcohol and tobacco compliance: licensing, permitting, reporting and label approvals, with expert human review on top of the automation. Covers the regulatory layer every producer and distributor carries.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-23.

• https://alcoholcompco.com/

Alfa Laval

multiple · Sweden · Process & operations · shipping · active alfalaval.com

iot condition monitoring and root cause analytics on brewery and beverage process equipment

Swedish process equipment maker supplying heat exchangers, separators, decanters, pumps and valves into breweries and beverage plants, with a hygienic processing product line covered by the brewing trade press. Its digital layer is CM Connect, a subscription condition monitor and 4G cloud gateway linking up to ten wireless vibration monitors, and Clariot, a sensor plus gateway plus analytics package that reports vibration, temperature and run time and returns root cause recommendations for process, installation and mechanical faults before breakdown. The published beverage reference is a Britvic bottling plant, and the site does not disclose the algorithms, so the analytics should not be read as a machine learning claim. In November 2025 Alfa Laval announced work on AI assisted heat exchanger service diagnostics.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://alfalaval.com/products/fluid-handling/automation/condition-monitoring/analytics
• https://www.brewbound.com/news/new-alfa-laval-cm-connect-leverages-digitalization-to-optimize-hygienic-processing/

Algorithm Factory

multiple · Austria · Demand & pricing · shipping · active algorithm-factory.com

demand forecasting

Supply chain planning software provider whose Sunstice platform is tailored to breweries and beverage manufacturers. It sells AI-based demand forecasting and production optimization to beverage makers, with reference customers including Heineken, BrewDog, and Paulaner.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.algorithm-factory.com/en/sunstice/beverage-industry/

Allie AI

multiple · Mexico · Process & operations · shipping · active allie-ai.com

factory-trained AI agents for production lines

Allie AI embeds AI agents into manufacturing operations that observe, learn, and act across machines and sensors to detect deviations and recommend corrective actions. It is used on beverage lines by producers including Heineken and PepsiCo.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.allie-ai.com
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Alpha MOS

multiple · France · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active alpha-mos.com

sensory

Alpha MOS is a publicly listed sensory-analysis solution vendor that builds electronic nose, electronic tongue, and electronic eye instruments and also runs outsourced sensory-analysis labs for food and beverage clients including beer, wine, and spirits makers. Its instruments use pattern-recognition algorithms to objectify taste and aroma.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.alpha-mos.com/

Alt/Finance (ALT/FNDATA)

multiple · unknown · Market data & valuation · shipping · active altfndata.com

wine and whisky auction price data feed

Alt/Finance is an alternative asset data provider whose AWS Data Exchange listing Real-time & Historical Data Feeds | Global Wine & Whisky Auctions carries 20-plus years of every wine and whisky lot sold at Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams and Phillips from 2000 onward, 169 fields per record, roughly 2GB, updated intraday. Wine & Spirits is one of eight asset classes they track. The product itself is a normalised data feed with no machine learning in it; the only AI angle is a Claude MCP integration that lets analysts query the verified market data from an LLM client. Delivery is via AWS Data Exchange, API, Redshift materialized views, Snowflake, FactSet and FTP.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-j7kcrruz6bjse
• https://www.altfndata.com/

Analytical Flavor Systems (Gastrograph AI)

multiple · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant gastrograph.com

sensory

AI company that models human sensory perception of flavor, aroma and texture to predict consumer preference for food and beverage products including beer and spirits. Acquired by NIQ in 2025.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-01-01.

• https://agfundernews.com/gastrograph-ai-closes-4m-series-a-to-predict-consumer-flavor-preferences
• https://thespoon.tech/analytical-flavor-systems-raises-4m-for-its-ai-powered-flavor-prediction-platform/
• https://www.gastrograph.com/

Analyticsmart

multiple · Canada · Process & operations · none · active analyticsmart.com

retail bi dashboards and category management for drinks brands, no ai claim

A retail analytics firm with a dedicated beverage-alcohol practice, selling BI dashboards, a beverage-alcohol CRM, category management, planograms and data modernisation to drinks producers, distributors and brand teams. It works retail and market data into brand and category reporting for the drinks trade, with offices in Toronto, Montreal and New York and roughly 15 years in retail analytics. It is a member of the Drinks Ontario trade body. The site names no underlying BI engine and makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://analyticsmart.com/beverage-alcohol-landing-page/
• https://www.drinksontario.com/members/analyticsmart

Anchor Group

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active anchorgroup.tech

llm assistant embedded in netsuite

Oracle NetSuite Alliance Partner that implements NetSuite for craft breweries and distilleries, covering batch production tracking, tank and lot traceability, TTB compliance reporting and taproom POS integration. It ships Sonar, a free AI assistant built inside NetSuite with a library of over 260 NetSuite-specific prompts, which is an LLM prompt layer over the ERP rather than a trained forecasting model. Also sells 35 or more pre-built SuiteCommerce apps used by beverage clients for direct-to-consumer sales.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-06-18.

• https://www.anchorgroup.tech/
• https://www.anchorgroup.tech/blog/netsuite-implementation-guide-brewery-distillery

Andavi Solutions (GreatVines)

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active andavisolutions.com

sales execution and trade promotion analytics

Andavi Solutions sells a sales execution platform for beverage alcohol suppliers and distributors, covering CRM, trade promotion management, planogram compliance, pricing and analytics, marketed as powered by AI with an AI-powered billback management module. Named customers include Diageo, Heineken, William Grant and Sons and Pabst. The GreatVines CRM is its beverage alcohol sales management product.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://andavisolutions.com/
• https://andavisolutions.com/greatvines-sales-management/

Angel Yeast Co., Ltd

multiple · China · Process & operations · none · active angelyeast.com

none (yeast and fermentation nutrient supply)

Angel Yeast is one of the largest yeast and yeast-derivative producers in the world, listed in Shanghai since 2000, and runs an Alcoholic Beverages and Biofuels business alongside baking, yeast extract, animal nutrition and enzymes. It publishes brewing solutions and fermentation nutrient literature and exhibited beverage fermentation products at Drinktec 2025, which puts it in the same raw-material layer as Lallemand, Fermentis and Lesaffre. Reading its English site and full sitemap, Angel Yeast makes no machine learning, genomics-prediction or predictive-sensory claim for its brewing or distilling strains; the only AI on the site is a customer-service chat assistant widget. Tracked as the major Chinese entry in the yeast supply layer, with no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://en.angelyeast.com/about-us/institute/our-research-institute.html
• https://en.angelyeast.com/downloads/brewing-solutions-and-innovations.html
• https://en.angelyeast.com/news/distilled-spirits-and-biofuels/angel-yeast-unveils-innovative-beverage-solutions-at-drinktec-2025-highlighting-health-driven-product-innovations.html

Ankur Napa

multiple · Australia · Quality & inspection · shipping · active

data engineering and applied AI for fermentation prediction, quality anomaly detection, production and commercial analytics, and sustainability reporting across beer, wine and spirits

Brewer with 10+ years of industry experience turned data engineer, now Growth Officer at Disruptive Advantage, working from Australia. Helps breweries, wineries and distilleries improve fermentation consistency, product quality, operational efficiency and sustainability using data engineering and AI on Microsoft Fabric, Databricks and Azure. Named focus areas are fermentation prediction and risk detection, quality control analytics and anomaly detection, production and sales dashboards, raw material optimisation, AI-assisted recipe and process modelling, commercial planning, and sustainability analytics covering water, energy, CO2 and waste. DP-600 certified Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer. Leads the Bangalore Microsoft Fabric User Group for Microsoft and the Bangalore and Newbie Tableau User Groups, and mentors with the Data Visualization Society. Founder of iWort and ships open brewing calculators and analytics apps. Previously AB InBev, SABMiller and United Breweries.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://ankurnapa.github.io/
• https://github.com/AnkurNapa
• https://www.kaggle.com/ankurnapa
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-napa/

Antares Vision Group

multiple · Italy · Quality & inspection · shipping · active antaresvisiongroup.com

AI and blockchain product traceability and inspection data

Antares Vision Group provides an integrated software and hardware ecosystem for product quality inspection and end-to-end traceability. It applies artificial intelligence and blockchain to connected data management across the supply chain.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.antaresvisiongroup.com
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Anton Paar

multiple · Austria · Process & operations · none · active anton-paar.com

inline and lab beverage measurement

Measurement instruments for beverage quality control: the Alcolyzer alcohol meter, CarboQC dissolved-CO2 meter, density meters and modular packaged-beer measurement systems used inline, at-line and in the lab across beer, wine, spirits and RTDs. Over 40 years in beverage analysis. Anton Paar makes no public AI or machine-learning claim; it is tracked here as the measurement layer that brewery and winery quality data originates from, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.anton-paar.com/corp-en/products/group/beverage-analysis/
• https://www.anton-paar.com/uk-en/products/industries/application/beer-fabs/

AnyRoad

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active anyroad.com

taproom and tasting room experience analytics with AI feedback analysis

Experience relationship management platform that runs booking, ticketing, payments and first party data capture for brand experiences, with tours and tastings and bottle clubs as named use cases. Alcohol customers listed on the site include Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Campari, Johnnie Walker and Budweiser, so it sits squarely in brewery, distillery and winery DTC. The AI is described as AI powered analysis that turns guest feedback and journey signals into themes and connects them to NPS and brand affinity. No model detail is published. Raised 47 million US dollars in a Series B led by BlackRock with a16z and Runa Capital participating, roughly 66 million US dollars total.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.anyroad.com/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anyroad-raises-47-million-to-power-data-driven-experiences-at-scale-301489688.html

Aptean

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active aptean.com

production data / predictive analytics

Aptean is an industry-specific ERP vendor whose Aptean Beverage ERP line, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, targets breweries, distilleries, cider makers and beverage wholesale distributors with formula management, lot traceability, excise tax and bonded warehouse handling. In 2026 it launched AppCentral, an AI platform with AI agents and process automation for Business Central customers, and it markets predictive insights and on-demand data analysis across its food and beverage suite. The AI is agent and analytics tooling layered on ERP data rather than domain sensory or process models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365-for-finance-and-operations-enterprise-edition/linkfresh.linkfresh365?tab=overview
• https://rcpmag.com/blogs/rcp-channel-briefing/2026/04/aptean-introduces-appcentral.aspx
• https://www.aptean.com/en-US/solutions/erp/beverage-erp

Aromalytics

multiple · Brazil · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active aromalyticsai.com

sensory

Aromalytics offers an AI electronic-nose platform delivered as software and hardware as a service, digitizing smell to replace human sensory panels for food and beverage quality control and adulteration detection. It serves drinks and food manufacturers plus safety agencies.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.aromalyticsai.com/

Aromyx

multiple · unknown · Sensory & recipe · pilot · dormant aromyx.com

sensory

Stanford-founded company merging biosensors, data science and AI to quantify taste and smell, with sensory and product-recommendation applications for beer and other beverage makers.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2023-01-01.

• https://aromyx.com/
• https://stanforddaily.com/2019/10/11/stanford-grads-startup-aromyx-aims-to-quantify-taste-and-smell/
• https://thespoon.tech/aromyx-raises-10m-for-its-digital-scent-and-taste-technology/

Aroxa (Cara Technology)

multiple · United Kingdom · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active aroxa.com

sensory panel data management software

Aroxa, a trademark of Cara Technology Limited, supplies certified single compound flavour standards, taster training and blind coded proficiency schemes used by breweries and distilleries to calibrate tasting panels. Its software product SensCheck is a browser based sensory system that runs customisable online questionnaires, stores tasting data in place of paper forms and scores taster performance on flavour identification and scaling. There is no AI, machine learning or predictive analytics claim on the product pages. Included because it is where a large share of the industry's structured sensory data is actually captured.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.aroxa.com/
• https://www.aroxa.com/senscheck

Asseco Business Solutions (Mobile Touch)

multiple · Poland · Other · shipping · active assecoplatform.com

shelf image recognition for beverage retail execution

Asseco Business Solutions sells Mobile Touch, an FMCG sales and retail execution platform, plus a standalone Retail Image Recognition service. The AI is real computer vision: the vendor states it recognises every SKU from a shelf photo, counts facings, reads prices, detects out of stocks and checks planogram compliance, running on device without connectivity, at a claimed accuracy of up to 98 percent. Its own retail image recognition page names Heineken, Pernod Ricard and Coca-Cola HBC among the brands using it, which is what puts it on the beverage map. Polish listed software group, platform arm based in Lublin, quoting 450 plus FMCG implementations across 74 countries.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://assecoplatform.com/retail-image-recognition/
• https://www.assecobs.pl/en/

Astoria-Pacific

multiple · United States · Other · none · active astoria-pacific.com

automated wet chemistry analysis for wine and beer labs

Astoria-Pacific builds automated wet-chemistry analytical instruments and reagents, with named industrial lines for water, wine and beer alongside clinical newborn screening. Its rAPID-T system lets a winery run acetic acid and other key wine tests in house, which the company positions as early visibility into volatile acidity. It is an instrument and reagent vendor feeding beverage quality data; it makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:directories. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://wineindustrynetwork.com/c/astoria-pacific
• https://www.astoria-pacific.com

Atago (株式会社アタゴ)

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · none · active atago.net

none claimed, refractometry and inline concentration measurement

Japanese maker of refractometers, Brix meters, inline concentration monitors, pH meters and viscometers, with a dedicated product selector for Japanese sake alcohol measurement alongside beer and wine applications. Its instruments are a standard source of gravity and concentration data on Asian brewing and sake production floors. The company makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.atago.net/en/index.php
• https://www.atago.net/en/usage/products-alcoholic-drink-japanesesake_alcohol.php

Authena

multiple · Switzerland · Quality & inspection · shipping · active authena.io

iot unit level traceability and condition monitoring

Authena AG is a Swiss deep tech company providing gateway free, unit level supply chain traceability using NFC seals, IoT sensors and a blockchain record. For wine and spirits it seals individual bottles, records origin and ownership transfers, and logs shipping conditions including temperature, humidity and geolocation along the route. It supplied the technology for Brauerei Locher's Saentis Malt limited edition Swiss whisky, where each bottle carries a tamper evident NFC seal. The site states that AI is combined with IoT and blockchain but does not describe a specific machine learning model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.authena.io/about-us/
• https://www.packagingconnections.com/innovation/first-swiss-whiskey-launched-iot-sensor-based-blockchain-technology.htm

Authentic Vision

multiple · Austria · Quality & inspection · shipping · active authenticvision.com

quality control / computer vision

Authentic Vision sells a smartphone authentication service built on unique Holographic Fingerprint security labels that let anyone verify a bottle and detect counterfeits. Wine and spirits are core industries served, with AI-backed verification and geolocation analytics.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.authenticvision.com/

Azmera Consulting

multiple · United States · Consulting · active azmeraconsulting.com

erp selection and implementation consulting, no ai claim

Azmera is a systems and process consultancy serving wineries, distilleries, breweries and agricultural businesses, covering ERP selection and implementation, IT program leadership and process improvement. Its main product line is Odoo by Azmera, with beverage specific extensions branded Odoo for Wine and Odoo for Spirits, and it also implements JD Edwards for larger grape to bottle operations. In August 2026 it announced an Odoo for Wine integration with InnoVint covering production lots, vessels, dry goods, custom crush billing and overhead allocation. Azmera makes no artificial intelligence claim; it is a system of record and consulting business.

Provenance: Scout: scout:directories. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://azmeraconsulting.com
• https://wineindustrynetwork.com/c/azmera

BAXUS

multiple · United States · Quality & inspection · none · active baxus.co

collection pricing data and vaulted bottle authentication

BAXUS is a peer to peer marketplace for fine and rare spirits and wine where sellers ship bottles to a vault for review, then trade tokenised claims on them rather than shipping between buyers. Alongside the marketplace it runs a collection dashboard giving portfolio breakdown by category and current pricing data on held bottles. It is built on Solana and raised a $5M seed round led by Multicoin Capital with Solana Ventures, Narwhal Ventures and FJ Labs, announced May 2024. Founder and CEO Tzvi Wiesel is a former professional spirits trader. The public site makes no machine learning claim; the data offering is pricing aggregation over vaulted and traded inventory.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://baxus.co/about
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240501513935/en/BAXUS-Secures-$5M-in-Funding-Led-By-Multicoin-Capital-For-Global-Expansion-of-Web3-Enabled-Spirits-Marketplace

BW Design Group

multiple · unknown · Other · active bwdesigngroup.com

no ai claim; plant engineering plus digital transformation and controls

BW Design Group is an engineering, architecture and construction firm whose Food and Beverage market page names Beer and Malt, Wine, Spirits and Soft Drinks as distinct practice areas. Alongside process and facility engineering it sells a Digital Transformation and Controls capability plus Operations Technology and operations consulting, covering the project lifecycle from strategy through commissioning. The firm makes no machine learning claim on these pages: the digital offering is described as controls and digital transformation, not analytics or AI. In 2026 it announced the acquisition of Malisko Engineering, an automation system integrator whose own publications cover unified namespace and on-premises LLMs for plant floor operators.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://malisko.com/
• https://www.bwdesigngroup.com/markets/food-beverage

Backbar

multiple · United States · Supply chain · none · active getbackbar.com

none, on-premise beverage inventory and purchasing

Backbar is an on-premise beverage operations platform for bars, restaurants, hotels and casinos, covering inventory counts, vendor purchasing, invoice data capture, suggested par levels and pour cost, with point of sale integrations to Toast, Square and Shift4. It launched in Chicago in May 2019 as a free bar inventory tool and says it is now used by over 10,000 venues worldwide, which makes its aggregated counts a source of on-premise beer and hard seltzer share data that trade press and Park Street have cited. The product makes no AI or machine learning claim; par level suggestions are rule based.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.getbackbar.com/
• https://www.getbackbar.com/press

Barmetrix

multiple · unknown · Consulting · none · active barmetrix.com

franchised bar beverage stocktaking and variance consulting, no ai claim

Barmetrix runs a franchised beverage inventory and profit consulting service for bars, restaurants, hotels and nightclubs, where a local franchisee counts beer, wine and spirits stock, reconciles it against POS sales and coaches the operator on the resulting variance. It was founded in 1999 in Sydney, Australia, opened US and UK offices in 2005 and Toronto shortly after, and says it has served over 10,000 venues across seven countries. It is the direct competitor to Sculpture Hospitality on the same model, human counters plus reporting rather than software alone. Barmetrix makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.barmetrix.com/about-us
• https://www.barmetrix.com/our-team

Barrel Books (Buildera Technologies)

multiple · India · Compliance & licensing · none · active barrelbooks.com

liquor retail stock ledger and excise reporting

Barrel Books is a B2B SaaS platform for Indian liquor retail, built around the BL, CL and FL shop categories and covering godown stock ledgers, purchases, transfers, daily closing stock, POS billing and excise reporting. It tracks parcha permit numbers against every godown receipt, enforces daily and monthly excise quota limits with alerts before a purchase breaches them, and keeps a timestamped locked audit trail for excise inspections. It also produces dead stock and aging alerts on brand level movement. The product is developed and operated by Buildera Technologies LLP and makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://barrelbooks.com
• https://barrelbooks.com/excise-compliant-liquor-software

Barventory

multiple · Canada · Other · active barventory.com

connected keg and bottle scales for real time draught and liquor stock, no ai claim

Barventory builds connected weighing hardware and an app for bars and taprooms: a wireless keg scale that reports how much beer is left in a keg and how much has been poured, a bar top scale with barcode scanning that identifies a bottle and records its weight, and a Smart Coaster Pro. It was founded in 2018 by bar owners and operators to replace pen and paper liquor counts. The output is a live inventory and reordering list rather than a forecast, and the company makes no AI or machine learning claim. Its data feeds third party back office systems, and it is carried as the bar scale integration inside Yellow Dog Software, which sits alongside Oracle Simphony in hospitality sites.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://barventory.com/
• https://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/barventory

BatchMaster Software

multiple · United States · Other · active batchmaster.com

BatchMaster is a process manufacturing ERP with a dedicated brewery and distillery vertical, sold heavily into India alongside its US base and marketed there as brewery ERP software for beer and wine producers. The brewery configuration covers recipe management with version control and R&D support, brew assembly control, per-bottle and per-barrel margin visibility, stage-by-stage actual cost tracking, lot tracing from vendor procurement through customer shipment, and TTB audit preparation. It runs standalone or on top of QuickBooks, SAP Business One, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics GP or Sage 100 and 300. The company lists an Artificial Intelligence module among its process manufacturing modules, but the brewery and distillery material describes no machine learning of any kind, so treat this as a system of record for drinks production until the AI module is verified.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.batchmaster.co.in/industryserved/food-beverages/brewery-erp-software.aspx
• https://www.batchmaster.com/

BeerBoard

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active beerboard.com

demand forecasting

On-premise alcohol management company whose Alcohol Intelligence platform captures and analyzes real-time draft and inventory data across beer, wine and spirits for bars and restaurant chains.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-01.

• https://www.beerboard.com/about/
• https://www.brewbound.com/news/supplier-news/applebees-expands-use-of-beerboard-platform/

Berkeley Yeast

multiple · United States · Sensory & recipe · none · active berkeleyyeast.com

synthetic biology strain engineering for flavour, no machine learning claim

Berkeley Yeast is a UC Berkeley spinout that uses synthetic biology to engineer brewing and wine yeast strains, selling FRESH low diacetyl strains, TROPICS and SUPERBLOOM thiol releasing strains for hop-like aroma, SUMMERSTONE, the GALACTIC souring strain and non-alcoholic beer strains in dry and liquid formats. It was co-founded by Charles Denby, Nick Harris and Rachel Li with UC Berkeley professor Jay Keasling as key inventor, and is funded by NSF, NIH and USDA grants plus venture capital. Its own website makes no machine learning claim: the AI angle in press coverage belongs to a separate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory project using the ART Bayesian recommendation tool to tune hop-flavour metabolite production, which does not name the company. Included as the flagship engineered-strain supplier on the ingredient layer, with the AI claim explicitly not attributed to it.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://berkeleyyeast.com/
• https://ipira.berkeley.edu/berkeley-yeast

BevGenie

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active bevgenie.ai

decision intelligence over three-tier beverage alcohol data

BevGenie describes itself as an AI decision intelligence platform built for the beverage alcohol industry, serving suppliers, distributors and retailers across the three-tier system. It unifies TTB COLA registry filings, NABCA depletion data, menu and social data, trade publications, regulatory feeds and supplier POS, shipment and promotional signals, then answers role-specific questions against that base. The disclosed AI is a language model plus retrieval layer over that data: its responsible AI page says only that it continuously evaluates AI models and retrieval techniques, and names no specific model, forecasting method or agent architecture. A live application exists at app.bevgenie.ai and consumeriq.ai redirects to the BevGenie site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://bevgenie.ai/
• https://bevgenie.ai/about

BevLogic

multiple · United States · Compliance & licensing · none · active bevlogic.com

beverage alcohol licensing and compliance automation

BevLogic is a beverage alcohol compliance provider covering licensing, TTB and state product registration, excise and sales tax returns, payments and direct to consumer age and address verification for wineries, breweries, distilleries, importers and distributors across all 50 US states. It is the continuation of the Compli compliance business founded in 1997 by Rachel Rey, whose product line was previously sold under Avalara for Beverage Alcohol; avalara.com/us/en/products/beverage-alcohol.html now redirects to bevlogic.com. The platform is workflow automation and a centralised filing and licence repository combined with human compliance staff. It makes no machine learning claim on its own site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.avalara.com/us/en/products/beverage-alcohol.html
• https://www.bevlogic.com/
• https://www.bevlogic.com/about

BevSpot

multiple · United States · Supply chain · none · active bevspot.com

bar beverage inventory, ordering and pour cost analytics

BevSpot is a beverage inventory and ordering platform for bars and restaurants, covering count workflows that run offline, vendor ordering, recipe and pour costing, and sales-linked reporting across beer, wine and spirits. It pulls sales data from a long list of POS systems including Toast, Lightspeed, Square, SpotOn, Clover, NCR Aloha and POSitouch, and from accounting and distributor systems such as QuickBooks, Fintech, US Foods and Sysco. BevSpot makes no AI or machine-learning claim anywhere on its product or integrations pages: it is a system of record and reporting layer for on-premise drinks inventory.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://bevspot.com/
• https://bevspot.com/integrations/

Beverage Distribution Consultants (BDC)

multiple · United States · Consulting · none · active bdc-us.com

distributor systems and cost to serve data consulting

BDC is a consulting and custom software firm for beer, wine and spirits and non-alcoholic beverage distributors, with practices split by tier. It works on route accounting, ordering systems, inventory control, warehouse management and sales platform selection, and runs a Feature Shop that builds custom extensions on top of the distributor systems a client already owns. Its stated value is cost to serve visibility and SKU proliferation management as portfolios expand beyond beer. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site; it belongs in the radar as a systems and data integrator in the US three tier layer. Presented at the 2026 NBWA BIECC Innovation Showcase and exhibited at booth 718.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://bdc-us.com/beer-distribution-consulting/
• https://nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/

Beverage Information Group

multiple · United States · Market data & valuation · active bevinfogroup.com

beverage alcohol market data publishing and data analysis services

Beverage Information Group is a drinks industry data and media business operating under EPG Brand Acceleration, publishing Beverage Dynamics for off-premise retail, Beverage Wholesaler for distribution, Cheers for on-premise, and StateWays for control states. It sells data analysis services and market guides covering beer, wine and spirits across all three tiers. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site, and is included here because it is part of the drinks market-measurement landscape rather than because of any modelling capability.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://bevinfogroup.com/
• https://bevinfogroup.com/2026/02/25/2026-will-decide-the-future-of-ai-in-beverage-alcohol-logistics/

Beverage Marketing Corporation

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active beveragemarketing.com

no substantiated ai claim

Beverage Marketing Corporation has tracked the beverage industry for more than 50 years and sells its data through DrinkTell, a subscription database and forecasting model covering all sales channels for US beverages plus import and global statistics. It also publishes annual and quarterly market reports, the BMC Beverage Company Database of 6,500 plus companies and 14,500 plus brands, and provides expert witness testimony in beverage litigation. It deliberately positions its total market volume and dollar data against measured channel sources such as retail scan panels, which matters for beer, wine and spirits volumes that scan data misses. DrinkTell is described as a predictive model but the site makes no machine learning or AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.beveragemarketing.com/
• https://www.beveragemarketing.com/who-we-are.asp

Beverage360 (formerly HoochWare)

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · active beverage360.io

demand forecasting inside an operations platform, no ml detail disclosed

Beverage360 is a cloud operations platform for craft beverage producers, serving distilleries, breweries and wineries with inventory, warehouse, production, order fulfilment and automated TTB compliance reporting. It claims over 300 producers on the platform. The site lists analytics and forecasting for demand planning but discloses no model, method or machine learning detail, so treat it as reporting and planning software rather than a proven AI product. The product grew out of the HoochWare distillery software line.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://beverage360.io/
• https://www.cofficient.co.uk/compare-the-top-distillery-management-solutions/

Bevica

multiple · United Kingdom · Other · none · active bevica.com

Bevica is a UK drinks-industry ERP built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and delivered by TVision, serving breweries, distilleries, wineries, fine wine merchants and drinks distributors. It covers finance and KPI reporting, duty management, HMRC bonded warehousing, inventory, supply chain, production and CRM, plus fine wine specifics such as En Primeur, broking, allocations and cellarage. Its own website makes no machine learning claim; the company describes the platform on LinkedIn as having 'built-in AI as standard', which appears to mean inherited Microsoft Business Central and Power Platform capability rather than any drinks-specific model of its own.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://bevica.com/about-bevica/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/bevica/

Beyond Cloud Consulting

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active beyondcloudconsulting.com

ai production scheduling on netsuite

Oracle NetSuite implementation partner with a dedicated distillation and brewing practice, positioning NetSuite for catch-weight costing, lot tracking, regulatory compliance and supply chain management at drinks producers. It has built its own AI-branded NetSuite extensions including an AI Production Scheduler and Execution module, an AI Voice Agent, AI Field Service Management and AI Fleet Management. The technical basis of the AI in these modules is not disclosed on the site. Named Oracle NetSuite Alliance Partner Spotlight Award winner in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with over 400 implementations claimed.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://beyondcloudconsulting.com/
• https://beyondcloudconsulting.com/distillation-brewing/

Bharathi Sampangi

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · pilot · active

enterprise data platform architecture for beverage alcohol distribution

Owns the architecture, technical design and roadmap of Southern Glazer's enterprise data platforms, reporting into the CIO, as part of the Enterprise Data Center of Excellence announced in March 2024. Prior engineering leadership roles at Gap Inc, Five Below, CSC and Yohana. company_is_current is false only because the sole employment source is the March 2024 announcement.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20250723230216/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240328422851/en/Southern-Glazers-Wine-Spirits-Announces-Leaders-for-New-Enterprise-Data-Center-of-Excellence
• https://www.southernglazers.com/careers/Information-technology

Biernacki Engineering (Automatisierungstechnik Biernacki)

multiple · Germany · Demand & pricing · none · active biernacki-engineering.de

beverage line production planning and forecast of changeover duration

Small German automation contractor that programmes, installs and services filling and packaging lines for the beverage industry worldwide. It develops its own software, AtomicLIMES, which collects line measurement data and real-time dashboards for production planning and derives a forecast value for the duration of the next production run of the same type from efficiency analysis and algorithms. It also shows a prototype camera system for new-glass inspection. No machine learning or AI claim is made for either; the forecast is described only as algorithmic.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://biernacki-engineering.de/
• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

BinWise

multiple · unknown · Supply chain · none · active binwise.com

beverage inventory and purchasing

Beverage program management software for restaurants, bars, hotels and country clubs, covering wine, beer and spirits inventory counting, wine list and bin management, purchasing and vendor ordering. Now integrated with BlueCart, which adds food inventory and the Endless Aisle sourcing marketplace. It markets par-based predictive ordering but publishes no AI or machine-learning claim, so it is recorded here as an on-premise beverage system of record rather than an AI vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://binwise.com/
• https://www.softwaresuggest.com/binwise

BirchStreet

multiple · United States · Supply chain · active birchstreetai.com

hospitality procure to pay and food and beverage inventory, ai claimed but unspecified

BirchStreet runs a hospitality procure-to-pay platform for hotels, casinos, clubs and food service, covering eProcurement, invoicing, recipe management, analytics and inventory. The inventory module explicitly covers beverage, using line-on-the-bottle scanning at outlets and POS-driven depletion to track bar stock. The former bar and liquor inventory brand AccuBar now resolves to this product: accubar.com redirects to birchstreetai.com/products/inventory-management. The company markets itself as AI-embedded and AI-powered but publishes no detail on what the models do, so the AI claim should be treated as unverified marketing language.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://birchstreetai.com/about-us/
• https://birchstreetai.com/products/inventory-management/

BitMetrics

multiple · Spain · Quality & inspection · pilot · active bitmetrics.ai

computer vision quality inspection of wine during bottling

BitMetrics is a Barcelona deep-tech company building vision-guided robotics and AI visual inspection software (Pick+ and Scan+) for industrial lines. Its wine application is the VINIA project with Familia Torres, where image sensors and machine learning models spin each bottle to detect and isolate foreign particles in the wine during bottling, piloted at the Torres winery in Pacs del Penedes. The project received about 29,000 EUR of ACCIO innovation funding. Wine is one vertical inside a broader industrial automation business.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://bitmetrics.ai/en/
• https://www.tecnovino.com/familia-torres-y-la-startup-bitmetrics-implementan-vision-e-inteligencia-artificial-para-inspeccionar-la-calidad-en-el-embotellado-del-vino/

Bizom (Mobisy Technologies)

multiple · India · Other · shipping · active bizom.com

route-to-market retail execution intelligence

Bizom is an Indian route-to-market and retail intelligence platform for consumer goods brands, covering sales force automation, distributor management and retail ordering. Its own site names Heineken, AB InBev, Pernod Ricard, Coca-Cola and Red Bull among the brands it serves, making it a significant distribution-data layer for beer and spirits in India and 35 other markets. The AI is shipping product: Bizom Marshal conversation intelligence, an RI Copilot recommendation engine, image-based smart merchandising for shelf audits and generative-AI outlet deduplication. IndiaMART took a stake in the company in 2023.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://bizom.com/
• https://corporate.indiamart.com/2023/01/16/indiamart-acquires-7-96-stake-in-mobisy-technologies-private-limited-bizom/

Black Swan Data

multiple · United Kingdom · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active blackswan.com

social data trend prediction for drinks innovation

Black Swan Data applies data science to millions of online consumer conversations to predict which product trends will grow, and sells that as an innovation platform to CPG brands. Alcohol is one of its named category practices, with published reports covering the future of spirits and liqueurs, the future of beer and low/no, and ready to drink alcohol, one of which states it analysed over 13 million consumer conversations for spirits brands. The company claims 89 percent trend prediction accuracy and says it refreshes around 500,000 consumer trends monthly. Mintel acquired Black Swan Data in June 2025 and the site now carries a joining forces notice, but the brand and domain still operate separately.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://blackswan.com/
• https://blackswan.com/reports/alcohol-trends-and-insights
• https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/mintel-acquires-black-swan-data-revolutionizing-predictive-intelligence-and-reshaping-the-future-of-insight/

BlueBoot Business Software

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active blueboot.com

sap btp extensions for a smart winery, built on sap ai core and joule

BlueBoot Business Software S.R.L. is an SAP premier partner working entirely on the SAP Business Technology Platform, with a corporate address in Tampa, Florida and its delivery and client base concentrated in Chile and the wider Latin American market. It was the strategic partner on Vina Concha y Toro's Smart Winery implementation, which SAP LatAm reported on 13 June 2023 and which took an honourable mention at the 2023 SAP Innovation Awards; the solution feeds sensor and operational data into two AI models, one predicting future wine quality and one predicting the end of maceration, and was deployed at the Lourdes cellar. Its own site lists further drinks clients including CCU, Chile's largest brewer, Constellation Brands and Breakthru Beverage. The predictive models run on SAP AI Core and Joule, so the underlying AI is SAP's; BlueBoot's contribution is the BTP extension, integration and user experience layer around it.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://news.sap.com/latinamerica/2023/06/vina-concha-y-toro-innova-con-soluciones-sap/
• https://www.blueboot.com/index.php

Boortmalt

multiple · Belgium · Other · none · active boortmalt.com

none claimed

Boortmalt is a global maltster with about 3 million tonnes of capacity across 25 malting plants on five continents, supplying brewers, distillers and food manufacturers. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its own website; the malt expertise pages describe conventional analytical quality control. The closest data work is a VLAIO funded Flanders innovation project announced in October 2019 investigating which wort and malt analyses can be used to select new barley varieties against beer quality traits such as taste, foam and colloidal stability, and it is described in purely analytical terms with no modelling claim. Included as a reference point on the ingredient layer alongside Soufflet Malt and Malteurop, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.boortmalt.com/innovation-project-supported-flanders-region
• https://www.boortmalt.com/malt-expertise

BottleCapps

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active bottlecapps.com

loyalty and personalisation for liquor retail e-commerce

BottleCapps builds branded online storefronts and mobile apps for liquor retailers, beverage alcohol brands and suppliers across the USA and Canada, with email, SMS and push marketing and order management across channels, on a flat 300 to 500 dollar monthly subscription with no transaction markup. Its own marketing describes an AI layer over loyalty that reads behavioural micro-signals such as shifts in purchase frequency, category experimentation, seasonality and basket pairings across POS, email, mobile and e-commerce, and predicts taste migration to drive members-only allocations rather than blanket discounts. That claim appears only in company blog copy and carries no model, benchmark or customer evidence, and the main product site makes no AI claim at all, so treat the machine learning as unsubstantiated. HQ, founding year and leadership are not published on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-03-11.

• https://www.bottlecapps.com/
• https://www.bottlecapps.com/blogs/ai-alcohol-loyalty-personalized-retail-rewards/

Bowimi

multiple · United Kingdom · Other · shipping · active bowimi.com

on-trade prospect scoring

Field sales software for drinks brands and their agencies, covering route planning, rep activity tracking, outlet surveys and distributor customer lists across the UK on-trade and off-trade. Its Prospecting AI feature scores a database of over 100,000 venues daily against the customer profile a brand uploads and returns a ranked personalised prospect list inside the app. Named drinks customers include Amie Wine and House of Theakston. Bowimi Limited is registered in England and Wales, company number 11641407, at Podium Space, Henry Street, Bath.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.bowimi.com/case-study/house-of-theakston-episode-one-reps/
• https://www.bowimi.com/prospecting/

BrewERP

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · none · active brewerp.top

brewery and winery production management

Small multilingual SaaS ERP for craft breweries and boutique wineries, sold on a 14-day free trial with EU-hosted servers. The brewery mode tracks mash to fermentation to carbonation to bottling with tank status maps, recipes, keg and can inventory and batch costing; the winery mode tracks crush to fermentation to malolactic to ageing to bottling with vessel and barrel cellar maps and vintage lot costing. Finance, pricing and stock-depletion and bottling forecasting modules are rule-based planning, not machine learning, and the product makes no AI claim. Interface is offered in English, Russian, Italian, French and German; the operating company and location are not published on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://brewerp.top/
• https://www.saashub.com/brewerp

BrewPlanner

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active brewplanner.com

production scheduling and batch planning for craft beverage producers

BrewPlanner is production planning and light ERP software for craft breweries, wineries, distilleries, cideries and meaderies, covering drag and drop batch scheduling, recipe management, raw material tracking and production analytics. It claims over 500 brewery and winery customers, from nano scale to multi-site regional operations. The site makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim: the scheduling is deterministic planning, and the quoted results such as 99 percent on-time scheduling and 30 percent waste reduction are customer outcomes rather than model outputs.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://brewplanner.com/
• https://slashdot.org/software/brewery/saas/

Bricklead (Primus-Wine)

multiple · France · Other · shipping · active bricklead.eu

wine and spirits erp, no ai claim

Bricklead is a French Microsoft ISV in the Dimood Group that builds certified Dynamics 365 Business Central apps for food and beverage manufacturers, covering production, supply chain, quality, lot management and finance. On AppSource it publishes the Primus-Wine range (Primus-Wine, Primus-Gamma, Primus-BI, Primus-EDI, Primus-Intrastat, Primus-Web-Services), described by the publisher as the ERP for wine, alcohol and spirits on Business Central. Bricklead itself makes no proprietary AI claim: the only AI mentioned is Microsoft's own Business Central Copilot features.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365-business-central/PUBID.bricklead1692180953470%7CAID.pws_primus-wine%7CPAPPID.493b3dfd-cd66-4f6b-a2ee-be251b731d2b
• https://www.bricklead.eu/

Briess Malt & Ingredients

multiple · United States · Sensory & recipe · none · active brewingwithbriess.com

none (malt supply and malt sensory)

Briess is a family-owned American maltster supplying base, specialty, roasted and caramel malts plus extracts to craft brewers, distillers and homebrewers, and it runs its own research brewery and pilot malting plant. Its technical content is real malt science, including ASBC hot steep malt sensory evaluation, predicted spirit yield for whiskey malts and colour prediction from recipe formulation, but these are laboratory methods and deterministic spec calculations rather than machine learning. A read of its site and full blog sitemap found no artificial intelligence, machine learning or predictive-model claim anywhere. Tracked as a significant ingredient-layer supplier that makes no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://brewingwithbriess.com/blog/lets-talk-psy-predicted-spirit-yield/
• https://www.brewingwithbriess.com/

Briggs of Burton

multiple · United Kingdom · Process & operations · active briggsofburton.com

no ai claim; process engineering design and build for breweries and distilleries

Process engineering contractor tracing its history to 1732, now part of the CLPT Group, designing brewhouses, cold block equipment, stills, ageing and blending processes for brewers and distillers. Named work includes Scotch whisky producers and a Mexican tequila plant running 140,000 litres per day, and it markets a combined BrewStillery technology. Services run from feasibility study through project management and commissioning. Its own site makes no artificial intelligence, machine learning or data analytics claim; it is included as an engineering layer that shapes what beverage plant data exists at all.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://briggsofburton.com/
• https://www.ziemann-holvrieka.com/

Bruker

multiple · unknown · Quality & inspection · shipping · active bruker.com

nmr wine authentication against a reference database

Bruker sells Wine Profiling, an automated 1H-NMR method that combines high resolution spectroscopy with multivariate statistical chemometrics scored against a large reference database of authenticated wines. Wine-Profiling 4.0 verifies geographic origin down to appellation, grape variety in single varietal wines, vintage consistency and quality grade, flags atypical samples and water addition, and quantifies more than fifty compounds including the official OIV parameters, in about twenty minutes per sample with no NMR expertise required of the operator. The reference database was built with WinespinAnalytics, Eurofins Analytics France and Estacion Enologica de Haro, and the OIV incorporated the NMR method into its Compendium of International Methods of Analysis in 2021. Bruker also applies ESR spectroscopy to beer freshness and oxidation monitoring for breweries. The models are classical chemometrics rather than deep learning, and Bruker describes them that way.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.bruker.com/en/news-and-events/news/2021/international-organization-of-vine-and-wine-officially-incorporates-nmr-method-in-compendium-of-international-methods-of-analysis-of-wines-and-musts.html
• https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/mr/nmr-food-solutions/wine-profiling0.html

Buhler Group

multiple · unknown · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active buhlergroup.com

condition-based predictive maintenance and yield analytics via the buhler insights iiot platform

Swiss process technology group supplying malting plants, grain handling and milling for brewing and distilling, and stating on its own site that 75 percent of the world's malt is processed on its machines. Its brewing and distilling pages name Octopi Brewing in Waunakee as a customer, and its Minch Malt story describes Buhler Insights as the digital backbone of a new Irish malting plant with batch-by-batch dashboards. Buhler Insights is described as condition-based predictive maintenance, downtime and yield analytics; Buhler does not claim machine learning for it, and the named Insights references on its site are flour milling rather than brewing sites.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.buhlergroup.com/global/en/process-technologies/Brewing-Distilling.html
• https://www.buhlergroup.com/global/en/stories/grain_quality/minch-malt-ireland.html

Bump Williams Consulting

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active bumpwilliamsconsulting.com

beverage alcohol category analytics and shopper insights consulting

Bump Williams Consulting is a beverage alcohol consultancy working across suppliers, distributors and retailers on executive strategy, organisational design, national accounts and class of trade planning. Its analytics practice is built on syndicated scan data and its team came out of AC Nielsen and Information Resources, and it publishes a widely cited monthly beer and flavoured alcohol category read through Brewbound. It sells no AI or machine learning product and makes no such claim, so it belongs in the beverage data landscape as a human analytics practice sitting on top of syndicated retail measurement. Leadership is Bump Williams as founder and CEO, Dave Williams as president and Dan Wandel as chief strategy officer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://bumpwilliamsconsulting.com/
• https://www.brewbound.com/tag/bump-williams-consulting/

CFT Group

multiple · Italy · Process & operations · shipping · active cft-group.com

line performance monitoring and remote predictive maintenance

CFT Group is an Italian food and beverage plant OEM in Parma that supplies complete bottling, canning and kegging lines for beer, spirits, ready to drink, juice and water, and which owns the brewing engineering house Rolec and the kegging specialist Comac. It offers three named HMI and monitoring platforms, Memento, Illuminate and FACTS, for tracking machine and line performance, and sells remote support and predictive maintenance as part of its service package. CFT publishes no AI or machine learning claim behind these platforms, so they should be read as line data capture and condition based service rather than modelling. It is relevant to the radar as the packaging and brewhouse plant layer that beverage line data originates from.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.cft-group.com/industry/beverage/
• https://www.cft-group.com/rolec-the-brewery-experts/

COLAClear

multiple · United States · Compliance & licensing · active colaclear.com

OCR label reading with a deterministic TTB compliance rules engine

COLAClear pre-screens US wine, spirits and beer labels against the federal and state rules that drive TTB COLA rejections, returning a colour-coded pass, review or fail report with Code of Federal Regulations citations in seconds. It runs over 30 checks covering class and type designation, alcohol content, standards of fill, the mandatory government health warning, sulfite declaration and grape variety, plus California and Oregon state rules. Public beta launched 4 May 2026 and is free during beta. On the AI question the vendor's own methodology page is explicit and conservative: label text is extracted by optical character recognition supplied by Google Cloud Vision, the checks are deterministic text-matching and pattern-validation against fixed regulatory requirements, and the page states the rule set does not rely on case law interpretation, regulatory inference or LLM-generated content. Launch press describing language-model reasoning is not supported by the vendor's own documentation. Founded by Zillah Bahar.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://colaclear.com/methodology.html
• https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2026/05/04/colaclear-launches-public-beta-automated-ttb-label-pre-screen/

COPA Systeme

multiple · Germany · Other · shipping · active copasysteme.de

predictive order proposals and basket analysis for beverage distribution

COPA Systeme is a German software house serving the beverage industry (Getraenkewirtschaft) for over 40 years with the drink.PRO ERP, bi.PRO business intelligence, crm.PRO, mobile warehouse management and a drink&drive mobile sales app, used by breweries, beverage wholesalers and distributors. Its KI (AI) offering is a predictive selling capability inside drink.PRO that learns from historical order data, assortments, minimum order quantities and seasonality to generate automatic order proposals, plus shopping basket analysis in bi.PRO for cross-selling. The company describes machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision as its underlying technologies, and the shipping capability is forecasting rather than generative AI.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.copasysteme.de/
• https://www.copasysteme.de/ki-loesungen/

CRB Group

multiple · United States · Consulting · none · active crbgroup.com

no ai claim; food and beverage facility design, construction and consulting

CRB is a US engineering, architecture, construction and consulting firm with a dedicated food and beverage practice covering facility design, construction, consulting and systems integration for producers scaling up processes. Verified on the vendor site after a browser pass cleared its Cloudflare challenge. Its food and beverage pages describe production rates, energy efficiency, speed to market and food safety compliance, with no machine-learning or AI service claimed. Recorded against the thin Consulting theme.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.crbgroup.com/markets/food-beverage
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/crbgrp/about/

CSB-System

multiple · Germany · Quality & inspection · shipping · active csb.com

ai agents for erp process automation and vision inspection

CSB-System SE is a German process-industry ERP vendor (over 550 staff, 50 countries) whose Food and Beverages line includes a dedicated beverage industry solution covering procurement, recipe optimisation against targets such as brix and Oechsle, production, quality management, traceability and multichannel sales. In August 2026 CSB launched its Agent Platform, specialised AI agents that analyse information, make rule-based decisions and prepare business processes, alongside CSB Vision for industrial image processing. The AI is general ERP and inspection automation across food and drink, not a beer, whiskey or wine specific model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://www.csb.com/en/about-csb
• https://www.csb.com/en/industries/food-beverages/beverages

Cambrian Innovation

multiple · United States · Other · none · active cambrianinnovation.com

remote monitoring of brewery wastewater treatment

Cambrian Innovation is an MIT spinout that treats brewery and winery effluent on site with bioelectrically enhanced anaerobic systems, EcoVolt and BlueCycle MBR, recovering biogas and reuse water, and sells it as a Water Energy Purchase Agreement so the producer puts up no capital. Its own site names Anheuser Busch Houston, Russian River Brewing, Bear Republic Brewing, Northern United Brewing and Rombauer Vineyards as customers, and Lagunitas in Petaluma has run an EcoVolt system since 2014 under a ten year operations agreement. The digital layer is cloud based real time monitoring and analytics of reactor operation; the company makes no machine learning claim. Relevant to the water stewardship and effluent side of beverage ESG.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://cambrianinnovation.com/
• https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/equipment-systems/lagunitas-brewery-wastewater-treatment/

Cask Capital

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active caskcapital.io

tokenised cask asset marketplace

Cask Capital is a marketplace for tokenised cask-aged assets, covering whisky, wine, rum and tequila, with verified custody and on-chain ownership records that allow fractional ownership of a single cask. Casks are currently tokenised on Hedera. The marketplace launched in May 2024, sold out its first fractionalised whisky cask in September 2024, and added wine in July 2025 and tequila in November 2025. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.caskcapital.io/
• https://www.caskcapital.io/about

Cathy Huyghe

multiple · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

Co-founded Enolytics in 2016 to bring big-data business intelligence to wine and spirits companies worldwide, building analytics apps on the Qlik platform.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://www.enolytics.com/our-team
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-huyghe-332307/

Chunpoong Brewery (춘풍양조장)

multiple · Korea · Process & operations · shipping · active chunpoong.co.kr

aiot fermentation control for makgeolli

Seoul makgeolli brewery that built the Makgeolli Brewing Technology System (MBTS), an IoT sensor layer feeding an AI model that controls the parallel saccharification and fermentation process in real time. The model was trained on decades of process data supplied by Beonam Brewery, a traditional producer operating since 1919 whose CEO Joong Sul Bae co-founded Chunpoong. Its own site describes applying semiconductor-style precision process control and AIoT to fermentation science, and it is the first makgeolli brewery in Seoul open to the public.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://chunpoong.co.kr/
• https://www.epicureasia.com/drinks/39081/chunpoong-brewery-safeguards-makgeollis-future-marrying-tradition-with-cutting-edge-ai/

Circana

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active circana.com

ai analytics layer over alcohol point of sale and depletion data

Circana is the market measurement firm formed by combining IRI (founded 1979) and NPD (founded 1966), and it runs a dedicated alcoholic beverages practice led by EVP Boris Oglesby. For drinks it combines retailer point of sale data with a wet and dry enhanced projection methodology and harmonises it with NABCA control state depletions inside its Unify+ platform. Its named AI product is Liquid AI, which sits on the Liquid Data technology platform and powers the published alcohol category rankings, with the alcohol data spotlight sourced to Circana Liquid AI, May 2026. Circana states it was one of the first in the industry to integrate AI within its technology platform.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.circana.com/company
• https://www.circana.com/company/offices
• https://www.circana.com/industries/alcoholic-beverages

Clarkston Consulting

multiple · United States · Consulting · shipping · active clarkstonconsulting.com

advisory on data, analytics and ai for wine, spirits and beer brands

Clarkston Consulting is a management and technology consultancy with a named Wine, Spirits and Beer industry practice alongside Data and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Category Management and Trade Promotion service lines. It advises drinks producers on where AI is actually being used in the category, publishing analysis that places current wine and spirits AI adoption mainly in new product formulation and marketing rather than operations. Clarkston is an adviser and integrator, not a data owner or panel provider, and sells no AI product of its own.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://clarkstonconsulting.com/contact-us/
• https://clarkstonconsulting.com/insights/ai-in-wine-spirits/

ClimateHound

multiple · United States · Other · none · active climatehound.io

carbon footprint accounting for drinks producers

ClimateHound is a carbon footprint and decarbonisation reporting platform aimed squarely at small and mid sized drinks producers. Its winery page names customers including pleb urban winery, Wanderlust Wine Co, Cellarest, Old Elk Distillery, Montanya Distillers, 3BR Distillery and Bauman's Cider, and it pulls data through more than 200 integrations with business tools and utility providers. It makes no machine learning claim anywhere on the site: this is integration driven emissions accounting and reporting, not modelling. Included because it is one of the few carbon platforms with a genuinely wine and spirits native customer list.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.climatehound.io/industry/winery
• https://www.zevero.earth/esg-reporting

Collo (ColloidTek Oy)

multiple · Finland · Process & operations · shipping · active collo.fi

real-time liquid fingerprinting for changeover and CIP optimisation

Collo sells an inline electromagnetic-field sensor plus a software platform (Collo Insights, Collo Signals, Collo Lab Analyzer) that reads a continuous fingerprint of a liquid in process. The company states it pairs radio frequency sensor technology with AI analytical methods, and that the platform learns from operational data by correlating sensor readings with historical trends and other process variables. It is sold to dairy, food and beverage plants for changeover and CIP optimisation and real-time process control. Collo won the World Beverage Innovation Award in the Processing and Production category at drinktec 2025 and exhibited at drinktec.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.collo.fi/about
• https://www.collo.fi/our-innovation
• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

Complexica

multiple · Australia · Demand & pricing · shipping · active complexica.com

supply and demand optimisation for beverage alcohol producers and distributors

Complexica sells Decision Cloud, a modular enterprise platform driven by its AI and optimisation engine branded Larry, the Digital Analyst, covering demand forecasting, promotional planning, production scheduling and sales enablement. Named beverage alcohol customers on its own site include Pernod Ricard Winemakers, Asahi Beverages, Lion and liquor wholesaler Metcash. For Pernod Ricard Winemakers it went live across Australian and New Zealand wineries including Rowland Flat in the Barossa Valley, optimising winery, bottling and finished-goods planning, then extended to harvest and grape intake optimisation.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.complexica.com/
• https://www.complexica.com/news/pernod-ricard-winemakers-goes-live-at-additional-production-sites-with-complexicas-decision-cloud-signs-contract-for-phase-2-of-global-supply-chain-optimisation-project

Computronix (POSSE ABC)

multiple · Canada · Compliance & licensing · none · active computronix.com

liquor licensing and compliance system of record, no ai claim

Computronix, founded in 1979 with offices in Edmonton and metro Denver, builds government workflow software for North American regulators and publishes POSSE ABC on Microsoft AppSource. POSSE ABC is the system of record for alcoholic beverage control agencies, managing liquor licensing, licensee self service, compliance and enforcement case management, and it sits alongside the broader POSSE PLS permitting and licensing platform. It makes no AI or machine learning claim, but it holds much of the regulatory data on breweries, distilleries and wineries in the US states that run it.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saas/computronix1682718604038.posse_abc
• https://www.computronix.com/posse-abc/

Constellation Brands

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active cbrands.com

bigquery ml predictive analytics for direct-to-consumer wine and spirits

International producer and marketer of beer, wine and spirits with operations in the US, Mexico, New Zealand and Italy, including Corona, Modelo, Robert Mondavi Winery and High West Whiskey. Google Cloud published a case study on its direct-to-consumer transformation, in which Constellation runs BigQuery as the DTC data warehouse, uses BigQuery ML for predictive analytics on customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, churn and NPS, and uses Looker with LookML for modelling, reporting a 60 percent reduction in hours to reach critical decisions. The AI here is SQL-based ML on commerce data, not production or sensory AI.

Provenance: Scout: scout:google. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/constellation-brands-picks-google-cloud-for-direct-to-consumer-push
• https://www.cbrands.com/

Cool Farm Alliance

multiple · United Kingdom · Other · none · active coolfarm.org

farm level ghg, water and biodiversity footprinting

Not for profit alliance behind the Cool Farm Tool, an online calculator that quantifies greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon sequestration, water use, biodiversity and food loss at farm level for agricultural supply chains. Heineken, AB InBev and Suntory are named members, so the tool sits under the barley, hop and grape footprints that feed beer and spirits scope 3 reporting. It makes no AI or machine learning claim: the tool is a deterministic calculator built on IPCC methodology and peer reviewed research, originating in 2008 from Unilever and Prof Pete Smith at the University of Aberdeen.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://coolfarm.org/
• https://coolfarm.org/members/

Corso Systems

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · none · active corsosystems.com

no ai claim; scada, plc and process historian integration for distilleries and breweries

US industrial automation system integrator and Premier Integrator for Inductive Automation's Ignition platform, working on automation, systems integration, visualisation, OT cybersecurity and legacy modernisation. Its own case study names 10 Torr Distilling and Brewing in Reno, Nevada, where Corso delivered Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLC programming and an Ignition Perspective SCADA covering automated grain dispensing, two mash systems, fourteen fermenters, a glycol chiller, a stripping still, a 28 foot vacuum still and a canning line, plus process historian, recipe management, scheduling and TTB reporting. Founder Randy Soule of 10 Torr is quoted on running multiple batches with one operator. Corso makes no machine learning claim; it is the consulting and integration layer that puts brewery and distillery process data into a historian in the first place.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://corsosystems.com/case-studies/10-torr-ignition-scada-and-plc-programming
• https://corsosystems.com/who-we-are

Cotmac Electronics

multiple · India · Process & operations · none · active cotmac.io

brewery and distillery process automation and industrial software

Pune based factory and process automation integrator with a dedicated food processing team delivering brewery and distillery automation on the Siemens platform in India, alongside dairy, juice and carbonated drinks work. Its offer includes process automation, industrial software, Siemens software, machine vision and digitalisation consulting, and it describes IoT use across procurement, production and consumer insight. It is one of the larger Indian system integrators serving alcoholic beverage plants. No AI or machine learning product claim of its own.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://cotmac.io/contact-us/
• https://cotmac.io/food-and-beverages/

CraftComply

multiple · unknown · Compliance & licensing · shipping · active craftcomply.com

document extraction for beverage brand registration compliance

CraftComply is a web platform for managing beverage alcohol brand and product registrations across US states, aimed at craft breweries, wineries, distilleries, importers, distributors, contract manufacturers and compliance consultants. It covers multi-state compliance tracking, renewal workflows, production facility licensing, expiration alerts and document management. The stated AI component is narrow and specific: an AI-powered document import feature that reads uploaded registration paperwork, and the company positions itself as brand registration management for the AI era. There is no claim of predictive modelling or machine learning beyond that document ingestion step.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://craftcomply.com/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/craftcomply

Craftable (FNBTech)

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active craftable.com

invoice extraction and ranked purchasing actions for bar beverage programs

Craftable, operated by FNBTech, Inc., is a hospitality back office platform for purchasing, inventory, accounts payable and cost reporting, and it grew out of the Bevager beverage inventory product (bevager.com now redirects to the Craftable app). It serves bars, restaurants, hotels and casinos where beer, wine and spirits purchasing is the largest controllable cost. Named AI features are Invoice AI, which scans supplier invoices and extracts line items for three way matching, Operator AI, which issues daily ranked opportunities and suggested actions, and an in app assistant called Crafty that answers profitability questions against live data. The company reports over 10,000 operators and more than ten years of trading, so a founding date around 2014 or earlier, but does not publish a headquarters city or founding year.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/craftable-inventory/id1633413960
• https://craftable.com/

Crafted ERP

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active craftederp.com

demand forecasting

Beverage ERP built on Oracle NetSuite by Doozy Solutions, offering breweries and distilleries AI-driven demand forecasting, inventory optimization and production planning across beer and spirits.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-01.

• https://craftederp.com/
• https://craftederp.com/solutions/distillery-edition
• https://craftederp.com/the-buzz/brewery-demand-forecasting

Crisp Malt

multiple · United Kingdom · Agriculture & crop · none · active crispmalt.com

none (malt supply and barley agronomy data)

Crisp Malt is a British maltster with around 150 years of malting history, part of Anglia Maltings (Holdings), supplying base, specialty, roasted and distilling malts to brewers and distillers in the UK and internationally. It runs grower and sustainability data programmes across its malting barley supply base, including farm-level carbon and farming-practice data collection with agronomy partners, and a central technical lab that works on things like spirit yield optimisation from distillery draff. Its site and news sitemap carry no artificial intelligence, machine learning or predictive-model claim. Tracked as a large malting barley data holder in the ingredient layer with no AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://crispmalt.com/about-us/
• https://crispmalt.com/sustainability-hub/

Customertimes (CT Mobile)

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active customertimes.com

ai assisted field sales and visit execution on salesforce

Customertimes builds CT Mobile, a native Salesforce field sales app with full offline working, guided visit workflows, in-visit ordering and automated data capture, listed in the Salesforce Consumer Goods app guide. Pernod Ricard is named as a customer on the product page and quoted describing a relationship of more than five years, which puts the product inside a major spirits and wine group's route-to-market stack. The AI claim is deliberately general: the site says AI-powered insights and intelligent automation but names no specific model or AI feature, so treat the AI depth as unverified while the Salesforce-native field execution is well evidenced.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://appexchange.salesforce.com/mktcollections/curated/cgappguide
• https://www.customertimes.com/ct-mobile/

Cypheme

multiple · France · Quality & inspection · shipping · active cypheme.com

quality control / computer vision

Cypheme provides an AI computer-vision anti-counterfeit service where consumers photograph a tamper-resistant Noise Print label with a smartphone to authenticate a product in seconds. Wine and spirits brands are among the industries it protects against counterfeiting.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.cypheme.com/

DSDLink

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · none · active dsdlink.com

b2b beverage ordering between retailers, distributors and suppliers

DSDLink is a B2B e-commerce ordering app that lets on-premise and off-premise retailers place beer and beverage orders directly into their distributor's system, with separate hubs for retailers, distributors and suppliers. It is operated by Encompass Technologies and sits in the same category as Provi and BEES. The DSDLink site makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://www.beerandbrewing.com/where-the-beer-money-is-moving
• https://www.dsdlink.com/

Databricks

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active databricks.com

data and AI platform for beverage and CPG operators

Horizontal data and AI platform, not a beverage company. Included because it is the underlying platform for a growing share of beverage and CPG analytics work. It ships an industry Lakehouse for Retail and Consumer Goods with solution accelerators for demand forecasting, on-shelf availability and recall traceability. Named food and drink users include Danone, which adopted the Data Intelligence Platform in April 2025, plus Gousto, Reckitt and Restaurant Brands International. The AI is the platform capability, not a beverage-specific model.

Provenance: Scout: curated:fnb-majors. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly
• https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/03/24/hello-dolly-democratizing-magic-chatgpt-open-models.html
• https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-launches-data-lakehouse-for-retail-and-consumer-goods-customers
• https://www.databricks.com/solutions/industries/retail-industry-solutions

Datassential

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active datassential.com

genai menu, trend and consumer intelligence

Datassential is a food and beverage market intelligence firm whose platform, Datassential One, unifies menu data, consumer sentiment, social listening, trend forecasting and operator intelligence. It sells a named product, Datassential AI, which answers foodservice trend and strategy questions in natural language over its own datasets. Its published category work includes alcohol trend analysis for the on-premise drinks market, so beer, wine and spirits sit inside a wider food and beverage panel rather than being a standalone drinks product. The AI is a generative query and summarisation layer over proprietary menu and consumer data, not a drinks-specific model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.datassential.com/
• https://www.datassential.com/about/
• https://www.datassential.com/solutions/alcohol/

Davies Engineering Group

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active davieseg.com

brewery and distillery process controls, no ai claim

Controls, process and MEP engineering firm, formerly ThermalTech Engineering, with named drinks projects on both sides of the industry. It built MadTree Brewing's fully integrated Ignition recipe management, fermentation and packaging system covering brewhouse through cellaring to the canning line, and provided MEP, process and controls engineering for the expansion of Buffalo Trace Distillery. The firm makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim; the work is automation, recipe management and production data collection.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://davieseg.com/
• https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/casestudy/madtree-brewing

Decant Index

multiple · United Kingdom · Market data & valuation · shipping · active decantindex.com

cask valuation and portfolio performance data

Decant Index, formerly Whisky Partners, is a London based whisky and wine cask investment marketplace with over 60,000 registered users and 2,350 recorded exits. Its platform side is the data product: per cask litres of alcohol, strength and cost per litre, regauge reports, comparable market pricing where available, and portfolio valuations with annualised IRR and total net return. Casks are held in HMRC approved bonded warehouses in Alloa, Scotland. The company describes no proprietary algorithm, index methodology or AI, and the published return figures are marketing claims rather than audited data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://app.decantindex.com/journal/how-to-value-a-whisky-cask
• https://decantindex.com/

Della Toffola Group

multiple · Italy · Other · shipping · active dellatoffola.it

automated pressing and filling control, AI claim not substantiated

Della Toffola is an Italian plant OEM with over fifty years of trading, supplying presses, filters, tanks, filling lines and complete plants across wine and spirits, beer, cider, soft drinks, juice and dairy. Its AMPELOS pneumatic press range is marketed as intelligent and, on the group overview page, as controlled by artificial intelligence software. That claim is not substantiated anywhere in the public product material: the AMPELOS pages describe fully automatic continuous pressing programs and give no detail of any model, learning method or adaptive algorithm, so it should be read as automatic program control rather than machine learning until the company documents otherwise. Recorded here as a significant wine and beer plant OEM whose presses and filling lines are a source of process data, with no verified ML capability.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.dellatoffola.it/en/
• https://www.dellatoffola.it/en/company/

Dennis Group

multiple · United States · Process & operations · active dennisgroup.com

no ai claim; food and beverage plant design build with automation and controls data integration

Design build firm working exclusively for the food and beverage industry, ranked the largest food and beverage design firm by Engineering News Record since 2015, covering process design, controls and automation and system integration. Its beverage market page lists beer and distilled spirits among its categories, with Boston Beer named as a client on an 880,000 square foot facility. One case study describes a data driven beverage facility where building management systems were integrated with process controls to generate more actionable operating data. No simulation, digital twin or machine learning product is claimed on its own site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://dennisgroup.com/markets/beverage/
• https://dennisgroup.com/services/process-design/

Deutsche Beverage and Process

multiple · United States · Process & operations · active deutscheequipment.com

brewery process automation and remote hmi monitoring

Deutsche Beverage and Process builds custom brewhouses from 2 to 100 barrels plus stills, mash houses, cellar tanks, CIP skids and blending equipment for breweries, distilleries and other beverage producers, and runs its own UL certified control panel shop. Its named automation features include hot and cold liquor tank auto-fill on hydrostatic level sensors, SPX blending valve automation for mash and sparge flow and temperature, lauter transfer automation, wort grant level control, auto knockout, grain handling automation on load cells and fermentation temperature gradient and lagering automation with logging and timer delays. Operators reach the HMI over VPN from a mobile device for remote monitoring, with moving parts locked out remotely for safety. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim; this is sensor driven sequence control and data logging.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://deutscheequipment.com/product_cat/automation/
• https://deutscheequipment.com/top-automation-features-for-brewing-and-beverage-manufacturing/

DigiTathya

multiple · India · Quality & inspection · none · active digitathya.com

bottle level authentication and supply chain scan data

DigiTathya is an Indian anti counterfeit and supply chain integrity platform built on secure QR codes, with an alcohol vertical offering tamper proof seals that verify bottling source, date and distributor trail, and log bar and retail scans in real time. It also sells e-warranty and loyalty modules and a dashboard of scan and geolocation reports. It exhibited at the Brews and Spirits Expo India 2026. The only AI reference on the site is a marketing line reading AI driven practical insights next to the analytics dashboard, with no model, method or capability described anywhere, so this is scan reporting rather than a substantiated machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://brewsnspiritsexpo.com/exhibitor-list
• https://digitathya.com/industries

Dimensional Insight

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active dimins.com

distributor and supplier BI analytics

Dimensional Insight sells analytics software to beverage alcohol distributors and suppliers through its Diver Platform, with purpose-built modules including Distributor Advisor, Supplier Advisor, Program Advisor and Inventory Advisor. It markets a Governed AI offering on top of the platform. The core product is governed BI and dashboards for beverage alcohol rather than a predictive model.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.dimins.com/
• https://www.dimins.com/beverage-alcohol-analytics/

Disruptive Advantage

multiple · Australia · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active disruptive-advantage.com

beverage and food AI, GenAI and data engineering consulting

Consultancy delivering AI, generative AI and data engineering into beer, whisky, wine and the wider food and beverage sector, operating across India, Australia and the United Kingdom, alongside a practice built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 with resourcing and outsourcing services. Named focus areas are fermentation and quality prediction, production and commercial analytics, demand planning and sustainability reporting, with GenAI applied to operator knowledge and evidence assembly. PROVENANCE: the beverage and AI scope here is a first-party statement by Ankur Napa, the company's Growth Officer and a tracked individual on this radar. It is NOT independently evidenced: the company website is a short brochure for the Dynamics 365 practice and carries no beverage, AI or machine learning claim of any kind. Recorded as provisional until a public services page or a named client case study exists.

Provenance: Scout: curated. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://disruptive-advantage.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-napa/

Diver BI Group

multiple · Ireland · Process & operations · none · active diverbi.com

no ai claim, beverage alcohol bi and reporting

Diver BI Group is an international partner network of eight member firms that implements the Diver Platform business intelligence stack, with a dedicated beverage alcohol practice covering distributors and suppliers. Its drinks applications cover depletion and inventory sharing with suppliers, retail account level performance by premise type and brand, territory mapping and order fulfilment analysis. Named beverage alcohol case studies include Allied Beverage, Martignetti Companies, Lipman Brothers, Empire Merchants, Fedway Associates, Mutual Distribution and Southern Wines and Spirits. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site: this is dashboards, reporting and data governance.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://diverbi.com/applications/supply-chain/beverage-alcohol-distributors/
• https://diverbi.com/applications/supply-chain/beverage-alcohol-suppliers/

Dolia

multiple · Luxembourg · Demand & pricing · pilot · active getdolia.com

sales automation with natural-language data assistant

Dolia is a growth platform for wine, beer and spirits producers, covering public producer profiles, distributor and agent matchmaking, digital tasting catalogues and a sales suite for orders, commissions and stock. A built-in AI assistant lets producers query their own sales data in natural language, and the platform uses AI to centralise sales processes and automate complex orders. It was the only Luxembourg company among eight finalists selected from 80 applicants for the 2026 Wine Tech Challenge.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-05-15.

• https://getdolia.com/
• https://startupluxembourg.com/news/dolia,-a-luxembourg-based-startup,-selected-among-global-finalists-of-the-wine-tech-challenge-by-eat

DraftServ

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active draftserv.com

self-serve dispense control and per-pour consumption data, no ai claim

DraftServ adds smart controls to standard beverage dispensers so venues can run self-serve pouring and capture real-time dispense and sales data for beer, wine, cocktails, soft drinks and coffee. It sells to bars and restaurants, independent breweries, stadiums, hotels, casinos, cruise lines, QSR and convenience stores, and describes itself as a beverage operating system rather than a beer wall vendor: pricing, happy hours, premium versus non-premium products, staff access and consumption limits are all configurable, with POS and PMS integration. The company builds its software in-house and argues most operators still rely on hand counts and estimation for beverage sales. DraftServ makes no AI or machine learning claim: the value is dispense telemetry and control.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.draftserv.com/faq
• https://www.draftserv.com/technology

Duan Peng

multiple · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

Leads the enterprise data science and AI/ML strategy at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits' new Enterprise Data Center of Excellence.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240328422851/en/Southern-Glazers-Wine-Spirits-Announces-Leaders-for-New-Enterprise-Data-Center-of-Excellence

Dynavision

multiple · Belgium · Other · none · active dynavision.app

beverage erp for producers and distributors, no ai claim

Dynavision is a Belgian Microsoft ISV that publishes 28 add-on apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central, including Drinkmaster 365, a modular beverage vertical listed on Microsoft AppSource. Drinkmaster 365 serves beverage distributors (liquor stores, wine merchants, importers and exporters) and producers including breweries and distilleries, covering excise duty automation, EMCS and eAD export compliance, empties and returnable packaging handling, recipe management and lot tracing, warehouse management, truck planning and electronic shelf labels. The company makes no machine learning claim for the product: the described functionality is transactional ERP and regulatory compliance, not AI.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/pubid.dynavision1639381281437|aid.dynavision_drinkmaster_365|pappid.19ce2004-500e-4c01-be83-44f3a273047a
• https://www.dynavision.app/apps/dynavision-drinkmaster-365/

E Tech Group

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · pilot · active etechgroup.com

plc, scada and mes integration for wineries, distilleries and breweries

E Tech Group is a US automation systems integrator with a dedicated food and beverage practice split into Beverages and Breweries and a separate Wineries and Distilleries segment, delivering PLC, SCADA, MES, batch control and data historian work. Its published beverage-alcohol case studies name Boochcraft in Chula Vista, where it automated heating and cooling control with redundancy and doubled tank count from twenty to forty, and cover ISA-88 batch process work for a global spirits producer, automated Brix monitoring at a California winery using IO-Link masters over Modbus TCP, red fermentation and pump-over automation at California wineries, and winery wastewater SCADA. The firm advertises digital twins, simulation, AI and machine learning and IIoT among its capabilities, but none of the published beverage case studies implement a model; the delivered work is control and data infrastructure. E Tech absorbed Banks Integration Group, the Northern California integrator, which became E Tech Group in January 2023.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://etechgroup.com/case-studies/case-study-boochcraft-brewery/
• https://www.etechgroup.com/industries/food-beverage/

EZ Lab Blockchain Solutions

multiple · Italy · Quality & inspection · shipping · active ezlab.it

supply chain traceability and digital product passports

EZ Lab is an Italian innovative SME that builds blockchain-backed supply chain traceability and Digital Product Passport platforms, with wine and beverages (Vino e bevande) as a named vertical alongside agrifood, fashion and cosmetics. Its wine offering creates the EU-mandated digital wine label, records origin and production data on chain for consumer verification, and adds anti-counterfeiting and NFT marketing layers. The company lists blockchain, smart contracts, NFTs and AI as its technology stack but does not name a specific model; the substantiated core is traceability and compliance, not machine learning. It says it delivered the world's first blockchain traceability of a winery in 2016.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.ezlab.it/azienda/chi-siamo/
• https://www.ezlab.it/settori/vino-e-bevande/

Earthly Labs (Chart Industries)

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active earthlylabs.com

co2 capture monitoring and performance tracking

Earthly Labs sells CiCi, a small footprint carbon capture and purification system that recovers fermentation CO2 at breweries and wineries and repurifies it to ISBT beverage grade for reuse in carbonation and production. It was acquired by Chart Industries and its installations are monitored through the Howden Uptime remote monitoring dashboard, which tracks capture volume and key performance indicators and interfaces with the Earthly Labs team. Named beverage installations include Real Ale Brewing Company and Maine Beer Company in beer and Opus One in Napa Valley in wine. The monitoring layer is telemetry and KPI dashboarding; no machine learning claim is made in the product material.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://earthlylabs.com/
• https://www.brewersassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Brewery-Case-Studies-of-Carbon-Capture-Nitrogen-Dosing_Final.pdf

EasyCheck

multiple · United States · Other · none · active easycheck.io

no ai claim, photo and gps verified retail execution records

EasyCheck sells field execution and point-of-sale asset tracking software to beer, wine and spirits distributors and the suppliers they represent. Reps log store visits with timestamped, GPS tagged photos so display setups, cooler placements and tap handle surveys become an auditable chain of custody record for supplier compliance disputes. Its own site and beverage distribution page make no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim: the product is a structured execution record and reporting layer, not a model. Exhibiting at the NBWA 89th Annual Convention Product Showcase in Orlando, October 2026.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://easycheck.io/beverage-distribution-software/
• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/EventMap.aspx?shMode=E

Ecolab

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active ecolab.com

cip and water monitoring with predictive analytics

Ecolab runs a named brewery and winery segment inside its food and beverage processing business, supplying cleaning and sanitation chemistry, CIP systems, water treatment, wastewater and conveyor lubrication to beer and wine plants. Its digital layer is ECOLAB3D, a cloud IIoT platform that the company says uses predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to spot anomalies and forecast maintenance, and Ecolab CIP IQ, which the brewery and winery page describes as 24/7 monitoring that surfaces operational issues and recommends corrective action. Ecolab publishes no model detail, no algorithm names and no brewery-specific case study, so the AI claim is the vendor's own and is unquantified. It is tracked because CIP and water are the two largest utility data streams in a brewery and Ecolab sits on both.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://en-la.ecolab.com/nalco-water/expertise-and-innovation/ecolab3d-iiot-platform
• https://www.ecolab.com/about/industries-we-serve/food-and-beverage-processing/brewery-and-winery

Ekos

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active goekos.com

production data / reporting

Business-management software for craft beverage producers (breweries, wineries, cideries, distilleries, seltzer), covering inventory, production, sales and accounting with reporting on top. Serves close to 2,000 businesses on six continents. Ekos makes no public AI or machine-learning claims; it is tracked here as the system of record that brewery production data comes out of, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-23.

• https://www.goekos.com/
• https://www.goekos.com/blog/ekos-raises-21-million-series-b-to-digitally-connect

Elaisian

multiple · Italy · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active elaisian.com

vineyard disease forecasting and irrigation decision support

Elaisian is an agronomic decision support system combining weather stations, satellite data and predictive models to tell growers when to treat, irrigate and fertilise. Its vineyard module forecasts powdery mildew, downy mildew, botrytis and vine moth pressure ahead of visible symptoms. The company reports 50,000 hectares monitored across 20 countries and roughly 4,000 farms. It began in olive growing and vineyards are one crop among several, so it is not a wine-only company.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.cbinsights.com/company/elaisian
• https://www.elaisian.com/en/

Emerson

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active emerson.com

fermentation and distillation process measurement automation

Emerson runs separate application practices for brewing and for distilled spirits, covering milling, mashing, fermentation, stills and maturation with Rosemount instrumentation and DeltaV batch control. Vendor-hosted case studies include a whisky distillery that automated its fermentation process with the Rosemount 5408 non-contacting radar level transmitter, the University of Kentucky improving spirit blending through automated density measurement, and Vega Brewery raising plant throughput with a Rosemount 1408H level transmitter. There is no AI or machine learning claim on any of these beer or spirits pages; it is sensing, control and batch traceability.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.emerson.com/en-us/automation/measurement-instrumentation/common-applications/measurement-instrumentation-for-fermentation-in-brewing
• https://www.emerson.com/en-us/automation/measurement-instrumentation/food-beverage/distilling

Encompass Technologies

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active encompasstech.com

order intelligence / production data

Encompass Technologies builds cloud ERP for beverage producers and distributors, covering grain to glass production, accounting and compliance for breweries, distilleries and cideries, with named users including Yards Brewing, Martin House Brewing and Old Dominick Distillery. It acquired the Australian wine production platform vintrace in 2022 and vineyard software eVineyard in 2025, extending it into wineries. Its EncompassIQ suite (ApIQ, OrderIQ, ReportingIQ) and Encompass Cowork are marketed as AI-native, applying AI to accounts payable, order management and reporting on top of beverage ERP data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:google. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encompass_Technologies
• https://www.encompasstech.com/breweries

Endless West

multiple · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active endlesswest.com

molecular spirit formulation from analytical chemistry data

Endless West makes spirits molecularly rather than by barrel ageing. It uses analytical chemistry, mainly GC-MS style profiling, to identify the compounds responsible for whiskey aroma and flavour, sources those molecules from other natural feedstocks and rebuilds a target profile from ethanol upward in under 24 hours. Its whiskey-inspired brand Glyph launched in 2018 and it now sells bulk spirit, concentrates, private label and co-packing. To be plain, the differentiator is compound-level chemistry and a proprietary flavour library, not a published machine learning model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• http://endlesswest.com/
• https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/molecular-spirits-glyph

Epsilon Dynamics (Data Communication SA)

multiple · Greece · Compliance & licensing · none · active epsilonnet.gr

excise duty and customs compliance automation for alcohol producers

Epsilon Dynamics is the Microsoft Dynamics business unit of the Greek software group Epsilon Net, formed around Data Communication SA, a Microsoft partner founded in Athens in 1987. It publishes the Greek Alcohol Duty App on Microsoft AppSource, a Dynamics 365 Business Central extension for breweries, distilleries, wineries and other alcohol producers in Greece. The app automates electronic delivery notes (e-AD), excise duty reporting and production entries against the Greek customs ICISNET platform. No AI or machine learning claim is made: this is regulatory automation and reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/pubid.datacommunicationsa1604997016948|aid.greek_alcohol_duty_app|pappid.ef5415c2-310c-4070-953f-0fb87ef4e560
• https://www.epsilonnet.gr/en/products/greek-alcohol-duty-app/

Euromonitor International

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active euromonitor.com

machine learning applied to market research production

Euromonitor International publishes syndicated market size, share and forecast data through its Passport platform, with dedicated alcoholic drinks coverage split into beer, wine, spirits, RTDs and cider across more than 210 national markets. On its own about page the company says it has embraced machine learning since 2006 and blends analyst research with AI and advanced analytics at scale. That claim is about how the research is produced, not a drinks-specific model, and no named AI product for beer, wine or spirits appears on the site. For drinks companies it is a market sizing and forecasting source rather than an AI tool.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.euromonitor.com/about-us
• https://www.euromonitor.com/alcoholic-drinks

FORM (GoSpotCheck by FORM)

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active form.com

shelf image recognition for retail execution

FORM sells a mobile field execution platform to beverage alcohol suppliers and distributors, with a dedicated beer, wine and spirits offering. The AI is computer vision: reps photograph coolers, displays, back bars, tap handles and menus, and the model returns SKU level detection, planogram and price compliance, POSM detection and share by supplier. It also runs task management and survey workflows for on-premise and off-premise field teams. GoSpotCheck, which built the image recognition, was acquired by FORM in a 2020 carveout and the combined company is owned by Diversis Capital.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.form.com/about/
• https://www.form.com/industries/beverage-distribution-software/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/formcom-acquires-leading-mobile-task-management-and-field-execution-software-platform-gospotcheck-in-a-carveout-301192335.html

FOSS

multiple · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · active fossanalytics.com

analytical instruments and calibration models for wine and beer quality

FOSS is an analytical instrument maker whose industry lines include a dedicated Wine and beer segment alongside dairy, grain, meat and laboratories. It sells analysers, calibrations and consumables plus a digital services and analytics package layer, and the FOSS IQX platform. The chemometric calibration models behind its instruments are statistical rather than what the company markets as AI. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 236.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.fossanalytics.com/
• https://www.wineindustryexpo.com/exhibitors

Factbird

multiple · Denmark · Process & operations · shipping · active factbird.com

manufacturing data platform with AI assistant

Factbird provides a manufacturing data platform with plug-and-play data capture, real-time OEE and root-cause analysis, and an AI assistant that lets teams query production data. It helps manufacturers make faster, data-driven decisions.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/
• https://www.factbird.com

FermentIQ

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active ferment-iq.com

brewery management with fermentation forecasting and voice assistant

All in one production and business management platform for craft breweries, microbreweries, distilleries, cideries, meaderies, kombucha and coffee producers. Covers batch tracking, inventory, CRM, compliance and QC. The AI layer is a voice assistant called BrewBuddy for hands free logging, AI assisted recipe generation, AI trend analysis in quality control, and demand forecasting. The site names no models or technical detail behind the forecasting claims, so the depth of the machine learning is unverified. Publicly priced from 30 US dollars per month for homebrewers up to 1,200 US dollars per month enterprise, which indicates a live product rather than a concept.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://aiyd.com/best-ai-for-fermentation/
• https://ferment-iq.com/

Fermentis

multiple · France · Sensory & recipe · research · active fermentis.com

machine learning prediction of yeast contribution to beer aroma

Fermentis is the beverage fermentation arm of Lesaffre, selling active dry yeasts, bacteria and fermentation aids to brewers, winemakers, distillers, cider makers and mead makers under the SafBrew, SafOeno and SafSpirit lines. Its own corporate news reports a Sensory Machine Learning project run by Fermentis Academy with Lesaffre Group R&D that trained models on analytical and sensory datasets to explore and predict how yeast strains shape the aromatic profiles of beer, and which won an award at Lesaffre's first Digital, Data and Tech awards. The work is presented as an internal R&D project rather than a product brewers can buy today.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://fermentis.com/en/
• https://fermentis.com/en/news/corporate-news/award-winning-sensory-analysis-digital-project/

Figura Analytics

multiple · United Kingdom · Other · pilot · active figura-analytics.co.uk

particle fingerprinting of drinks samples with machine learning shape analysis

Figura Analytics is a Loughborough University spinout that built a patented nanopore flowcell using resistive pulse sensing to count and characterise every particle in a liquid sample in minutes, producing a fingerprint of what a normal sample should look like. Shape software is then applied to flag potential contaminants. Drinks analysis is one of its named target markets alongside healthcare, and co-founder Rhush Maugi is described as driving the software development and machine learning platform. Backed by SFC Capital, Innovate UK and angel investors since the January 2021 spinout. It exhibited at drinktec.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://figura-analytics.co.uk/about-us/
• https://figura-analytics.co.uk/technology/
• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

Fintech (Financial Information Technologies)

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active fintech.com

alcohol invoice and scan data analytics, no ai claim

Fintech runs PaymentSource, the dominant US network for automated beverage-alcohol invoice payments and invoice data capture between distributors and licensed retailers, reported at over 250,000 retail locations and roughly 1 million distributor-to-client connections. Beyond payments it sells scan-based trading with SKU and store-level insight, alcohol scan data for suppliers to track competitor activity, and spend analytics that flag cost variance against expected cost. It serves breweries, wineries, distilleries, distributors and retailers. It matters to the beverage data landscape as a data spine, but makes no AI or machine-learning claim anywhere on its site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240123129581/en/Fintech-Celebrates-Remarkable-Milestone-1-Million-Alcohol-Distributor-to-Client-Connections-with-PaymentSource%C2%AE/
• https://www.fintech.com/

First Key Consulting

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · research · active firstkey.com

advising brewers on data infrastructure and AI for demand forecasting

First Key is a brewing and beverage industry consulting firm with more than 40 years of experience working across 50-plus countries. It advises brewers and beverage companies on strategy, finance, operations, engineering, supply chain and more. It publishes an Insights series that includes articles on how AI and big data apply to beer and beverage supply chains.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://firstkey.com/
• https://firstkey.com/consulting-services/
• https://firstkey.com/insights/

FlavorActiV

multiple · United Kingdom · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active flavoractiv.com

sensory

FlavorActiV is a sensory-services provider selling GMP flavour standards, taster calibration, panel training, and analytical instruments including an aroma-analysing electronic nose to breweries and beverage makers. It supports professional tasting panels across beer, spirits, and other categories.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.flavoractiv.com/

FlavorWiki

multiple · Switzerland · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active flavorwiki.com

sensory

Digital sensory and product-testing company using AI and data science to evaluate flavor, aroma, texture and mouthfeel with everyday consumers, with expertise explicitly spanning alcoholic drinks alongside food and beverages.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-01.

• https://www.flavorwiki.com/
• https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2018/01/10/FlavorWiki-s-digital-flavour-profiling-promises-to-slash-NPD-costs/

Fobi AI

multiple · Canada · Market data & valuation · shipping · active fobi.ai

liquor retail store level data exchange and forecasting

Fobi AI is a publicly listed Vancouver data and digital wallet company whose Fobi Data Exchange licenses real time, store level liquor retail data and industry performance analytics from the Canadian hospitality and private liquor channel. In April 2024 it signed a data licence agreement with Asahi Canada to power that brewer's analytics and insights in the private retail channel in Western Canada, delivering an automated dashboard with competitive landscape views, forecasting and demographic customer profiling. Fobi is not a beverage specialist: its wider business is mobile wallet passes and retail transaction analytics across many sectors, with beverage clients such as BevWorks Brands. The forecasting and profiling are the platform's own analytics, not a third party engine.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://fobi.ai/
• https://www.stocktitan.net/news/FOBIF/fobi-ai-signs-data-license-agreement-with-asahi-canada-to-deliver-enb1pij2ness.html

FoodQloud

multiple · Netherlands · Other · none · active foodqloud.com

none claimed; craft drinks erp reseller

Dutch Oracle NetSuite partner that implements Crafted ERP for craft breweries, wineries and distilleries in Europe, covering fermentation management, tank monitoring, barrel management, excise tax reporting and label registration alongside NetSuite CRM and SuiteCommerce. It makes no AI or machine learning claim of its own: the offering is role-based dashboards and KPI reporting on top of the NetSuite data model. Named beverage customers include Toorank Distilleries, Texelse Brouwerij and ODB Beverages.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://craftederp.com/
• https://www.foodqloud.com/en/food-industry/crafted-erp/

Foodmach

multiple · Australia · Quality & inspection · none · active foodmach.com

line control, OEE and inspection for wine and beer packaging lines

Foodmach is an Australian packaging line OEM and integrator that builds palletisers, depalletisers, conveying and line control systems, with declared verticals for wine, spirits and craft brewing. Its FM Link line MES and OMAC PackML line control layer, plus vision based bottle and seal inspection, make it the production data layer for several Australian drinks plants; named customers include the Yalumba winery at Angaston in the Barossa Valley, where it rebuilt the glass bottling lines, and the brewer Lion. Foodmach makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere in this material: the offering is line integration, OEE reporting and rule based inspection.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://foodmach.com/resources/line-integration/yalumba-case-study/
• https://foodmach.com/resources/winery-automation

Freepour

multiple · Canada · Demand & pricing · none · active freepour.com

patented pour and bottle weighing telemetry reconciled to pos sales, no ai claim

Freepour Beverage Management sells patented hardware and a cloud platform that monitors draft beer, spirits, wine and packaged beverages in bars and restaurants, timestamping usage and interfacing to the venue POS and to back office inventory systems such as Optimum Control. Its bottle weighing line is quoted at 20 bottles a minute and 97.7 percent accuracy, and the company says it has been in the business for around 35 years with thousands of clients in over a dozen countries. The stated purpose is loss prevention: reports drive bartender behaviour and cut the labour cost of frequent manual inventories. Freepour makes no AI or machine learning claim; what ships is metering, reconciliation and reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://freepour.com/
• https://freepour.com/about

FuturMaster

multiple · France · Demand & pricing · shipping · active futurmaster.com

supply chain planning with AI forecasting and digital twin

FuturMaster is a supply chain planning software vendor whose Bloom platform spans demand planning, supply planning, and scheduling. It uses technologies such as Forecast at Scale, digital twin, and global optimization for more than 650 clients.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/
• https://www.futurmaster.com

GEMAK Gida Endustri Makinalari

multiple · Turkey · Process & operations · none · active gemak.com.tr

SCADA and plant data reporting into MES and ERP

Turkish process plant builder for the food and beverage, dairy, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, exhibiting at drinktec. Its automation and software arm builds the control systems for those lines and states that process data is converted into operational information, recorded and reported automatically, and can be passed to MES and ERP systems under an Industry 4.0 framing. The claim is SCADA, historian and reporting; there is no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/
• https://www.gemak.com.tr/otomasyon-yazilim

GMware

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active gmware.com

demand forecasting

Retail-intelligence software vendor whose Shield Suite sells AI demand forecasting to beverage-alcohol distributors. Its models blend depletions, POS data, weather, and event calendars to predict event-driven demand across tens of thousands of storefronts.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://gmware.com/blog/beverage-distributor-demand-forecasting-ai

GQS AG

multiple · Germany · Quality & inspection · active gqs.ag

no ai claim, sap erp add-ons for beverage excise duty and batch traceability

GQS AG is an SAP Gold Partner in Grasbrunn near Munich that builds industry add-ons on SAP S/4HANA for food and drinks manufacturers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Its beverage modules cover excise duty (beer tax) reporting, contract management, returnable packaging and empties, and batch traceability for brewers and other drinks producers. The company makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim anywhere on its beverage pages; it is a system of record and compliance layer, not an analytics vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.gqs.ag/en/
• https://www.gqs.ag/en/sap-s-4hana-the-erp-for-the-beverage-industry/

GetGenAI

multiple · United States · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active getgen.ai

ai review of alcohol labels and marketing for ttb compliance

GetGenAI runs AI-powered compliance review over marketing content, packaging and labels for regulated industries and sells a dedicated TTB solution for alcohol brands. The product flags TTB-sensitive claims, prohibited health references and labeling violations before submission, and says it tracks over 100 regulation sources covering TTB guidelines, COLA requirements and state rules. The company does not name the models it uses. It lists Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, DVC, Act One Ventures and the NVIDIA Inception program as backers.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.getgen.ai/solutions/ttb-regulations-software
• https://www.growexx.com/blog/alcohol-compliance-software-multi-state-regulatory-violations/

Gov2Biz

multiple · United States · Compliance & licensing · shipping · active gov2biz.com

none verified, licensing and enforcement workflow SaaS

Gov2Biz sells licensing, permitting, inspection, complaint and enforcement SaaS to alcohol regulators, handling three tier separation, label approvals, inter-licensee relationships and subterfuge checks. It is the engine behind the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Alcohol Industry Management System and was selected by the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office. The site carries a GOV2BIZ.AI navigation item but publishes no substantiated machine learning capability, so this is a system of record, not an AI product. It matters because state regulator platforms hold the authoritative licence and enforcement data that the rest of the beverage compliance stack depends on.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://gov2biz.com/company/case-studies/texas-alcoholic-beverage-commission
• https://gov2biz.com/solutions/alcohol-regulation

Graine

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · none · active getgraine.com

taproom and tasting room point of sale and member analytics

Point of sale and commerce platform built specifically for breweries and wineries, covering taproom and tasting room POS, mobile order and pay, online ordering, reservations, wine and beer club subscription automation, loyalty and inventory costing. It is powered by the payments company Shift4. Graine makes no AI or machine learning claim on its brewery and winery page. It is included as a taproom system of record that owns the transaction and membership data other analytics tools depend on.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://getgraine.com/
• https://getgraine.com/breweries-wineries/

GreenMile

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active greenmile.com

last mile route execution and route plan data improvement

GreenMile is a cloud last-mile route execution platform aimed at direct store delivery, with beverage as a primary market: its published customers and case studies include Heineken, Coca-Cola Florida, PepsiCo, Gillette Pepsi-Cola and alcohol wholesaler RNDC. The product does real-time route optimization against traffic and road restrictions, and states that it proactively analyzes historical execution data to improve the quality of geocodes, service times and other route parameters. It is part of Descartes Systems Group, which markets it as beverage distribution last-mile software. The site states no explicit machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://greenmile.com/
• https://www.descartes.com/rmt-industry/beverage

Ground Signal

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active groundsignal.ai

nlp menu reading and on-premise account intelligence

Ground Signal measures the US on-premise channel for beverage alcohol suppliers, distributors and retailers, tracking brand and cocktail placements across more than 150,000 bar and restaurant accounts. Its Signal.AI product uses natural language processing on menu text to classify drinks into a standard cocktail catalog, so a menu item called Midnight Special is matched to Espresso Martini from its ingredient description. Machine learning is also used for account categorisation and venue profiling, and menu data is refreshed monthly. Coverage is strongest on spirits and cocktails, with beer and wine less prominent.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://groundsignal.ai/
• https://groundsignal.ai/about/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ground-signals-new-chainnational-account-product-helps-beverage-alcohol-brands-win-more-national-account-business-302291612.html

Harford Control

multiple · United Kingdom · Quality & inspection · none · active harfordcontrol.com

shop floor quality and efficiency data capture

Harford Control sells an integrated MES and MIS for process manufacturers, combining shop floor data capture hardware, statistical process control, fill and weight optimisation, traceability and OEE reporting. Its beverage customers include Shepherd Neame, where the SPC module is credited with better fill height control, and Loch Lomond Distillers, where it is used on high end whisky bottling to cut liquid losses. It exhibited at Anuga FoodTec India 2026 in Hall 3 under food processing, beverage processing and digitalisation. The product is deterministic SPC and rules based analysis and the company makes no machine learning claim anywhere on its site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://anugafoodtec-india.com/exhibitor-preview.php
• https://harfordcontrol.com

Harmony AI

multiple · unknown · Supply chain · shipping · active tryharmony.ai

supply chain

Back-office automation for beverage distributors, aimed at the order-to-cash and administrative margin leak that happens off the truck rather than on it.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-23.

• https://www.tryharmony.ai/back-office-automation-for-beverage-distribution-companies

Haskell

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · active haskell.com

no ml claim; digital twin simulation and production data modelling for drinks plants

Haskell is a design build engineering firm whose published drinks projects span all three verticals: Anheuser-Busch, the SweetWater brewery expansion, Bently Heritage distillery and Constellation boxed wine manufacturing. Its manufacturing systems group sells system analytics and modelling, meaning digital twins of a facility, system capacity and material flow analysis run off a plant's own production output data, and virtual commissioning of PLC and HMI control systems against 3D models before installation. The analytics described are deterministic simulation and capacity modelling, not learned models, and Haskell claims no machine learning on that service page.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.haskell.com/project/bently-heritage-distillery/
• https://www.haskell.com/project/constellation-boxed-wine-manufacturing/
• https://www.haskell.com/service/manufacturing-systems/system-analytics-modeling/

Hillebrand Gori

multiple · unknown · Supply chain · none · active hillebrandgori.com

beverage freight and cold chain logistics

Hillebrand Gori, part of DHL, is the dominant specialist logistics provider for wine, beer and spirits, moving cased and bulk beverage by sea, rail, road and air, including temperature controlled transport, flexitanks, ISO tanks, warehousing and a control tower service. Its digital layer is the myHillebrandGori platform for shipment booking and tracking plus a carbon calculator that compares emissions across shipping scenarios, and it also runs the KegID keg tracking product. It makes no AI or machine learning claim, and is included because it sits on more beverage supply chain movement data than any pure software vendor in this surface.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://kegid.com/
• https://www.hillebrandgori.com/

Holostik India

multiple · India · Demand & pricing · none · active holostik.com

liquor track and trace and excise revenue stamps

Holostik is a New Delhi anti-counterfeiting and secure packaging manufacturer with a dedicated liquor vertical, supplying security holograms, excise revenue stamps, QR and RFID smart labels, tamper-evident closures and a track-and-trace platform to Indian alcohol producers and state excise authorities. Its liquor page frames the problem in Indian excise terms: unrecorded alcohol at 51 percent of consumption and about 15,262 crore rupees of lost tax revenue, with the stated aim of letting tax collectors and supply-chain inspectors detect fraud. The company states over 30 years of operation and a DSIR-approved R&D lab. It makes no substantiated machine-learning claim: the digital layer is serialised codes, authentication scans and supply-chain visibility dashboards, not a model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.holostik.com/about-us/
• https://www.holostik.com/industries-liquor/

IBM

multiple · United States · Supply chain · shipping · active ibm.com

enterprise ai, asset maintenance and supply chain for beverage producers

IBM sells AI, automation and supply chain software into brewing, distilling and wine, and is the technology partner behind several beverage deployments already tracked here. Published beverage engagements include a company-wide AI and automation transformation at HEINEKEN through IBM Consulting and Red Hat, IBM Maximo asset management across three Spendrups Bryggeri brewery sites in Sweden delivered with IBM Platinum Business Partner Epical, an AI solution built for Bodegas Cepa 21 in Ribera del Duero on Watson Studio, Cognos Analytics and Weather Company data, and IBM Blockchain Transparent Supply, which is the platform underneath eProvenance's VinAssure wine supply chain product. IBM Japan also co-developed Sapporo Holdings' recipe generation AI. The AI is IBM's own across watsonx, Watson Studio and Maximo Monitor and Predict; the beverage work is delivered as consulting plus product rather than as a beverage specific offering.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ibm. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://es.newsroom.ibm.com/announcements?item=122590
• https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/heineken
• https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/spendrups

IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions)

multiple · United Kingdom · Process & operations · shipping · active iesve.com

distillery digital twin for energy and waste heat optimisation

IES builds physics-based digital twins of buildings and manufacturing sites. In a distillery project it pulled existing meter and process data into its iSCAN platform, used AI and machine learning to fill data gaps and disaggregate utility bills into granular time-series profiles, then simulated interventions in a 3D model of the plant. The twin quantified that waste heat recovery could meet 5 percent of heating demand and solar PV 4.1 percent of electricity, for 6.9 percent CO2 savings. Relevant to distilling decarbonisation, which is now a live pressure on Scotch producers.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.iesve.com/discoveries/view/31476/digital-twins-manufacturing-waste-heat
• https://www.iesve.com/services/projects/31133/digital-twins-manufacturing-distillery

IMDvista (IMD AG)

multiple · Switzerland · Quality & inspection · shipping · active imdvista.ch

vision inspection of bottles, closures and preforms

Swiss vision inspection company building inline systems for beverage closures, preforms, bottles and barrier coatings, sold into drinks packaging lines. Its V5 inspection software includes reflection suppression, an automatic setup wizard and a component the company calls Neuron artificial intelligence, which it says allows a complete bottle to be inspected while virtually eliminating false rejects. The AI claim is specific to defect classification in the vision stack, not to the rest of the product line.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://imdvista.ch/solutions/bottle-inspection/
• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

INDOBREW

multiple · India · Consulting · none · active indobrews.com

none claimed, brewery and distillery setup consulting

Indian brewery and alcoholic beverage consultancy with a team citing over 35 years of combined experience across commercial breweries, microbreweries, distilleries, IMFL whiskey, rum and vodka, cider and seltzer projects. Services span feasibility and capacity analysis, equipment configuration, contract brewing and IMFL bottling, recipe formulation and pilot scale work, QC, production and bottling SOPs, and head brewer services. It makes no AI or data-product claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.indobrews.com/
• https://www.indobrews.com/consultations

INTECH Automation & Intelligence (EmpowerGPT)

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active empowergpt.ai

on-premise AI knowledge and workflow platform

EmpowerGPT is a secure AI platform for enterprise knowledge management and workflow automation that runs on-premise without cloud dependency. For beverage and liquid-food manufacturers it processes technical manuals, production documents, and compliance records.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/
• https://www.empowergpt.ai

IWSR

multiple · United Kingdom · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active theiwsr.com

consumer insight / trend prediction

IWSR is a data, analytics, and insight service for the beverage alcohol industry, combining data science with human intelligence to model the global wine, beer, and spirits market. It sells trend forecasting and market intelligence to producers, distributors, and investors.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.theiwsr.com/

Impact Databank

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active impactdatabank.com

no substantiated ai claim

Impact Databank, part of M. Shanken Communications, publishes the wine and spirits industry's long running Review and Forecast reports covering consumption trends, brand depletions, advertising spend, pricing and retail sales analysis, state by state consumption and top wholesalers. Its 2026 edition carries 2026 estimates and projections to 2030 for both the wine and spirits markets. The reports explicitly incorporate IRI and NIQ scan data alongside Impact's own brand depletion estimates, which makes it the standard reconciliation source for US wine and spirits brand volumes. It makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.impactdatabank.com/
• https://www.shankennewsdaily.com/

Indeex

multiple · Greece · Process & operations · shipping · active indeex.ai

brewery digital twin with AI production analytics

Indeex provides an industrial digital twin and AI-powered analytics software platform for breweries and beverage producers. It connects to existing equipment to deliver real-time visibility, process optimization, and performance improvements across the production cycle.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://indeex.ai
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Infilect

multiple · India · Other · shipping · active infilect.com

image recognition for on-shelf availability

Infilect is a Bengaluru visual intelligence company whose InfiViz product applies computer vision to shelf photographs to measure share of shelf, on-shelf availability, price compliance and planogram compliance for consumer goods brands and their distributors. It publishes a case study on helping one of the leading alcohol beverage brands in the United States improve on-shelf product availability across 10,000 stores, alongside a broader beverage industry case study. The company says it operates in more than 18 countries, covers about 400,000 stores a month and processes around 5 million images a month, and it sells retail execution and sales force automation modules that sit alongside CRM systems. Its India base makes it one of the few Indian AI vendors serving beverage alcohol retail execution.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://infilect.com/about-us
• https://infilect.com/case-studies/how-infilects-image-recognition-solution-helped-one-of-the-leading-alcohol-beverage-brands-in-the-us-improve-their-on-shelf-product-availability
• https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/retail-visual-intelligence-innovator-infilect-raises-1-5-million-pre-series-a-funding-831866313.html

Infinity Sky AI

multiple · Canada · Consulting · shipping · active infinitysky.ai

AI consulting

AI automation agency and custom development studio that builds bespoke AI systems for breweries, wineries, and distilleries. Projects cover demand forecasting, inventory management, production scheduling, quality control, and TTB compliance automation.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://infinitysky.ai/blog/ai-automation-breweries-wineries-distilleries-2026

Innova Market Insights

multiple · Netherlands · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active innovamarketinsights.com

genai insight assistant over cpg product database

Innova Market Insights runs a new product, ingredient and flavour database for the global food and drink industry, with Alcohol and Low/No Alcohol as one of its tracked categories alongside beverages generally. It ships two named AI products: Innova SprintAI, a generative AI assistant over its Insights 360 data, and Innova SprintStudio, which generates and visualises new product concepts. The company states around 30 years of CPG data collection and gives its global headquarters as Velperweg 18, Arnhem, Netherlands. The AI is a generative layer on top of the product and consumer database, so drinks brands query it the same way food brands do.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.innovamarketinsights.com/
• https://www.innovamarketinsights.com/about/

IntelliShift

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active intellishift.com

ai dash cam risk detection for beverage delivery fleets

IntelliShift is a fleet operations platform combining GPS telematics, asset tracking, ELD compliance and AI video safety, sold to beer and beverage distributors among other fleet operators. Its AI dash cam product runs edge computing and deep learning models on in-cab video to detect distraction, tailgating and lane departure in real time, and the company states the models analyse all drive time and filter false positives, citing over 20 billion miles of drive data. This is a substantiated machine learning claim, not marketing language. Exhibiting at the NBWA 89th Annual Convention Product Showcase, October 2026.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://intellishift.com/ai-dash-cams/
• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/EventMap.aspx?shMode=E

Ivy Mobility

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · active ivymobility.com

agentic sales coaching and image-recognition retail execution for beverage route-to-market

Ivy Mobility sells an enterprise consumer-goods commercial execution platform combining Enterprise Cloud DMS, sales force automation and retail execution, used across beverage and wider CPG distribution. The vendor's own site describes production-ready agentic AI as an intelligence layer over the DMS, naming an Agentic Sales Coach, a tele-caller agent and a distributor operator agent. Its AppExchange listing for Ivy Retail Execution additionally describes image recognition, augmented reality and an AI-based recommendation engine for perfect-store merchandising. The company states it has served P&G since 2011 across 20-plus markets and powers over 11,000 concurrent distributors and 170,000 field users.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000EvMVyUAN
• https://www.ivymobility.com/

KROHNE

multiple · Germany · Other · none · active krohne.com

flow and energy metering for brewing and distilling

KROHNE Messtechnik supplies flow, level and analysis instrumentation with a large published set of beverage-alcohol application reports: custody transfer filling of beer into kegs, flow measurement of bright beer at high CO2 content, PVPP beer stabilisation, volume flow and alcohol concentration on a whisky filling line, and energy balancing across brewing lines. Its named reference is the Krombacher Brewery Group in Kreuztal-Krombach, where KROHNE metered hot water, steam and compressed air so the brewery could attribute utility consumption to individual processes and control compressors against actual demand. KROHNE makes no machine learning claim for this work; it is the instrumentation layer that feeds a brewery energy and process historian.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.krohne.com/en/applications/energy-balancing-utility-supply-processes-krombacher-brewery
• https://www.krohne.com/en/applications/flow-measurement-whisky

KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA

multiple · Germany · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active kws.com

ai driven plant phenotyping and genomic selection in barley breeding

KWS is one of the largest independent plant breeders in the world and breeds barley alongside sugar beet, corn, wheat, rye and other crops, making it an upstream supplier of the barley genetics that reach malting, brewing and distilling. Its own innovation pages state that it uses camera and sensor technology, robotics and artificial intelligence to assess plant performance above and below the soil line, and that genomic selection and other omics data feed models predicting a plant's breeding potential. KWS describes data science as being at the heart of how it turns breeding trial data into selection decisions. The AI is in the breeding pipeline, not in a beverage product, so the beverage relevance here is the barley variety layer rather than anything sold to brewers directly.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWS_Saat
• https://www.kws.com/corp/en/innovation/our-innovation-areas/seed-of-the-future/
• https://www.kws.com/gb/en/products/barley/

Kantar

multiple · United Kingdom · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active kantar.com

predictive and genai models over brand and shopper panels

Kantar is a global marketing data and analytics group whose drinks work runs through household purchase panels and shopper research. Its named alcohol services are the Kantar purchase panel of 30,000 GB households, Kantar Alcovision, a continuous survey of 30,000 respondents a year measuring drinking occasions, and Alcoshop, which links off-trade alcohol purchasing to in-store decisions; these panels now sit inside the Worldpanel business acquired by Numerator. Kantar itself still publishes beverage alcohol category and shopper research through Kantar Retail IQ. Its AI suite, including Link AI for advertising testing and Trend AI, is general purpose across categories, and no drinks-specific model is named on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://market.worldpanelbynumerator.com/en/Sectors/alcohol
• https://retailiq.kantar.com/shopping-for-beverage-alcohol
• https://www.kantar.com/ai-at-kantar

Kaspar Schulz

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · none · active kaspar-schulz.de

brewhouse process control / cloud maintenance

The world's oldest brewing plant manufacturer, ten generations family-owned, building brewhouses, malting systems and distillery plants. Its Pioneer Pro control system is marketed as intelligent process control with innovative automation and cloud-based maintenance management, alongside the web-based SCHULZ app for remote plant control. Kaspar Schulz makes no public AI or machine-learning claim; it is tracked here as the plant and control layer that brewing process data originates from, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/Uq0ABPKnyK
• https://www.kaspar-schulz.de/en/

Kestrel Vision

multiple · France · Quality & inspection · shipping · active kestrel-vision.com

data driven inspection of containers and filled packs

Kestrel Vision is a holding group of six inspection companies (Tiama, Pressco, Filtec, Vimec, Somex and GlassFORM.ai) that describes itself as the leading global player in data driven control and inspection for rigid packaging manufacturing and filling, with food and beverage as one of three named end markets. Its products inspect glass and other rigid containers both at the glassworks and on the filling line. The GlassFORM.ai unit is the group's explicitly AI-branded arm; the group site otherwise frames the offer as data and service rather than machine learning. Exhibited at BrauBeviale and drinktec.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://kestrel-vision.com/
• https://www.drinktec.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

Korpershoek FreshFood Solutions

multiple · Netherlands · Compliance & licensing · none · active kffs.nl

alcohol excise duty and customs compliance, no ai claim

Korpershoek FreshFood Solutions is a Dutch Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner with a dedicated beverages vertical (Dranken) alongside its fresh produce and food practices. Its FreshFood Beverages app, published on Microsoft AppSource, calculates excise duty tariffs on alcoholic beverages and manages the customs licences held by producers and their delivery addresses, keeping brewers, distillers and drinks wholesalers compliant with local duty regulation. The company's own site and the app listing describe configuration-driven tariff calculation and licence registration only, with no machine learning or AI claim of any kind.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://catalogapi.azure.com/offers/DZH318XZR52H?api-version=2018-08-01-beta&storefront=appsource
• https://kffs.nl/

Krones

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active krones.com

AI digital twins for beverage line simulation

Krones builds filling and packaging lines for breweries and beverage producers worldwide. It has moved its line simulation to digital twins with integrated AI agents, developed with NVIDIA and Microsoft, cutting simulation runs from three or four hours to under five minutes. It also ships AI on the machine itself, including an AI-equipped version of its Dynafill filler.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.krones.com/en/company/press/krones-improves-beverage-production-simulation-through-digital-twins-with-integrated-ai-agents.php
• https://www.krones.com/en/products/complete-solutions/ai-in-use.php

Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing (KEM / 京都電子工業)

multiple · Japan · Other · none · active kem.kyoto

none claimed, oscillating tube density and alcohol analysis

Japanese laboratory instrument maker that has built oscillating-tube density analysers since 1978. Its DA-155 sake alcohol analyser has long been sold to Japanese sake breweries, most of them small family businesses, and the derived ALM-155 benchtop alcohol meter serves oenology, spirits and beer labs. The company makes no AI or machine-learning claim; it is a measurement and lab-data source for Asian brewing and distilling QC.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.kem.kyoto/en/company/
• https://www.kem.kyoto/en/products/exclus/alm_155/

LEAFIO AI

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active leafio.ai

demand forecasting and shelf space optimisation for alcohol retail

LEAFIO AI sells a retail supply chain and merchandising suite with a dedicated liquor, beer and wine store product. It runs multi echelon demand forecasting and automated replenishment across distribution centres and stores, plus automated planogram generation, assortment rationalisation for slow movers and promotion forecasting, handling long lead time imports and seasonal alcohol peaks. It claims deployment across 250 plus retailers and 30,000 plus stores in 40 plus countries. The forecasting is genuine algorithmic work but the site does not publish model architecture, and alcohol is one vertical of a broader retail platform rather than the whole business.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.leafio.ai/
• https://www.leafio.ai/liquor-store-software/

Laminar (H2Ok Innovations)

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active runlaminar.com

in-line sensors plus AI to optimize CIP

H2Ok Innovations uses in-line spectral sensors and a machine learning solution to optimize Clean-In-Place, product changeovers, and downtime in food and beverage factories. It is deployed with global producers including AB InBev and Coca-Cola.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://runlaminar.com/
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Last Call Analytics

multiple · Canada · Demand & pricing · none · active lastcallanalytics.com

retail sales analytics for beverage alcohol

Last Call Analytics turns store-level retail and distributor sales data into dashboards for beverage alcohol producers, agencies, distributors and industry associations in Canada and the United States. It covers performance benchmarking, competitor comparison, distribution gap detection and inventory visibility, with published case studies including Social Lite Vodka and Bruce Ashley Group. Its site describes an Assisted Insight Engine that flags declining SKUs, underperforming stores and distribution gaps, but it makes no explicit machine learning claim, so this reads as rules-driven exception reporting rather than a predictive model. It was acquired by cannabis software company Ample Organics in January 2019 and continues to operate under its own brand.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://betakit.com/cannabis-software-company-ample-organics-acquires-last-call-analytics/
• https://www.lastcallanalytics.com/

Leena AI

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active leena.ai

agentic llm assistant over enterprise policy and knowledge

Leena AI builds agentic AI assistants that answer employee IT, HR, finance and procurement questions by retrieving from a company's own policy documents, tickets and systems. Pernod Ricard, the spirits and wine group, is named as a customer with 19 thousand employees and 15 plus integrations, and Coca-Cola is a published case study for IT support automation. Founded in India in 2018 by Adit Jain, Mayank Goyal and Anand Prajapati, with engineering offices in Gurugram and Bengaluru and investors including Y Combinator, Greycroft and Bessemer. The site does not disclose which underlying models the agents use.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://leena.ai/about-us/
• https://leena.ai/customers/

Lesaffre

multiple · France · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active lesaffre.com

machine learning on yeast sensory data plus protein language models for strain and enzyme engineering

Lesaffre is a global yeast and fermentation group and the parent of the brewing yeast brand Fermentis, which is tracked separately. Its own newsroom, in a piece dated 30 June 2025, describes AI-guided protein language models used for protein engineering at the Lesaffre International Science and Technology campus, an AI production analysis tool already deployed in several plants with reported yield and energy gains, and a target of AI implementation across 30 manufacturing sites covering 80 percent of production volumes by 2028, run by a Digital, Data and Tech department of over 120 professionals. The beverage-specific piece is the Sensory Machine Learning project run by Fermentis Academy with group R&D, which trained models on analytical and sensory panel data to predict how a brewing yeast strain shapes beer aroma and won an award at the group's first Digital, Data and Tech awards in November 2025. Tracked at group level because the AI programme, the biofoundry and the protein models sit with Lesaffre rather than with Fermentis.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://fermentis.com/en/news/corporate-news/award-winning-sensory-analysis-digital-project/
• https://www.lesaffre.com/newsroom/industry/artificial-intelligence-at-the-heart-of-lesaffres-digital-acceleration/

LibDib (LibTech / Supplier Cloud)

multiple · United States · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active libdib.com

ai-enhanced product content and catalog data for alcohol suppliers and distributors

LibDib is a web-based wholesale beverage alcohol distributor; LibTech is its SaaS division licensing the platform to other alcohol distributors. In August 2025 LibTech launched Supplier Cloud, marketed as an AI-powered content platform for beverage alcohol suppliers and distributors. The AI is content-side rather than analytics: it enriches and keeps current brand and product data across SKUs, vintages, categories and compliance requirements, and auto-generates sell sheets, digital catalogs and distributor-ready data feeds for ecommerce integration.

Provenance: Scout: scout:google. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://libdib.com/blog/supplier-cloud-first-ai-powered-content-platform/
• https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2025/08/26/introducing-supplier-cloud-the-first-ai-powered-content-platform-designed-specifically-for-beverage-alcohol-suppliers-and-distributors/

LikeFolio

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active likefolio.com

social media purchase intent and sentiment signals

LikeFolio sells an AWS Marketplace data product called Alcoholic Beverage Companies | Purchase Intent & Consumer Sentiment, covering five listed alcohol companies (BREW, BUD, CUERVO.MX, STZ, TAP) with daily purchase intent signals, positive and negative sentiment post counts, and mention counts including slang and misspellings, back to January 2012. The signals are extracted from consumer social media text, so there is text classification underneath, but the listing does not describe the NLP or model methodology, and the company markets itself to investors rather than to producers. Priced at 1,000 USD per 12-month contract.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-mzbjyhbbyfa44
• https://likefolio.com/

Lineview

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active lineview.com

packaging line performance

Guided manufacturing intelligence built for beverage packaging lines, targeting OEE gains and production visibility. Fills the packaging end of the chain, which sits between brewing and distribution and is thinly covered elsewhere on this radar.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-23.

• https://www.lineview.com/

Lion Pty Ltd

multiple · Australia · Demand & pricing · shipping · active lionco.com

enterprise genai rollout, 500 variable demand forecasting and image recognition for tap detection

Lion is the Australian and New Zealand beverages group behind XXXX, Tooheys, James Boag, Little Creatures and Speight's, and it also sells wine and spirits through Vanguard Luxury Brands. In April 2026 Lion announced the first FMCG collaboration with OpenAI in Australia and New Zealand, deploying ChatGPT Enterprise to a workforce of more than 2500 and applying AI to inventory days, decades of brand data, brewing and production applications and field sales; it states it is using more than 500 variables to forecast demand for beer, RTD, wine and spirits, and is trialling Codex on legacy production code. Separately its enterprise applications team built an app on SAP Business Technology Platform low code tooling with image recognition to detect which venues have Lion beers on tap, and its XXXX brand shipped a consumer voice app, Fatty Says, in May 2025. This is a beverage operator running its own named AI, not a customer of someone else's product. Note that Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC, already tracked, is an unrelated Sri Lankan company.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.lionco.com/openai-and-lion-collaborate-to-bring-ai-at-scale-to-australias-beverage-industry/
• https://www.lionco.com/xxxx-elevates-queensland-pride-with-flying-giant-cans-and-an-ai-powered-maroons-legend/

Liquid Vision AI

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active liquid-vision.ai

distributor depletion data cleanup and sales analytics

Liquid Vision AI, Inc. sells an AI sales analytics platform for beverage alcohol brands, including beer, that consolidates fragmented distributor and depletion reports into a single view. The company describes the product as turning fragmented distributor data into strategic intelligence, with a free trial and a self-serve signup. The public site is a client-rendered web app, so the only machine-readable company detail is the structured data it publishes: a New York City address at 500 8th Avenue and the parent entity Liquid Vision AI, Inc. No funding, team or customer detail is disclosed publicly, and the specific modelling technique behind the AI claim is not described.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.liquid-vision.ai/
• https://www.liquid-vision.ai/blog/best-beverage-sales-analytics-tools-2026

LiquidRails

multiple · unknown · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active liquidrails.ai

dtc ecommerce inventory and purchase order recommendations

LiquidRails is a direct to consumer ecommerce platform built specifically for beverage alcohol brands, handling compliant online sales and shipping to 46 plus states, payments, retail fulfilment and marketing. Its AI layer aggregates data from Shopify, ShipStation, carriers and POS systems and generates purchase order suggestions from sell through rates, low stock alerts and pricing and inventory planning recommendations. This is applied analytics and rules plus forecasting on commerce data; no distinctive proprietary model is claimed.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://liquidrails.ai/
• https://www.swell.is/content/ecommerce-platforms-wine-spirits

Liquor Logic

multiple · South Africa · Other · none · active liquorlogic.co.za

none

Liquor Logic is a South African production and point of sale platform for breweries, distilleries, wineries and cideries, with separate editions for each and for bars and bottle stores. The brewery edition covers batch tracking, live fermentation monitoring, gravity readings, keg management, taproom POS and distribution routing; the distillery edition covers distillation runs, barrel ageing, bonded storage and excise reporting. Pricing starts at R549 per month with a 30 day trial. It is a system of record and makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://liquorlogic.co.za/
• https://liquorlogic.co.za/Brewery

LiquorChat

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active liquorchat.ai

demand forecasting / retail agents

LiquorChat is an AI platform built specifically for the alcoholic beverage trade, serving retailers, distributors and producers across wine and spirits, craft beer, RTD and non-alc. It offers in-store AI assistants grounded in a product knowledge base the vendor puts at over 500,000 beverage data points, demand forecasting and digital ordering, real-time depletion and shelf analytics, and agentic multi-agent reasoning flows. Company location, founding year and founders are not disclosed on the site, and no Microsoft or Azure relationship is stated.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://liquorchat.ai/
• https://liquorchat.ai/blog/how-beverage-distributors-can-build-a-real-time-retail-execution-dashboard-with-ai-pulled-depletion-and-shelf-data

LogiLab AI

multiple · unknown · Other · pilot · active logilabai.com

route sequencing for beverage distributors

Route optimisation software built only for beverage distributors running roughly ten to one hundred trucks, positioned explicitly against generic routing tools. It generates next day schedules that respect standing accounts, delivery windows and vehicle constraints, rebuilds routes when a driver calls out or an emergency order lands, and keeps the dispatcher as approver of every change. The company frames beverage routing as a stop sequencing and three tier compliance constraint problem rather than a distance problem. Early stage: it is openly recruiting a founders cohort of five distributors, so the deployment base is unproven and HQ is not disclosed.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.logilabai.com/
• https://www.logilabai.com/route-optimization-guide

LogiNext

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active loginextsolutions.com

route optimisation and delivery tracking for wine and spirits distribution

LogiNext (legal entity Stellation Inc.) is an India founded delivery and logistics automation platform doing route optimisation, dispatch allocation, live movement tracking and delivery scheduling, marketed as AI driven. It names wine and spirits as one of the business types it serves inside its food and beverage and retail distribution offering, and carries Heineken among the client logos on its own homepage. The beverage alcohol evidence seen is a client logo and a named vertical rather than a published alcohol case study, so the depth of the deployment is not established.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.loginextsolutions.com/
• https://www.loginextsolutions.com/industries/food-and-beverages

Lucas Systems

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active lucasware.com

warehouse work and travel optimization

Lucas Systems sells voice-directed warehousing and warehouse optimization software, and names beer, wine and spirits distribution as one of its core industries alongside foodservice and grocery. Its platform, Jennifer, is described on its own site as AI-powered intelligence that optimizes and orchestrates warehouse operations, covering travel optimization, slotting, pallet building and labor management for beverage distribution centers. Alcohol wholesalers including RNDC are cited as customers. The AI claim is at the platform level and the site does not publish detail on the underlying models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.lucasware.com/
• https://www.lucasware.com/industries/beverage-beer-wine-and-spirits/

Lumina Intelligence

multiple · United Kingdom · Other · none · active lumina-intelligence.com

out of home food and drink channel measurement

Lumina Intelligence is the insights arm of UK trade publisher William Reed and is one of the main independent measurement sources for the British on-trade now that CGA has been absorbed into NielsenIQ. Its syndicated products include an Eating and Drinking Out Panel, a Menu Tracker that compares pricing and menu composition across major UK pub, restaurant, QSR, sandwich and coffee shop operators, an Operator Data Index covering turnover and outlet counts for over 400 UK operators, and wholesale and route to market data, all of which drinks suppliers use to size and price the pub and bar channel. Coverage is food and drink generally rather than beer, wine and spirits specifically. It makes no AI or machine-learning claim on its own site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.lumina-intelligence.com/
• https://www.lumina-intelligence.com/about-us/
• https://www.lumina-intelligence.com/solutions/eating-drinking-out-panel/

Madras Security Printers

multiple · India · Compliance & licensing · none · active madrassecurityprinters.com

excise stamp track and trace for alcohol

Madras Security Printers supplies high security excise stamps for alcohol with its own track and trace system, sold to revenue and excise departments. The system covers stamp inventory, online field validation and verification, and detection of forged or reused stamps, which makes it a system of record for state level liquor movement data. It has operated Sri Lanka's liquor security sticker and digital marking system since 2019, a contract the Sri Lankan Excise Department is now retendering. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim for the excise product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://madrassecurityprinters.com/excise-stamps-with-track-and-trace.php
• https://srilankamirror.com/news/new-system-sought-to-safeguard-liquor-tax-revenue-msp-accused-of-having-advantage-in-new-tender/

MakeItDEX (Link Technology Group)

multiple · United States · Market data & valuation · none · active makeitdex.com

no ai claim, dex direct store delivery data exchange

Link Technology Group builds MakeItDEX, an iOS and Android SDK, cloud service and store simulator for DEX, the electronic invoice exchange standard used at retail receiving doors in direct store delivery, which is how most US beer and beverage wholesalers deliver. It replaces the legacy Honeywell Intermec DEX Storefront for certification testing and ships a B1DEX hardware adapter for cable free connection. The company claims real time data analytics dashboards but makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim. Exhibiting at the NBWA 89th Annual Convention Product Showcase, October 2026.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/EventMap.aspx?shMode=E
• https://www.makeitdex.com/

Margin

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active usemargin.com

AI for beer, wine and liquor store retail operations: invoice receiving from a phone photo, and AI-generated purchase orders that predict demand across thousands of SKUs to cut deadstock.

Y Combinator S23 POS and operating system for beer, wine and liquor retailers, built by liquor store owners.

Provenance: Scout: scout:directories. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://usemargin.com/
• https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/margin

Maselli Misure S.p.A.

multiple · Italy · Process & operations · none · active maselli.com

inline and laboratory beverage analysers

Maselli Misure builds inline and laboratory analysers for the beverage industry, with product families dedicated to beer (Brix, alcohol, CO2 and oxygen analysers) and to wine (maturation, receiving area and fermentation process analysers), plus refractometers and spectrophotometers. It exhibited at both BrauBeviale and drinktec under measurement data acquisition and IT solutions for production control. The company is a measurement instrument maker and makes no AI or machine learning claim; it matters here as a source of inline process data in beer and wine plants.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/maselli-misure-s.p.a./
• https://www.maselli.com/en/products/in-line-analyzers/beer/

Masitek Instruments Inc.

multiple · Canada · Supply chain · none · active masitek.com

instrumented container sensors for bottling line analytics

Masitek makes smart in-line sensor products (ShockQC, VerticalQC, PressureQC+Scuff) shaped like real containers that travel a filling line and record impact, pressure and scuffing so producers can find where breakage and damage originate. It runs dedicated beer, wine and alcohol and spirits industry lines and names Carlsberg, Heineken and O-I Glass among its customers, stating the top four breweries globally deploy its sensors. It exhibited at drinktec 2025 under digital solutions and inspection. The output is measurement and diagnostic analytics; no machine learning claim is made.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://masitek.com/industry/beer/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/masitek-instruments-inc/

Matrix Technologies

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active matrixti.com

wine and spirits plant engineering with historian and oee, no ai claim

Multidiscipline engineering and automation consultancy, a founding member of the Control System Integrators Association, that runs a dedicated Wine and Distilled Spirits practice alongside food and beverage. The practice covers distillery planning, fermentation, batching and blending, continuous column and pot still distillation, mass balancing and filling line design, plus automation deliverables that explicitly include historian and trending, PLC and HMI development and line efficiency and OEE tracking. Its Manufacturing Intelligence page uses predictive analytics and algorithmic learning language generically, but no machine learning is claimed for any wine or spirits project and its drinks testimonials are anonymised.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.matrixti.com/distilled-spirits
• https://www.matrixti.com/history

Metrohm

multiple · Switzerland · Quality & inspection · none · active metrohm.com

titration, ion chromatography and nir quality control for beer and wine

Metrohm builds analytical instruments for beverage quality control: titrators, ion chromatographs, pH meters, voltammetry analysers, the OMNIS NIR analyser and the 2060 TI process analyser for continuous online monitoring. Feldschloesschen Getraenke AG, the largest brewery in Switzerland, runs a Metrohm setup that combines ion chromatography and titration under the tiamo software to determine bitterness, citric acid, pH and alcohol in a single method, with external density and colour instruments folded into the same run. On the wine side Metrohm covers acidity, sulfur dioxide, alcohol and sugar, including NIR determination of ethanol during fermentation. It is a laboratory and process analytics vendor and makes no machine learning claim; the NIR work is conventional spectroscopic calibration.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.metrohm.com/en/company/customer-voices/quality-control-of-beer.html
• https://www.metrohm.com/en/industries/food-and-beverage/wine.html

Micet Group (Micet Craft)

multiple · China · Process & operations · none · active micetgroup.com

none claimed, brewery automation and control systems

Jinan-based manufacturer of small batch, microbrewery and commercial brewing systems, plus distillery, cidery and winery vessels, sold internationally in eleven site languages. It supplies brewery automation and control systems covering temperature, pressure, flow and pH control from raw material intake through packaging, and publishes technical guidance on PLC automation for breweries. The company makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.micetcraft.com/plc-automation-systems-in-breweries/
• https://www.micetgroup.com/brewery-automation-control-system/

Mintel

multiple · United Kingdom · Market data & valuation · shipping · active mintel.com

generative ai research assistant over proprietary drinks market intelligence

Mintel is a market intelligence agency with about 1,100 staff across 14 offices, and its store carries an Alcoholic Drinks category alongside its wider Food and Drink coverage. Mintel Leap, announced in February 2024, is a closed loop generative AI platform built only on Mintel's own research and analyst output, which the company says removes hallucinations while answering category, consumer and product questions. Mintel also names Mintel Spark, a concept generator that produces new product ideas and mock ups, and Ingredientscape AI for tracking fastest growing ingredients. The AI is a GenAI retrieval and generation layer over a proprietary research corpus rather than drinks-specific modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://store.mintel.com/
• https://www.mintel.com/about-mintel/
• https://www.mintel.com/solutions/mintel-leap/

Mirketa

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active mirketa.com

salesforce crm and einstein consulting for wineries and spirits brands

Mirketa is a Salesforce consulting firm with a published winery and spirits CRM practice, covering three-tier sales tracking, distributor and tasting room data, and its own AppExchange utilities for sales cycle analytics, lead distribution and duplicate record management. It sells Salesforce Einstein consulting rather than any proprietary model, so the AI here is implementation of someone else's, not its own. Delivery is US strategy teams plus centres in Noida and Bangalore. Included because consulting is one of the thinnest slices in the database and this is a named wine and spirits practice, not a generic one.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://mirketa.com/about-us/
• https://mirketa.com/salesforce-for-wineries-the-customized-winery-and-spirits-crm/

MontBlancAI

multiple · Canada · Process & operations · shipping · active montblanc.ai

process & operations

Operational-intelligence platform that turns existing plant data into real-time insight for process manufacturers, with a dedicated brewery and distillery offering that detects fermentation deviations and flags issues before they become production losses. Ships as a module inside Ignition SCADA.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-23.

• https://www.montblanc.ai/en/about-us
• https://www.montblanc.ai/en/industries/breweries-distilleries

Munhowen

multiple · Luxembourg · Other · none · active munhowen.lu

beverage distribution with b2b and dtc e-commerce

Munhowen is Luxembourg's largest beverage distributor, a family company founded in 1908 and now part of Brasserie Nationale, serving horeca, grocery retail, sub distributors and office accounts from a 13,000 square metre warehouse in Ehlerange. It runs shop.munhowen.lu as a B2B ordering platform for horeca and distributors and drinx.lu as a consumer e-shop, plus Le Chai for wine. Its sites make no AI or machine learning claim; the digital layer is ordering and logistics, not analytics.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://munhowen.lu/a-propos/
• https://shop.munhowen.lu/fr/category

NEUROPUBLIC (gaiasense)

multiple · Greece · Agriculture & crop · pilot · active neuropublic.gr

smart farming advisories for vineyards

NEUROPUBLIC is a Greek informatics company founded in 2003 in Piraeus that built and operates gaiasense, described as the first and only large-scale agricultural IoT network in Greece, using thousands of wireless telemetric stations it designs and manufactures itself. It lists data science, artificial intelligence, Earth observation and IoT as its core technology services, and gaiasense issues fertilisation, irrigation and spraying advisories from that sensor and satellite data. Its wine work is the SMARTWINERY project (November 2023 to October 2026), an interregional partnership with the University of Murcia, Spanish winery equipment maker Agrovin and the Spanish wine technology platform PTV, aimed at helping small and medium wineries improve production sustainability through data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.gaiasense.gr/en/
• https://www.neuropublic.gr/en/smartwinery/

NIRAS

multiple · Denmark · Process & operations · none · active niras.com

brewery discrete event simulation and digital twin, plus industry benchmarking

Danish independent engineering consultancy with a named brewing and distilling practice covering process design, mashing and fermentation engineering, water treatment, automation and full project delivery. It runs the NIRAS Brewing Benchmark Club (NBBC), a global beer and beverage benchmarking dataset members can explore across regions and plant sizes, and sells Opti-Brew, a modelling tool that analyses production efficiency and finds process bottlenecks for expansion planning. Its Virtual Brewery offering is 3D discrete event simulation that becomes a digital twin when wired into plant MES, SCADA, PLC and IoT data. NIRAS makes no machine learning claim: the modelling described is deterministic simulation, not statistical learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.niras.com/insights/virtual-brewery-simulation-can-prevent-problems-and-add-value-to-brewing-sector/
• https://www.niras.com/sectors/food-and-beverage/brewing-distilling/

NextBillion.ai

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active nextbillion.ai

route optimization for beverage distributors

NextBillion.ai sells route optimization, distance matrix, driver assignment and truck navigation APIs, and markets a specific solution for alcohol and beverage distributors covering multi depot delivery, load optimization and dispatch planning. Its optimization engine is constraint based with more than 50 constraints and the company states its route optimization learns from a fleet's past performance. This is one of the few genuine machine learning entries on the beverage delivery and telematics side rather than pure tracking. It is a horizontal vendor, so beverage is one named vertical among several.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://nextbillion.ai/blog/beverage-distributors-route-optimization
• https://nextbillion.ai/blog/route-optimization-for-alcohol-and-beverage-distributors

NielsenIQ (NIQ)

multiple · United States · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active nielseniq.com

genai assistant over retail and on-trade drinks measurement data

NielsenIQ is the retail measurement and consumer panel business that measures beer, wine and spirits sales for suppliers, distributors and retailers. Its own beverage alcohol pages describe omnichannel measurement across off-premise retail, on-premise venues, e-commerce and DTC, plus the NIQ On-Premise service that absorbed the CGA on-trade drinks panel. The named AI is NIQ Ask Arthur, a generative AI persona that answers questions over NIQ Discover data, and NIQ also runs Byzzer, a self-serve POS and shopper reporting product for small and emerging brands that lists Beverage Alcohol as a covered industry. The underlying product is panel and point of sale measurement with a GenAI query layer on top rather than a bespoke drinks model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://nielseniq.com/global/en/
• https://nielseniq.com/global/en/industries/beverage-alcohol/
• https://nielseniq.com/global/en/landing-page/byzzer/

Node4 (formerly TNP)

multiple · United Kingdom · Other · none · active node4.co.uk

beverage erp implementation for breweries and distilleries

Node4, which absorbed the Microsoft Dynamics practice TNP, is the main UK provider of Aptean Beverage (Drink-IT), the beverage vertical built on Dynamics 365 Business Central and published on AppSource. Its beverage practice serves breweries, distilleries, cider and soft drink producers and covers production, MES, quality management, plant maintenance, alcohol duty reporting, EMCS movement tracking and pub or outlet contract management. Node4 makes no AI claim for the beverage product itself; it markets general AI business solutions separately. It states it has worked in the beverages sector since 2003.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://appsource.microsoft.com/en/product/dynamics-365-business-central/pubid.norriq-1020462%7Caid.drink-it%7Cpappid.0ca2d0ae-f000-42d0-abd9-5cb570282916?tab=overview
• https://node4.co.uk/beverage-erp

Numerator

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · active numerator.com

consumer panel and receipt data for bevalc, no ai product named

Numerator is a consumer insights company built on a receipt and purchase panel, and it lists Beverage and BevAlc as an industry segment it serves within consumer packaged goods. Its products are Insights, Promotions, Verified Voices, TruView omnichannel share, Data Feeds, Media Solutions and consulting. On the pages checked Numerator makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim and names no AI product, so it belongs in this landscape as a panel data source rather than an AI vendor. It matters because brand and distributor teams in beer, wine and spirits use its shopper data to decide assortment and promotion.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.numerator.com/
• https://www.numerator.com/solutions/

OMMM Operations Management Solutions GmbH

multiple · Germany · Supply chain · shipping · active ommm.ai

AI-driven production and supply chain planning

OMMM develops AI-powered optimization software that improves production and supply chain planning for industrial sites. It targets real-time optimal planning to reduce resource waste and raise output.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/
• https://www.ommm.ai

OPTIMIND (Loogia)

multiple · Japan · Other · shipping · active optimind.tech

delivery route optimisation for liquor distribution

OPTIMIND is a Nagoya based optimisation company whose Loogia cloud product builds vehicle dispatch and delivery route plans. Its own description says Loogia combines combinatorial optimisation algorithms with AI analysis of actual vehicle driving data to produce route plans drivers can hold to. Loogia lists Kakuyasu, one of Japan's largest liquor delivery retailers and wholesalers, as a customer under the tag liquor delivery: a three month simulation from June 2024 measured capacity and efficiency by store, area, driver and delivery window, and the two companies then moved to a joint delivery model project targeting full operation in June 2025. The core technology comes out of optimisation research at Nagoya University.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://loogia.jp/case/
• https://loogia.jp/news/20241217/
• https://www.optimind.tech/company/

Oculyze

multiple · Germany · Quality & inspection · shipping · active oculyze.net

computer vision yeast cell analysis for brewing, wine and bioethanol fermentation

Oculyze Automation GmbH sells automated microscope image analysis for fermentation. Better Brewing (BB) analyses a yeast sample for cell concentration, viability and budding count in under a minute from a phone-mounted microscope, with parallel products for wine (Fermentation Wine) and bioethanol, plus a custom image analysis platform and its own annotation tool. The company positions itself as 'Tailored AI Image Solutions' and the brewing product is stated to have been validated by VLB Berlin. The AI claim is genuine and specific: this is image recognition applied to cell counting, replacing manual haemocytometer work.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.oculyze.net/
• https://www.oculyze.net/yeast-cell-counter/beer-brewing/

Oenobiote

multiple · France · Other · none · active oenobiote.com

none, rapid microbiology testing instruments

Oenobiote builds rapid microbiology instruments and test kits for the drinks industry, sold to producers, analysis laboratories and researchers. Its Chronos RT-qPCR thermocycler returns a result in about 20 minutes so a winery can run spoilage organism tests in house rather than outsourcing them, with a test range covering vineyard to bottle and separate lines for wine, beer and no and low alcohol drinks. Checked, and the company makes no AI or machine learning claim: this is analytical instrumentation that generates the data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://www.lawinetech.com/members
• https://www.oenobiote.com/

Ohanafy

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active ohanafy.com

demand forecasting

Software vendor selling an AI-powered operating system built on Salesforce to beverage suppliers, distributors, and retailers. Its AI agents automate demand forecasting, billing reconciliation, and route optimization for customers such as Sierra Nevada Brewing.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.ohanafy.com/

Omnivo Digital

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active omnivodigital.com

salesforce and agentforce implementation for beverage distributors

Omnivo Digital is a Salesforce consultancy with a published beverage distributor practice covering route management and direct store delivery, multi SKU pricing and discount tiers, order and inventory integration, and field rep mobile rollout, sold on a pay for results rather than hourly model. Its own site lists Agentforce and AI deployment as a service line, so the AI is Salesforce's, implemented by them, with no proprietary model of their own. No beverage client is named publicly; the disclosed case studies are outside drinks. Included to fill the thin consulting slice, with the caveat that beverage evidence is a practice page rather than a named account.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://omnivodigital.com/
• https://omnivodigital.com/blog/salesforce-for-beverage-distributors/

Onafis

multiple · France · Process & operations · pilot · active onafis.com

predictive alerts on fermentation and ageing drift

Onafis sells continuous sensing and a cloud platform for tracking harvest, fermentation and ageing across wine, beer and spirits, removing manual dip readings and letting winemakers, brewers, distillers and consulting oenologists follow tanks and barrels remotely against their own recipes and alert thresholds. On top of the continuous data the company describes a predictive data intelligence layer that anticipates stuck or drifting fermentations and ageing so the operator can intervene early. Its Alkios connected alcoholmeter, which reads spirit strength in about 30 seconds in the container without drawing a sample and feeds the Onafis platform for customs inventory, took a bronze medal at the SITEVI 2025 Innovation Awards and is aimed at cognac, rum and whisky producers. It trades in France as My Bacchus.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://onafis.com/
• https://www.revuefrancaiseoenologie.fr/sitevi-innovation-awards-2025-les-28-nomines-et-les-17-laureats/

Oracle

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active oracle.com

platform substrate under beverage POS and beverage ERP, no beverage-specific AI

Oracle is the platform underneath a large share of the beer, wine and spirits data landscape without selling a beverage AI product itself. Oracle MICROS and Simphony are the POS and payments layer that bar, taproom, stadium and venue tools such as Bevchek, Sculpture Hospitality and BeerBoard read sales data from, and Oracle NetSuite is the ERP that beverage manufacturing systems such as Crafted ERP and TotalBatch are built on and distributed through on the SuiteApp marketplace. A sweep of all 780 SuiteApp listings found only one beverage-specific vendor, Doozy Solutions. Oracle's AI is horizontal platform capability marketed at restaurants and food and beverage generally: no beer, whiskey or wine specific model is claimed, and partners who market AI on this stack are inheriting it from Oracle rather than building their own.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.oracle.com/food-beverage/
• https://www.suiteapp.com/

Outfield

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · none · active outfieldapp.com

no ai claim, field sales crm for beverage brands

Outfield is a mobile and web field sales CRM sold with a dedicated breweries, wineries and distilleries vertical, used by beverage brand reps to log on premise and off premise visits, shelf placement, backstock, samplings, and competitor pricing. It layers on top of an existing CRM, with Salesforce named first among the systems it syncs visit activity and account updates back into, which is how it sits in the Salesforce beverage stack rather than replacing it. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its brewery product page or its about page; the differentiators it advertises are rep tracking, territory management and a gamification feature called League Play. Named craft beverage logos include Denizens Brewing and Yakima Craft Brewing.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.outfieldapp.com/about
• https://www.outfieldapp.com/brewery_sales_crm

Overview

multiple · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · active overview.ai

quality control / computer vision

Vendor of AI-powered vision inspection systems (smart cameras plus the OVX platform) sold to manufacturers. Its solutions inspect beverage cans and bottles at high line speeds for defects, fill level, and seal quality.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.overview.ai/blog/ai-beverage-can-bottle-inspection/

ParallelDots (ShelfWatch)

multiple · unknown · Quality & inspection · shipping · active paralleldots.com

computer vision shelf auditing for drinks brands

ParallelDots builds ShelfWatch, an image recognition product that reads shelf and cooler photos taken by field reps to score availability, planogram compliance and share of shelf. Its own site names Heineken, Asahi and Bacardi Limited among its clients, which puts it directly on beer and spirits execution, and it lists alcohol as an industry solution. The company reports coverage of 2.5 million retail outlets across 50 plus countries and 15 million photos processed monthly, and raised a 4.5 million dollar Series A led by Btomorrow Ventures, the venture arm of BAT. It supplies the image recognition layer behind Repsly's retail execution product under a partnership announced 30 September 2025.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2025-09-30.

• https://www.paralleldots.com/
• https://www.repsly.com/blog/repsly-inc-and-paralleldots-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deliver-ai-powered-image-recognition-for-cpg-field-teams

Park Street

multiple · United States · Compliance & licensing · pilot · active parkstreet.com

back office automation for importing and compliance

Park Street runs outsourced back office, regulatory compliance, importing, logistics and working capital for wine, spirits and beer brands entering the United States and EU markets, reporting over 3,000 brands served. It states that it invests heavily in AI driven systems to streamline importing, distribution, logistics and back office operations, but names no model, product or measurable AI capability, so the claim should be read as automation and workflow rather than demonstrated machine learning. Founded by McKinsey alumni Harry Kohlmann and Chris Mehringer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:google. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://overproof.com/2023/12/30/who-is-park-street-imports/
• https://www.parkstreet.com/

Parsable

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active parsable.com

connected worker SaaS with AI-powered analytics

Parsable is a SaaS connected worker platform that moves plant floors from paper to digital instructions with AI-powered analytics. It helps manufacturers improve production and operational KPIs.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/
• https://www.parsable.com

Partender

multiple · unknown · Supply chain · none · active partender.com

no ai claim; bar liquor inventory and consumption analytics

Partender turns bar liquor inventory into a tap-and-swipe mobile workflow, where staff tap the liquid level on each bottle to complete a full count in around fifteen minutes, then generate purchase orders sorted by distributor. It reports pour variance with a stated accuracy of up to 99.2 percent and highlights top movers and dead stock. This is measurement and reporting over on-premise beverage data with no machine-learning claim on the vendor site.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://app.partender.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/partender/about/

Pernod Ricard

multiple · France · Demand & pricing · shipping · active pernod-ricard.com

pricing, promotion and revenue growth management analytics

World number two wine and spirits group (Jameson, The Glenlivet, Chivas, Absolut, Martell, Jacob's Creek) that has built data and AI capability in-house rather than buying it. Its IT Data Center of Excellence has developed a group Data Portal since 2015, later opened up as a joint venture product with JCDecaux. It was ranked the leading European and fourth global consumer goods company for in-house data and AI talent in the 2024 AlixPartners and Darwin X Data and AI Human Capital Report. A 2024 MLOps conference profile of its data science team states the group has predictive and prescriptive models deployed in production across most of its 160 markets, and its data scientists present production Bayesian modelling work for pricing and promotion; the specific models are not detailed publicly on the company site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:people. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://conference-mlops.com/speakers/solene-bergaire/
• https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en/media/pernod-ricard-and-jcdecaux-sign-unprecedented-data-technical-alliance
• https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en/media/pernod-ricard-rated-top-european-company-2024-data-ai-human-capital-report-world-rankings

Phocas Software

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active phocassoftware.com

natural language analytics over distributor sales data

Phocas is a BI and FP&A platform for wholesale distributors and manufacturers, with a food and beverage industry vertical and drinks wholesalers among its named customers, including the UK distributor Dayla Drinks. Phocas AI is built into the platform as a natural language chat over connected ERP, sales and financial data, with an AI for sales capability listed as coming soon. It is not a drinks-specific product: the beverage relevance is the vertical and the drinks distribution customers, not a brewing or winemaking model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.phocassoftware.com/ai
• https://www.phocassoftware.com/resources/case-studies/dayla-drinks

Pinpointed

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active pinpointed.dev

conversational ai sommelier for drinks retailers

Pinpointed sells an AI Sommelier that wine, beer and spirits retailers install on their own storefronts. It connects to the retailer's live product catalogue, inventory and store information, then answers shopper questions in natural language and narrows a large catalogue down to specific in-stock bottles by food pairing, occasion, gift, budget or preference; a voice version and an analytics layer with click-through and conversion tracking are also sold. It ships as a Shopify app and a WooCommerce plugin and serves English, French, German and Dutch. The founder describes building it after more than 20 years working in wine and spirits retail. No named retailer customer is published on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://pinpointed.dev/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/pinpointed-ai-sommelier/

PlantVoice

multiple · Italy · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active plantvoice.farm

grapevine stress and disease prediction from in-trunk sap biosensors

PlantVoice makes a toothpick-sized biocompatible biosensor inserted into the plant stem that analyses sap in real time, paired with cloud software that classifies stress signatures. Its own site claims AI-based software processing the physiological signal, with stated accuracy of 94 percent for forecasts and 97 percent for stress identification. Vineyards are a core crop, with named grapevine deployments at Italian wineries Cantina Mezzacorona and Cantina Cavit, and it was one of eight startups selected for the 2026 Wine Tech Challenge in Verona. It also covers kiwi, apple and peach, so it is not wine-only.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://plantvoice.farm/
• https://www.vinetur.com/en/20260515100761/eight-startups-join-wine-tech-challenge.html

Polestar Analytics (Polestar Solutions)

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active polestaranalytics.com

trade promotion optimisation and demand forecasting for alcoholic beverages

Polestar Analytics is an analytics and planning consultancy with a named practice for alcoholic beverage companies, spanning beer, wine and spirits producers. For that vertical it builds market mix models, trade promotion optimisation, pricing analytics, sales and store optimisation, incentive compensation and supply chain control tower solutions. The methods it names are concrete rather than generic: non-linear response modelling, machine learning promotional attribution, ARIMA demand forecasting, Bayesian optimisation and Isolation Forest anomaly detection. It operates as Polestar Solutions and Services (India) and Polestar Insights (US), founded 2012 with offices across eight locations.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.polestaranalytics.com/about-us
• https://www.polestaranalytics.com/industry/cpg/alcoholic-beverages

Pour Now

multiple · unknown · Compliance & licensing · none · active pour.now

No AI claim on the product site. Compliant path-to-purchase routing for alcohol brands: turns any brand touchpoint into a working buy link across wine, beer and spirits, replacing static where-to-buy lists.

Napa startup founded by Paul Mabray building a compliant where-to-buy and checkout layer for drinks brands.

Provenance: Scout: scout:directories. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://launch.pour.now/
• https://wineindustrynetwork.com/c/pour-now-inc.

Preferabli

multiple · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant preferabli.com

sensory

B2B2C AI personalization and recommendation platform for wine, beer and spirits that acts as a virtual sommelier. Formerly known as Wine Ring, it added generative AI capabilities in 2023.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2024-12-16.

• https://github.com/preferabli/Preferabli-for-iOS
• https://preferabli.com
• https://preferabli.com/
• https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2024/12/16/albertsons-ai-preferabli-wine-selection/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/preferabli-the-leading-ai-driven-software-company-in-the-wine-and-spirits-industry-announces-generative-ai-capability-301972171.html

ProLeiT

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · none · active proleit.com

brewery process control and MES

Software manufacturer of the PLC-based process control systems Plant iT and brewmaxx, with MES built in: integrated process visualisation, pre-configured automation objects, ISA-88 compliant batch systems and continuous recipe and materials management, running on Schneider Electric, Siemens and Rockwell controllers. brewmaxx is one of the most widely installed brewery process control systems. Part of Schneider Electric. ProLeiT makes no public AI or machine-learning claim; it is tracked here as the process control and MES layer that brewery batch data originates from, not as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.proleit.com/
• https://www.se.com/ww/en/product-range/64119-plant-it/

ProMach

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active promachbuilt.com

packaging line integration and production line digital intelligence

ProMach is a packaging machinery group that sells into craft beer through its ProBrew and TechniBlend brands, covering brewhouse automation, carbonated filling with the ProFill and ProFill V can fillers, labelling, laser coding and end of line equipment. Named brewery customers include Narragansett Brewing and Flying Embers, the latter scaled to a canning line running 200 cans per minute. In September 2024 ProMach formed a dedicated Wine and Spirits Solutions Group pulling together Fogg, the newly acquired Italian wine filling maker MBF, Zalkin, P.E. Labellers, ID Technology, Zarpac, Statera and Sentry for bottle, small format and ready to drink work. The data element is ZPI, its Production Line Digital Intelligence systems for integrated lines; ProMach makes no machine learning claim for it, and the offering is line monitoring and integration rather than a model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.foggfiller.com/news/promach-announces-wine-spirits-solutions-group-for-providing-dedicated-processing-packaging-and-systems-integration-solutions-to-the-wine-and-spirits-industry/
• https://www.promachbuilt.com/market-solutions/craft-beer-brewing-packaging-solutions/

Prodeb Brewery Technology Belgium

multiple · India · Process & operations · none · active prodebbrewery.com

turnkey microbrewery and distillery equipment with process control

Bengaluru manufacturer of turnkey microbrewery, craft and commercial brewery, distillery and spirit blending plant, claiming more than 100 brewing systems installed worldwide and supplying pub breweries across India as well as Europe and the Americas. Its scope includes brewhouse, fermentation and bright beer tanks, control panels, CIP, yeast propagation and process control management systems, plus spirit and RTD blending and flavour injection lines for whisky, brandy, gin and rum. It exhibits at the Brews and Spirits Expo Bengaluru and at drink technology India. No AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.brewsnspiritsexpo.com/exhibitor-list
• https://www.prodebbrewery.com/

Prosper Insights & Analytics

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active prosperinsights.com

consumer alcohol propensity modeling

Prosper Insights & Analytics is a zero-party consumer data company that publishes pre-trained propensity models as Amazon SageMaker model packages on AWS Marketplace. Two of those listings are directly beverage-alcohol specific: Propensity-Drink Wine and Propensity-Drink Bourbon, which score the probability that a US adult drinks wine or bourbon from inputs such as gender, age range, household income and zip code. The wine model is trained on survey responses from over 17,000 US adults and reports a lift over random of 1.46. This is real supervised ML sold as a deployable model artifact, not a dashboard.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-4htgovw7ssa2s
• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-kmsy2fakrskno
• https://prosperinsights.com/about/

Provi

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active provi.com

marketplace search and product recommendations

Provi is the largest B2B online marketplace for beverage alcohol, connecting bars, restaurants and retailers with distributors and brands across beer, wine and spirits. It merged with SevenFifty in 2022. Provi rebuilt its search and recommendation stack on machine learning, adding personalised carousels, improved search suggestions and product discovery ranking for buyers. The ML is applied to marketplace discovery and support chat; the core business is transactional ordering, not modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230414005283/en/Provi-Launches-New-Product-Features-to-Strengthen-Connection-Across-Beverage-Alcohol-Three-Tier-System
• https://www.provi.com/company-news/provi-launches-new-prouduct-features-strengethen-beverage-alcohol-three-tier-system

Q-Interline

multiple · Denmark · Other · none · active q-interline.com

no ai claim; FT-NIR analysis with chemometric calibration for malt, wort and spirit

Q-Interline is a Danish FT-NIR instrument maker whose Quant at-line analyser and InSight Pro inline analyser measure liquids and powders for product quality control and production optimisation, with calibrations transferable between at-line and inline. Relevant to malt, wort and spirit analysis. The vendor describes chemometric calibration models, which are statistical rather than machine learning, and makes no AI claim anywhere on its site.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/qinterline/about/
• https://www.q-interline.com/

Quantis International

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active quantis.ai

IIoT data-driven production intelligence

Quantis International builds Industrial IoT software for process manufacturers, centered on its Pocket Factory platform. It delivers real-time transparency, process intelligence, and actionable analytics at the production floor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://quantis.ai
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

RATOC Systems (Moromi Diary Cloud)

multiple · Japan · Process & operations · none · active ratocsystems.com

sake fermentation temperature monitoring and record keeping

Osaka IoT vendor whose Moromi Diary Cloud is a sake brewing DX service used by more than 70 breweries. Sensors log tank temperature every ten minutes across the koji, yeast starter and mash stages, push alerts when temperature leaves range, plot BMD curves and original extract trends, and generate the reports required under the sake tax law. It integrates with Kyoto Electronics SD-700 and AT-710 and Anton Paar Alcolyzer analysers and with existing cooling equipment. The product makes no AI or machine learning claim: it is sensing, visualisation and reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000326.000023921.html
• https://www.ratocsystems.com/sol/moromi-diary/

REVORN Co., Ltd.

multiple · Japan · Sensory & recipe · pilot · active revorn.co.jp

ai olfactory sensing and aroma visualisation

Tokyo startup building its own odour sensing hardware plus a cloud AI platform that digitises smell, described on its site as smell times AI. In May 2025 it published what it calls a world first: visualising the aroma of the Japanese craft beer brand ISEKADO with its AI olfactory sensor. It holds patents on an odour database that links nouns, adjectives and scent data, and its aroma work is listed on the Japanese sake business landscape map under the name Koudo. Leadership includes several former Japan Tobacco flavour and sensory scientists.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://sakestreet.com/ja/media/sake-startup-industry-landscape
• https://www.revorn.co.jp/
• https://www.revorn.co.jp/news

RITE Enterprises (Cloud Retailer)

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active cloudretailer.com

liquor retail pos and inventory forecasting

RITE Enterprises, Inc. of Sartell, Minnesota sells Cloud Retailer, a point of sale and inventory platform built for beer, wine and spirits retailers, and lists it on Microsoft AppSource as the Liquor Store Profit System. It handles sales, inventory, alcohol compliance tracking, loyalty, dual pricing, ecommerce integration and reporting, and the company says it has served alcoholic beverage retailers since 2004 and processed over one billion dollars of sales in the last twelve months. Demand forecasting is discussed in its own marketing but no machine learning model is claimed, so treat this as retail analytics rather than AI.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saas/cloud_retailer.cloudretailer
• https://www.cloudretailer.com/

Rafal Cycon

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active

image recognition for retail and on-premise shelf execution

Chief Data Scientist at FORM, listed on the company's current leadership page. FORM's GoSpotCheck platform runs image recognition on shelf and display photos for beverage distributors and alcohol suppliers checking retail and on-premise execution.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.form.com/about/
• https://www.form.com/industries/beverage-distribution-software/

Regrow Ag

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active regrow.ag

remote sensing and biogeochemical mrv for agricultural scope 3

Regrow sells Sustainability Insights and an MRV platform that combine satellite remote sensing with biogeochemical crop and soil modelling so food and drink companies can quantify and track farm level scope 3 emissions. Its published beverage work is a modelled analysis of roughly 500,000 hectares of Kentucky cornfields, showing how cover cropping in two counties could deliver over 20 percent of a bourbon distiller's emission target, corn being about 9 percent of a bottle's carbon footprint; no distiller is named as a customer in that piece. The concrete beverage link is on the buyer side: Soil Capital, named measurement partner for the HEINEKEN UK regenerative malting barley programme, names Regrow as its MRV partner on its own site. The modelling is genuine science rather than a rules engine, but the beer and whiskey exposure is one step removed from a direct producer contract.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://soilcapital.com/
• https://www.regrow.ag/post/bourbon-distiller-scope-3-targets

Rehrig Pacific Company

multiple · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · active rehrigpacific.com

computer vision sku verification and delivery iot analytics

Rehrig Pacific supplies returnable plastic pallets, beverage crates and direct store delivery equipment, and runs a dedicated Beer, Wine and Spirits practice. Its Vision Object Recognition platform is described on its own site as AI powered and leveraging machine learning: a smart pallet wrapper verifies each SKU by image to remove manual audits and mis-picks, RFID readers validate loads at the bay, and a mobile in-store check-in confirms the order visually. A separate Delivery IoT subscription on the Duo Lift streams real-time route and store level delivery metrics such as cases per hour. This is the strongest substantiated machine-learning claim found on the 2026 NBWA floor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/eBooth.aspx?BoothID=354374
• https://www.rehrigpacific.com/direct-store-delivery/industries/beer-wine-and-spirits

Renaissance BioScience

multiple · Canada · Other · research · active renaissancebioscience.com

ai assisted wild yeast strain discovery from genomic and phenotypic data

Renaissance BioScience is a Vancouver yeast bioengineering company whose Food and Beverages solutions cover wine, cider, beer and distilled spirits. In February 2026 it announced a 24 month, 550,000 dollar Genome BC GeneSolve project with Dr Vivien Measday at the University of British Columbia to build a proprietary wild yeast discovery platform, characterising more than 700 natural strains and combining metagenomics with AI to identify commercially valuable traits faster than conventional screening. The announced commercial focus of the platform is waste valorisation and industrial compounds, not brewing or wine, so the AI work is adjacent to beverage rather than aimed at it today.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-02-25.

• https://www.renaissancebioscience.com/corporate/renaissance-bioscience-announces-genome-bc-funded-project-to-build-proprietary-wild-yeast-discovery-platform
• https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/product-news/ai-powered-platform-accelerates-yeast-discovery-410055

Route4Me

multiple · United States · Other · none · active route4me.com

no ai claim, last mile route optimization for beverage delivery

Route4Me is a last mile route planning, dispatch and driver tracking platform with a named food and beverage industry vertical, and it exhibits directly to US beer wholesalers. It reports over three billion miles optimised and 30 million routes planned, with beverage adjacent named customers including AMCON and Frontier Distributing. The product is combinatorial route optimization and telematics integration; the site makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim, so it is logged here as route to market infrastructure rather than an AI vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/EventMap.aspx?shMode=E
• https://www.route4me.com/

RouteMagic

multiple · United Kingdom · Demand & pricing · shipping · active routemagic.app

demand forecasting

Vendor of AI demand forecasting and route automation software for direct-store-delivery distribution, with beverages as a named vertical. It uses an N-BEATS neural time-series model to predict 30-day demand per product and customer and to automate ordering and routing.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.routemagic.app/solutions/ai-automation/

Ruland Engineering & Consulting GmbH

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · none · active rulandec.com

mes and process automation for beverage plants

Ruland Engineering & Consulting builds process plants for beverage and juice production and sells its own Ruland Process Management System (RPMS), a modular MES that controls, monitors and documents production, handling raw material management, tank farm and container management, and recipe handling. RPMS is the bridge between the plant PLCs and the customer ERP system. The company exhibited at both BrauBeviale and drinktec under software and IT solutions for production control, and its consulting arm covers plant engineering and process technology. No AI or machine learning claim is made.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/ruland-engineering
• https://www.rulandec.com/leistungen/ruland-process-management-system/

SACMI

multiple · Italy · Quality & inspection · none · dormant sacmi.com

beverage packaging lines and container vision inspection

SACMI Imola is an Italian cooperative machinery group whose Food and Beverage and Closures divisions serve breweries and wineries, alongside a separate Control and Vision Systems business that inspects containers and closures. It bought the bankrupt oenology plant maker Defranceschi of Laives in August 2016 and combined it with its own bottling line expertise to sell turnkey wineries covering grape presses, destemmers, storage tanks and quality control equipment. Named beverage customers include Caviro, the largest wine producer in Italy, which quadrupled bag-in-box capacity over three years on SACMI monobloc fillers running 1,500 bags per hour with headroom to 2,500. SACMI also runs a US craft brewer partnership programme and exhibits at the Craft Brewers Conference, Unified Wine and Grape Symposium and China Brew Beverage. The published beverage material makes no machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2023-11-12.

• https://sacmi.com/en-US/corporate/news/5480/Sacmi-takes-over-Defranceschi-And-launches-the-idea-of-the-turnkey-winery%E2%80%9D
• https://sacmi.com/en-US/food-beverage/news/19731/Caviro-goes-for-SACMI-BIB-%C2%ABPrecise,-fast,-wine-friendly%C2%BB

SAKENOVA (Sakeai Inc. / サケノヴァ)

multiple · Japan · Process & operations · pilot · active sakenova.com

iot sensing and data analytics for sake fermentation

Premium sake brand run by Sakeai Inc., founded 2020 in Niigata by Daichi Niiyama, a former AI engineer who became the brewery's toji. The company states in its own December 2025 release that it uses IoT sensors and AI-optimised fermentation to visualise the process and cut manufacturing labour cost by about 40 percent. Its public site describes rigorous temperature management and analysis but does not detail the model, so the machine-learning claim rests on the company's own announcement rather than published technical evidence.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://sakenova.com/pages/about
• https://www.acnnewswire.com/press-release/english/104230/

SAP SE

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · shipping · active sap.com

embedded business ai in erp plus a smart winery solution with predictive fermentation models

SAP is the enterprise software vendor whose S/4HANA, Business One, IBP and Business Technology Platform sit underneath a large share of the beer, whiskey and wine companies already tracked in this database, yet it was not tracked itself. Its own AI layer, SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant, is embedded across those products, and SAP IBP for Demand ships statistical and machine learning forecasting used by drinks manufacturers. SAP also owns a beverage specific application, Smart Winery on SAP BTP, which combines winemaker knowledge with operational and sensor data behind two AI models, one predicting future wine quality and one predicting the end of maceration; it was recognised with an honourable mention at the 2023 SAP Innovation Awards for the Vina Concha y Toro deployment. Where partner apps in this database claim AI that comes from SAP AI Core, Joule or IBP, the model belongs to SAP rather than to the partner.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://news.sap.com/latinamerica/2023/06/vina-concha-y-toro-innova-con-soluciones-sap/
• https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/customer-stories.html

SCENTMATIC (KAORIUM for Sake & Wine)

multiple · unknown · Other · shipping · active scentmatic.co.jp

scent to language translation for sake and wine

Japanese scent technology company whose KAORIUM system converts aroma into language. The KAORIUM for Sake & Wine product is sold as a sommelier AI menu tool for sake breweries, restaurants and retailers, suggesting sake and wine by translating flavour and aroma into descriptive words for the customer. The company describes itself in its own schema markup as a sensory experience and AI company, founded 2019 by Toshiharu Kurisu. Beyond drinks it also sells KAORIUM into education, sport and retail.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://sakestreet.com/ja/media/sake-startup-industry-landscape
• https://scentmatic.co.jp/company
• https://scentmatic.co.jp/kaorium/sake

SGS Food Nexus (Foodakai and Digicomply)

multiple · unknown · Compliance & licensing · shipping · active sgs.com

ai food safety and regulatory intelligence over global documents

SGS Food Nexus is the merged product of Foodakai, built by the Greek company Agroknow, and SGS Digicomply. It monitors global food safety incidents, recalls, regulatory changes and hazard data, with the site stating the data is processed by AI and reviewed by SGS experts. Bacardi, Heineken and AB InBev are named among its drinks industry clients. The site does not specify whether the AI is LLM based retrieval or classical text classification, so the mechanism should be treated as unverified.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.agroknow.com/
• https://www.sgs.com/en/services/sgs-food-nexus

SLOKER Inc. (Hansan Brewery)

multiple · Korea · Process & operations · pilot · active sloker.cafe24.com

ai process model and digital twin for traditional korean liquor

Korean brewing technology startup that built what Korean press describes as the country's first AI transformation brewery, in Hansan, Seocheon. Sensors collect temperature, Brix, dissolved oxygen, pressure, humidity, agitation and fermentation rate in real time, feeding a manufacturing operating system that predicts fermentation state, alcohol strength and process end point. The company says it pairs vision sensors with a digital twin to rehearse the process virtually and uses Bayesian optimisation to derive production settings. Its product is Hansan Sogokju, a 1,500 year old traditional Korean rice spirit, brewed with master brewer Na Jang-yeon.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• http://sloker.cafe24.com/
• https://www.asiatoday.co.kr/kn/view.php?key=20260527010008030
• https://www.hankyung.com/article/2026052710611

Sage Software Solutions India

multiple · India · Compliance & licensing · none · active sagesoftware.co.in

brewery and distillery erp with excise compliance

Sage Software Solutions Pvt Ltd is the independent Indian distributor of The Sage Group plc and runs named Brewery ERP and Alcohol and Distilleries ERP verticals for the Indian market, alongside a broader food and beverage practice. The offering covers batch production, fermentation and distillation records, inventory and lot traceability, bottling, and Indian state excise compliance on Sage X3 and Sage 300, with Sage Intacct and Sage Copilot marketed for finance. It is a system of record and an implementation partner, not an AI vendor: the AI branding on the site belongs to Sage's own products, and no beverage-specific machine-learning model is claimed. Relevant to the beverage data landscape because it is one of the few named ERP routes for Indian breweries and distilleries.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.sagesoftware.co.in/erp-software-for-alcohol-distillery-industry/
• https://www.sagesoftware.co.in/erp-software-for-brewery-industry/

Salesforce

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active salesforce.com

platform layer under beverage crm, retail execution and route to market

Salesforce is the platform the beverage alcohol software layer is largely built on, and until now the radar tracked only the products built on it, not the platform itself. Consumer Goods Cloud carries retail execution, visit management, trade promotion and order capture, and is now branded and taught as Agentforce Consumer Goods, its agentic AI line. Its AppExchange consumer goods collection lists beverage alcohol apps directly, including GreatVines for three-tier supplier, distributor and agency execution, alongside CPGvision, CT Mobile and Ivy Retail Execution. Salesforce also owns Tableau, Data Cloud and MuleSoft, which are the analytics and brewery ERP integration paths used across the drinks companies already tracked here.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://appexchange.salesforce.com/mktcollections/curated/cgappguide
• https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/retail-execution-in-consumer-goods-cloud

Salient Management Company

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active salient.com

beverage distributor performance analytics

Salient sells a performance management and analytics platform to alcoholic beverage suppliers and distributors, covering pricing, route and customer execution, margin protection and portfolio decisions. It runs a dedicated Alcoholic Beverage practice and names beer wholesalers as customers, including Heidelberg Distributing, Manhattan Beer Distributors, Gulf Distributing, 7G Distributing and House of La Rose. The AI claim is deliberately modest and unspecified: the site says AI-supported systems and processes help focus attention on the signals that matter most and help leaders prioritize emerging risks and opportunities across routes, customers and portfolios. No model, forecasting method or machine learning technique is disclosed, so this is best read as governed BI with an AI prioritisation layer rather than a proven ML product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.salient.com/
• https://www.salient.com/industries-we-serve/alcoholic-beverage/

Sante

multiple · United States · Supply chain · shipping · active

supply chain

AI and fintech operating system for wine and liquor retailers combining POS, inventory, e-commerce, delivery, marketing and payments, with AI automating invoice intake, catalog creation and customer segmentation. Founded by Darren Fike (YC S23).

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-02-12.

• https://techstartups.com/2026/02/12/sante-raises-7-6m-seed-to-build-the-first-ai-and-fintech-infrastructure-for-the-wine-and-liquor-industry/
• https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sante

Savantis Solutions

multiple · United States · Process & operations · active savantis.com

sap systems integration for drinks companies, marketed with predictive and augmented analytics

Savantis Solutions is a full service SAP global systems integrator in Scottsdale, Arizona that runs Beers, Wines and Spirits as a named industry vertical alongside consumer goods and life sciences. Its published beverage work is SAP S/4HANA, commerce, CRM and marketing for alcoholic beverage distributors covering web ordering, field sales, procurement, fulfilment and finance. The firm markets predictive and augmented analytics and process automation at company level, but publishes no named machine learning deployment at a brewer, distiller or winery, so treat the AI framing as positioning rather than a verified beverage model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.sap.com/mena/asset/dynamic/2023/07/7619fdf0-807e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
• https://www.savantis.com/

Scantrust (U-label)

multiple · Switzerland · Compliance & licensing · none · active scantrust.com

no ai claim; eu wine and spirits e-label compliance

Scantrust is a Swiss connected-packaging company that started in secure QR codes for anti-counterfeiting and now runs U-label, the EU wine and spirits electronic label platform developed with and endorsed by the European wine industry body CEEV and spiritsEUROPE. Producers create QR-linked e-labels that satisfy EU 2021/2117 ingredient and nutrition disclosure, in all EU languages plus Norwegian, with scan-location-aware recycling modules for Italy and Spain and real-time label edits without reprinting. The only automated language capability disclosed is machine translation for custom content; there is no substantiated machine learning claim. The company has offices in Lausanne, Berlin, Tallinn, Amsterdam, Shanghai and elsewhere.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://u-label.com/
• https://www.scantrust.com/about/

Scotch

multiple · United States · Supply chain · shipping · active

supply chain

AI-native operating system for liquor and wine retailers covering POS, payments, inventory, ordering and invoice automation plus state-by-state regulatory compliance. Raised a $10M seed in 2024 and a $20M Series A in 2026.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-06-04.

• https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/scotch-raises-ai-funding-liquor-retail-tech/
• https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2026/6/4/liquor-retail-technology-specialist-scotch-raises-a-glass-to-20-million-series-a-funding-round

Sculpture Hospitality

multiple · Canada · Supply chain · none · active sculpturehospitality.com

bar beverage inventory counting, pour cost and variance reporting

Sculpture Hospitality, formerly Bevinco, runs a franchised beverage and food inventory service for bars, restaurants, nightclubs and hotels: venue staff count beer, wine and spirits stock with its app and a local consultant handles the data, weekly variance reporting and spot checks. It reports 370 plus offices across 35 countries and over 50,000 operators served since 1987, and its platform pulls sales data from POS systems including Oracle MICROS, NCR Aloha, Toast and Lightspeed. The company makes no AI or machine-learning claim; it positions human consultants and manual counts as the differentiator against pure software.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.sculpturehospitality.com/about-us
• https://www.zoominfo.com/c/sculpture-hospitality/365503242

Selinko

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active selinko.com

nfc digital product identity and track and trace

Selinko gives individual products a secure NFC based digital identity used for authentication, track and trace across the distribution network, grey market detection and consumer engagement. Wines and spirits are one of its core sectors, with a published case study for Burgundy producer Laurent Ponsot, and the company says over 40 luxury brands use it. It was founded in 2012 after its founder hit counterfeiting problems distributing his Tuscan wine estate in China, and was acquired by Japanese printing and security group TOPPAN in early 2024. No machine learning claim is made; the product is secure tagging plus a data platform.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.selinko.com/about-us/
• https://www.selinko.com/cases/

ShareThis

multiple · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active sharethis.com

consumer interest and purchase intent scoring for wine and beer audiences

ShareThis collects online behavioural data from a network of about 3 million websites and uses NLP and machine learning to classify page content and score each anonymised user's interest in a product category. It sells a wine and beer specific product, Drink Enthusiasts Currently Engaging With Wine and Beer Products Online, through AWS Data Exchange, giving drinks brands and their agencies an audience of users showing current intent to buy wine or beer. The AI is contextual text classification and interest scoring, not anything beverage specific; no individual winery, brewery or distillery is named as a customer on its site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-imddntnoctwn6
• https://www.sharethis.com/data/

SimpliRoute

multiple · Chile · Other · shipping · active simpliroute.com

ai route optimisation for delivery fleets

Latin American route optimisation and last mile delivery platform that plans, sequences and dynamically recalculates delivery routes against vehicle capacity, traffic, terrain and delivery windows, with dispatchers approving every suggested change. It grew out of Alvaro Echeverria's University of Chile research on emergency response routing and now reports over 1,000 customers across 26 countries. Beverage evidence is direct: Vina Concha y Toro appears as a named customer and the Chilean craft beer retailer Beervana as a case study. That makes it one of very few beverage relevant logistics AI vendors headquartered in South America.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/simpliroute-plans-latin-american-expansion-following-3m-series-a/
• https://simpliroute.com/en

SimplyDepo

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active simplydepo.com

none substantiated, B2B ordering and retail execution

SimplyDepo is a B2B ordering and field sales platform used by beverage distributors and DSD operators, covering mobile order entry with offline capture, real time inventory across warehouses and trucks, route planning, delivery, invoicing and retail execution including shelf audits and planogram compliance. It lists a Simply AI feature but publishes no detail on what it models, so this is a distribution system of record rather than a machine learning product. It is relevant to the beer route to market picture because it holds order and store visit data for independent distributors below the big wholesaler platforms.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://simplydepo.com/
• https://simplydepo.com/industry/beverage-distribution-software/

SipSource

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active sipsource.com

machine learning demand forecasting for spirits and wine

SipSource is the wine and spirits market-data and forecasting product of the Wholesalers and Distributors of America (WSWA), built from single-product depletion transactions between wholesalers and retailers across all 50 US states. Its own site states the forecasting product is powered by advanced machine learning, with models combining distributor depletions and macroeconomic indicators such as inflation, unemployment and consumer confidence. Subscribers get segment, price-tier and channel breakdowns for spirits categories including whiskey.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://sipsource.com/
• https://www.wswa.org/news/wswas-latest-sipsourcer-forecast-signals-continued-industry-headwinds-modest-improvement-ahead

Smart DRS

multiple · Slovakia · Supply chain · shipping · active smartdrs.com

AI-powered deposit return system with container ID codes

Smart DRS is an AI-powered deposit return system that assigns each container a unique 2D identification code to cut fraud and enable crushing. It turns production lines into smart lines using non-invasive high-speed reading for producers, operators, and retailers.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://smartdrs.com/
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

SmartSkin Technologies

multiple · Canada · Supply chain · shipping · active smartskintech.com

digital container twins and line data analytics

SmartSkin Technologies delivers manufacturing intelligence through digital container twins and proprietary software that give producers actionable line data. It is deployed with beverage manufacturers across more than 170 production sites worldwide.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://smartskintech.com/
• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/

Snowflake

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active snowflake.com

data and AI platform for beverage and CPG operators

Horizontal cloud data platform, not a beverage company. Included because it carries a meaningful share of beverage and CPG data workloads. It ships an AI Data Cloud for Retail and Consumer Goods aimed at manufacturers, distributors and CPG vendors, with secure data sharing as the core mechanic. Named drinks-side users include Mark Anthony Group, owner of White Claw and a group of British Columbia wineries, plus US Foods and 84.51 on the retail data side. The AI is the platform capability, not a beverage-specific model.

Provenance: Scout: curated:fnb-majors. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-launches-retail-data-cloud-to-enable-collaboration-deliver-exceptional-customer-experiences-and-optimize-operations-for-retailers-2/
• https://www.snowflake.com/en/solutions/industries/retail-consumer-goods/

Solon Consulting

multiple · United States · Quality & inspection · active consultsolon.com

advisory on predictive maintenance, vision inspection and brew scheduling

Veteran owned engineering and automation consultancy serving breweries, wineries, distilleries and food manufacturers across facility design, process engineering, PLC, HMI and SCADA work. It publishes an Industry 4.0 practice covering predictive maintenance on glycol chillers, pumps and fermentation vessels, computer vision inspection of fill level and labels on packaging lines, energy optimisation and brewhouse scheduling, and sells AI assessments against these areas. Solon builds and integrates other vendors' systems rather than shipping a model of its own, so this is an advisory and systems integration entry, not a proprietary AI product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ibm. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://consultsolon.com/wisdom/ai-innovation/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/solon-consulting-llc

Solène Bergaire

multiple · France · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

Leads data science projects on pricing and promotion optimization for a top premium spirits group whose brands include Jameson and The Glenlivet whiskies.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://conference-mlops.com/speakers/solene-bergaire/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sol%C3%A8ne-bergaire-a68472108

Sommelier.bot

multiple · Germany · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active sommelier.bot

sensory

Berlin-based AI agent for the wine and spirits industry offering a chatbot that gives consumers personalized drink recommendations.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-01.

• https://futuredrinksexpo.com/en/blog/insights-64/pix-the-worlds-first-wine-discovery-platform-with-ceo-paul-mabray-352.htm
• https://sommelier.bot/how-it-works/

Soufflet Malt

multiple · France · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active souffletmalt.com

ai recommended malting recipes and a group malt data platform

Soufflet Malt, part of the InVivo group, is one of the largest maltsters in the world with 2,200 employees, 35 malthouses in 20 countries and about 3.6 million tonnes of capacity, supplying brewers, distillers and food manufacturers. Its MAITE project (Malt Artificial Intelligence Technologies), developed with a startup partner from 2018 and first deployed at the Canteleu malthouse near Rouen, collects data recorded through the malting process and recommends the production parameters a plant manager should apply to reach a target malt spec; it has since been extended to other sites in France and abroad. In 2026 the company launched MALTimize, a group data platform built with InVivo's IT and Digital Factory that consolidates production and commercial data for predictive analytics and decision support, with an AI chatbot layer announced for the second half of 2026. The AI is malting process optimisation and quality prediction, not barley genomics.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://innovationsfood.com/soufflet-malt-launches-maltimize-to-unleash-the-full-power-of-data-and-ai/
• https://www.souffletmalt.com/innovation/
• https://www.souffletmalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/PR_Soufflet_Malt_launches_MALTimize.pdf

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active southernglazers.com

distributor data platform and commercial analytics

The largest wine and spirits distributor in the United States, operating in 44 states, DC and Canada, and the operator of Proof, its B2B ordering platform used by licensed on and off premise buyers. In March 2024 it announced a new Enterprise Data Center of Excellence and hired four data leaders, including a Head of Data Science, AI and Machine Learning, explicitly to build an enterprise AI and ML strategy. Its own website makes no explicit machine learning claim: the IT and Proof pages describe an omni-channel ordering experience, supply chain solutions, industry insights and personalised product lists, with no model or ML capability named. Treat the AI claim as an announced programme rather than an evidenced shipping product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:people. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20250723230216/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240328422851/en/Southern-Glazers-Wine-Spirits-Announces-Leaders-for-New-Enterprise-Data-Center-of-Excellence
• https://www.southernglazers.com/become-a-customer/about-proof
• https://www.southernglazers.com/careers/Information-technology

Sovos ShipCompliant

multiple · unknown · Compliance & licensing · shipping · active sovos.com

beverage alcohol shipping and registration compliance system of record

Sovos ShipCompliant is the incumbent compliance platform for beverage alcohol shipping, product registration and reporting in the United States, serving more than 2,000 wineries, breweries, distilleries, importers, distributors, carriers and government agencies including Constellation Brands, Sazerac and Pernod Ricard. It holds a direct integration to the TTB COLA database and encodes state-by-state rules for direct-to-consumer shipping and brand registration. The product page makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim, so this is a rules-engine system of record rather than an ML product. It matters to the beverage data landscape because it holds the compliance and shipment data other analytics tools depend on.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://govos.com/blog/how-alcohol-and-tobacco-license-software-improves-compliance/
• https://sovos.com/shipcompliant/

SpectraA Technology Solutions Limited

multiple · India · Process & operations · none · active spectraa.com

brewery process equipment engineering and lab supply

Bengaluru engineering company, incorporated in 2009 and converted to a public limited company in 2021, that designs, fabricates, installs and commissions plant for breweries, craft and microbreweries, distilleries, malt spirit and IMFL blending, and food and beverage plants, with operations in India and Singapore. A related arm supplies laboratory instruments, chemicals and glassware to those plants. It is an exhibitor at the Brews and Spirits Expo in Bengaluru. Its craft brewery page uses the phrase intelligent automation as marketing language; there is no machine learning claim on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.brewsnspiritsexpo.com/exhibitor-list
• https://www.spectraa.com/

Spirits Consulting Group

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active spiritsconsulting.com

beverage operator reporting dashboard

New York beverage industry consultancy working with spirits, wine, coffee and non alcoholic brands on go to market planning, ecommerce and digital strategy, brand and product innovation, and strategic advisory. Its proprietary tool is the Bevantek Dashboard, which pulls distributor sales and depletion feeds, ecommerce platforms including Shopify and ReserveBar, social accounts, Klaviyo email, on premise POS partners and QuickBooks into a single operator view. Bevantek is unified reporting rather than modelling and the company makes no machine learning claim for it, although Funnel 3D and an Assistant module are flagged as new.

Provenance: Scout: scout:google. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://spiritsconsulting.com/
• https://spiritsconsulting.com/bevantek/

StayinFront

multiple · United States · Other · shipping · active stayinfront.com

on-device image recognition for liquor retail execution

StayinFront sells field sales CRM and retail execution software to consumer goods companies, and publishes a dedicated position on the global liquor industry. Its StayinFront On-Device AI product runs digital image recognition directly on a rep's device, converting shelf photos into realograms that are compared against the planogram to score distribution, share of shelf, stock and promotional compliance while the rep is still in the store. Related products include Intelligent Guided Selling, Dynamic Routing and Remote Supervision, all of which the company describes as AI-assisted. It reports over 85,000 users in more than 50 countries; the on-device liquor deployment it describes is with an unnamed global CPG company, so the specific beverage alcohol customers are not disclosed.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2025-12-11.

• https://www.stayinfront.com/about-us/
• https://www.stayinfront.com/on-device-ai-real-time-image-recognition-is-transforming-the-global-liquor-industry/

Symbotic

multiple · United States · Agriculture & crop · none · active symbotic.com

robotic warehouse automation software for beverage distribution centres

Symbotic builds automated storage, retrieval and case-picking systems for distribution centres and describes itself as harnessing robotics and AI-powered software to simplify the flow of goods. It runs a food and beverage industry practice covering mixed perishable and shelf-stable case handling, dynamic inventory management balanced against sales velocity, and high-density storage for seasonal demand spikes. The food and beverage pages make no specific machine-learning claim beyond the company-level AI-powered software positioning. Symbotic presented at the 2026 NBWA BIECC Innovation Showcase for beer and beverage distributors and reports over 1,050 patents issued or pending and more than 1 billion dollars of R&D funded to date.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.nbwa.org/event/biecc-innovation-showcase/
• https://www.symbotic.com/company/
• https://www.symbotic.com/industries/food-and-beverage/

Symrise (SymVision)

multiple · Germany · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active symrise.com

consumer insight / trend prediction

Global flavour and fragrance house whose SymVision platform uses AI to predict taste, nutrition and health trends and steer food and beverage product development. Beverage is one of several categories it serves, not its sole focus.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-23.

• https://www.symrise.com/taste-nutrition-health/food-beverage/symvision/

Tastewise

multiple · United States · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active tastewise.io

GenAI marketing

GenAI food and beverage intelligence platform that ingests real-time consumer signals to guide product and marketing decisions, publishing dedicated wine, spirits and beer trend analytics for alcohol brands. Raised a $50M Series B in 2025.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-10.

• https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/6/10/food-and-beverage-intelligence-platform-tastewise-raises-50m-in-series-b-funding-led-by-telus-global-ventures
• https://tastewise.io/foodtrends/wine

Technomic

multiple · United States · Other · active technomic.com

no substantiated ai claim

Technomic is a foodservice research firm that runs a dedicated Adult Beverage Planning Program for beer, wine and spirits suppliers building on-premise strategy, with member voted studies, two annual meetings and an Adult Beverage newsletter. Its data platform, Ignite, splits into Ignite Company, Ignite Consumer and Ignite Menu for operator financials, consumer brand tracking and menu gap analysis. It is a core source for on-trade drinks measurement in the United States and its Chicago address is 300 S. Riverside Plaza. The site makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim anywhere in its product pages; this is analyst led survey and menu research.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.technomic.com/
• https://www.technomic.com/adult-beverage-planning-program/

Terillium

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · active terillium.com

oracle fusion demand and supply planning for beverage production and distribution

Terillium is an Oracle-only ERP consultancy of more than 250 consultants covering Oracle Fusion Cloud, JD Edwards and NetSuite. Its beverage work is documented in a published case study for Admiral Beverage, where it deployed Oracle Fusion Cloud Demand and Supply Planning against an existing JD Edwards platform using its own pre-built JDE to Fusion planning integration, to lift forecast accuracy and cut stockouts at distributor facilities. The forecasting is Oracle's planning engine, not Terillium software, and neither the case study nor the firm claims machine learning. Relevant as the consulting layer that actually puts statistical demand planning into drinks supply chains.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://terillium.com/about/
• https://terillium.com/case-study/admiral-beverage-optimizes-supply-and-demand-planning-with-oracle-fusion-cloud/

TerraClim

multiple · South Africa · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active terraclim.com

vineyard climate and terroir intelligence mapping

TerraClim describes itself on its own site as climate intelligence for vineyards, orchards and consultants, delivering fine-scale climate and terroir data to South African wine and fruit growers. It grew from a Stellenbosch university spin-off into an industry tool funded and supported by South Africa Wine, which won a 2026 Western Cape Economy Innovation Award for backing it. Honest read on the AI: this is spatial climate modelling and a decision-support data layer, with no publicly documented machine learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.foodformzansi.co.za/south-africa-wine-wins-top-award-for-climate-intelligence-tech/
• https://www.terraclim.com/

Tetra Pak

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active tetrapak.com

plant performance improvement programmes for beverage producers

Tetra Pak sells processing and carton packaging into wine and ready to drink spirits, with Tetra Prisma Aseptic and Tetra Brik Aseptic used for wine and the American brand buzzbox packing premium cocktails in 200 ml cartons. Its operational service line matters more to the data landscape than the packaging: Inbrew Beverages, one of the fastest growing alcohol producers in India, ran Tetra Pak Plant Perform as a long term performance agreement across four Indian plants and reported 98 percent mechanical efficiency, waste held under 0.5 percent and about 184,000 euro in annual savings. Plant Perform is structured performance analysis and a customised implementation plan against measured line data rather than a machine learning product, and Tetra Pak does not claim a model for it in this case.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.tetrapak.com/en-ca/insights/cases-articles/improved-efficiency-cost-savings-at-inbrew
• https://www.tetrapak.com/en-ca/insights/food-categories/wine-and-spirits

Thirstie

multiple · unknown · Consumer & personalization · none · active thirstie.com

direct to consumer alcohol e-commerce and fulfilment

Thirstie runs branded direct to consumer e-commerce storefronts and digital gift cards for beer, wine and spirits brands, routing orders through a network of licensed retailers to stay inside three tier rules. Republic National Distributing Company took a strategic stake in December 2022, and Thirstie was acquired by Cocktail Courier in 2024. The site advertises data capabilities on first party consumer purchase data but makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://thirstie.com/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rndc-invests-in-e-commerce-platform-thirstie-deal-will-transform-alcohol-industry-301703351.html

Tipple

multiple · Ireland · Compliance & licensing · none · active tipple.co

none claimed, commerce and compliance infrastructure

Tipple runs an alcohol commerce operating system covering direct to consumer, B2B ordering, distributor management, age verification, duty and VAT, excise, payments and fulfilment across 11 EU countries and 42 US states. It works with more than 500 brands including Diageo, Brown-Forman and AU Vodka. The company makes no machine learning claim on its own site: the value is regulated commerce plumbing rather than modelling. It raised a EUR 4 million seed in September 2025 led by Quadri Ventures with 7percent Ventures and Form Ventures.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://tipple.co/
• https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/tipple-eoin-bara-funding-4m-seed-start-up-alcohol-distribution

Tom Kornegay

multiple · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active

data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage

Hired in 2024 to lead the enterprise data, analytics and insights strategy for the largest US wine and spirits distributor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-22.

• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240328422851/en/Southern-Glazers-Wine-Spirits-Announces-Leaders-for-New-Enterprise-Data-Center-of-Excellence

Tonnellerie Radoux (OakScan)

multiple · France · Other · none · active tonnellerieradoux.com

near infrared grading of oak staves by polyphenol content

French cooperage supplying barrels and oak alternatives to both wine and spirits producers, including whisky, bourbon, rum and cognac. Its OakScan process, developed with INRA researchers, scans every stave with near infrared spectroscopy to measure the polyphenol and ellagitannin index non-destructively and classify the wood by tannic potential, replacing random laboratory sampling of stave batches. This is instrumental measurement against a chemical reference database rather than machine learning, and the company makes no AI claim; it matters here because it is one of the few production-scale data layers over cask wood, which drives maturation outcome.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• http://www.nuancetrade.com/barrels_radoux_oak_scan.php
• https://www.tonnellerieradoux.com/en/oakscan/

Toyota Automated Logistics

multiple · United States · Other · none · active toyota-automated-logistics.com

no ai claim, warehouse execution and control software for beverage distribution centres

Toyota Automated Logistics is the brand formed on 1 April 2026 by combining Bastian Solutions, Vanderlande's warehousing business and viastore, and it carries a named food and beverage industry practice covering automated storage, robotic case and piece picking, palletising and warehouse execution and control software. It exhibits at the NBWA convention, selling distribution centre automation to beer and beverage wholesalers. Nothing on its food and beverage pages makes an artificial intelligence or machine learning claim; the systems are automation and control software.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/EventMap.aspx?shMode=E
• https://toyota-automated-logistics.com/industries/food-beverage

TraceGains

multiple · unknown · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active tracegains.com

ai over supplier specs, coas and formulation data

TraceGains runs a supplier document and specification network for food and beverage manufacturers, covering supplier specs, certificates of analysis and compliance documents. It markets TraceGains AI for finding answers across that document set and AI Formulation for working with ingredient data and formulas in one environment. Named beverage customers on its own customers page include E. and J. Gallo Winery, Florida Natural, Tampico and Oatly. The site does not disclose the underlying models or how retrieval is grounded.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.tracegains.com/
• https://www.tracegains.com/customers/

TrackAbout

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active trackabout.com

returnable asset and keg tracking

TrackAbout, now a Datacor product, is a returnable asset tracking platform whose named verticals include beer kegs alongside industrial gas cylinders and pallets. It covers keg lifecycle visibility, mobile scanning and photo capture at delivery, maintenance and inspection workflow, rental billing calculation and a customer portal showing asset and delivery history. The keg product makes no AI or predictive analytics claim; Datacor markets a separate Datacor AI offering that is not described as part of TrackAbout.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://corp.trackabout.com/what-we-track/kegs
• https://www.datacor.com/products/trackabout/what-we-track

Trax

multiple · Singapore · Other · shipping · active traxretail.com

shelf image recognition for retail execution

Trax builds computer vision and image recognition software that turns photos of retail shelves and coolers into shelf-share, out-of-stock and planogram compliance data for consumer goods brands. Beverage alcohol is a core segment: its published case studies cover Molson Coors, a global brewer and a leading beverage alcohol company, and Molson Coors used Trax image recognition across roughly 6,000 Canadian stores and 500,000 shelf images to track 17 in-store KPIs where syndicated beer POS data covered under 15 percent of national volume. In 2023 Trax launched the Trax Connector on the Salesforce AppExchange so companies running Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud can feed computer vision data into retail execution. In February 2026 Gemspring Capital acquired the Trax image recognition business and combined it with FORM into a single retail execution platform.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://traxretail.com/case-studies/molson-coors/
• https://traxretail.com/company/about-us/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gemspring-capital-combines-form-and-trax-retails-image-recognition-to-create-global-retail-execution-platform-302680273.html

TrendMiner

multiple · Belgium · Process & operations · shipping · active trendminer.com

self service industrial time series analytics and anomaly monitoring for process plants

Belgian self service industrial analytics platform for continuous and batch process industries, offering search over historian time series, data contextualisation into events, 24/7 monitoring with alerts and, more recently, agentic AI and an Analytics Agent. Its food and beverage page covers compliance and CIP optimisation, OEE and resource efficiency, and taste and texture consistency. Named reference customers on that page are Nestle, Avebe and CP Kelco; beers and spirits are listed as coming soon, so there is no verified brewery or distillery customer yet. Included as part of the historian analytics layer that beverage plants buy, not as a proven drinks deployment.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.trendminer.com/company/company-overview
• https://www.trendminer.com/industries/food-and-beverages

Trusty

multiple · Italy · Quality & inspection · none · active trusty.id

blockchain supply chain traceability with anomaly detection

Italian food and drink supply chain traceability platform, originally built by IBM Business Partner Apio and deployed with Var Group on the IBM Food Trust platform for producers such as Colli del Garda. It sells a wine and spirits module covering nutritional and ingredient labelling under EU Regulation 2021/2117, and reports work with more than 220 companies across 45 countries. It makes no machine learning claim: the platform is described as blockchain based and API integrated, with real time anomaly detection whose underlying method is not specified.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ibm. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://trusty.id/
• https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/colli-del-garda-blockchain

UB Technology Innovations

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active ubtiinc.com

conversational analytics over spirits depletion and pricing data

UB Technology Innovations is a Microsoft Solutions Partner in Anaheim, California doing data, cloud and AI enablement work on Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform and Copilot. Its AppSource consulting offer, AI Conversational Commercial Analytics, is built on a delivered engagement for a multi brand spirits supplier where depletion, pricing and third party market data were unified in a cloud platform and exposed as plain English self service commercial insights. This is a services and Copilot style natural language layer over a beverage alcohol data estate rather than a packaged product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/consulting-services/ubtiinc.ai_powered_analytics
• https://ubtiinc.com/

UXPay Solutions

multiple · Portugal · Process & operations · none · active uxpay.ai

self-pour dispense with age verification and pour analytics

UXPay turns a beer or wine tap into an autonomous self-service point of sale, with a mobile digital wallet, QR unlock, real-time volume tracking and dashboards. Its own site names breweries and wineries as target venues and claims deployments in Europe and Brazil with 182,000 plus active users. Age verification is done by uploading an ID plus a selfie and clearing in under a minute, which implies automated document and face matching, but the site makes no explicit machine-learning claim, so the analytics should be read as operational reporting rather than a model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_de. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://uxpay.ai
• https://www.braubeviale.com/de-DE/aussteller-und-produkte/

Unicorn Auctions

multiple · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · active unicornauctions.com

quality control / computer vision

Online auction platform for rare spirits and fine wine that authenticates every bottle through a proprietary system combining expert review with machine-learning algorithms trained on 500,000-plus historical transactions and 1 million-plus photos to detect inconsistencies.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-05-12.

• https://techstrong.ai/articles/the-startup-using-ai-to-reinvent-wine-and-spirits-auctions/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/sharonedelson/2025/05/12/unicorn-democratizes-the-buying-and-selling-of-spirits-with-online-auctions/

VIP (Vermont Information Processing)

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active vipinsights.com

distributor pricing, predictive ordering and conversational reporting

VIP builds route accounting, ecommerce, pricing and analytics software used across the beverage alcohol three tier system (beer, wine and spirits suppliers, distributors and retailers). In July 2026 it launched VIP Intelligence, a bundle of AI features: AI-powered revenue management inside PriceStream, AI Predictive Order in Connect and the VIP Sales App, and natural language AI reporting in iDIG. The underlying products are mature route accounting and BI systems, so the AI is a prediction and language layer on top of an existing transactional data estate rather than a new modelling company.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://vipinsights.com/
• https://www.brewbound.com/pr/2026/07/24/vip-introduces-vip-intelligence-the-beverage-industrys-purposebuilt-ai

Vaisala

multiple · Finland · Agriculture & crop · none · active vaisala.com

inline refractometry for wort, distillate and grape must

Vaisala sells the Polaris process refractometer and CO2 probes as inline instruments for brewing, distilling and winemaking, with dedicated application pages for wort and Plato measurement in the brewhouse, rum distillation, grape and wine process control, wine interface detection and CO2 monitoring during fermentation. In a published case, Nikka Whisky installed a Polaris refractometer at its Moji plant in 2020 to read alcohol concentration continuously at the still outlet during shochu production, replacing manual sampling and letting the plant automate the point at which distillation is terminated. This is measurement and control, not analytics: Vaisala makes no machine learning or predictive claim for these products, and the value proposition is a stable continuous signal where the brewery or distillery previously took discrete lab samples.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.vaisala.com/en/case/famous-japanese-distillery-applies-vaisala-technology-traditional-shochu-production-process
• https://www.vaisala.com/en/industries-applications/food-beverage-and-agriculture/in-line-brix-measurement/line-wort-plato-measurement-optimizing-beer-brewing-process

Varelmann Beratungsgesellschaft mbH

multiple · Germany · Process & operations · none · active varelmann.de

no ai claim in the product, rules driven sap btp production cockpit with winery and tank extensions

Varelmann is a roughly 100 person German SAP consultancy founded in 1999, with offices in Oldenburg, Kuenzell near Fulda and Stuttgart, serving the Mittelstand and naming FMCG as a core competence. Its own add-on ProDux, a Production Process Cockpit sold on the SAP Store and built on SAP BTP over S/4HANA, guides regulated batch production decisions and ships explicit extensions for tank management and winery specific requirements; the company demonstrated it publicly in May 2026 using a beverage production use case. The cockpit itself makes no machine learning claim: SAP's own listing describes it as guided decisions and embedded rules, not prediction. Varelmann does separately market an AI readiness assessment for SAP landscapes and a webinar series on AI in production, planning and quality, which is advisory positioning rather than a shipped beverage model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://147329883.hs-sites-eu1.com/ueber-uns
• https://store.sap.com/dcp/en/product/display-2002003556_live_v1/produx-production-process-cockpit
• https://varelmann.de/

Vertique

multiple · United States · Other · none · active vertique.com

no ai claim, automated order consolidation for beverage distribution centres

Vertique is the US arm of System Logistics, a member of the Krones Group, and supplies fully automated warehouse systems to beverage distribution centres: automated storage and retrieval, order consolidation and despatch, AGVs and warehouse control software. The Vertique and Vertique Mini systems are pitched at mixed case beer and beverage wholesalers, and the company exhibits at the NBWA convention. Its site makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim; it sells mechanised material handling with control software. Note that parent Krones is already tracked separately.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/EventMap.aspx?shMode=E
• https://www.vertique.com/usa/

Vinhood

multiple · Italy · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active vinhood.com

consumer taste profiling and wine recommendation

Vinhood runs a taste-profiling engine that builds a Taste Identity from a sub-one-minute questionnaire about food habits, then recommends wines, beers and coffees against that profile. It sells the engine B2B to brands and retailers as a personalisation layer and runs a consumer app. The recommendation engine is branded Virtual Sommelier and the company reports roughly 80 percent accuracy validated against 500-plus tasting sessions and university studies. Honest read on the AI: this is a validated sensory-science recommendation algorithm, and the company does not publicly document machine learning models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:wine. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.efanews.eu/?item=61862
• https://www.vinhood.com/en/

Vinoshipper

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active vinoshipper.com

Vinoshipper is a direct sales and compliance platform for small beverage alcohol producers, serving wine, cider, mead and spirits makers with an online store, point of sale, wine club management, wholesale tools and integrated shipping. Its core asset is a state-approved compliance engine covering direct-to-consumer shipping licensing and tax across all 50 US states and roughly 2,000 cities. The company reports over 3,100 active clients and about 35 staff, and makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.vinoshipper.com/
• https://www.vinoshipper.com/about-us

Vinsight

multiple · New Zealand · Process & operations · none · active vinsight.net

production data

Vinsight is a cloud production, inventory and sales platform for wineries, breweries, cideries and distilleries, built by winemaker and developer Simon Lampen in Auckland. It tracks malt and mash through fermentation and bottling, handles excise tax and traceability, chemical analysis reporting, temperature control integration and Xero accounting integration, and is used by roughly a fifth of active New Zealand wine companies. It makes no public AI or machine learning claims; tracked as a small and mid size producer system of record.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.vinsight.net/brewery-software
• https://www.wk.co.nz/business-software/vinsight/

Vintiga Labs

multiple · unknown · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active vintigalabs.com

guest insight and wine club retention scoring

Unified iOS point of sale, CRM, reservations and ecommerce platform purpose built for winery, brewery and distillery tasting rooms, with offline mode, Apple Tap to Pay and Apple or Google Wallet club membership. The company markets AI powered guest insights on unified guest profiles and AI powered tools to improve wine club retention; the site does not describe the models, so treat the AI as vendor claimed rather than documented. Founded by Jim Secord, formerly VP of Product at WineDirect and CEO of Kashoo, with a team drawn from WineDirect, Intuit and Kashoo.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ibm. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimsecord
• https://www.vintigalabs.com/about/

Virtualworkforce

multiple · Netherlands · Supply chain · shipping · active virtualworkforce.ai

supply chain

No-code AI agent platform sold to beverage distributors that integrates with their ERP, WMS, and POS systems. Its agents automate order capture, invoice dispute detection, inventory replenishment, and supplier engagement.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://virtualworkforce.ai/ai-assistant-for-beverage-distribution/

Vision33 (Brutos)

multiple · unknown · Other · none · active vision33.com

Brutos is Vision33's cloud beverage management ERP for brewers and distillers, built on SAP Business One and hosted in Vision33's own AWS environment, managed by their cloud and security specialists. It covers production, brand management, inventory and financials for manufacturers and contract packers of beer, spirits, cider, RTDs and non-alcoholic drinks, and Vision33 is a Brewers Association member. Honest read on AI: the Brutos product makes no AI or ML claim at all. Vision33 markets an AI assistant (Copilot for SAP Business One) separately, but it is not presented as part of Brutos.

Provenance: Scout: scout:aws. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
• https://www.vision33.com/brutos

Vistaar Technologies

multiple · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active vistaar.com

price and revenue management for the alcohol value chain

Vistaar sells pricing and revenue management software with a dedicated beverage alcohol practice, covering price structure management across producer, distributor and retail tiers, excise tax and TTB compliance, rebates, chargebacks and trade promotion optimisation. Its AI components are SherloQ, an insight suite that surfaces pricing patterns in customer data, and SmartPricingEngine, with elasticity modelling and demand forecasting behind scenario planning. Alcohol is one vertical among several for the company, so the models are general revenue management applied to bev alc constraints.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.vistaar.com/2026/03/30/top-alcohol-revenue-management-software-solutions/
• https://www.vistaar.com/blog/top-alcohol-revenue-management-software-solutions

Vividly

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active govividly.com

trade promotion forecasting and optimization

Vividly is a trade promotion management platform for consumer packaged goods brands that runs promotion planning, trade forecasting, deduction management and revenue growth management in one system. Alcohol is one of its named use cases, with tooling built for beverage DSD networks including distributor percentage splits below one percent and volume validation against depletions, which is the standard beer, wine and spirits three tier data problem. The AI is applied to trade forecasting and trade promotion optimization, marketed as Transcend AI, generating promotion calendars and prescriptive analytics from historical shipment and depletion data rather than manual spreadsheets. Named customers are mostly food and non alcoholic beverage brands such as Liquid Death, Health-Ade and Perfect Snacks, so its alcohol footprint is stated by the vendor rather than shown through a named alcohol customer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.einpresswire.com/article/776622917/vividly-secures-30m-series-b-to-bring-ai-to-cpg-brands
• https://www.govividly.com/alcohol
• https://www.govividly.com/our-customers

Vizanar Advisors

multiple · India · Consulting · none · active vizanar.com

none claimed, alcobev strategy and operations advisory

Bangalore-headquartered alcoholic beverage consulting firm advising distillers, breweries, bottlers and raw ingredient producers across financial, operational and strategic functions. It is led by Vijay Rekhi, former Managing Director of United Spirits Limited, now Diageo India, and works on blending, brand development and launch, and business scale-up. It makes no AI or data-product claim; it is included as a significant advisory node in the Indian alcobev market.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://vizanar.com/
• https://vizanar.com/about-us

WISK

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active wisk.ai

invoice extraction and par based ordering for bars and taprooms

WISK is a beverage led inventory platform for bars, taprooms and restaurant groups covering inventory counts, invoicing, purchasing, recipe costing and COGS, with 60 plus POS integrations. Its AI is invoice scanning and extraction that updates cost of goods automatically, plus smart ordering that recommends purchases from sales data and PAR levels. The document extraction is real machine learning; the ordering logic is closer to statistical par optimisation than to a demand forecasting model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:beer. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.wisk.ai/
• https://www.wisk.ai/for/wisk-bar-management-software

Western Computer

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active westerncomputer.com

copilot order entry and financial reporting inside wine and spirits erp

Western Computer is a Microsoft Dynamics partner that publishes 365WineTrade, an ERP for wine and spirits suppliers and distributors built on Dynamics 365 Business Central and listed on Microsoft AppSource. The product covers multi-state compliance, excise and tax calculation, container management, DTC sales and pre-built Power BI reporting. The AI content is Microsoft Copilot embedded in Business Central rather than proprietary models: the vendor claims Copilot extracts order details from inbound emails to cut manual entry and assists with financial reporting. The company states the solution is used by more than 30 wine and spirits businesses.

Provenance: Scout: scout:microsoft. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/consulting-services/western_computer.365winetrade_proservice
• https://www.westerncomputer.com/365winetrade/
• https://www.westerncomputer.com/resources/blog/copilot-business-central-wine-spirits-distribution-automation

Westfalia Technologies

multiple · United States · Other · none · active westfaliausa.com

warehouse execution software for beverage distribution

Westfalia Technologies designs and installs automated storage and retrieval systems and automated order picking for warehouses, with a dedicated beverage distribution industry practice and published case studies with Breakthru Beverage and Allied Beverage. Its software layer is Savanna.NET, a warehouse execution system that sequences and controls the automated equipment. Westfalia makes no machine learning or AI claim on its beverage or company pages, so it belongs in the beverage data landscape as an automation and execution system of record rather than an AI vendor. It exhibits at the 2026 NBWA Annual Convention and Product Showcase, booth 1000.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_us. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/corcexpo/NBWA2026/Public/eBooth.aspx?BoothID=354556&Nav=False
• https://www.westfaliausa.com/about/
• https://www.westfaliausa.com/industries/beverage-distribution/

Wherefour

multiple · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · active wherefour.com

llm assistant that drafts quality-control test definitions

Wherefour is a manufacturing ERP and lot-traceability platform with a dedicated breweries and distilleries vertical, covering inventory, production runs and formulas, MRP, purchasing, warehouse management, costing and recall readiness. It has US and Canadian offices in Petaluma, California and Toronto, and is SOC 2 audited. The only AI in the product is a built-in assistant in the compliance module that drafts QA test definitions and control points from scratch; the forecasting and MRP features are described as lead-time and reorder-point logic, not machine learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://wherefour.com/about/
• https://wherefour.com/compliance/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/wherefour/

White Labs

multiple · United States · Other · active whitelabs.com

no substantiated ai claim

White Labs produces liquid brewing yeast, bacteria cultures, enzymes and nutrients for beer, wine, cider, mead, spirits and kombucha, with sites in San Diego and Copenhagen and a lab services arm, and states it has been producing brewer's yeast since 1995. Its newest line, ModiGen, is bioengineered yeast: the company says genetic engineering techniques were used to insert the ALDC gene so the strain prevents diacetyl formation, and that the strains are otherwise genetically identical to their parent strains. This is classical genetic engineering. There is no AI, machine learning or computational strain design claim on either the about page or the ModiGen page.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ingredients. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://go.whitelabs.com/modigen
• https://www.whitelabs.com/about-us

Wizata

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active wizata.com

process & operations

Industrial AI platform for process manufacturers with a dedicated beer and beverage line, applying machine learning to optimise plant operations and the energy and utility load that comes with them.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-23.

• https://www.wizata.com/resources/the-ideal-candidate-for-ai-optimization-winery-brewery

Worximity

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · none · active worximity.com

real time oee and downtime analytics on beverage packaging lines

Worximity sells a real time production monitoring and OEE platform, the TileBoard, that instruments existing food and beverage lines and turns machine states into downtime, throughput and changeover analytics with continuous improvement consulting alongside it. Arterra Wines Canada deployed it at its Niagara Falls winery, its largest of three commercial sites, and reported packer line stoppages falling from 4,043 to 1,554 over four months, a 16 percent productivity gain, changeover time cut from eight hours to five, and about 358,000 dollars in annual savings. The Quebec microbrewery La Voie Maltee uses the same TileBoard on its canning line and reported a 14 percent drop in stops per hour and a 9 percent production rate improvement within two months. Worximity makes no machine learning claim: the product is descriptive line analytics and reporting, not prediction.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.worximity.com/blog/cutting-stops-per-hour-at-microbrewery
• https://www.worximity.com/success-stories/arterra-wines-boosting-production-efficiency-with-worximity

Wunderlich-Malec Engineering

multiple · United States · Process & operations · none · active wmeng.com

brewery scada, hmi and mes integration, no ai claim

Employee-owned EPC and control systems engineering firm that names Beverage (Brewing) as one of its active vertical markets. It delivered improved SCADA, HMI and MES for the ninth-largest craft brewer in the United States on Ignition, publishes a case study on expanding the capabilities of a large craft brewer, and exhibits at the Wine Industry Network expo. No artificial intelligence or machine learning claim appears anywhere on the brewing or wine material; this is controls, MES and plant data engineering.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/customerproject/improved-scada-hmi-and-mes-for-ninthlargest-craft-brewer-in-united-states
• https://www.wmeng.com/news-events/wm-case-study-expanding-the-capabilities-of-a-large-craft-brewer/

Yalo

multiple · Mexico · Process & operations · shipping · active yalo.ai

conversational b2b ordering agents for beverage distribution

Yalo is a Mexico City conversational commerce company that puts B2B ordering for consumer goods brands inside WhatsApp, apps and voice calls, aimed at the traditional trade in Latin America and Asia. Its own site names Heineken and Coca-Cola FEMSA among customers, which places it directly in the beer route-to-market layer in Mexico and Brazil where small shops order by message rather than through a rep. The AI is a shipping sales agent called Oris that recommends SKUs and completes orders in chat, with Yalo publishing uplift figures on average ticket and SKUs per order. The company had raised about $75M as of its B Capital led round.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalo_(company)
• https://www.yalo.ai/

Yanu

multiple · Estonia · Agriculture & crop · shipping · active yanu.ai

conversational ai for autonomous robotic drink service

Yanu builds an autonomous robotic bartending unit that takes orders by app or touchscreen, takes payment and serves drinks from an integrated robotic arm, holding 1000 to 1500 drinks per load and pouring around 100 to 150 per hour. The company is based at Sikupilli 4 in Tallinn and describes the unit as a fully autonomous AI and robot empowered bartending unit with an AI chatbot that identifies and communicates with clients and carries advertising. The AI claim on the vendor site is limited to that conversational and client identification layer; no vision or forecasting model is detailed. It matters to the beverage data landscape as an on-premise dispense and service system alongside tracked self-pour vendors, and it serves beer, spirits and cocktails.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://investinestonia.com/estonian-ai-robot-bartender-yanu-aims-to-become-the-mercedes-of-the-service-robots-market/
• https://yanu.ai/

Yellow Dog Software

multiple · United States · Supply chain · active yellowdogsoftware.com

bar and beverage inventory back office, no ai claim

Yellow Dog Software sells back office inventory management for food and beverage, retail and concessions operations, and runs a dedicated Oracle Simphony and Oracle POS integration practice, including an Oracle sales rep referral page. For drinks it covers bar and wine inventory, bar top and wireless keg scales through its Barventory integration, recipe and pour costing, waste tracking and vendor EDI. The company describes itself as 100 percent inventory focused, privately owned by its founder and CEO with no investors and no debt. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site: this is a system of record and counting layer, not a modelling product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/aboutyd
• https://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/barventory
• https://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/oracle-simphony

Zaptic

multiple · United Kingdom · Process & operations · shipping · active zaptic.com

AI-native connected worker platform

Zaptic is an AI-native connected worker platform that digitizes frontline manufacturing work and uses AI to share knowledge and guide continuous improvement. Global beverage manufacturers use it to accelerate digital transformation programs.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.drinktec.com/en-US/exhibitors-and-products/
• https://zaptic.com/

Zevero

multiple · United Kingdom · Other · shipping · active zevero.earth

automated scope 3 emission factor matching

Zevero is a carbon accounting and ESG reporting platform that measures scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and produces CSRD, SECR and CDP disclosures. It has an unusually deep drinks customer base and names Northern Monk, DEYA Brewing, Stroud Brewery, Brixton Brewery, JUBEL Beer, Yakima Chief Hops, Asahi and the sake producers Suigei and Manotsuru on its own site. The AI claim is specific and modest: AI driven emission factor matching and document extraction that reads uploaded invoices and utility documents in multiple languages, applied to fermentation related scope 3 lines. It integrates with BrewMan brewery management software so purchase and delivery data flows in automatically.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.zevero.earth/corporate-carbon-footprint
• https://www.zevero.earth/customer-stories/northern-monk

bevlYtics

multiple · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active bevlytics.ai

semantic layer over distributor and POS data

bevlYtics turns beverage distributor and point of sale data into analytics for beverage operations teams. It describes its approach as Semantic AI, which it defines on its own site as an advanced technology combining machine learning, natural language processing and knowledge graphs. It is a division of ParadYm Data, a consumer packaged goods data consultancy whose stated working platforms include Nielsen, IRI and VIP's iDig, which places bevlYtics squarely in the beverage-alcohol syndicated data seat. No named customers, model detail or accuracy claims are published.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tableau. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.bevlytics.ai/
• https://www.paradymdata.com/

bw166

multiple · United States · Market data & valuation · none · active bw166.com

beverage alcohol market data and data science consulting, no ai claim

bw166 is a beverage alcohol market intelligence and consulting firm led by managing partner Jon Moramarco, publishing the Total Beverage Alcohol Overview plus beer, wine and spirits import and export reports and product approval tracking. It absorbed Gomberg Fredrikson Associates, the long-running US wine shipment research organisation it had partnered with since 2015, and publishes the Gomberg Fredrikson reports. Its data science services page describes business intelligence, M and A analysis, financial optimisation and macroeconomic work, and explicitly does not claim machine learning, AI or algorithmic forecasting. Latest published update seen is the bw166 2026 mid year update.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://bw166.com/services/data-science-services/
• https://www.bw166.com/

ecoSPIRITS

multiple · Singapore · Process & operations · none · active ecospirits.global

closed loop packaging and carbon reduction reporting

ecoSPIRITS runs a closed loop distribution system for premium spirits and wine, replacing single use glass with the reusable ecoTOTE and SmartPour dispensing hardware, and reports the resulting packaging waste and carbon reductions to brand owners. It says it works with nearly 200 spirit and wine brand partners across 27 countries and about 3,000 venues, naming Bacardi, Remy Cointreau, Smirnoff, Beefeater, Goslings and Accolade Wines. Offices are in Singapore, London and Miami. This is circular packaging plus tote tracking and impact accounting; the company makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.ecospirits.global/
• https://www.ecospirits.global/about-us/

eoStar

multiple · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active eostar.com

route accounting and demand forecasting for beverage DSD

eoStar is a route accounting and direct store delivery platform built for complex SKU beverage distribution, covering warehouse management, voice picking, mobile sales, delivery and forecasting for beer, wine and spirits and foodservice wholesalers. The company says over 14,000 distribution professionals use it, and cites MolsonCoors and Coca-Cola North America's North Star program. It joined the VIP (Vermont Information Processing) family in May 2022 and is employee owned. The site mentions sophisticated forecasting but makes no substantiated machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.eostar.com/
• https://www.eostar.com/about-us/

goerp.ai (Mawai Infotech)

multiple · India · Other · none · active goerp.ai

none

goerp.ai is the ERP suite of Mawai, an SAP Gold partner in Noida, India, established in 1998. It sells a dedicated alcohol and distillery edition covering sugarcane and ethanol inputs, master production scheduling, recipe and BOM management, quality control, brewing stage monitoring, regulatory compliance and supply chain for producers of spirits, ale and malt beverages. Despite the .ai domain the product pages describe only conventional ERP modules and dashboards; no machine learning capability is claimed for the drinks solution.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-20.

• https://goerp.ai/about-us
• https://goerp.ai/industries/alcohol-distilleries-erp-software

iFactory AI

multiple · United States · Process & operations · shipping · active ifactoryapp.com

predictive maintenance and fermentation anomaly detection

iFactory AI sells a manufacturing analytics platform with dedicated brewery, distillery and winery configurations, connecting to existing plant automation to monitor fermenters, stills, CIP systems, barrel room environment and bottling lines. It describes itself as an AI native manufacturing intelligence platform using domain specific algorithms trained on real brewery and distillery data, and claims equipment failure prediction two to four weeks ahead, stuck fermentation early warning from Brix curve deviation, AI exception alerts and AI generated work orders. Its headline yield and OEE improvement figures are attributed to unnamed early adopters and are not independently verified. No founding year, founders or funding are disclosed on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://ifactoryapp.com/industries/food-manufacturing/spirits-distillery-winery-equipment-analytics-management
• https://ifactoryapp.com/industries/manufacturing-plant/brewery-distillery-Analytics-management-guide

xkzero (XMC)

multiple · United States · Other · none · active xkzero.com

none

xkzero is an independent software publisher in Lincolnshire, Illinois whose XMC platform runs direct store delivery for wholesale distributors, including dedicated configurations for beer distribution, wine and spirits, energy drinks, coffee and water. It covers mobile route sales, delivery, proof of delivery, inventory and ERP integration, and names beverage distributors such as Power Distributing, Romano Beverage and Red Bull distributors among its customers. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site; it is a system of record for the DSD tier and matters to the beverage data landscape as a source of route and depletion data rather than as an AI vendor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.xkzero.com/
• https://www.xmcerp.com/industries/

Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF)

non_alcoholic · Mexico · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active coca-colafemsa.com

route-to-market sales force recommendations

Coca-Cola FEMSA is the largest Coca-Cola franchise bottler in the world by volume, running route-to-market across Mexico, Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Its Juntos+ B2B omnichannel platform reached 1.3 million monthly active users, and the company built Juntos+ Advisor on top of it, an AI tool for pre-sales agents that produces guided visit missions, personalised assortment recommendations and promotion prioritisation. Management describes the AI enablers as fully rolled out and scaled in Brazil and deployed across its four largest markets, with geoefficiency of visits rising to 96.5 percent in Mexico and 95.6 percent in Brazil. The models are Coca-Cola FEMSA's own build on its own transaction data, not a bought-in product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:salesforce. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://investors.coca-colafemsa.com/assets/files/eventos_en/2025/04/Coca-Cola-FEMSA-presents-integrated-report-2024.pdf
• https://investors.coca-colafemsa.com/assets/files/reportes_trimestrales_esp/2025/kof-4q25-earnings-call-transcript-1.pdf

Danone

non_alcoholic · France · Supply chain · pilot · active danone.com

supply chain

Danone owns evian, Volvic and Badoit alongside its dairy business. In July 2024 it announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build an AI-enabled supply chain covering forecasting, real-time adjustments and digital twinning of core skills across procurement, production and distribution. In April 2025 it adopted the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, targeting roughly 30 percent less time between data collection and decision. Its Industry 5.0 Academy aims to upskill 20,000 operations employees in AI and digital by 2026.

Provenance: Scout: curated:fnb-majors. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://www.danone.com/newsroom/press-releases/danone-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-ai.html
• https://www.danone.com/newsroom/stories/ai-supply-chain.html

Moveworks

non_alcoholic · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active moveworks.com

enterprise llm assistant over internal knowledge and systems

Moveworks sells an enterprise AI assistant that resolves employee IT and HR requests by retrieving from internal knowledge bases and acting across connected systems. Coca-Cola Consolidated, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the United States, is named on the customers page, with a claimed ability to serve three times the employees over five years without adding agents. The beverage relevance is a bottler as a customer of a horizontal product rather than any drinks specific model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.moveworks.com/
• https://www.moveworks.com/us/en/customers

Nestle

non_alcoholic · Switzerland · Process & operations · pilot · active nestle.com

operations automation and digital twins

Nestle is the owner of Nespresso, Nescafe, Perrier and San Pellegrino. From 2025 it began upgrading its global digital core on SAP, starting in Zone Asia, Oceania and Africa, explicitly to deploy AI at scale across operations, and states it is pursuing AI, robotics and digital twins. A Deep Tech Center at the Nestle System Technology Center in Orbe, Switzerland opens in the first half of 2026 to develop sensors, robotics, AI and mixed reality for research and operations, including smart coffee machines and dynamic quality assurance. Beverage relevance is via coffee and water rather than a beverage-specific AI product.

Provenance: Scout: curated:fnb-majors. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://www.nestle.com/about/research-development/news/bio-tech-deep-tech-research-development
• https://www.nestle.com/investors/annual-report/executing-strategy/accelerating-business-transformation

PepsiCo

non_alcoholic · United States · Supply chain · pilot · active pepsico.com

digital twin plant and supply chain simulation

PepsiCo announced a multi-year collaboration with Siemens and NVIDIA at CES 2026 to build physics-based digital twins of its plants and warehouses, using Siemens Digital Twin Composer on NVIDIA Omniverse. AI agents simulate, test and refine line configurations before anything physical is built, modelling machines, conveyors, pallet routes and operator paths. PepsiCo reports a 20 percent throughput increase on initial deployment and 10 to 15 percent lower capital expenditure. Early pilots are underway in US manufacturing and warehouse sites, with plans to scale globally.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://www.arcweb.com/blog/pepsico-blueprint-what-industrial-ai-pacesetter-looks-2026
• https://www.pepsico.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/pepsico-announces-industry-first-ai-and-digital-twin-collaboration-with-siemens-and-nvidia

Poka

non_alcoholic · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active poka.io

frontline knowledge capture and retrieval for plant operators

Poka is a connected worker platform for manufacturing plants that digitises operator know how, work instructions and problem solving into a searchable knowledge base, and now markets Industrial AI, AI Agents and an AI Studio on top of it. The pitch is explicitly knowledge retrieval, the knowledge of the best operators made available to every shift. Coca-Cola, Danone and Tetra Pak are named customers, and the company claims over 3000 sites and a million users. Founded by Alex Leclerc and Antoine Bisson, with Schneider Electric named as a strategic investor.

Provenance: Scout: scout:rag. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.poka.io/en/about-poka
• https://www.poka.io/en/customers

The Coca-Cola Company

non_alcoholic · United States · GenAI & marketing · pilot · active coca-colacompany.com

GenAI marketing

Coca-Cola runs Project Fizzion, a design intelligence system co-developed with Adobe and announced in May 2025. It encodes brand guidelines into a machine-readable StyleID that automatically applies brand rules inside Adobe Creative Cloud, built on Adobe Firefly generative AI, and is used to keep localized campaigns consistent across more than 200 markets. Coca-Cola states content production up to 10 times faster and describes Fizzion as still in pilot phase. The company also has a five-year cloud and generative AI partnership with Microsoft. The AI here is marketing and brand operations, not production or formulation.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-09.

• https://www.coca-colacompany.com/media-center/the-coca-cola-company-and-microsoft-announce-five-year-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-cloud-and-generative-ai-initiatives
• https://www.coca-colacompany.com/media-center/the-coca-cola-company-introduces-fizzion

AI4Whisky

whiskey · United Kingdom · Process & operations · research · active ai4whisky.com

carbon footprint modelling for single malt production

AI4Whisky is a free web tool from the International Centre for Brewing and Distilling at Heriot-Watt University that calculates the carbon footprint of single malt Scotch production across the distillery, maturation warehouse and bottling hall, covering Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions including raw materials, transport and waste. A published case study on a 3,000 LPA batch distillery returned 2.83 kg CO2e per 70 cl bottle, with Scope 3 accounting for 77 percent. Despite the name it is a life cycle assessment calculator, not a machine learning model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.ai4whisky.com/
• https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/blog/2026/why-data-and-ai-are-central-to-realising-brewing-and-distillings-decarbonisation-targets

Arnold Holstein

whiskey · Germany · Other · none · active a-holstein.de

automated still control and fraction data acquisition

Arnold Holstein GmbH is a German still maker in Markdorf whose pot and fruit stills are used by distillers worldwide. Its automation option is an in-house control system operated from a stainless housed touch screen on the unit, regulating heating and distilling speed, dephlegmator target temperature, the separation of heads, hearts and tails, product pre-selection by fruit type and the rinsing cycle, with parameters saved and recalled for repeat batches. It also performs digital data acquisition of the concentrations and quantities of each fraction and offers connection to existing data acquisition systems. There is no named software brand, no remote access and no AI or machine learning claim anywhere in the offering: this is the plant layer that distillery process data comes from.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://a-holstein.de/en/distilleries/options/automation/
• https://bavarianbrewerytech.com/potstills/pdf/Holstein%20Industrie%20English.pdf

Atharva Solutions (Distillery 360)

whiskey · India · Process & operations · none · active atharvasolutions.co.in

none claimed, distillery erp and operational analytics

Indian ERP vendor whose Distillery 360 platform serves distilleries and ethanol producers, uniting sourcing, procurement, finance and cost accounting, sales and analytics in a single dashboard. It is positioned for the Indian distillery and ethanol blending market rather than as a global product. The site claims trust, security and compliance as differentiators and makes no AI or machine-learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.atharvasolutions.co.in/
• https://www.atharvasolutions.co.in/distillery

BarVision

whiskey · unknown · Process & operations · none · active barvision.com

IoT pour spout sensing matched to POS transactions to detect overpour

BarVision sells patented wireless SmartSpouts, standard four-count free-pour spouts with an embedded sensor that measures the volume of every spirit pour in a bar, plus a reporting platform that matches each pour to its POS transaction to flag overpours, substitutions, giveaways and theft. Stated pour accuracy is within 10 percent and the company says it connects to more than 50 POS systems. BarVision describes the matching layer as algorithms, not machine learning, and makes no AI or ML claim; independent directories disagree on its founding year and headquarters, so neither is recorded here.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-02-20.

• https://barvision.com/
• https://www.cbinsights.com/company/barvision

Barrel Clarity

whiskey · unknown · Quality & inspection · pilot · active barrelclarity.com

demand forecasting and computer vision data capture

Barrel Clarity is distillery management software for craft spirits producers covering barrel inventory, production operations and one-click TTB report filing. It advertises two AI features: forecasting that analyses a distillery's own sales history to predict future demand, and computer vision data entry where a phone photo of a gauge or hydrometer is read and logged automatically. The product is pre-launch, marketed as launching soon behind a founding member waitlist, so the AI is a stated capability rather than an observed shipping one. No funding, founders or location are disclosed on the site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://barrelclarity.com/
• https://barrelclarity.com/learn-more/

Barrel Proof Technologies

whiskey · United States · Process & operations · pilot · active barrelprooftech.com

IoT sensor telemetry with analytics for cask verification and insurance

Barrel Proof Technologies fits patented non-invasive IoT sensors to aging whiskey barrels so sealed contents can be verified without opening them, aimed at inventory verification, risk assessment, asset financing and price discovery. The company states four issued patents and positions the sensor telemetry as the data layer under an insurance and finance product. Its own site names IoT sensors, analytics and blockchain together but does not describe what the analytics component actually models, so the AI claim is recorded as stated by the vendor and not independently substantiated.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://barrelprooftech.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/barrel-proof-technology/about/

Bespoken Spirits

whiskey · United States · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant bespokenspirits.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Silicon Valley spirits company using a data-driven, machine-learning-guided maturation process called ACTivation to accelerate whiskey aging and dial in specific flavor, aroma and color profiles in days.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2020-10-07.

• https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/07/bespoken-spirits-raises-2-6m-in-seed-funding-to-combine-machine-learning-and-accelerated-whiskey-aging/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bespoken-spirits
• https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=59548

Braeburn Whisky

whiskey · United Kingdom · Consulting · none · active braeburnwhisky.com

cask investment advisory, no ai claim

Braeburn is an international Scotch whisky cask investment advisor with offices in Edinburgh, New York, Barcelona and Shanghai, selling casks from emerging and heritage distilleries as an alternative asset and managing client portfolios through to exit. It publishes historical client exit performance, quoting a 12.14 percent median and 18.42 percent average IRR, attributed to its own internal data rather than any model. The site makes no artificial intelligence, machine learning or algorithmic valuation claim: the only technology language is a general reference to innovative technology combined with a team of whisky investment professionals. It is recorded here as a significant cask investment player with no substantiated AI claim, which is the common pattern in this segment.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://reallygoodwhisky.com/en-us/blogs/the-really-good-whisky-blog/top-whisky-data-platforms-in-2025
• https://us.braeburnwhisky.com/about-us

CARL GmbH

whiskey · Germany · Process & operations · none · active carl.info

distilling process control and automatic fractionation

CARL GmbH, the Christian Carl still works founded in 1869, builds pot stills and distillation plants for craft and commercial distilleries worldwide. Its named control products are DPC 510 (Distilling Process Control), a 20 inch touchscreen system regulating heating and cooling, temperature monitoring, safety interlocks and automatic fractionation with recipe management; the compact DPC 200/210 TOUCH with optional remote access for retrofitting older CARL stills; CADi (Computer Aided Distilling) with integrated flow and alcohol measurement for fully automatic runs; and DPC 50, a calculator that works out dilution water and duty. CARL makes no AI or machine learning claim; this is recipe-driven process control and the origin point of distillery process data.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.carl.info/automatisierung-digitalisierung/?lang=en
• https://www.carl.info/overview-distilleries/?lang=en

Campari Group

whiskey · Italy · Other · none · active camparigroup.com

centralised digital brand experience platform (no ai claim)

Global premium spirits group behind Aperol, Campari, SKYY Vodka, Wild Turkey Bourbon, Appleton Estate and Grand Marnier, spanning 23 companies and more than 60 brands. With IBM iX and the IBM Garage method it built the Campari Digital Factory, a shared platform and operating model for brand websites and consumer experiences, reporting a 50 percent cut in time to launch a brand site and a 20 percent rise in consumer session time. The case study describes design, governance and modular web development only and makes no machine learning or generative AI claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:ibm. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.camparigroup.com/en/
• https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/campari-group

CannyCask

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · shipping · active cannycask.io

cask ownership verification

CannyCask runs a whisky cask trading platform that verifies ownership of casks held in HMRC-regulated Scottish bonded warehouses. Its DAV VERIFIED mechanism cross-checks a claimed cask against warehouse custodial records and writes a dual-signed provenance record, with Polygon for the ledger, BitGo for custody, Onfido for identity checks and IPFS for document storage. At time of reading the site reported 22 verified casks worth over 99,000 pounds across two warehouses. There is no AI or machine learning in the product; it is cryptographic record keeping aimed at cask investment fraud.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://cannycask.io/
• https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/02/no-more-paper-trails-whisky-broker-puts-casks-on-the-blockchain/

CaskPilot

whiskey · Australia · Supply chain · none · active caskpilot.com

cask inventory and still telemetry, no ai claim

Distillery management software for craft distillers covering production, cask maturation and warehouse inventory, sales and Australian Taxation Office excise compliance. It includes live still telemetry that streams temperature, ABV and flow into the production record, plus barrel and cask management with scan based stocktakes. Built in Australia with native excise rules rather than adapted from United States software. It makes no AI or machine learning claim: it is a system of record and a telemetry capture point for maturing cask stock.

Provenance: Scout: scout:logistics. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://caskpilot.com/
• https://caskpilot.com/blog/barrel-cask-management-guide

CaskX

whiskey · United States · Market data & valuation · shipping · active caskx.com

cask valuation from distillery and auction comparables

CaskX sells bourbon barrel and Scotch cask ownership to private investors and runs periodic valuations of client holdings. Its stated method is comparables based: current sales data by distillery, region, vintage and cask type is assembled into an estimated market value. Offices in Los Angeles, Louisville, London, Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong. There is no machine learning here, and no independently audited index; it is a broker with an internal valuation dataset, which is worth stating plainly given how often cask investment marketing implies more.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://caskx.com/valuation/
• https://lochsofwhisky.com/blog/whisky-investment-statistics-cask-values-auction-records-market-growth

Caskd

whiskey · United Kingdom · Market data & valuation · shipping · active caskd.app

genai assistant for scotch collecting and valuation

Caskd is a UK peer to peer marketplace and digital cellar for whisky collectors, operated by MissionObjective Ltd, where members catalogue bottles, record provenance and trade directly at a three percent flat fee instead of auction commissions. On 25 July 2026 it launched CaskdAI, its own assistant for Scotch collectors and investors, which it says combines whisky domain knowledge with market intelligence and answers valuation questions using current UK retail prices and recent auction results. The AI is a generative assistant layered on market data rather than a published pricing model, and no accuracy claims are made. Founded by Jonathan Yates, a collector with a background in commercial strategy for quantum computing and AI hardware.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://caskd.app/
• https://www.whiskyintelligence.com/2026/07/caskd-launches-caskdai-the-specialist-ai-assistant-for-scotch-whisky-collectors-enthusiasts-and-investors-scotch-whisky-news/

Catalyst ERP

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · none · active catalyst-erp.co.uk

none claimed; drinks erp system of record

UK Oracle NetSuite partner selling Bottle ERP, a NetSuite SuiteApp built for small and mid-sized drinks producers. It covers a visual production planning calendar, in-process quality control, label-based traceability, mobile work orders, warehouse management, automated duty and alcohol content reporting and recently added cask management for whisky maturation. Catalyst makes no AI or machine learning claim: Bottle ERP is a system of record and compliance engine, not a predictive tool. Named drinks customers include The Borders Distillery and Ethimex.

Provenance: Scout: scout:oracle. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://catalyst-erp.co.uk/netsuite-apps/bottle-erp
• https://catalyst-erp.co.uk/sector/distilleries

Celtic Renewables

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · none · active celtic-renewables.com

whisky by-product biorefining, no ai claim

Celtic Renewables runs Scotland's first commercial biorefinery, at Grangemouth, converting by-products and waste from the food, drink and agriculture sectors into green chemicals, with Scotch whisky distillery by-products named on its own site as a core feedstock alongside reject potatoes. The plant runs continuously at commercial scale, and in July 2026 the company announced that Evonik is using its bio-butanol to make ECOHANCE Soft BOL, a cosmetics emollient. This is process chemistry and fermentation, not software: the company makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site. It is included because whisky co-product valorisation is a real part of the beverage circularity and ESG landscape.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://www.celtic-renewables.com/
• https://www.celtic-renewables.com/celtic-renewables-partners-with-evonik-for-low-carbon-sustainable-cosmetics/

Circumstance Distillery

whiskey · United Kingdom · Sensory & recipe · pilot · dormant circumstancedistillery.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Organic Bristol spirits producer that worked with AI firms Tiny Giant and Rewrite Digital to build a neural network named Ginette which designed the recipe for Monker's Garkel, promoted as the world's first AI-created gin.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2020-07-01.

• https://techspark.co/blog/2019/11/18/monkers-garkel-the-worlds-first-ai-gin-developed-in-bristol/
• https://www.circumstancedistillery.com/
• https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/11/circumstance-distillery-unveils-worlds-first-ai-gin/

Cleveland Whiskey

whiskey · United States · Process & operations · none · active clevelandwhiskey.com

patented pressure-aged maturation process

American whiskey producer built around a patented pressure-aging process that finishes spirit with secondary woods such as black cherry, sugar maple and apple that cannot be made into barrels. The company states two US patents, 175 plus awards and over one million bottles sold, and licenses the technology into India through its Ella Spirits joint venture. It makes no AI or machine learning claim: the technology described on its own site is physical process engineering, not modelling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://ellaspirits.in/
• https://www.clevelandwhiskey.com/

Clockwork Business Solutions

whiskey · India · Quality & inspection · active clockwork.in

no ai claim, sap business one distillery erp with batch and excise traceability

Clockwork Business Solutions is a Bengaluru based SAP Business One partner with a dedicated distillery blueprint covering process mapping, regulatory alignment and industry add-ons for spirit producers. The solution tracks raw material and spirit movement end to end, runs recipe driven production with controlled loss monitoring, automates excise duty and statutory reporting, and integrates weighbridges, flow meters and barcode or RFID hardware across bonded and non-bonded warehouses. It offers SAP Business One Analytics and refers to advanced analytics in later rollout phases but makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim, and names no distillery customers publicly.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://clockwork.in/
• https://clockwork.in/sap-b1-case-studies/sap-business-one-for-distillery/

Cofficient

whiskey · United Kingdom · Demand & pricing · shipping · active cofficient.co.uk

resold netsuite cash flow forecasting and finance ai

Cofficient is a Glasgow based Oracle NetSuite implementation partner that has built a Distillery Management Software layer on NetSuite for Scotch whisky producers, covering cask tracking, re-gauging, re-racking, wood and liquid association, blending, bottling and duty reporting. Its AI content is resold NetSuite functionality, marketed as AI for CFOs and cash flow forecasting, not modelling that Cofficient built for distilling. It is a consultancy, so the beverage AI value here is delivery and domain configuration rather than original research.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://cofficient.co.uk/industries/breweries-and-distilleries/
• https://www.cofficient.co.uk/about-us/

Compass Box (Pyxis)

whiskey · United Kingdom · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active compassboxwhisky.com

conversational genai whisky guide for consumers

Compass Box is an independent Scotch whisky blender founded in 2000 and headquartered in London. In November 2025 it launched Pyxis, a multilingual AI conversational guide that answers questions on whisky styles, cask types, flavour profiles, food pairings and cocktails, reachable both as a chat interface at discover.compassboxwhisky.com and by phone on a US number. Compass Box says the tool was trained by its own whiskymaking team and adapts its answers to the user's level of knowledge. This is a brand and marketing application of generative AI by an operator, not a production or blending model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.discover.compassboxwhisky.com/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/compass-box-launches-pyxis-a-multilingual-ai-powered-guide-to-discovering-scotch-whisky-302619207.html

DBFEX (Spirits Capital Corporation)

whiskey · unknown · Market data & valuation · shipping · active dbfex.com

whiskey barrel valuation and pricing

DBFEX, the Distilled Barrels Financial Exchange, is a digital marketplace from Spirits Capital Corporation where distilleries, brokers, bottlers, brands and institutional investors trade new fill and aged whiskey barrels, alongside a subscription inventory and compliance tool. The company announced in March 2024 that it had completed a three year machine learning programme behind the exchange, centred on a Barrel Value Optimizer pricing tool that it says analyses the supply chain behind each barrel in real time. Trading commenced in January 2025 with over 200,000 barrels listed. The live site says only that the platform offers AI powered tools and insights, with no model detail, so the machine learning claim rests on company press releases rather than published method.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://dbfex.com/
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240314437816/en/The-Distilled-Barrels-Financial-Exchange-DBFEX-Completes-Three-Year-AI-Based-Machine-Learning-Program

DRAMS

whiskey · United Kingdom · Supply chain · pilot · active drams-software.com

supply chain

Spirits inventory and cask management software vendor serving whisky and other aged-spirits distilleries worldwide. Its platform adds business intelligence, wood-performance analytics, and long-term production planning on top of cask tracking.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-07-21.

• https://drams-software.com/articles/wood-management-enhancing-operational-efficiency/

Diageo

whiskey · United Kingdom · Sensory & recipe · shipping · active diageo.com

flavour profiling and preference matching

Diageo is the owner of Johnnie Walker, Talisker, Lagavulin, Mortlach and The Singleton, and is one of the largest Scotch whisky producers in the world. It runs its own FlavorPrint platform, which builds a flavour profile for a drinker from a questionnaire and matches it against profiled whiskies. In November 2024 it launched FlavorPrintConnect, a tasting kit plus AI-assisted digital masterclass built on FlavorPrint, trialled in the UK with the Single Malt Special Releases 2024 set. The company also publishes a Flavour Forecast trend report produced with AI-assisted taste trend analysis.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.diageo.com/en/news-and-media/press-releases/2024/diageo-brings-consumers-industry-first-experience-with-flavorprintconnect-technology
• https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2024/11/diageo-enhances-tasting-kits-with-ai/

Distilled ID

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · none · active distilledid.com

no ai claim; distillery management and blockchain provenance

Distilled ID, founded in Edinburgh in 2018, provides distillery and cask management software that tracks spirit from grain to bottle and issues a consumer-facing Storybook with a certificate of authenticity, using blockchain for provenance and offering product and consumer analytics at individual bottle level. Verified on the vendor site after a browser pass. The platform is traceability, provenance and reporting; no machine-learning claim is made.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://distilledid.com/
• https://tracxn.com/d/companies/distilled-id/__GGlnrVF84hTXbhnhhP-nuRO4h3RXfRjMozMc9Oyz_8w

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS)

whiskey · United States · Market data & valuation · active distilledspirits.org

us spirits volume, revenue and category market data

DISCUS is the US spirits industry trade association and publishes the sector's primary market data set, including State Spirits Data, Spirit Data by Category, distilled spirits import and export data, US spirits tourism data and the Annual Economic Briefing that sets the reference volume and revenue numbers for American whiskey and other categories. It also runs DISCUS Academy education. The data is compiled and reported statistics, with no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://distilledspirits.org/
• https://distilledspirits.org/spirit-data-by-category/

Distilling.ai (TTBMath)

whiskey · unknown · Compliance & licensing · active distilling.ai

ttb compliance calculation engine, no ai claim

Distilling.ai is a distillery management platform covering federal and state compliance including TTB reporting, proof gallon maths, excise tax determination and licensing, plus sales tools such as POS, e-commerce and CRM, and a consulting arm covering licensing, production setup and distribution strategy. It is the spirits product of TTBMath, which also runs Vinery.ai for wineries and Brewmaster.ai for breweries, and the company rebranded from ttbmath.com. Despite the .ai domain the site makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim of any kind: the described engine, TTBMath, performs deterministic proof gallon maths, tax determination and cross-form reconciliation. It is a compliance calculator and system of record, not a model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://distilling.ai/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anticipating-whiskey-industry-rebound-2026-role-ttbmai-terebelo-sjkxe

Elite Control Systems

whiskey · United Kingdom · Process & operations · shipping · active elitecontrols.com

distillery and bottling hall process control

Elite Control Systems is a Scottish systems integrator working across distilling and bottling, with named drinks clients Glenmorangie, Edrington Group, Diageo, Whyte and Mackay, William Grant and Sons, and A.G. Barr. Its published distilling work is an object oriented intelligent routing system backed by a SQL routing database, so production routes can be added or changed without rewriting PLC logic. The site makes no AI, machine learning or predictive analytics claim, and does not market an MES or analytics product.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.elitecontrols.com/
• https://www.elitecontrols.com/sectors/distilling/

Ella Spirits and Beverages

whiskey · India · Sensory & recipe · none · active ellaspirits.in

bourbon and malt concentrate formulation for IMFL blending

Indian joint venture between Cleveland Whiskey (Visionary Spirits, VISPIRI) and whisky entrepreneur Joyjeet Ghosh, incorporated in 2022 (CIN U15549DL2022PTC391978). It produces bourbon and malt whiskey concentrates distilled and matured specifically for Indian Made Foreign Liquor blending, and offers customer specific proprietary concentrates through a stated research and development programme. There is no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site; it is included as a rare India-based whiskey formulation operator.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://ellaspirits.in/
• https://www.clevelandwhiskey.com/

Eluceda

whiskey · United Kingdom · Quality & inspection · shipping · active eluceda.com

spirits authentication from electrochemical fingerprints

Eluceda builds handheld point-of-use detection instruments for product authentication and chemical testing across spirits, pharmaceuticals, fuel and secure documents. Its E-Sens reader uses disposable catalytic electrodes that react with molecule groups in a liquid sample and produce a digital electrochemical signature in a few minutes. The signature is scored by algorithms against a reference database of authentic samples and returned as a percentage similarity, which the company says separates genuine whisky from counterfeits and from product cut with water, ethanol or other whiskies. The Scotch Whisky Research Institute supplied samples and consultancy for the whisky feasibility study. Eluceda describes algorithmic database matching rather than an explicit machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.eluceda.com/
• https://www.eluceda.com/eluceda-devises-rapid-authentication-test-for-whisky
• https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2021/09/rapid-authentication-device-detects-fake-whisky/

EtOH Spirits

whiskey · Denmark · Other · none · active etoh.dk

accelerated spirit maturation

EtOH Spirits ApS licenses patented ultrasonic reactors that combine ultrasound, controlled heat and oxygenation to reproduce barrel maturation chemistry in days, with systems adapted for whisky, rum, tequila, wine and beer. It raised investment led by Delphinus Venture Capital with Rockstart to fund pilot installations and joint development work with global whisky and rum producers. The company frames itself around data and technology in a traditional industry but makes no explicit AI or machine learning claim on its own site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://delphinus.vc/2026/etoh-spirits-secures-investment-to-scale-accelerated-maturation-technology-for-spirits/
• https://etoh.dk/

FIVE x 5 Solutions

whiskey · United States · Compliance & licensing · none · active fx5.com

distillery production data and ttb compliance analytics

FIVE x 5 Solutions builds craft distillery management software, sold as DISTILL x 5 and Whiskey Systems, covering production tracking, barrel and inventory records and TTB and Canadian excise reporting for American and Canadian distillers. It adds a business intelligence layer over that production data for yield, loss and cost reporting. No AI or machine learning is claimed on the site; it is a distilling data and compliance platform.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://fx5.com/
• https://www.vendorpick.ai/distillery

Flaviar

whiskey · unknown · Sensory & recipe · none · active flaviar.com

No AI or machine learning claim. Whiskey and premium spirits club offering taste-based personalised recommendations to signed-in members, presented as a taste profile feature rather than a stated model.

Y Combinator S14 whiskey and fine spirits tasting club selling sample packs and full bottles by subscription.

Provenance: Scout: scout:directories. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://flaviar.com/
• https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flaviar

Flexware Innovation

whiskey · unknown · Process & operations · none · active flexwareinnovation.com

no ai claim; mes, scada and industrial data integration for distilleries

US OT and IT systems integrator of more than 25 years, selling MES integration, SCADA and HMI, industrial data management, business intelligence, automation controls and ERP integration, including its own SparkMES product. Its own site names The Bardstown Bourbon Company, where Flexware advised on and built a new Ignition based SCADA system sized for future distillery demand rather than a like for like legacy conversion, and it was the second phase partner on scheduling and internal help desk at Whiskey House of Kentucky. Ball Corporation, a beverage can maker, is also a named customer. Flexware makes no machine learning claim for the distillery work; it is a consulting and integration player in the distilling data stack.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.flexwareinnovation.com/advising-on-scalable-solutions-to-meet-current-and-future-distillery-demand/
• https://www.flexwareinnovation.com/case-studies/

Flutebyte Technologies

whiskey · India · Compliance & licensing · none · active flutebyte.com

none claimed, distillery erp with excise record keeping

Indian software company selling a distillery ERP that covers raw material intake, fermentation, distillation, blending, bottling, QC, warehouse, excise records and dispatch in one system. It targets Indian distilleries still running on manual registers and disconnected spreadsheets, and markets excise-ready reporting and a live production dashboard tracking yield efficiency, active batches and tank levels. No AI or machine-learning claim is made; it is a system of record and compliance tool.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://flutebyte.com/contact/
• https://flutebyte.com/distillery-erp-solution/

Forsyths

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · none · active forsyths.com

none claimed, distillation plant engineering

Forsyths Ltd is the coppersmith and fabrication arm of the Forsyth Group and the dominant supplier of copper pot stills and condensers to the Scotch whisky industry, now also supplying mashtuns, grain cookers, fermenters, column stills, hybrid stills, spirit safes and receivers to startup distilleries worldwide. It offers turnkey distillery services and process design from Rothes plus workshops in Buckie, Aberdeen, Caithness, Ireland and Hong Kong. The company makes no AI, machine learning, data or analytics claim anywhere on its site, and its distillation pages describe no automation or control offering. It is included as a substantiated no-AI-claim reference point for the engineering layer of the whisky landscape.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.forsyths.com/
• https://www.forsyths.com/about-us/our-history/

Gray

whiskey · United States · Process & operations · none · active gray.com

no ai claim; distillery engineering, automation and controls with historian delivery

Gray is a design build engineering and construction firm with an explicitly named distillery practice covering process systems, refrigeration, architecture, equipment fabrication and automation and controls. Named distillery projects include the Buffalo Trace mash house, Castle and Key and the Diageo Lebanon distillery. Its automation arm Gray AES, based in Lexington, delivered the Ignition SCADA and tag historian system that replaced FactoryTalk at Castle and Key, building it with DevOps practice on GitHub and Docker. Gray makes no machine learning claim for this work; it is the engineering and controls layer that determines what distillery process data exists in the first place.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/casestudy/castle-and-key
• https://www.gray.com/distilleryexperience/

IFS

whiskey · Sweden · Process & operations · shipping · active ifs.com

predictive maintenance in distilleries

IFS is an enterprise software vendor whose IFS Cloud ERP and enterprise asset management products are used by spirits producers. Its IFS NexusBlack product is deployed at William Grant and Sons' Girvan distillery in Scotland, where it reads the site's piping and instrumentation diagrams and combines live sensor data with historic asset records to flag faults before an alarm sounds; the distillery reports that nearly 40 percent of repairs were emergencies before the deployment. Heaven Hill Distilleries in Kentucky runs IFS as its core ERP for inventory and order lead-time reduction. The predictive maintenance work is a live production deployment, not a pilot.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.ifs.com/en/insights/customer-stories/heaven-hill-distilleries
• https://www.ifs.com/en/insights/customer-stories/william-grant-and-sons

Inductive Automation (Ignition)

whiskey · United States · Process & operations · none · active inductiveautomation.com

no ai claim; scada and tag historian as the distillery process data layer

Inductive Automation makes Ignition, an unlimited licence SCADA and industrial application platform whose Tag Historian module is the plant data layer in many food and drink sites. Its published distillery case study covers Castle and Key in Frankfort, Kentucky, which replaced an ageing FactoryTalk system with Ignition Perspective across 27,505 tags, 62 of them historised, and 736 alarms, delivered by the integrator Gray AES on iPads for mobile operation. The distillery states it uses the historical record to tie product quality back to process data. The case study makes no AI or machine learning claim; the stated value is mobile HMI, alarming and access to history.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://github.com/inductiveautomation/ignition-automation-tools
• https://inductiveautomation.com
• https://inductiveautomation.com/about/
• https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/casestudy
• https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/casestudy/castle-and-key

Kigtek Solutions

whiskey · United Kingdom · Quality & inspection · shipping · active kigtek.com

quality control / computer vision

Scottish systems-integration firm whose CaskTEK platform adds AI vision, automated quality capture and real-time analytics to whisky cask filling, disgorging and traceability to cut product loss for large distillers.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-01.

• https://www.insider.co.uk/news/digital-whisky-cask-filling-system-22357319
• https://www.kigtek.com/casktek-software/
• https://www.kigtek.com/references/ai-and-casktek-cut-waste-for-major-whisky-manufacturer/

Kothe Distilling Technologies

whiskey · United States · Other · active kothe-distilling.com

potstill monitoring and remote control

Kothe Distilling Technologies is the Chicago based supplier and training arm for Kothe copper potstills, serving North American craft distilleries with stills, fermenters, mash tanks and a hands on distilling certificate course. Its automation package covers potstill monitoring and management through a computer interface and touchscreen, bundling the electronic valves, sensors, software and wiring, with RJ45 Ethernet for remote access to the still from another location. Options include density and flow measurement, email notification, advanced logging, regulated cooling and steam pressure preheat control. No AI or machine learning is claimed. The site notes that its German manufacturing partner Kothe Destillationstechnik GmbH is in a strategic restructuring while the Chicago entity continues independently.

Provenance: Scout: scout:equipment. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.kothe-distilling.com/
• https://www.kothe-distilling.com/automation

Mackmyra

whiskey · Sweden · Sensory & recipe · shipping · dormant mackmyra.com

recipe / flavor prediction

Swedish distillery that partnered with Microsoft and Fourkind to build machine learning models on Azure that generated whisky recipes, releasing Intelligens, billed as the first AI-created whisky, in 2019.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2019-06-19.

• https://news.microsoft.com/europe/features/meet-the-worlds-first-ai-created-whisky/
• https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/latest-news/27140/mackmyra-launches-first-ai-created-whisky/

MaltIQ

whiskey · unknown · Consumer & personalization · active maltiq.app

computer-vision bottle identification and recommendation for whisky collectors

MaltIQ is a consumer whisky app that identifies bottles from a phone camera and makes personalised recommendations. The vendor's own site describes an AI Sommelier that returns recommendations from a stated preference profile and a Smart Scanner using computer vision for instant bottle identification with details and tasting notes, alongside collection tracking and investment tools. Distributed on the Apple App Store and Google Play with a seven-day trial; developer named as Petr Kursin. Headquarters and founding year are not stated by the vendor.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759371481
• https://maltiq.app/

MasterDistiller

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · none · active master-distiller.com

MasterDistiller is an end to end distillery management system for whisky, rum, gin and kombucha producers, bottlers and warehouse keepers. It is built as a custom application layer on the open source Odoo ERP platform, so distillery-specific apps for production and distillation, maturation and warehousing, vatting and bottling and a grain to glass provenance journey sit alongside Odoo inventory, manufacturing, purchase, sales and accounting. It sells on integration, traceability and regulatory reporting rather than analytics, and makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://master-distiller.com/
• https://master-distiller.com/pricing/

McCoy & Partners

whiskey · Netherlands · Other · none · dormant mccoy-partners.com

sap s/4hana digital core for distilling

McCoy & Partners is a Dutch SAP consultancy with offices in Eindhoven, Utrecht, Madrid and Manila. It moved Irish Distillers Limited, the largest Irish whiskey distiller and a Pernod Ricard subsidiary behind Jameson, Redbreast and Midleton Very Rare, from SAP ECC and APO to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure using its Smart Re-Use method, in support of a stated ambition to grow from 12 to 20 million cases a year on the existing bottling plant through exception based processes and automation. No machine learning is claimed: the work is ERP transition, finance and supply chain planning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2024-04-02.

• https://mccoy-partners.com/en/success-stories/irish-distillers-limited-s-4hana-smart-re-use-tm
• https://www.winmagpro.nl/irish-distillers-klaar-voor-verdere-groei-met-sap-s4hana

Midhunatech (Midhuna Controls)

whiskey · India · Other · none · active midhunatech.net

none claimed, distillery erp with scada and plc data acquisition

Indian vendor of an enterprise distillery ERP integrated with SCADA, taking live PLC and DCS data from ethanol distillery plants into production, quality, accounting, HRMS and supply chain modules. It advertises weighbridge automation, biometric integration, excise compliance and CPCB-ready environmental reporting, with live dashboards for fermenter status, ethanol output and recovery percentage. No AI or machine-learning claim is made; the value is plant-floor data acquisition and regulatory reporting.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://flutebyte.com/distillery-erp-solution/
• https://midhunatech.net/

Moonshine University

whiskey · United States · Sensory & recipe · none · active moonshineuniversity.com

distillery consulting, analytical testing and sensory evaluation

Moonshine University is a Louisville based distilling education and consulting business serving spirits start ups and working distillers, run from a campus at 801 South 8th Street alongside beverage developer Flavorman. Beyond courses such as the 5-Day Distiller Course, it sells analytical testing, sensory evaluation, product development, consulting and regulatory and compliance advisory to distilleries, plus the Stave and Thief Society bourbon certification. Course topics include spirit maturation and distillery operations, taught by working master distillers. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is included as a spirits technical consulting and lab services provider in the beverage data landscape.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://www.moonshineuniversity.com/
• https://www.moonshineuniversity.com/about-us

Muirton Controls

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · none · active muirtoncontrol.com

distillery control systems and instrumentation

Muirton Controls is a Speyside electrical and control systems contractor whose core business is Scotch whisky distilleries: still house automation, mash house control system replacement, instrumentation and pneumatic installation. Named distillery projects include Tomatin mash house, Glenfiddich still house expansion, Tamdhu semi-automatic still house control, Balblair still house upgrade and Knockdhu warehouse. It makes no AI or machine learning claim of any kind; it is included because it is one of the layers that produces the process data a distillery would later analyse.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.muirtoncontrol.com/
• https://www.muirtoncontrol.com/projects/

NABCA (National Alcohol Beverage Control Association)

whiskey · United States · Demand & pricing · none · active nabca.org

control state spirits sales data warehouse, no ai claim

NABCA is the association of US alcohol control jurisdictions and the source of control state spirits sales and depletion data, covering roughly 25 percent of the distilled spirits market. Its Statistics for Alcohol Management (SAM) data warehouse holds account level inventory and sales activity with online analytical processing, real time access and five or more years of SKU level history, alongside the PQRS price quotation system and the Spectre platform. This data is what Circana harmonises into its alcohol measurement, so NABCA is an upstream source for much US whiskey and spirits analytics. NABCA makes no AI or machine learning claim.

Provenance: Scout: scout:marketdata. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://www.nabca.org/
• https://www.nabca.org/analytics-statistical-data

NeuroTags

whiskey · United States · Quality & inspection · active neurotags.com

qr code authentication and consumer data capture for spirits and wine

NeuroTags runs a paired QR code anti-counterfeiting and consumer-engagement platform and maintains a named Spirits and Wines vertical on its own site. Each unit carries an open and a protected code so a single scan both authenticates the bottle and registers the drinker, feeding a customer data platform, loyalty gamification and supply chain visibility for brands that otherwise see nothing past the distributor. The site references a fast private blockchain and mentions AI in passing but substantiates no machine-learning model; the product is serialised codes plus analytics. Included for the compliance and brand-protection slice of the alcohol data landscape.

Provenance: Scout: scout:tradeshow_asia. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://www.neurotags.com/anti-counterfeiting-solution
• https://www.neurotags.com/industry/spirits-wines

Next Century Spirits

whiskey · United States · Quality & inspection · shipping · dormant nextcenturyspirits.com

quality control / computer vision

Spirits technology company that uses predictive analytics, sensors and gas chromatography to model chemical profiles and control flavor outcomes during rapid barrel-alternative finishing of whiskey and other spirits.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2024-02-08.

• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/next-century-spirits
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2020/07/29/distilling-liquor-with-machine-learning-and-big-data/
• https://www.nextcenturyspirits.com/about-us

Overproof

whiskey · United States · GenAI & marketing · shipping · active overproof.com

GenAI marketing

Miami business-intelligence platform founded by Marc De Kuyper that delivers AI-driven sales, marketing and strategic-planning insights to beverage alcohol brands, drawing on a proprietary dataset of millions of menus and venues.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2025-06-11.

• https://overproof.com/
• https://refreshmiami.com/news/pop-the-champagne-for-rapidly-scaling-alcohol-insights-platform-overproof/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/overproof-ai-driven-bi--strategic-planning-platform-for-the-beverage-alcohol-industry-raises-1-25m-in-fourth-seed-round-301040572.html

PM Group

whiskey · Ireland · Other · none · active pmgroup-global.com

distillery epcm engineering, no ai claim

International engineering, architecture and project management consultancy with a Food, Beverage and Consumer Health sector practice and a run of named malt whisky distillery projects. It was EPCM partner for Diageo's YunTuo distillery in Yunnan, China, Diageo's first China-origin single malt, and lists two further greenfield and iconic malt whisky distillery projects. The firm markets Connected Automation, digital solutions (MasterVista, Panio, Gamio) and data-driven manufacturing services, but makes no machine-learning claim on the distillery work; treat it as engineering and automation delivery, not AI.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://www.pmgroup-global.com/what-we-do/our-sectors/food-beverage-consumer-health
• https://www.pmgroup-global.com/what-we-do/our-work/new-greenfield-malt-whisky-distillery

Proof 8

whiskey · unknown · Process & operations · none · active proof-8.com

cask records and production tracking

Proof 8, operated by CaskStore AG, sells an operating system for distilleries and bonded warehouses covering production tracking, maturation monitoring, bottling and HMRC and TTB compliance. Its Digital Deed feature issues a QR-linked digital ownership record for each cask, carrying origin, warehouse location, estimated volume after evaporation and full ownership history, and invalidating prior paper certificates on transfer. Named users include Ahascragh Distillery, Annandale Distillery and The Foundry Vault, and the Royal Elizabeth Bond facility at Dalmeny adopted it for a stated capacity of about 1.1 million casks. The company makes no machine learning claim; this is a system of record aimed at cask investment fraud.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/07/15/new-scottish-whisky-facility-adopts-digital-only-records-to-combat-cask-investment-fraud/
• https://www.proof-8.com/

Provenate

whiskey · United Kingdom · Process & operations · shipping · active provenatewhisky.com

chat assistant over distillery production and duty data

Provenate is an all in one production, stock, duty and compliance system built specifically for whisky distilleries and bottlers, replacing spreadsheets and manual HMRC duty returns and holding a full audit trail from wash to spirit yield and cask. It names Ardnamurchan Distillery and Adelphi Distillery as customers; Ardnamurchan uses it to digitise its operational flow and to back consumer facing provenance claims, including sourcing and climate impact of the liquid, via a bottle QR code. The only AI in the product is an assistant that lets staff query their own cask stock and duty data in natural language; there is no carbon accounting or LCA engine, so treat this as a system of record with a provenance and reporting layer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:esg. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://www.climatechampions.net/news/green-spirits-the-whisky-distilleries-driving-positive-environmental-transformation/
• https://www.provenatewhisky.com/

Rare Whisky 101

whiskey · United Kingdom · Market data & valuation · none · active rarewhisky101.com

rare whisky market data and valuation

Rare Whisky 101 runs a valuation and market-intelligence service for rare single malt Scotch, selling valuations to collectors, insurers, banks, solicitors and estates. Its own site reports a database of over 1.6 million records covering 235 distilleries and 90,306 bottles, from which it publishes secondary-market indices such as the Icon 100. There is no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on the site; this is a curated auction-price dataset plus human expert valuation, and it belongs in the radar as a spirits market-data company rather than an AI company.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://www.rarewhisky101.com/
• https://www.rarewhisky101.com/indices

Reactory

whiskey · New Zealand · Other · none · active reactory.tech

accelerated spirit maturation

Reactory builds reactor hardware that replicates the spirit, oak and environmental chemistry of barrel ageing, claiming a ten year equivalent spirit in 72 hours at batch sizes from 2 litres to 20,000 litres and up to a 55 percent cut in cost of goods per bottle. It went from New Zealand to global availability in 2026, and a rum matured with the technology, Queen of Clubs, took gold at the 2026 London Spirits Competition. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim; the approach is chemistry and precision process control. It matters to this landscape as a process-data alternative to cask time.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://reactory.tech/
• https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/accelerated-spirit-ageing-tech-company-reactory-goes-global/721600.article

Scotch Whisky Association

whiskey · United Kingdom · Process & operations · none · active scotch-whisky.org.uk

industry export and production statistics

The Scotch Whisky Association is the trade body for the Scotch whisky industry, with members representing over 95 percent of Scotch production across more than 2,500 brands. It publishes the category's reference statistics through its Facts and Figures programme, covering exports, distillery counts and market data used across the trade. Members include Diageo, Chivas Brothers, Edrington, William Grant and Sons, Whyte and Mackay and Suntory Global Spirits. The SWA makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is included because it is the authoritative public data source for Scotch whisky volumes and export values.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Whisky_Association
• https://www.scotch-whisky.org.uk/

Scotch Whisky Research Institute

whiskey · United Kingdom · Sensory & recipe · research · active swri.co.uk

instrumental and sensory flavour analysis

SWRI is the research and technology organisation of the Scotch whisky industry, funded by member distillers who account for the majority of Scotch production by volume. Its five research programmes are sustainable raw materials, sustainable processes, optimised maturation, flavour management and consumer confidence, run from purpose built laboratories in Edinburgh and in member distilleries. Flavour management work centres on developing sensory methods and instrumental analyses, including gas chromatography olfactometry, to measure and control flavour as producers change processes for sustainability. The institute makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim on its public site; it is included here as the primary analytical chemistry and maturation science body for the category.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Whisky_Research_Institute
• https://www.swri.co.uk/what-we-do/flavour-management/

SmartCask by Checkpoint

whiskey · unknown · Demand & pricing · shipping · active smartcask.app

cask digital twin with rag assistant and maturation forecasting

SmartCask is a dual NFC and RFID smart tag system from Checkpoint Systems, part of CCL Industries, that creates linked digital twins for every spirit cask. Each cask carries a Cask Twin holding cooperage origin, wood type, repairs and ownership changes, and a Fill Twin holding distillation date, maturation conditions and bottling records, with optional blockchain anchoring for high value casks. The underlying SmartLinks platform is where the AI sits: the site advertises an Ask Your Cask conversational assistant described as RAG powered, plus AI-native intelligence that surfaces portfolio insights and 20 year runway forecasting, angel's share modelling with exponential decay, cohort analysis and release readiness planning. It was launched into the Scotch cask investment market in early 2026 as a traceability and fraud prevention answer after the BBC Disclosure programme on cask fraud.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://smartcask.app/technology
• https://www.rfidnews.co.uk/2026/03/25/smartcask-a-new-era-of-cask-transparency/

Softwin Technologies

whiskey · India · Process & operations · shipping · active softwintechnologies.com

distillery erp and production analytics

Softwin Technologies is an SAP Gold Partner based in Indore, India, that sells a packaged SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud offering for the distillery industry covering spirits production from raw material to finished goods, including fermentation and distillation stage tracking, bottling and packaging, excise and regulatory compliance, and real time inventory. It is a system of record and reporting play for Indian alcobev producers; the site claims advanced analytics and real time insight but names no machine learning model.

Provenance: Scout: scout:sap. Last seen 2026-08-11.

• https://softwintechnologies.com/distillery-industry/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwintechnologies

Spirit Sight

whiskey · United States · Demand & pricing · shipping · active spiritsight.co

barrel maturation analytics and angel's share forecasting

Spirit Sight is barrel management and distillery operations software for American whiskey producers, tracking each cask by serial, lot, mashbill, fill and dump date, entry and current proof, volume, location and live value. Its differentiator is a live 3D rickhouse view with gap detection and temperature and humidity heatmaps, plus per-barrel evaporative loss tracking that turns angel's share into a forecastable cost feeding valuation and TTB reporting. The analytics are statistical and sensor driven rather than machine learning.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-07-26.

• https://ncd.io/blog/iot-in-the-barrel-aged-spirits-industry/
• https://spiritsight.co/barrel-management/

Suntory Global Spirits

whiskey · United States · Consumer & personalization · shipping · active suntoryglobalspirits.com

demand forecasting and commercial insight agents

Suntory Global Spirits is the Suntory-owned spirits arm behind Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, Laphroaig, Bowmore, Yamazaki and Hakushu. Its chief digital and technology officer has described machine learning models in production for demand forecasting and demand sensing, plus analytics used in R&D to speed flavour and product development. In July 2025 it announced a generative AI Commercial Insights Agent, built with Globant, that answers commercial questions against its own data in place of manual BI work. Its public website makes no AI claim; the evidence is in partner announcements and executive interviews.

Provenance: Scout: scout:whiskey. Last seen 2026-08-01.

• https://consumergoods.com/one-year-hernan-tabah-shares-details-suntory-global-spirits-data-and-ai-powered-optimization
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/suntory-global-spirits-chooses-globant-to-build-a-commercial-insights-agent-and-unlock-business-intelligence-at-scale-302499192.html
• https://www.suntoryglobalspirits.com/

Tractian

whiskey · unknown · Process & operations · shipping · active tractian.com

condition monitoring and predictive maintenance on bottling lines

Tractian sells vibration and temperature condition monitoring sensors plus an integrated CMMS for industrial plants. Proximo Spirits, owner of Bushmills Irish whiskey and Jose Cuervo, deployed Tractian sensors, CMMS and operational monitoring across its Lawrenceburg, Indiana bottling facility and moved from calendar-based preventive maintenance to condition-based work orders triggered by sensor data and real machine operating hours. Tractian's own AI was used at that site to convert legacy PDF equipment manuals into step-by-step digital procedures with pass or fail checklists for technicians. Other named food and beverage customers include Danone and Unilever.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-29.

• https://tractian.com/en/case-studies
• https://tractian.com/en/case-studies/proximo

Vapour

whiskey · United Kingdom · Other · none · active vapour.scot

Vapour is a cloud SaaS platform for spirit producers, warehouse operators, cask managers and bottlers, covering distillation, maturation and bottling end to end. Modules include production, maturation and a bottling add-on, with a 3D warehouse view, cask-by-cask loss analysis, auto-generated provenance records, an API integration portal and compliance reporting, plus separate logins for cask investors. It was built in Speyside in partnership with Scotch industry practitioners; named case studies include Lochlea Distillery and Copal Tree Distillery. It makes no machine learning claim: the analytics are operational reporting, production efficiency and loss accounting, not predictive models.

Provenance: Scout: scout:erp. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://vapour.scot/
• https://vapour.scot/about

Vendome Copper and Brass Works

whiskey · United States · Other · active vendomecopper.com

none claimed, still and distillation system fabrication

Vendome Copper and Brass Works is a fourth-generation family firm in Louisville that fabricates custom batch and continuous stills, columns and stainless tanks for distilleries, and also supplies brewing equipment. Its own site names Buffalo Trace, Jim Beam, Makers Mark, Jack Daniels, Wild Turkey, Michters, Angels Envy, Kentucky Peerless, Wilderness Trail and Willett among its customers. The site carries no automation, control system, data or AI offering of any kind. Included as a no-AI-claim anchor for the American whiskey engineering layer.

Provenance: Scout: scout:engineering. Last seen 2026-08-05.

• https://vendomecopper.com/distillation-equipment/
• https://www.vendomecopper.com/

Whiskey House of Kentucky

whiskey · United States · Process & operations · research · active whiskeyhouse.com

fully instrumented contract distillery building ai-ready production data for ml and model predictive control

Contract whiskey producer on a 176 acre campus in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, offering custom distilling, warehousing, bottling and financing to brands that do not own a distillery. An Inductive Automation customer project published on the build describes a plant automated end to end on Ignition, with SCADA, MES, ERP and cloud analytics unified on one platform and production data exposed to contract customers through a portal. The distillery team states its roadmap is predictive analytics on Microsoft Fabric plus machine learning and model predictive control, and describes the data as AI ready for LLM and retrieval augmented workflows. The AI is stated as in development, not in production, and the company's own website makes no AI claim. Build ran July 2023 to July 2024 with deployment through April 2025; partners were Quantum Solutions Inc for PLC and SCADA and Flexware Innovation for scheduling.

Provenance: Scout: scout:industrial. Last seen 2026-08-04.

• https://inductiveautomation.com/resources/customerproject/fully-automated-distillery-uses-ignition-to-integrate-scada-mes-erp-cloud-analytics-into-single-platform
• https://www.whiskeyhouse.com/

Whiskey Wise Group

whiskey · United Kingdom · Demand & pricing · pilot · dormant

demand forecasting

Whiskey cask investment company that launched an AI-driven app using machine learning to analyze market trends, industry dynamics and cask values so first-time investors can make data-led decisions.

Provenance: Hand-verified. Last seen 2024-01-01.

• https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/195454/Whiskey-Wise-Group-Launches-an-AIdriven-App-Redefining-the-Landscape-of-Whiskey-Casks-in-2023.
• https://www.streetinsider.com/Newsfile/Whiskey+Wise+Group+Launches+an+AI-driven+App,+Redefining+the+Landscape+of+Whiskey+Casks+in+2023./22667088.html