# Beverage-AI Landscape Radar

Snapshot: 2026-09-01. 844 active, 35 dormant.

## Active companies

- **3 Tier Beverages** (multiple, 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. People: [Donn Bichsel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnbichsel) (Founder).
- **360Winery (360Growers)** (wine, unspecified use case). 360Winery is a modular wine management system from 360Growers, Inc. covering winery production and business operations. It integrates with QuickBooks, Xero and MYOB for accounting, Square, Clover, Bambora and CardConnect for payments, Australia Post, Canada Post, UPS and Aramex for shipping, and Avalara for tax compliance, which suggests an Australia and North America customer base. No AI or machine learning claim appears anywhere on the site.
- **3D2cut SA** (wine, computer vision for vine pruning guidance). Swiss company co-founded with the Simonit & Sirch vine pruning consultancy that sells a multi-language digital vine pruning training platform with video lessons, interactive exercises and cut simulations. Its AI track, developed with the Idiap research institute and supported by The Ark foundation, trains an image model on thousands of vine photographs to recognise the parts of the plant and locate the buds a pruner needs, then overlays suggested cut zones on augmented reality glasses. The company states this AR prototype reached a functional prototype and a scientific publication and remains an R&D track, while the training platform is now its primary product. People: Henrico Dolfing (CEO and Board Member), Jerome Corre (CTO), Marco Simonit (Founder), Philibert Frick (Founder and Board Chairman).
- **4T2 Sensors** (multiple, 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.
- **6Street Digital** (multiple, 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.
- **99 Bottles** (multiple, 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.
- **9Ways** (wine, winery visitor, tasting and direct to consumer management). 9Ways Srl is an Italian Microsoft partner in Venice that publishes Winery Hospitality for Power Apps on Microsoft AppSource. The app runs winery cellar door operations: visit calendar and tour planning, guide management, grouping visitors into tours, structured data capture during tastings, retail purchases from the visit, contact management and targeted campaigns through Dynamics 365 Marketing, with requests collected from the website and email. It is multi-language and multi-brand and runs on desktop, tablet and phone. 9Ways makes no AI or machine learning claim for the product.
- **ABE Beverage Equipment (American Beer Equipment)** (beer, 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.
- **Aber Instruments** (beer, 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.
- **Abstrax Tech** (beer, 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. People: Max Koby (Co-founder and CEO).
- **Accela** (multiple, 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.
- **AccelPay** (multiple, 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.
- **AccountTouch** (multiple, 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.
- **ACM Automation Computertechnik Messsysteme** (multiple, 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.
- **Acrolon Technologies (TankNET)** (multiple, 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.
- **Activ8 Commerce** (wine, No AI claim. Wine and distillery DTC stack: point of sale, club and allocation management, ecommerce, CRM, inventory, fulfilment, reporting and dashboards. Reporting is conventional BI, not modelled.). Pleasanton, California winery DTC platform combining POS, wine club, ecommerce and reporting.
- **Advanced Management Systems (AMS)** (wine, winery production and sales software). Long-running US winery software vendor, in business since 1981, selling a modular package that covers vineyard management, winemaking, bottling, MRP for supplies, warehouse and lane addressing, wine allocation, wholesale order processing and DTC shopping cart, with ShipCompliant integration for compliance. Sold with configuration, custom programming and scheduled training classes rather than as self-serve SaaS. AMS makes no AI or machine-learning claim anywhere on its product pages; it is tracked here as a winery system of record, not as an AI vendor.
- **Advanced Sys-tek Limited** (multiple, 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.
- **Advanced Viticulture** (wine, No AI claim. Vineyard consulting and management built on sensor telemetry: soil moisture probes driving irrigation decisions, plus an air quality sensing line and the Avterra product. Data-led agronomy, no modelling claim.). Windsor, California viticulture consultancy pairing vineyard management with soil moisture and air quality sensing.
- **AdVini** (wine, vineyard water demand prediction and irrigation management). French terroir wine group running 25 sites and 6 production plants across Burgundy, the Rhone Valley, Provence, Languedoc, Roussillon, Bordeaux and South Africa. Its published IBM client story states that AdVini uses the IBM Watson platform to predict water requirements for its vines and drive precise irrigation management in its Mediterranean vineyards. The rest of the stack is SAP ECC, HANA and BusinessObjects migrated to IBM Cloud with Kyndryl and Applium. The underlying AI platform is IBM Watson, so the model technology is inherited rather than built in house; the vineyard irrigation application is AdVini's own. People: Jerome Combarnous (IT Manager).
- **Aeonvis (WineForce Plus)** (wine, no ai claim, salesforce native crm for wineries). Aeonvis is an Italian consulting and technology firm in Milan whose WineForce Plus product is a CRM developed on Salesforce technology and aimed specifically at the wine sector and the wider food and beverage industry. It covers sales order management, automated scheduling, communication reminders and reporting on customer preferences for winery commercial teams. No AI or machine learning capability is claimed on the product page; the market trend analysis it describes is reporting, not a stated model. Aeonvis is a Salesforce partner and also carries SAP, Kinaxis, Adobe and Databricks practices, with offices in Milan, Turin, Padua, Rome and Tirana.
- **AeriTek** (multiple, 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.
- **Aforza** (multiple, 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.
- **Agaram InfoTech (AgES Brewery ERP)** (beer, unspecified use case). 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.
- **AgCode** (wine, vineyard farm management and harvest reporting). AgCode sells farm management software for specialty crops including vineyards, covering labour and equipment tracking, harvest operations, payroll and contract and cost reporting. It has operated since 2003 and lists in the Wine Industry Network supplier directory. Its own site describes reporting, tracking and business intelligence; it makes no machine learning or AI claim anywhere on the site, so this is a system of record and reporting tool rather than an AI product.
- **Agovor** (wine, autonomous electric vineyard tractors). Agovor builds the GOVOR eTractor, a compact fully electric autonomous towing robot designed to work between vineyard, orchard and berry rows for mowing, spraying and hauling, with swappable smart trailer attachments and around 10 hours of battery runtime. Named users include Wither Hills Vineyard in Blenheim. It was shown at WinePro 2026 in Blenheim as vineyard autonomy; the company claims remote automation and fleet operation rather than machine learning.
- **Agricolus** (multiple, 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.
- **AGRIVI** (wine, vineyard farm management and AI advisory). AGRIVI is a Croatian digital agriculture company whose farm management software runs field operations, inputs, cost and traceability for enterprise farms. A Winery add-on extends it to vineyard blocks and cellar activity, giving per-variety cost per kg and per-vineyard ROI; Croatian producer Saints Hills, with vineyards in Istria and Dalmatia, uses it for field operations and cellar management. The AI claim sits in AGRIVI Engage, a white-labelled WhatsApp and Viber advisory agent for growers; the vineyard and cellar modules themselves are record keeping and analytics rather than machine learning.
- **Agro4Data** (wine, voice agent for field record keeping). Spanish company whose Agente de Campo turns spoken WhatsApp voice notes from the field into structured records of tasks, treatments and incidents, writing them into the regulatory field notebook (cuaderno de campo) and into the grower's existing farm software without forms. Users can also query it conversationally, for example asking which plant protection products are due this week, and the company advertises predictive alerts. It sells to cooperatives and agronomic advisors and is a member of the Spanish wine technology platform PTV, which places the tool in the vineyard compliance and record keeping layer.
- **Agrology** (wine, disease / yield prediction). Predictive agriculture company whose in-canopy and soil sensor arrays feed machine-learning models that forecast vineyard risks up to four days ahead, including wildfire smoke taint, powdery mildew, pests and extreme weather. People: [Adam Koeppel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkoeppel) (Co-Founder & CEO), [Tyler Locke](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerlocke) (Co-Founder & CTO).
- **AgroSense** (wine, irrigation decision support for vineyards). AgroSense is a Mendoza-based agtech platform that combines soil IoT sensors, weather data and satellite imagery to tell irrigated growers how much water to apply and when. Vineyards are a core customer segment, with published deployments at a 70 hectare operation in Rivadavia, Mendoza and a 700 hectare estate including vineyards in Valle de Pedernal, San Juan. The product includes an AI assistant delivered over WhatsApp, currently marked beta, that answers irrigation questions by text or voice against the grower's own field data. The company does not describe the underlying models, so the AI claim is a conversational assistant layered on sensor and satellite analytics rather than a documented machine learning system. People: [Javier Bollecich](https://www.linkedin.com/in/javier-bollecich/) (Founder).
- **Agrovin** (wine, no ai claim; winemaking process control equipment). Grupo Agrovin is a Spanish oenological products and winery equipment maker with more than 65 years of trading and a large patent and R&D portfolio. Its own-technology systems cover the whole production chain (Ultrawine and Ultrawine Perseo extraction, Tank Control, Ulises, Dosisol One, Electrowine, Oxi_Out, FreeK and DosiOx), plus a dedicated no- and low-alcohol wine range. It makes no substantiated machine learning claim on its own site; it matters to the wine data landscape as the process control and sensing layer inside cellars, and is the winery equipment partner named as a data-driven innovation SME in the EU SMARTWINERY project.
- **Ai Palette** (multiple, 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.
- **AI4Whisky** (whiskey, 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. People: Shiwen Zhuang (Researcher, ICBD Heriot-Watt), Annie Hill (Professor of Brewing and Distilling).
- **Aigora** (multiple, 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. People: Dr John Ennis (CEO and Founder), Dr Vanessa Rios de Souza (Director of Client Solutions).
- **Aiiro Systems (Sakenowa)** (wine, nlp flavour extraction and taste-based recommendation for sake). Aiiro Systems Inc. (Aiiro Systems Kabushiki Kaisha, 藍色システムズ株式会社) operates Sakenowa (さけのわ), a Japanese sake check-in app and open data service running since 2013. Its own about page states that the Flavor Chart (registered Japanese trademark 6520969) and the Flavor Search feature are produced by a computer program that analyses posted user comments using natural language processing, then aggregates the result into per-brand flavour scores. The company publishes the derived data free as the Sakenowa Data HTTP API, exposing six-axis flavour vectors, flavour tags, and brand, brewery and ranking endpoints for third parties to build on. Incorporated 2019-06-10 in Kudanminami, Chiyoda, Tokyo; the service predates the company. People: Akira Ueda (Representative Director).
- **Alan Talbot** (wine, data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage). Runs the analytics group behind the wine industry's production and market databases and data reports at WineBusiness Analytics. People: [Alan Talbot](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanltalbot/) (Director, Analytics Group (wine industry databases and data-driven analysis) — Wines Vines Analytics (WineBusiness Analytics)).
- **ALBERT FREY AG** (multiple, 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.
- **Alcohol Compliance Company** (multiple, 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.
- **AlcOS** (multiple, 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.
- **Alfa Laval** (multiple, 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.
- **Algorithm Factory** (multiple, 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.
- **Allie AI** (multiple, 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.
- **Alpha MOS** (multiple, 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.
- **Alt/Finance (ALT/FNDATA)** (multiple, 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.
- **Altavitis Technologies** (wine, precision viticulture and vine disease diagnosis). Spanish agritech company describing itself as specialised in digital and intelligent viticulture, built on data and artificial intelligence with its own algorithms and patents. Its Smart Agro line covers precision viticulture, pest and disease diagnosis, advanced sensing and robotics, alongside a Smart Factory line for industry. It was founded as a spin-off of the Universidad de La Rioja by professors and researchers in precision viticulture, robotics, sensing and AI, and is a member of the Spanish wine technology platform PTV.
- **ALTR** (wine, No AI claim. Velvet Blade patent-pending membrane system for precision ethanol separation, starting with wine, so producers can dial alcohol down while preserving flavour. Separation engineering, no model.). Rockstart AgriFood backed team of scientists, engineers and winemakers building precision alcohol reduction for wine.
- **Alvaro Gonzalez** (wine, harvest volume prediction from drone multispectral imagery). Named in Concha y Toro's own account of the Center for Research and Innovation project that built an AI harvest volume prediction model from drone multispectral imagery and terrain data, reporting 2 to 9 percent prediction error against 20 to 30 percent for traditional methods. company_is_current is false only because the source article is dated March 2018 and no later confirmation of his role was found. People: Alvaro Gonzalez (Deputy Manager of Research and Development, Vina Concha y Toro).
- **Amanda Dobbyn** (beer, 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. People: [Amanda Dobbyn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-dobbyn/) (Data scientist / senior data engineer; author of a widely cited beer-styles data science project — independent (beer project); now Indigo).
- **Analyticsmart** (multiple, 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. People: Yves Mayotte (President and CEO).
- **Anchor Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Andavi Solutions (GreatVines)** (multiple, 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.
- **Anderson-Negele (Negele Messtechnik GmbH)** (beer, 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.
- **Andy Edmonds** (wine, vineyard yield, risk and irrigation forecasting). Chief Technical Officer on Terraview's current management team page. Terraview, merged with Gamaya, builds satellite and agronomic modelling software for vineyard yield, risk and irrigation decisions. Listed as CTO of the technology company itself, so the AI work is his function rather than a separately documented personal project. People: Andy Edmonds (CTO, Terraview).
- **Angel Yeast Co., Ltd** (multiple, 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.
- **Anheuser-Busch InBev** (beer, 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. People: [Michel Doukeris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michel-doukeris) (CEO).
- **Ankur Napa** (multiple, 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. People: [Ankur Napa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-napa/) (Growth Officer, Disruptive Advantage; Community Leader, Bangalore Microsoft Fabric User Group (Microsoft); Tableau Community Leader, Bangalore and Newbie TUG).
- **Antares Vision Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Anton Paar** (multiple, 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.
- **Anton van den Hengel** (beer, 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. People: [Anton van den Hengel](https://au.linkedin.com/in/antonvandenhengel) (Director Applied AI, Deep Liquid).
- **AnyRoad** (multiple, 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. People: [Jonathan Yaffe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaffe) (Co-founder and CEO), Daniel Yaffe (Co-founder and COO).
- **Aptean** (multiple, 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.
- **Aquacycl** (beer, 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. People: Orianna Bretschger (Co-founder and CEO).
- **Arnold Holstein** (whiskey, 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.
- **Aromalytics** (multiple, 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.
- **Aroxa (Cara Technology)** (multiple, 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.
- **Arrive55** (wine, temperature controlled final mile wine delivery). Arrive55 is a fine wine cold chain carrier formed in 2024 by the merger of The Wine Mover and Vinum55 Logistics, providing white glove final mile delivery held at a constant 55F from winery gate to collector cellar. It serves wineries, auction houses and retailers, and acts as the climate controlled last mile layer for third party fulfillment providers including WineDirect Fulfillment. It states that pallets are monitored in real time during long haul and that chain of custody is temperature verified, which is the data product. No machine learning claim is made.
- **Arryved** (beer, 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.
- **Asahi Group Holdings** (beer, 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. People: Atsushi Katsuki (President and Group CEO).
- **Asseco Business Solutions (Mobile Touch)** (multiple, 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.
- **Astoria-Pacific** (multiple, 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.
- **Atago (株式会社アタゴ)** (multiple, 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.
- **Atharva Solutions (Distillery 360)** (whiskey, 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.
- **Atol CD (VineMapper)** (wine, tractor mounted computer vision for vine disease mapping). Atol CD is a French digital services firm with offices in Paris, Dijon, Lyon, Besancon and Gevrey-Chambertin that has worked with the agricultural sector for over 25 years. On 30 October 2025 it acquired VineMapper from the failed startup Greenshield. VineMapper is a high definition camera with embedded AI mounted on a tractor or straddle machine that identifies vine anomalies, principally early downy mildew symptoms, and maps them at centimetre level positioning with photographic evidence. Atol CD says it will add a new data processing platform and API integration into existing farm management systems.
- **Augury** (beer, 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.
- **Australian Vintage (CTZN)** (wine, genai blend curation and brand marketing). Australian Vintage is a listed Australian wine producer whose brands include McGuigan, Nepenthe and Tempus Two. In 2024 it launched CTZN, marketed as Australia's first AI-curated, human-crafted wine, with grape varietal combinations selected by AI algorithms and the blends then made by its winemakers, following the earlier French AI wine work by Aubert et Mathieu. The AI is used for varietal selection and brand storytelling; the company does not describe a proprietary model, training data or production ML system. People: Tom Dusseldorp (CMO).
- **Authena** (multiple, 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. People: Matteo Panzavolta (CEO), Dejan Milenovic (CTO).
- **Authentic Vision** (multiple, 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.
- **AVEVA (PI System, formerly OSIsoft)** (multiple, 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.
- **Avterra** (wine, vineyard sensor data integration and irrigation decision guidance). Avterra is a small vineyard technology consultancy on California's Central Coast that integrates data from existing or newly installed telemetry and sensor devices into a single portal, then advises on when and how much to irrigate. It positions itself explicitly as vendor neutral, pulling from a multitude of telemetry devices rather than selling one stack, and leans on over 30 years of vineyard management and irrigation consulting experience. The guidance is human expert interpretation of integrated data, not an algorithm. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 431.
- **Azmera Consulting** (multiple, 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.
- **B-Cart** (beer, 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.
- **Backbar** (multiple, 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.
- **Baqio** (wine, none, wine and spirits commercial management software). Baqio is a French web based commercial management system built specifically for wine and alcohol producers, covering invoicing and shipping, customer CRM, stock and materials accounting with French monthly and customs declarations, bank synchronisation and pre accounting, cellar door point of sale and an e-commerce tie in to its own storefront or WooCommerce. It is NF525 certified and trades in France as Vinosoft. There is no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on the site: it is a system of record for winery commercial operations.
- **Bar Analytics** (beer, 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.
- **Bar.on** (beer, 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. People: Dirk Standaert (Co-founder and CEO), Valentijn Destoop (Co-founder and CPO), Kevin Verstrepen (Research partner, VIB and KU Leuven).
- **Barmetrix** (multiple, 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. People: Ray Walsh (CEO).
- **Barrel Books (Buildera Technologies)** (multiple, 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.
- **Barrel Clarity** (whiskey, 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.
- **Barrel Proof Technologies** (whiskey, 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.
- **BarrelWise Technologies** (wine, barrel level free SO2 measurement and cellar data capture). BarrelWise makes the FS1, a cellar tool that measures free SO2 barrel by barrel in about a minute and uploads results straight to a cloud database for the winemaking and lab team, replacing a lab centric sampling process. It also sells fermentation control and a services arm, BarrelWise LABS, and integrates with InnoVint winery software. Named users include Rodney Strong Wine Estates, J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines, Mission Hill Family Estate, CedarCreek Estate Winery, Arterra Wines Canada and Time Family of Wines. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site: this is instrumentation plus a data platform, not modelling.
- **Bart Watson** (beer, 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. People: [Bart Watson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-watson/) (President and CEO, former Chief Economist (craft beer market data and analytics) — Brewers Association).
- **BarthHaas** (beer, 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.
- **Barventory** (multiple, 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.
- **BarVision** (whiskey, 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.
- **BatchMaster Software** (multiple, unspecified use case). 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.
- **BAXUS** (multiple, 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. People: Tzvi Wiesel (Co-founder and CEO).
- **BBULL Technology GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Beer Institute** (beer, 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.
- **Beer Marketer's Insights** (beer, 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. People: Benj Steinman (President, Publisher and Editor).
- **BeerBoard** (multiple, 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. People: [Mark Young](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-young-7b8b554) (Founder and CEO).
- **Beerhive** (beer, 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. People: Jan Paesen (Founder), Wim De Bruycker (Co-founder).
- **BeerMenus** (beer, 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.
- **BeerRun (SWK Technologies)** (beer, unspecified use case). 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.
- **BeerSmith** (beer, 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.
- **BEERSOFT** (beer, 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.
- **beON consult GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Berkeley Yeast** (multiple, 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. People: Charles Denby (Co-founder), Nick Harris (Co-founder), Rachel Li (Co-founder).
- **Bertsch Holding** (beer, 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.
- **Bestowal Systems and Services** (wine, vineyard yield forecasting and winery supply planning). Bestowal Systems and Services is an Indian SAP supply chain consultancy specialising in SAP IBP, SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP Analytics Cloud and BTP. In February 2026 it published a vineyard to bottle blueprint for vertically integrated wineries combining SAP IBP for grape yield forecasting and harvest planning, SAP Digital Manufacturing for fermentation, blending and bottling execution, and Industry 4.0 sensing via IoT soil and tank probes plus drone and satellite imagery, with AI models proposed for yield variation, vintage quality and optimal harvest window. It is presented as a solution architecture rather than a named live winery deployment, so treat the AI as designed, not proven in production. People: Suryakant Baranwal (Founder and CEO).
- **Bevchek** (beer, 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.
- **Beverage Distribution Consultants (BDC)** (multiple, 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.
- **Beverage Information Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Beverage Marketing Corporation** (multiple, 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.
- **Beverage360 (formerly HoochWare)** (multiple, 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.
- **BeveragePro AI** (beer, 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.
- **BevGenie** (multiple, 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.
- **Bevica** (multiple, unspecified use case). 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. People: Pippa Odell (Managing Director).
- **BevLogic** (multiple, 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. People: Rachel Rey (Founder and CEO).
- **bevlYtics** (multiple, 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. People: Jonathan Hooten (ParadYm Data team).
- **BevSpot** (multiple, 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.
- **BevTrack (Taps + Tables)** (beer, 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.
- **Beyond Cloud Consulting** (multiple, 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.
- **BeyondVino** (wine, winery depletion and cross-channel kpi dashboards, no ai claim). An operations platform for wine brands covering logistics and 3PL fulfilment, DTC and wine club, e-commerce and national compliance, with a BeyondVino Intelligence layer on top. That layer supplies real-time depletion and retail account data, consumer and market trend reporting and cross-channel KPI dashboards spanning sales, operations and finance. In June 2026 it announced a partnership with LibDib to join wholesale and direct-to-consumer selling for wineries. The analytics are reporting and dashboards, with no AI or machine-learning claim made. People: Jake Aukes (Director of Sales).
- **Bharathi Sampangi** (multiple, 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. People: Bharathi Sampangi (VP, Data Platforms and Services, Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits).
- **BIENESIS** (wine, none, sensor triggered retractable vineyard canopy). BIENESIS, spun out of the Michelin Innovation Lab and working with the French wine trade since 2022, builds La Canopee, a retractable robotic canopy for vine rows. Two robotic arms unfold a six metre technical fabric over the vines in under a minute against spring frost, hail, sunburn, water stress and treatment washoff, then fold back into an A4 sized housing, driven by in-plot sensors and a mobile app and energy autonomous up to 80 km/h winds. The company said in June 2026 it had begun deploying more than 800 canopies across France and Italy under its Constellation 2026 programme, citing two seasons of Burgundy trials with company reported yield gains of 23 to 129 percent. Checked, and BIENESIS makes no AI or machine learning claim: the connected object is sensor and rule driven.
- **Biernacki Engineering (Automatisierungstechnik Biernacki)** (multiple, 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.
- **BinaryBeer** (beer, 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. People: [Michael Burton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-burton/) (Founder and CEO).
- **BinWise** (multiple, 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.
- **Biome Makers** (wine, soil microbiome dna analysis with machine learning). Biome Makers sequences soil microbiome DNA and turns it into functional soil health scores through its BeCrop platform, which the company says combines advanced genomics, microbial network science and AI. Its own site states that BeCrop uses the soil microbiome DNA and machine learning to analyse not only which microbes are present but also their interactions among them, with the crop and ecosystem. It started in wine and still works heavily with vineyards: published vineyard work includes Bodegas Barbadillo defining a functional soil profile for its vineyards and Les Vignerons de Buzet measuring the agroforestry effect on vineyard soil microbiome, plus a Napa Valley grower case study. Serves growers, agronomists and input manufacturers across 170 plus crops. People: Adrian Ferrero (CEO and Co-founder), Alberto Acedo (CSO and Co-founder).
- **BioScout** (wine, airborne spore detection for vineyard disease risk). BioScout makes an autonomous solar powered air sampler that captures airborne fungal spores and images them by light microscopy at 5K resolution, down to 2 microns. Machine vision models classify the spores and return grower facing disease pressure data within about 24 hours, which vineyards use to decide when to spray for downy mildew, powdery mildew and botrytis. Wine industry partners named on its own site include Treasury Wine Estates and Mollydooker. The sensor is also sold in France, priced in French trade press at about 7,000 euros a year.
- **BirchStreet** (multiple, 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.
- **BitMetrics** (multiple, 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. People: Mar Masulli (CEO).
- **Bizom (Mobisy Technologies)** (multiple, 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.
- **Black Swan Data** (multiple, 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.
- **Blended Technologies** (wine, Winery production, inventory and compliance software with an in-product AI assistant, Barry, layered over winemaking, case goods and cost of goods data.). Napa winery management platform covering winemaking, compliance, finance and case goods, now shipping an AI assistant.
- **Block One Automation** (beer, 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.
- **BlueBoot Business Software** (multiple, 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. People: Alejandro Scaramelli (Managing Director).
- **Bodega Anaia** (wine, connected vineyard sensing and precision viticulture). Bodega Anaia is a 72 hectare winery and wine tourism estate in Agrelo, Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza. Argentine business press describes it as one of the most advanced connected vineyard implementations in the region: IoT sensors reading soil moisture, temperature and mineral presence, transmitted over LoRa to the cloud and controlled from a mobile app, combined with satellite monitoring to detect small variations in soil composition and target water and fertiliser per block. The winery's own website covers the estate, wines and lodge only and makes no technology, sensor or AI claim, so the sensing programme is established from press reporting rather than from the operator itself. There is no machine learning claim anywhere in the evidence; this is instrumentation and precision agriculture.
- **Bonsai Robotics** (wine, vision based autonomy for vineyard and orchard machinery). Bonsai Robotics builds what it calls AI first, vision based autonomy for off road agricultural equipment, sold both as OEM integrations and as its own Amiga machine line. The Bonsai Intelligence platform manages mixed autonomous fleets and the company describes advanced perception and embodied AI trained on more than a million acres of captured field data. It is listed in the Wine Industry Network supplier directory and its published work covers vineyards and permanent crop farms. Its own blog describes foundation models applied to agriculture.
- **Boortmalt** (multiple, 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.
- **BottleCapps** (multiple, 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.
- **Bowimi** (multiple, 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.
- **Braeburn Whisky** (whiskey, 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.
- **Bragato Research Institute** (wine, predicting wine quality from wine chemistry). Bragato Research Institute is the research arm of the New Zealand wine industry, wholly owned by New Zealand Winegrowers and set up in 2015 as the country's first Regional Research Institute. Its Pinot Noir programme applies machine learning to predict relationships between wine chemistry and perceptions of wine quality. Other data work includes grapevine genomic sequencing for the Sauvignon Blanc 2.0 clone programme, 5 km granularity climate change projections for all nine New Zealand wine regions using NIWA data, and an industry-wide research data catalogue and structured database. People: Jeffrey Clarke (CEO), Darrell Lizamore (Principal Research Scientist, Grapevine Improvement).
- **BrauKon** (beer, 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.
- **Brew Ninja** (beer, 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.
- **BrewERP** (multiple, 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.
- **Brewers Association (Barley assistant)** (beer, 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.
- **Brewers Dashboard** (beer, unspecified use case). 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.
- **BrewerSync** (beer, unspecified use case). 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.
- **Brewfather (Warpkode AS)** (beer, 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.
- **Brewing-AI** (beer, 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.
- **BrewLedger** (beer, 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. People: John Jusko (Founder and CEO).
- **BrewMan by Premier Systems** (beer, unspecified use case). 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.
- **Brewmation** (beer, 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.
- **BrewPlanner** (multiple, 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.
- **BrewTraq** (beer, 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.
- **Breww** (beer, 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.
- **Bricklead (Primus-Wine)** (multiple, 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.
- **Briess Malt & Ingredients** (multiple, 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.
- **Briggs of Burton** (multiple, 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.
- **Brokreacja (Browar Brokreacja)** (beer, 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. People: Mateusz Gorski (CEO, Brokreacja Sp. z o.o. and Bromarket Sp. z o.o.), Lukasz Gorski (CEO, Foothills S.A.).
- **BrooDoo (Top Bev)** (beer, 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.
- **Bruker** (multiple, 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.
- **Bucher Vaslin** (wine, connected press monitoring and remote fault finding). Bucher Vaslin is a French winery plant OEM best known for its Bucher XPlus and XPert pneumatic grape presses, and part of the Swiss Bucher Industries group. Its presses ship with Winect, a smartphone application that shows the pressing programme in progress, time remaining, pressure and flow rate, plus configurable email and SMS alerts for events such as end of pressing, juice selection and press stop, and a remote assistance path so a technician can fault find without a site visit. Operating data is uploaded to a Bucher cloud through the company Connect portal for follow up and anomaly notification. Bucher Vaslin makes no AI or machine learning claim: this is connected telemetry and remote service, and it matters because it is where a large share of primary winemaking process data originates.
- **Budejovicky Budvar** (beer, 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. People: Petr Konopasek (CFO).
- **Buhler Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Bump Williams Consulting** (multiple, 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. People: Bump Williams (Founder and CEO), Dave Williams (President), Dan Wandel (VP, Chief Strategy Officer).
- **BW Design Group** (multiple, 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.
- **bw166** (multiple, 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. People: Jon Moramarco (Managing Partner).
- **California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance** (wine, winery sustainability self-assessment and certification data). CSWA is the nonprofit created in 2003 by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers to run the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program. It maintains the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing, a self-assessment workbook that vineyards and wineries complete, and administers the Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing third party certification covering water, energy and greenhouse gas practice. It is one of the largest structured sustainability datasets in the wine industry. It makes no AI or machine learning claim.
- **Cambrian Innovation** (multiple, 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. People: Bobb Campbell (CEO).
- **Campari Group** (whiskey, 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. People: Liam Barnes (Global IT Director of Marketing).
- **CannyCask** (whiskey, 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.
- **CAP Vision (CAP Vignes)** (wine, production data). CAP Vision is a French Microsoft Dynamics partner whose CAP Vignes app is published on Microsoft AppSource for Dynamics 365 Business Central. It serves winemakers, wine estates, cooperatives, wine merchants and distilleries with vinification and production management, stock tracking, DRM and customs declarations, and sales. Named customers include Bestheim, Hugel et Fils and Ethic Drinks. No public AI or machine learning claims; tracked as a wine and spirits system of record.
- **CARL GmbH** (whiskey, 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.
- **Carlsberg India (Carlsberg Group India GCC)** (beer, 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.
- **CASE SA (Bodegas Bejerman)** (wine, unspecified use case). CASE SA is a Mendoza software house in the Parque Tecnologico whose Bodegas product is a management system built specifically for the Argentine wine industry and fully integrated into Bejerman ERP, the Thomson Reuters business management suite. It covers vineyard work with cost allocation to the resulting wine, grape maturation tracking that produces a ripening curve to inform the harvest date for each variety and parcel with year on year comparison, harvest intake logged truckload by truckload against the originating parcel, and the traceability and quality records demanded by export markets and Argentine regulation. CASE also sells a separate data analytics practice. Nothing on the site claims machine learning: the maturation curves and vineyard yield reports are conventional record keeping and reporting.
- **Cask Capital** (multiple, 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. People: Jeremy Kadouch (Founder and CEO).
- **Caskd** (whiskey, 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. People: Jonathan Yates (Founder).
- **CaskPilot** (whiskey, 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.
- **CaskX** (whiskey, 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.
- **Catalyst ERP** (whiskey, 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. People: Rob Scambler (Sales contact).
- **Cathy Huyghe** (multiple, 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. People: [Cathy Huyghe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-huyghe-332307/) (Co-Founder and CEO, wine and spirits data analytics / business intelligence — Enolytics).
- **Cavit** (wine, vineyard sensor monitoring platform). Cavit is a Trentino wine cooperative whose 11 member wineries and about 5,250 grower members farm roughly 6,250 hectares, over 60 percent of the Trentino vineyard area. It runs PICA, its own named precision viticulture platform, which collects data from sensors placed in member vineyards, processes it centrally and returns personalised notifications that guide each grower's daily work. Cavit also moved its core business systems to SAP S/4HANA cloud under RISE with SAP in January 2025. Cavit makes no AI or machine learning claim for PICA on its own site: it is described as sensor telemetry plus grower notifications, not modelling or prediction.
- **CDR (CDR BeerLab)** (beer, 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.
- **Cellr** (wine, serialised bottle track and trace). Cellr gives wine and spirits producers serialised QR codes and NFC or RFID enabled lids and labels applied on the bottling line, creating a per bottle digital identity used for anti counterfeit verification, track and trace, digital product passport compliance and direct to consumer engagement. Brand dashboards report scan, claim and conversion analytics, with published customer results such as Red Hill Estate averaging 250 bottles claimed per month. Cellr makes no AI or machine learning claim: the platform is serialisation, authentication and engagement reporting. People: Chris Braine (Founder and CEO).
- **Celtic Renewables** (whiskey, 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.
- **Centec** (beer, 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.
- **Cesky svaz pivovaru a sladoven (Czech Beer and Malt Association)** (beer, 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. People: Radka Cerna (Head of Secretariat).
- **CFT Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Charles Faram** (beer, 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.
- **CHARVAT Pacovske strojirny** (beer, 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.
- **Chouette** (wine, drone imagery analysis for vine disease and vigour mapping). Chouette builds its own drones plus an image-analysis pipeline for precision viticulture, selling a complete capture-and-analysis service to winegrowers in France. Its own site states the offer combines artificial intelligence with agronomic expertise, trained on millions of vineyard images captured at millimetre precision, to produce vigour maps, disease detection and spray volume recommendations. Kubota Corporation invested in the company in 2023.
- **Chunpoong Brewery (춘풍양조장)** (multiple, 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. People: Wonho Kim (Owner), Joong Sul Bae (Co-founder, CEO of Beonam Brewery).
- **Circana** (multiple, 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. People: Boris Oglesby (Executive Vice President, Practice Leader, Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco).
- **Cirrus Tech** (beer, 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.
- **CitySoft Consulting** (wine, winery erp with ai document capture). CitySoft Consulting is an Australian SAP Business One and Sage partner that has packaged a dedicated winemaker solution on SAP Business One, covering blending rules, labelling, quality control, sampling, wastage, wine club management, wine tax tracking and capture of grape variety, vintage and region. The AI in the stack is bought in rather than built: Affinda document AI automates purchase to pay, and CitySoft resells Boyum B1 Usability Package AI and Nectari AI for SAP Business One reporting. CitySoft itself makes no proprietary machine learning claim for the wine solution.
- **Clarkston Consulting** (multiple, 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. People: James Savage (Manager, Sales Enablement).
- **CLEMENS Technologies** (wine, camera vision post detection on vineyard pre-pruners). CLEMENS Technologies is a German maker of viticulture and orchard machinery: undervine weeding tools, tool carriers and lift masts, soil cultivation and canopy management equipment, plus vineyard management software. Its C-Vision double sided pre-pruner uses what the company calls an AI based camera opening system that recognises trellis posts of any type and opens the pruning head automatically, and which can be trained on new trellis configurations. The system won a silver medal at the SITEVI 2025 Innovation Awards in Montpellier.
- **Cleveland Whiskey** (whiskey, 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. People: Tom Lix (Founder).
- **ClimateHound** (multiple, 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.
- **Clockwork Business Solutions** (whiskey, 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.
- **Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF)** (non_alcoholic, 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.
- **Cofficient** (whiskey, 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. People: Paul Tindal (Director), Paul Grant (Director), Ben Hille (CTO).
- **COLAClear** (multiple, 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.
- **Collo (ColloidTek Oy)** (multiple, 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.
- **Commedia (Wine AI)** (wine, wine label image recognition). Commedia SRL is a Microsoft certified communication and ICT agency based in Lecce with offices in Matera and Milan, working on web, SharePoint and Sitefinity development and digital transformation projects. It publishes Wine AI on Microsoft AppSource and the Azure Marketplace, described by the publisher as an artificial intelligence app that recognises wines from their labels. The AI claim appears only in the marketplace listing; Commedia's own website does not carry a Wine AI product page, so the model and its accuracy are unverified.
- **Commerce7** (wine, wine club churn and signup prediction plus natural-language analytics). Direct-to-consumer commerce platform used by more than 3,500 wineries, covering point of sale, wine clubs and subscriptions, ecommerce, reservations and CRM. Its predictive layer includes club churn prediction to flag members likely to cancel, club signup prediction to flag customers ready to join, and Ask Pip, a natural-language interface for querying winery data. Wine only, no beer or spirits positioning. Owned by Fullsteam, which also acquired WineDirect's SaaS division and the WinePulse analytics platform. People: [Andrew Kamphuis](https://ca.linkedin.com/in/andrewkamphuis) (President and founder).
- **Compass Box (Pyxis)** (whiskey, 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. People: Racheal Vaughan Jones (Chief Marketing Officer).
- **Complexica** (multiple, 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. People: Matthew Michalewicz (Co-CEO and co-founder), Zbigniew Michalewicz (Chief Scientist).
- **Computronix (POSSE ABC)** (multiple, 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.
- **Consejo Regulador DOCa Rioja** (wine, harvest yield forecasting across an appellation). The governing council of Spain's DOCa Rioja appellation has since 2022 been building its own predictive models over nearly 66,000 hectares of vineyard. It digitised more than 25 years of its own phenology and production records and combined them with topography, climate data, satellite multispectral imagery and field observations, then trained 170 candidate models on roughly 1,650 input variables and kept the best performers, reporting harvest estimate accuracy of 96 percent in parcels with detailed field data. Auxiliary models detect cover crops, missing vines, phenological stage and frost or hail damage, and the council has launched a Sistema Digital de Informacion Agroclimatica y Prediccion de la Cosecha app that puts the agroclimatic data, production prediction models and high resolution parcel cartography in growers' hands. This is an appellation body running the AI itself, not a vendor. People: Pablo Franco (Director General).
- **Constellation Brands** (multiple, 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. People: Ryan Mason (Director, Head of DTC Growth and Strategy).
- **Cool Farm Alliance** (multiple, 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.
- **Coopers Brewery** (beer, 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. People: Dr Jon Meneses (Brewing and Supply Chain Manager).
- **COPA Systeme** (multiple, 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.
- **COPA-DATA (zenon)** (beer, 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. People: Thomas Punzenberger (CEO and Founder).
- **Copper Peak Logistics** (wine, dtc wine fulfillment and weather aware shipping). Copper Peak Logistics is a wine focused third party fulfillment provider with warehouses in Napa, California and St Louis, serving winery direct to consumer shipping, wine clubs and allocations. Its proprietary CopperLink platform handles order tracking, club and allocation scheduling, inventory, and weather and ship complete order management, with compliance filters and open API integration to ecommerce and compliance systems such as ShipCompliant. It released a rebuilt version of CopperLink built on the Infoplus WMS backbone. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; the intelligence is rules based order filtering and weather holds.
- **Corksy** (wine, dtc wine commerce data with ai club retention analysis). Corksy is a direct to consumer platform for wineries covering ecommerce, website building, wine club and subscription management, point of sale, reservations and an analytics dashboard. It positions AI as a way to read the club, customer and shipping data wineries already hold, and ran a joint webinar with Sovos ShipCompliant in August 2026 on using AI to predict club joins, spot churn and analyse shipment deliverability. Corksy does not describe a specific machine learning model in its product pages, so treat the AI as applied analysis on its own data rather than a disclosed ML system.
- **Corley** (beer, 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. People: Gabriele Mittica (Co-founder).
- **Corso Systems** (multiple, 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.
- **Cotmac Electronics** (multiple, 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.
- **Craftable (FNBTech)** (multiple, 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.
- **CraftComply** (multiple, 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.
- **Crafted ERP** (multiple, 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.
- **Craftpeak** (beer, 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. People: John Kelley (Co-founder and CEO).
- **CRB Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Crisp Malt** (multiple, 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.
- **CRM FIRST** (beer, 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.
- **CRM For Wineries** (wine, no ai claim, salesforce integration for winery dtc and wholesale data). CRM For Wineries is a small Napa based Salesforce consulting partner that specialises only in wineries, building and maintaining live connections between winery specific software and Salesforce. Its flagship work is a bidirectional Commerce7 to Salesforce integration that adds wholesale functionality so direct to consumer and wholesale data sit on one platform, extending out to invoicing, ShipCompliant reporting, inventory, accounting and allocations. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; it matters to the wine data landscape as the plumbing that unifies otherwise separate DTC, wholesale and compliance records. Its Salesforce partner listing shows it founded in 2014 with a single certified expert, focused on California, Oregon and Washington. People: Jim (Founder).
- **Cropsy Technologies** (wine, vine-by-vine computer vision scanning for disease, yield and pruning counts). Cropsy mounts camera scanners on tractors, harvesters and ATVs that profile individual grapevines as the vehicle drives through the block, up to 8,000 vines per scanner per hour. On-board AI tags each vine and returns disease detection, cane and bud counts, missing-vine maps and yield estimates through its Osiris software. This is genuine computer vision inference running at the edge, not just sensor logging. Customers named on its own site include Cloudy Bay and Martell. People: Ali Alomari (Co-founder), Leila Deljkovic (Co-founder), Winston Su (Co-founder), Rory Buchanan (Co-founder).
- **CSB-System** (multiple, 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.
- **Customertimes (CT Mobile)** (multiple, 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.
- **Cypheme** (multiple, 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.
- **Czech Brewery System** (beer, 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.
- **Damai Craft (Zhixi Information Technology)** (beer, 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.
- **Danone** (non_alcoholic, 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.
- **DashBrew (KegMetrics)** (beer, 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. People: Greg Shaw (Founder).
- **Databricks** (multiple, 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.
- **Datassential** (multiple, 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.
- **DAUSCH Technologies GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Davies Engineering Group** (multiple, 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.
- **DBFEX (Spirits Capital Corporation)** (whiskey, 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.
- **Decant Index** (multiple, 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.
- **Deep Sky Vineyard** (wine, sensor driven precision irrigation and vineyard analytics). Family owned Arizona winery with vineyards in Arizona and Argentina that co-developed a smart vineyard platform with Google Cloud Technology Partner niolabs. Sensors across the blocks feed water flow and soil moisture readings through Cloud IoT Core and Pub/Sub into BigQuery, with Looker Studio for analysis, letting the growers irrigate by gallons per vine rather than by timer. Published results include roughly 1.6 million gallons of water saved in 2018 and the elimination of shrivel and bunch rot in their Grenache. The company makes no machine learning claim: the Google Cloud case study says only that it is exploring ML for future yield insight, and its own technology page describes zone profiling and record keeping rather than models. People: Phil Asmundson (Owner).
- **Della Toffola Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Dennis Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Descartes Systems Group** (beer, 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. People: Matt Fannon (Director of Routing, Silver Eagle Distributors, customer quoted).
- **DESTILA Brno** (beer, 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.
- **Deutsche Beverage and Process** (multiple, 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.
- **DFx Technology Ltd** (beer, 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.
- **DH Wine Compliance** (wine, alcohol licensing, reporting and compliance consulting). DH Wine Compliance is an alcohol industry compliance consultancy in Sonoma County offering licensing, regulatory reporting, consulting and training classes to wineries. It is a services firm, not a software vendor, and makes no technology or AI claim; it matters to the beverage data landscape as one of the compliance intermediaries that actually produce winery regulatory filings. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 338.
- **Diageo** (whiskey, 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.
- **Diemme Enologia** (wine, remote machine monitoring and alarm diagnostics). Diemme Enologia is an Italian winery equipment maker in Lugo, Ravenna, active since the 1920s and known for membrane presses and grape processing plant. It ships the Dme1923 app, a cloud connected mobile client that lets a winery watch its Diemme machines in real time, receive push notifications on work sequences, alerts and alarms, read the diagnostic section and alarm report, and act on process parameters of the running sequence within safety limits. Different users at the same winery can register the same machines and receive differentiated notifications, and a VPN remote connection is an optional paid extra currently limited to membrane presses with the E-Panel. Diemme makes no AI or machine learning claim; this is connected monitoring and remote service.
- **Digital Winery** (wine, none claimed, winery production tracking). Digital Winery is an end to end management system for wine producers, running from vineyard records and harvest planning through crush, fermentation, bottling, cost tracking and traceability, with its own IoT weather stations and thermal regulation hardware plus mobile apps for field work. Despite the .ai domain, the site describes no artificial intelligence or machine learning component anywhere, and none should be inferred: the monitoring is sensor telemetry and rules. Contact details are a US number and the site is dated 2024 to 2026; no headquarters, founders or funding are published.
- **DigitalPour (Brewmium)** (beer, 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.
- **DigiTathya** (multiple, 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.
- **Dimensional Insight** (multiple, 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.
- **Direct From Italy** (wine, cross border excise and customs automation for alcohol). Direct From Italy sells Bevendy and the D2C Customs plug-in, software that automates customs paperwork, excise duty and VAT calculation and shipping quotation for wineries, breweries and spirits producers selling direct to consumers in more than 45 countries. It plugs into Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento and PrestaShop and operates under the EU One Stop Shop regime. It makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim; this is rules based compliance automation, which is the point of it. Named customers include Santa Margherita, Astoria, La Scolca, Umberto Cesari, Tommasi, Cantina Girlan and Chiarli 1860. It was one of eight startups selected for the Wine Tech Challenge at the Verona Agrifood Innovation Hub in May 2026.
- **DirectSens GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Disruptive Advantage** (multiple, 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.
- **Distilled ID** (whiskey, 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.
- **Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS)** (whiskey, 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.
- **Distilling.ai (TTBMath)** (whiskey, 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.
- **Diver BI Group** (multiple, 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.
- **Diversity Arrays Technology** (beer, 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.
- **Divinea** (wine, none claimed). Divinea runs an Italian wine-tourism and direct-to-consumer platform (Wine Suite) through which consumers book cellar-door tastings and experiences at member wineries, and through which wineries manage those bookings and the resulting customer relationships. Verified directly on the vendor's site, which lists live bookable experiences across Montalcino, Sicily, Alto Adige and Tuscany. The vendor makes no machine-learning or AI claim anywhere on its public site; it is recorded here as winery DTC and hospitality software, not as an AI vendor.
- **Dolia** (multiple, 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. People: Giovanni Binello (Co-Founder), Eraldo Federico Acchiappati (Co-Founder), Andrea Aschei (Co-Founder).
- **DraftLine Technologies** (beer, 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.
- **DraftServ** (multiple, 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.
- **DRAMS** (whiskey, 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.
- **DRINKS** (wine, recommendation / personalization). Beverage-alcohol technology company whose AI suite (PAIR / DRINKS Recommend) powers personalized wine recommendations for online retailers, reporting large lifts in session conversions and revenue per session. People: [Zac Brandenberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-brandenberg) (Co-Founder & CEO), [Barry Collier](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrycollier) (Co-Founder & CTO/CPO).
- **DSDLink** (multiple, 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.
- **Duan Peng** (multiple, 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. People: Duan Peng (SVP, Head of Data Science, AI and Machine Learning — Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits).
- **Dynavision** (multiple, 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.
- **E Tech Group** (multiple, 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.
- **e-label.io (IMERO)** (wine, eu wine e-label compliance documents, no ai claim). e-label.io, run by the German software company IMERO, is a compliance tool that produces the electronic wine labels required by EU Regulation 2021/2117. A winemaker enters analysis data such as alcohol, total acidity and residual sugar plus a picked ingredient list, and the tool builds the nutrition table, translates it into every EU language, geolocates country-specific information such as Italian recycling marks, and issues a QR code hosted for at least ten years; it also offers ERP import interfaces, collective QR codes for price lists, and a done-for-you labelling service. The Austrian trade magazine Der Winzer notes it calculates values that most rival tools make the winemaker enter by hand. Checked in full: the site makes no machine learning or AI claim anywhere, it is document automation, translation and hosting.
- **E. & J. Gallo Winery** (wine, precision irrigation from satellite and sensor data). The largest family owned winery in the United States, founded in Modesto in 1933, with more than a dozen wineries in California and Washington and over 90 wine brands sold in more than 100 countries. It worked with IBM Research and irrigation maker Netafim on a precision irrigation trial at a Modesto vineyard that used satellite and weather data to water small vine blocks rather than ten acre plots, led on the IBM side by researcher Hendrik Hamann. It makes no current AI claim of its own: gallo.com describes water conservation experiments and ISO 14001 certification but no machine learning, and the IBM irrigation work is a decade old.
- **E2M COUTH Vision Systems** (beer, 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.
- **Earthly Labs (Chart Industries)** (multiple, 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. People: Alex Calkins (Technical Solutions Manager, Earthly Labs).
- **EasyCheck** (multiple, 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.
- **ebizframe (Eastern Software Systems)** (whiskey, erp for distillery and alcohol manufacturing). Indian enterprise software vendor (Eastern Software Systems, head office Noida) selling ebizframe Intelligent ERP with a dedicated distillery and alcohol manufacturing edition covering raw material purchase, production, inventory, quality control, regulatory compliance and distribution. The vendor markets the suite as AI enabled ERP and documents robotic process automation, natural language processing and an embedded business intelligence layer. Those are the vendor's own descriptions; no specific machine learning model applied to distillation or maturation is documented publicly, so the AI here is a platform-level claim rather than a demonstrated production model.
- **eBottli** (wine, no ai claim; wine and spirits traceability ERP, MES and WMS). eBottli sells an integrated ERP, MES, WMS and automation platform for manufacturers needing real-time visibility, traceability and paperless operations, with a wine and spirits focus and a combination of software and smart hardware. Verified on the vendor site after a browser pass. The product is positioned on digitisation, connection and asset tracking; no machine-learning or AI claim is made anywhere on it, so it is tracked as a system of record rather than an AI vendor.
- **eCELLAR** (wine, No AI claim. Winery DTC platform with a centralised customer database across club, POS, reservations and ecommerce, marketed on customer analytics and data-driven segmentation rather than any model.). Calistoga, California winery DTC commerce and customer data platform.
- **Ecolab** (multiple, 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.
- **Ecolibrium** (beer, 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.
- **ecoSPIRITS** (multiple, 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. People: Paul Gabie (Chief Executive Officer), Derek Tang (Chief Technology Officer), Anand Subramanian (Chief Operating Officer).
- **Ekos** (multiple, 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.
- **Elaisian** (multiple, 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.
- **Elevated BI** (beer, 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. People: Austin Bristow (Founder).
- **Elite Control Systems** (whiskey, 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.
- **Ella Spirits and Beverages** (whiskey, 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. People: Joyjeet Ghosh (CEO), Tom Lix (Chairman).
- **Eluceda** (whiskey, 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. People: Matthew Harte (CEO), Dr Ian Eastwood (CTO).
- **Emerson** (multiple, 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.
- **Enartis** (wine, distribution of ai fermentation monitoring to wineries). Italian winemaking inputs company making stabilising agents, fining agents, oak alternatives and mannoproteins, part of the Esseco group. It is the worldwide exclusive distributor of WINEGRID, the Portuguese SaaS fermentation monitoring system from Watgrid whose algorithms read production parameters in real time and support predictive analysis of a vinification, which Enartis markets under a Smart Enology positioning. Enartis has also announced the acquisition of Parsec, the Italian winery automation and intelligent control company. The AI is not Enartis's own: it is built by WINEGRID and Parsec, and Enartis is the commercial, integration and distribution layer around it. People: Piermario Ticozzelli (Strategic Business Director).
- **Enavate** (wine, AI consulting). Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP consulting and solutions firm with a dedicated beverage and wine practice, including the VinPoint winery platform. It implements AI tooling such as Microsoft Copilot and Power Apps to automate operations for wineries and beverage producers.
- **Encompass Technologies** (multiple, 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. People: Jonathan O'Neil (Co-founder), Kent O'Neil (Co-founder).
- **Endless West** (multiple, 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.
- **Endress+Hauser** (beer, 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.
- **Enolytics** (wine, demand forecasting). Data analytics platform built for wineries and spirits brands that aggregates sales channel data and applies predictive analytics and forecasting to drive direct-to-consumer growth. People: [Cathy Huyghe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-huyghe-332307) (CEO, Co-Founder), [Chris Huyghe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishuyghe) (Co-Founder).
- **Enosens** (wine, wine analysis laboratory network). French group formed by merging four Bordeaux area oenology laboratories (Cadillac, Coutras, Grezillac, Saint-Savin) and the URAB under a single brand, offering analysis and advisory from the vineyard through to bottling. It is the analytical layer behind a large number of Bordeaux estates and is a member of the Inno'vin wine cluster. Enosens makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is included as part of the wine data landscape because it is where a large share of Bordeaux chemical and sensory data is generated.
- **Enoveneta** (wine, connected pneumatic presses with remote recipe and parameter management). Enoveneta S.p.A. makes winery process equipment, chiefly pneumatic grape presses from 9 to 700 hL, product transfer pumps and crossflow filters, and can deliver complete cellars from grape reception to filtration. Its named digital offer is an Industry 4.0 technology line: PLC and HMI machine control, remote control of the machine including loading working recipes and managing parameters from PC, smartphone or tablet, remote assistance and remote diagnosis by its service team, and interconnection of every machine in the plant with the winery's management software for data transfer. Enoveneta makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is the sensor and control layer that Italian cellar data comes from.
- **Enzo Unified** (beer, 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. People: CV Eaton (Partner).
- **EOS Solutions (EOS WineSuite / EOS Wine)** (wine, production data). EOS Solutions is an Italian ISV with over 100 apps on Microsoft AppSource for Dynamics 365 Business Central, including EOS Wine and the broader EOS WineSuite. The suite covers vineyard field activities, cellar operations such as cutting, transfer and sweetening, bottling production BOMs, and warehouse and finance, and is co-marketed with KUMAVISION in the DACH region. The wine modules make no public AI claims; tracked as the winery system of record on Business Central.
- **eoStar** (multiple, 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.
- **Epical** (beer, 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. People: Marit Sareyko (CEO).
- **eProvenance** (wine, wine cold chain scoring). eProvenance is a Franco American company that monitors the temperature and shipping conditions of fine wine at container, pallet or case level, using sensors placed in shipments and analysis of the resulting condition data. Its proprietary scientific algorithm converts a shipment temperature history into the eProvenance Score, a 0 to 100 rating of whether the wine stayed fresh or was heat damaged. In 2020 it launched VinAssure, a wine supply chain platform built on IBM Blockchain Transparent Supply. The scoring algorithm is described as scientific and rule based rather than machine learning, and the company makes no explicit ML claim.
- **Epsilon Dynamics (Data Communication SA)** (multiple, 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. People: Nikolas Tsirgelis (General Manager, Epsilon Dynamics).
- **Erin Schmidt** (beer, 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. People: [Erin Schmidt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-schmidt-92a18a4/) (Director, Commercial Analytics — Molson Coors Beverage Company).
- **Esau & Hueber** (beer, 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.
- **Escarpment Labs** (beer, 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. People: Richard Preiss (CEO and Co-founder), Nate Ferguson (Co-founder), Angus Ross (Co-founder).
- **EtOH Spirits** (whiskey, 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. People: Tobias Emil Jensen (Founder).
- **ETS Laboratories** (wine, wine analytical testing and results dashboard). ETS Laboratories has run analytical services for winemakers since 1978 and operates labs in St Helena, Healdsburg, Paso Robles, Newberg and Walla Walla. It says it holds the industry's largest scope of ISO-accredited wine analyses and gives clients a redesigned analysis dashboard with real-time results, search and filtering. It is a significant holder of wine chemistry data, but its own site makes no AI or machine learning claim.
- **Euromonitor International** (multiple, 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.
- **Evergreen** (beer, 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.
- **Evocon** (beer, 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.
- **Explorex** (beer, 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.
- **EZ Lab Blockchain Solutions** (multiple, 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. People: Massimo Morbiato (CEO and Founder).
- **Ezy Systems (EzyWine)** (wine, none, winery erp with budgeting and forecasting reports). Ezy Systems, established in 1993 in regional Victoria, sells an all in one winery management system covering vineyard, winemaking, bottling, stock, sales and finance, marketed as farm to consumer. The site offers budgeting, forecasting and sales analysis reporting but makes no AI or machine learning claim. The company was acquired by Jonas Software, part of Constellation Software.
- **Factbird** (multiple, 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.
- **Factry** (beer, 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.
- **Farm Carbon Toolkit** (wine, vineyard and winery carbon footprint calculation). UK not for profit that runs the Farm Carbon Calculator and hosts the WineGB Carbon Calculator, a branded instance offered free to Wines of Great Britain members and used as the carbon footprint module of the Sustainable Wines of Great Britain certification scheme. It ships separate report templates for vineyards, wineries and combined businesses and was refreshed in October 2025 with new data collection sheets and guidance. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere: this is emission factor accounting over farmer entered activity data, sharing the underlying methodology used by over twelve thousand UK farmers. This entry resolves a company left blocked by the previous ESG sweep; the site returns 403 to plain fetchers but serves normally to a browser user agent.
- **FermentIQ** (multiple, 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.
- **Fermentis** (multiple, 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. People: Gabriela Montandon (Global R&D Manager).
- **Fermly** (beer, 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. People: Frances Tietje-Wang (Founder, TTB certified brewing chemist), Danny Wang (Co-Founder, Information Architect).
- **Figura Analytics** (multiple, 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. People: Nick Whitehurst (CEO), Mark Platt (Co-founder), Rhush Maugi (Co-founder, software and machine learning).
- **FILTEC** (beer, 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.
- **Fintech (Financial Information Technologies)** (multiple, 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.
- **First Key Consulting** (multiple, 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. People: Dr. Jack Buffington (Director of Supply Chain & Sustainability).
- **Firstleaf** (wine, recommendation / personalization). Direct-to-consumer wine club operated by Penrose Hill that uses proprietary WinePrint taste-profiling technology to build individual palate profiles and recommend personalized wine selections to members. People: [Philip James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipjames) (Founder & CEO), [Kevin Jessen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinejessen) (SVP Technology & Product).
- **FIVE x 5 Solutions** (whiskey, 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.
- **Flaviar** (whiskey, 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.
- **FlavorActiV** (multiple, 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.
- **FlavorWiki** (multiple, 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. People: [Daniel Protz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-protz-707b772a) (Founder and CEO).
- **Flexware Innovation** (whiskey, 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. People: Jeff Etchison (VP of Strategic Initiatives).
- **Flowsight GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Flutebyte Technologies** (whiskey, 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.
- **Fobi AI** (multiple, 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. People: Rob Anson (CEO), David Nicholls (VP Liquor Beverage).
- **Foodmach** (multiple, 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.
- **FoodQloud** (multiple, 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.
- **Forbes Marshall** (beer, 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.
- **forHops** (beer, 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.
- **FORM (GoSpotCheck by FORM)** (multiple, 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. People: Ali Moosani (Chief Executive Officer), Rafal Cycon (Chief Data Scientist), Chris Berry (Chief Technology Officer).
- **Forsyths** (whiskey, 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. People: Richard Ernest Forsyth (Managing Director).
- **FOSS** (multiple, 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.
- **Freepour** (multiple, 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.
- **Fruition Sciences** (wine, vine water status and grape maturation prediction from sap flow and climate data). Fruition Sciences runs a vineyard monitoring platform that links climate, irrigation, soil maps, fertilisation and plant development data to fruit maturation, delivered as cloud and mobile software for winemakers. In-vine sap flow sensors report every 15 minutes and proprietary algorithms compute reference evapotranspiration, plant transpiration and vine stress. The company states on its own site that it applies machine learning techniques alongside plant physiology and GIS expertise to generate predictive alerts. Montpellier is the French base, with a second office in Napa, California. People: Sebastien Payen (Co-founder), Thibaut Scholasch (Co-founder).
- **FuturMaster** (multiple, 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.
- **Gabert Rebstock Software (GRS)** (beer, 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.
- **GEA Group** (beer, 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.
- **GEMAK Gida Endustri Makinalari** (multiple, 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.
- **GetGenAI** (multiple, 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.
- **GMware** (multiple, 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.
- **goerp.ai (Mawai Infotech)** (multiple, 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.
- **GoTab** (beer, 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. People: Tim McLaughlin (Co-founder and CEO).
- **Gov2Biz** (multiple, 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.
- **GQS AG** (multiple, 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.
- **Graine** (multiple, 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.
- **Grantek Systems Integration** (beer, 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.
- **Gray** (whiskey, 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.
- **Greater (Greater Industries Labs)** (beer, 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.
- **GreenMile** (multiple, 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.
- **Grist Analytics** (beer, 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. People: Brynn Keenan (author, Between Two Fermenters).
- **Ground Signal** (multiple, 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. People: Melki Ko (Founder and CEO).
- **GRUEN GQM GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Haber** (beer, 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.
- **Hach** (beer, 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.
- **Hamilton Company** (beer, 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.
- **Harford Control** (multiple, 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.
- **Harmony AI** (multiple, 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.
- **Haskell** (multiple, 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.
- **Heineken** (beer, 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. People: [Dolf van den Brink](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dolfvandenbrink) (Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO).
- **HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK** (beer, 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.
- **Hillebrand Gori** (multiple, 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.
- **Hixson Architecture, Engineering and Interiors** (beer, 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.
- **Holostik India** (multiple, 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.
- **Hop Control** (beer, 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.
- **Hop Products Australia** (beer, 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.
- **Hop Research Institute Zatec (Chmelarsky institut)** (beer, 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.
- **Hopsteiner** (beer, 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. People: Martin Biendl (Head of Research and Development and Analytics).
- **HotSpot AG** (wine, irrigation, fertigation and frost protection automation). HotSpot AG sells farm management hardware and software that automates irrigation, fertigation and frost protection systems for growers, water districts and municipal agencies, with remote control and water efficiency reporting against changing water policy. It exhibits to the wine sector at WIN Expo Sonoma, booth 716. The offering is remote control and telemetry automation; the site makes no AI or machine learning claim despite the AG in the name referring to agriculture.
- **Hy-Tek Intralogistics** (beer, 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.
- **Hypro Engineers** (beer, 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.
- **Ian Weller** (wine, data systems and ML data pipelines for crop imaging). Manages the data systems engineering function at Bloomfield Robotics, the pipeline layer behind its plant level vineyard imaging models. Listed on the company's current team page. People: Ian Weller (Engineering Manager, Data Systems, Bloomfield Robotics).
- **IBM** (multiple, 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.
- **IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions)** (multiple, 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.
- **iFactory AI** (multiple, 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.
- **IFS** (whiskey, 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.
- **iGulu (AlBrew Corp)** (beer, 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.
- **IMDvista (IMD AG)** (multiple, 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.
- **Impact Databank** (multiple, 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.
- **Improvin'** (beer, 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.
- **Indeex** (multiple, 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.
- **INDOBREW** (multiple, 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.
- **INDSPECT Industrielle Pruftechnik GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Inductive Automation (Ignition)** (whiskey, 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.
- **inecta** (wine, wine and spirits distribution erp with demand forecasting). inecta builds food and beverage industry ERP on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and runs a wine and spirits distribution vertical covering multi-location inventory, lot traceability, multi-state tax calculation, regulatory compliance and transportation management. The company lists an inecta AI product and offers demand forecasting inside inventory management, but publishes no detail on what the models are, so the verified core is a system of record rather than a demonstrated machine-learning product. It states more than 25 years in the food and beverage industry.
- **Infilect** (multiple, 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. People: Anand Prabhu Subramanian (Co-founder), Vijay Gabale (Co-founder).
- **Infinity Sky AI** (multiple, 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.
- **InflexionPoint** (beer, 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. People: Kevin Hannigan (CEO).
- **Information Power (Vinea)** (wine, vineyard data capture and sensor analytics). Information Power Limited publishes Vinea, a web and mobile vineyard management platform sold to New Zealand grape growers, wine companies and vineyard labour contractors, and listed on Microsoft AppSource. It assembles crop, viticultural practice, terroir, place and weather data so growers can monitor yield, quality and production cost and make time critical intervention decisions, and it handles payroll, invoicing and compliance records for labour managers. The vendor describes sensor data analytics and a digital twin of the vineyard but makes no explicit machine learning or predictive model claim.
- **Innova Market Insights** (multiple, 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.
- **InnoVint** (wine, winery production data and workflow automation). InnoVint is cloud winery management software covering vineyard tracking, wine production, inventory, cost accounting and TTB compliance reporting. It markets intelligent winery workflows and AI-assisted automation to cut administrative busywork, with clients reporting savings of 15 to 30 hours per week. The system of record is the product; the AI layer sits on top of winery operations data.
- **Institut Romeis Bad Kissingen GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **INTECH Automation & Intelligence (EmpowerGPT)** (multiple, 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.
- **Integra Estrategia y Tecnologia** (wine, viticultural zoning and grape ripening prediction). Spanish technology and strategy consultancy with a Food and Beverages practice. It was the technology partner on the Cepa 21 winery AI project in Ribera del Duero alongside IBM and Universidad Europea de Madrid, designing a solution fed with Ribera del Duero Designation of Origin data and Weather Company meteorological data. The published case study states the solution applied more than ten AI techniques over more than 50 million records to characterise and zone the region, relate climate events to grape parameters, and predict grape ripening indices, with results surfaced on dashboards. Evidence for its beverage work is a single client project, not a productised wine offering.
- **Integrape** (wine, vine level data platform with machine learning disease detection). Integrape runs a viticulture data platform that aggregates lab results, winery data and historical vineyard records into vine level spatial records, plus VineAudit for per vine and per gap mapping and the Vure mobile app for field data capture. The platform itself is a system of record and analytics rather than an in house machine learning product. The machine learning component, VinEye, is an algorithm developed by New Zealand's Plant and Food Research that identifies grapevine leafroll disease from photographs of vines; Integrape has been integrating it with its platform and running robot mounted camera surveys in Hawke's Bay and Marlborough with partners Agri Automation and Bitwise Agronomy. Integrape and Vure are used on roughly a third of New Zealand's planted vineyard area, more than 300 vineyards. People: Joris Besamusca (Founder).
- **IntelliCulture** (wine, vineyard equipment telematics and spray pass verification). IntelliCulture is a GPS and farm management platform purpose built for specialty crop farms including vineyards, connecting existing GPS hardware or its own. It tracks what equipment is actually doing in the block rather than just where it is, verifying every spray pass, computing true cost per acre, automating OSHA inspection records and GHG reporting. The company says it covers 750,000 acres of nut, vineyard, orchard and specialty crop farms. The analytics are telematics derived; no machine learning claim is made. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 708.
- **IntelliShift** (multiple, 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.
- **International Wineries for Climate Action** (wine, winery greenhouse gas inventory and carbon accounting). IWCA is a working group of wineries founded in 2019 by Familia Torres of Penedes, Spain and Jackson Family Wines of California, which has developed carbon accounting methodologies specific to the wine sector and requires members to produce verified greenhouse gas inventories. It is a partner of the United Nations Race to Zero campaign, and named members include Yealands Estate Wines in Australia, VSPT Wine Group in Chile, Neleman in Spain, Voyager Estate in Australia and Sogrape in Portugal. Its value to the beverage data landscape is the protocol and the verified emissions data set it forces members to build; it makes no AI or machine learning claim.
- **Interstates** (beer, 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.
- **INTRAVIS GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **iPourIt** (beer, 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. People: Brett Jones (Co-founder), Joseph McCarthy (Co-founder).
- **Irokoo** (wine, none, vineyard ERP on Odoo). Irokoo is a French Odoo Gold partner that packages Odoo as an all in one management system for wine estates, covering vineyard and cellar operations, traceability, French excise and duty filings (DRM, CRD, GAMMA/CIEL), direct sales, cellar door point of sale, wine tourism bookings and CRM. It also markets Odoo AI agent integration as a separate service line. Checked, and there is no machine learning claim in its wine product: it is a system of record built on Odoo.
- **ISAGRI (ISAVIGNE / ISACUVE)** (wine, no ai claim; cellar traceability and wine sales administration). ISAGRI is a long-established French agricultural software and hardware vendor with a dedicated vigneron product line. ISACUVE Web manages traceability of wines in the cellar in a full web version, ISAVIGNE handles invoicing and wine export paperwork, and Geofolia covers plot-level traceability, alongside weather stations, capacitive soil probes and a crop disease decision tool. It is a system of record and regulatory compliance stack for French wine growers, with no substantiated machine learning claim.
- **iSellBeer** (beer, 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.
- **iStill** (whiskey, automated cut control plus a genai distilling assistant). iStill B.V. builds modular automated mashing, fermentation and distillation equipment for craft distilleries and says it serves more than 1,500 distilleries worldwide. Its stills run what the company calls level three automation and robotization: sensors drive the cuts between heads, hearts and tails, reflux and air pressure compensation are handled by the controller, and validated recipes replay with no operator intervention. That control layer is deterministic process logic, not machine learning, and iStill does not claim otherwise. Separately the company has added DistillingAI to its website, a generative assistant it describes as the easiest way to learn about everything related to distilling and iStill, which is a customer facing language model rather than anything running on the still.
- **iSystems (I.Systems)** (beer, 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.
- **Ivy Mobility** (multiple, 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.
- **iWort** (beer, 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. People: [Ankur Napa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-napa/) (Founder & Product Owner).
- **IWSR** (multiple, 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.
- **Jamie Sherrah** (beer, 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. People: [Jamie Sherrah](https://au.linkedin.com/in/jsherrah) (CTO, Deep Liquid).
- **Jasmine Ortega** (wine, data science for vineyard and crop imaging analytics). Data scientist at Bloomfield Robotics, the Kubota-owned vineyard and specialty crop imaging company. Listed on the company's current team page; no further public detail on her specific projects was found. People: Jasmine Ortega (Data Scientist, Bloomfield Robotics).
- **Jean Rovani** (wine, computer vision for plant level vineyard and crop monitoring). Leads AI engineering at Bloomfield Robotics, whose imaging platform produces plant level health and performance insights for vineyards and other specialty crops. Listed on the company's current team page. People: [Jean Rovani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-rovani-a7a34b339) (Director of AI Engineering, Bloomfield Robotics).
- **Jon Trafton** (wine, winery DTC and wine club analytics). Lead Data Analyst at vinSUITE, listed on the company's current team page. vinSUITE is a direct to consumer platform for wineries covering wine club, tasting room POS, ecommerce and analytics; the analytics product is reporting and BI rather than a stated machine learning capability. People: Jon Trafton (Lead Data Analyst, vinSUITE).
- **Jose Cuevas** (wine, harvest volume prediction from drone multispectral imagery). Engineering researcher quoted in Concha y Toro's own account of its AI crop forecasting project, on transferring the models from experimental conditions into production vineyard operations. company_is_current is false only because the source article is dated March 2018 and no later confirmation of his role was found. People: Jose Cuevas (Researcher in Engineering, Vina Concha y Toro).
- **Kantar** (multiple, 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.
- **Kaspar Schulz** (multiple, 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.
- **Keg Logistics** (beer, 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. People: Chris Sapyta (CEO and Co-founder).
- **KegChek** (beer, 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.
- **KegID** (beer, 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.
- **Kegshoe** (beer, 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. People: Torin Regier, Adrian Pawliszko (co-founders).
- **KegSpeed** (beer, 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.
- **Kegstar** (beer, 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. People: Bryan Place (President, Kegstar).
- **Kegtron** (beer, 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. People: Steven Keck (Founder).
- **Kestrel Vision** (multiple, 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.
- **KHS Group** (beer, 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.
- **Kigtek Solutions** (whiskey, 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.
- **Kirin Holdings** (beer, 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. People: [Hideki Horiguchi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hideki-horiguchi-63879185) (President and CEO).
- **Kisling Consulting (KCWEIN 365)** (wine, winery erp, no ai claim). Kisling Consulting GmbH is a Heilbronn based Microsoft Dynamics partner that publishes KCWEIN 365, an industry ERP for wineries, cooperatives and wine distributors built on Dynamics 365 Business Central. The modules cover wine production, cellar operations, purchasing, quality and reporting for the German wine trade. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim: this is a system of record and an ERP consulting practice, not analytics.
- **KLH Consulting (Vintegrate)** (wine, production data). KLH Consulting is a Microsoft partner in Sonoma County that builds Vintegrate, a winery ERP layered on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Modules cover winemaking and production tracking, back office operations, and a Vintegrate 360 CRM, deployed on premise or in the cloud. It makes no public AI or machine learning claims; tracked as the winery system of record that harvest, cellar and cost data lands in.
- **Komsenso** (wine, real time fermentation monitoring). Spanish sensor company in Castilla y Leon, founded by two engineers, whose Enobot system attaches to winery fermentation tanks without drilling or welding and streams density, temperature and fermentation kinetics to a cloud platform in real time. It states it works with more than 30 wineries across several denominations of origin in Spain and Europe. Komsenso makes no machine learning claim: the product is sensing, data capture and vintage-to-vintage record keeping rather than prediction. It is a member of the Spanish wine technology platform PTV.
- **Konvoy Kegs** (beer, 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. People: [Adam Trippe-Smith](https://au.linkedin.com/in/adamtrippesmith) (Founder and CEO).
- **Korpershoek FreshFood Solutions** (multiple, 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.
- **Kothe Distilling Technologies** (whiskey, 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.
- **KROHNE** (multiple, 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.
- **Krones** (multiple, 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.
- **KROPF Solutions (Prozesstechnik Kropf GmbH)** (beer, 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.
- **KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA** (multiple, 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. People: Felix Buechting (CEO).
- **Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing (KEM / 京都電子工業)** (multiple, 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.
- **L2L (Leading2Lean)** (beer, 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.
- **Lallemand Brewing** (beer, 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.
- **Laminar (H2Ok Innovations)** (multiple, 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.
- **Last Call Analytics** (multiple, 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.
- **LEAFIO AI** (multiple, 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.
- **Leena AI** (multiple, 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. People: Adit Jain (Co-Founder and CEO), Mayank Goyal (Co-Founder and Chief Scientist), Anand Prajapati (Co-Founder and CTO).
- **Lehui International** (beer, 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.
- **Lesaffre** (multiple, 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. People: Gabriela Montandon (Global R&D Manager, Fermentis).
- **Leuven Institute for Beer Research** (beer, 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. People: Kevin Verstrepen (Director).
- **LibDib (LibTech / Supplier Cloud)** (multiple, 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. People: Cheryl Durzy (CEO, LibDib), Richard Brashears (General Manager, LibTech).
- **LikeFolio** (multiple, 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. People: Andy Swan (Co-Founder), Landon Swan (Co-Founder).
- **Limble** (beer, 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.
- **Linc (WineLINC)** (wine, wine production and excise erp with budgeting and forecasting). Linc is a South African consulting firm specialising in Dynamics 365 Business Central that publishes WineLINC, a suite of applications for wine businesses. It covers bottling and dry goods planning, inventory costing, sales cost and rebate handling, automatic South African excise calculation with DA32 generation and reconciliation, and production and sales budgeting from volume through to general ledger. It integrates with WineMS, TabletPOS, MarketMan and Commerce7. The company describes business intelligence for tracking and forecasting performance but makes no machine learning claim.
- **Lineview** (multiple, 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.
- **Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC** (beer, 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.
- **Lion Pty Ltd** (multiple, 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.
- **Liquid Vision AI** (multiple, 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.
- **LiquidRails** (multiple, 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.
- **Liquor Logic** (multiple, 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.
- **LiquorChat** (multiple, 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.
- **Liv-ex** (wine, fine wine transactional price data and market indices). Liv-ex (the London International Vintners Exchange) is a B2B exchange for fine wine that doubles as the trade's reference source of transactional price data. Its Market Intelligence arm sells monthly benchmarking reports, the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 and 100 indices and the LWIN wine identification standard, all built on real bids, offers and trades rather than survey panels. Drinks press cite Liv-ex indices as the standard measure of fine wine market performance. The company makes no AI or machine-learning claim on its own site; the product is transparent transaction data, analysis and automation for merchants and traders. People: James Miles (Co-founder and CEO), Justin Gibbs (Co-founder and Deputy Chairman).
- **LogiLab AI** (multiple, 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.
- **LogiNext** (multiple, 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.
- **Lucas Systems** (multiple, 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.
- **Lulie Halstead** (wine, data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage). Founded Wine Intelligence in 2002 and built it into the leading global wine consumer research and market intelligence firm before its acquisition by IWSR. People: [Lulie Halstead](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lulie-halstead-1b3b8826/) (Co-Founder and former CEO, wine consumer research and market intelligence — Wine Intelligence (IWSR Group), now independent advisor).
- **Lumina Intelligence** (multiple, 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.
- **Lumo** (wine, precision irrigation automation and block level water monitoring). Lumo is a precision irrigation platform combining smart valves, pump automation and an Ops Center used by Napa and Sonoma wine estates and other West Coast specialty crop growers. It measures block level flow rates to close what it calls the irrigation execution gap, covering scheduling, field execution, real time monitoring and water use reporting. The company reports over 200 farms and 99 percent customer retention. The product is sensor driven automation and analytics, not machine learning. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 333.
- **M&Wine** (wine, mineral fingerprinting for authenticity and blending decisions). M&Wine measures and quantifies more than 40 mineral elements in a wine sample, from major minerals down to metallic ultra traces across eight orders of magnitude, and treats that multi mineral profile as a stable fingerprint of terroir and cellar practice. Its platform applies machine learning to a reference base the company states has passed 60,000 cuvees to predict grape variety, region, country and category, to build what it calls a Digital Wine Passport for authenticity, and to run IAssemblage, an AI blending assistant, plus DeepRed. The Jumeau Numerique du Vin platform took a silver medal at the SITEVI 2025 Innovation Awards in Montpellier.
- **Ma-Cuvee (Studio Budo)** (wine, generative imagery for wine and spirits packshots). Ma-Cuvee, run by Studio Budo, turns a single photograph of a wine or spirits bottle into premium marketing visuals using generative AI, described on its own site as creating professional wine bottle photos via IA with automatic generation of unique royalty free visual content. It is aimed at estates and drinks brands that need year round packshot and beautyshot imagery without repeated studio shoots, and is a member of the French La WineTech association.
- **MADIC dynamics** (beer, 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.
- **Madras Security Printers** (multiple, 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.
- **MaintainX** (beer, 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.
- **MakeItDEX (Link Technology Group)** (multiple, 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.
- **MaltIQ** (whiskey, 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.
- **Margin** (multiple, 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.
- **MarshallAI** (beer, 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. People: Marcus Nordstrom (CEO), Tomi Niittumaki (CTO).
- **Maselli Misure S.p.A.** (multiple, 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.
- **Masitek Instruments Inc.** (multiple, 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.
- **MasterDistiller** (whiskey, unspecified use case). 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.
- **Matrix Technologies** (multiple, 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.
- **McEnery Automation** (beer, 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.
- **Metrohm** (multiple, 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.
- **Meura** (beer, 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.
- **Micet Group (Micet Craft)** (multiple, 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.
- **MicroStar Logistics** (beer, 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. People: [Michael Hranicka](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-hranicka-aa639a6/) (President and CEO).
- **Midhunatech (Midhuna Controls)** (whiskey, 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.
- **miho Inspektionssysteme GmbH** (beer, 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. People: Markus Grumann (Managing Director), Michael Horst (Founder and Managing Director).
- **Mintel** (multiple, 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.
- **Mirketa** (multiple, 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. People: Rajeev Kumar (Founder and CEO).
- **Mitsubishi Research Institute** (beer, 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.
- **MontBlancAI** (multiple, 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.
- **Moonshine University** (whiskey, 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. People: David Dafoe (Founder, Flavorman).
- **Moveworks** (non_alcoholic, 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.
- **MugClub.beer** (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.
- **Muirton Controls** (whiskey, 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.
- **Munhowen** (multiple, 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.
- **myEnologist** (wine, No AI claim. Subscription wine and juice lab analysis using FOSS WineScan instrumentation, returning a full data panel per sample so wineries can trend key parameters continuously instead of testing ad hoc. Instrumented data, no model.). Napa lab analysis, consulting and cellar supply business selling continuous wine chemistry monitoring on a monthly contract.
- **NABCA (National Alcohol Beverage Control Association)** (whiskey, 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.
- **Naio Technologies** (wine, quality control / computer vision). French agricultural robotics maker whose autonomous electric Ted robot uses lidar, camera and GPS guidance to mechanically weed vineyards, with hundreds of units deployed across multiple continents. People: [Aymeric Barthes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aymeric-barthes) (Co-Founder & CEO), [Gaetan Severac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaetansev) (Co-Founder).
- **Napa Green** (wine, vineyard and winery sustainability certification data). Napa Green is a nonprofit certification body for Napa Valley vineyards and wineries, running two standards built on more than 250 best practices covering soil health, water conservation, emissions reduction, biodiversity and social equity. It reports 51 certified vineyards, 96 certified wineries and 5,500 certified acres, with named certified members including Silver Oak Cellars, Truchard Vineyards and Chimney Rock Winery, and it supports members in building Carbon Farm Plans. It is a structured audit and data collection scheme for wine sustainability reporting and makes no AI or machine learning claim.
- **National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA)** (beer, 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. People: Lester Jones (Vice President of Analytics and Chief Economist).
- **NEC Corporation** (beer, 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.
- **Nestle** (non_alcoholic, 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.
- **Net Zero Now** (beer, 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.
- **NEUROPUBLIC (gaiasense)** (multiple, 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.
- **NeuroTags** (whiskey, 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.
- **New Vintage Labs** (wine, ai analyst over winery direct to consumer data). New Vintage Labs is a one person software venture building what it calls an AI DTC Analyst for wineries running on the Commerce7 ecommerce platform, with products listed as coming to the Commerce7 App Store. The pitch is vertical AI agents that automate repetitive winery tasks and answer questions about direct to consumer sales data. The site was mid rebuild when checked, no named customers, no HQ and no detail on the models or retrieval approach, so the AI claim is unverified beyond the marketing description. People: Stephen (Founder, surname not published).
- **New Zealand Hops Ltd (NZ Hops)** (beer, 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. People: Craig Orr (Chief Executive).
- **Next Glass** (beer, 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.
- **NextBillion.ai** (multiple, 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.
- **NextGen Wine Marketing** (wine, generative engine optimization for winery discovery). Napa Valley digital marketing agency working with wine brands on websites, ecommerce, SEO, paid media, email and marketing automation, with clients including Grgich Hills Estate, Hill Family Estate, LIOCO and DaVero Farms. It now sells Generative Engine Optimization and AI Search Optimization as named services, aimed at getting winery inventory, tasting notes and brand content surfaced by assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. This is advisory and content work around third party models: the agency builds no model of its own and makes no machine learning claim.
- **NielsenIQ (NIQ)** (multiple, 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.
- **NIRAS** (multiple, 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. People: Christian Wordenskjold Norregaard (Simulation Specialist), Olav Vind Larsen (Vice President), Chris Bullock (Director of Engineering, UK).
- **Node4 (formerly TNP)** (multiple, 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.
- **North Star Carbon & Impact** (wine, carbon accounting with ai assisted decarbonisation planning). SaaS platform for measuring, reporting and reducing scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, with dashboards, supplier data collection and one click audit ready reports mapped to GRI, SASB, CSRD and CDP. It is the preferred carbon accounting platform for International Wineries for Climate Action member wineries, offered to them at reduced cost and free to the smallest members, under a partnership announced in November 2024. The site advertises AI features and the IWCA announcement describes AI enabled decarbonisation planning tools, but the vendor publishes no detail on what the models actually do. People: Josh Prigge (CEO and co-founder).
- **Numerator** (multiple, 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.
- **NuMove Robotics and Vision** (beer, 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.
- **Oculyze** (multiple, 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.
- **Oenobiote** (multiple, 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.
- **Ohanafy** (multiple, 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.
- **Ollie** (beer, 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.
- **Omega Yeast** (beer, 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.
- **OMMM Operations Management Solutions GmbH** (multiple, 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.
- **Omnivo Digital** (multiple, 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.
- **OMRON Kirin Techno-System** (beer, 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. People: Hironobu Hosokawa (President).
- **Onafis** (multiple, 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.
- **optek-Danulat** (beer, 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.
- **OPTIMIND (Loogia)** (multiple, 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. People: Ken Matsushita (President and CEO).
- **Oracle** (multiple, 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.
- **OrderPort** (wine, winery direct to consumer system of record and reporting). OrderPort is a connected winery management platform covering tasting room point of sale, wine club and allocation, ecommerce, reservations, marketing, payments and real time reporting across sales, club, guests and operations. It is a direct to consumer system of record for wineries and a meaningful source of winery transaction data. The site makes no AI or machine learning claim. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 146.
- **Orion Breweries** (beer, 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.
- **Orion Wine Software** (wine, unspecified use case). Orion Wine Software sells two winery systems: Orion Cloud for wholesale sales, case goods inventory, depletion tracking and compliance reporting, and WiPS for winemaking production covering grape intake, trial blends, work orders and cost tracking. It targets larger enterprise wineries, importers and multi-brand producers that need TTB compliance and combined wholesale plus production visibility. The company markets 'data-driven decisions' and real-time insight but makes no machine learning claim anywhere on its site; the analytics are reporting and dashboards, including a recently launched Orion Scorecard.
- **Orise** (beer, 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.
- **Orisha Agrifood Iberica (VinoTEC / NORA)** (wine, generative ai assistant over winery erp and traceability data). VinoTEC, now branded NORA, is a winery and cooperative ERP built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central covering harvest intake, winemaking, bottling, warehouse, quality control, regulatory reporting and cooperative member administration. It is published by Orisha Agrifood Iberica, formed by consolidating Ayanet TIC, Gregal and TIPSA under the European vertical software group Orisha, and headquartered in Logrono. The AI element is generative rather than predictive: Microsoft Copilot based conversational querying of production, ageing and traceability records. The core product is a system of record; no proprietary machine learning model is claimed. Named user: Bodegas Familiares Matarromera.
- **ORTEC** (beer, 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. People: Mat Witte (Senior Vice President, ORTEC Americas).
- **Outfield** (multiple, 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.
- **Outshinery** (wine, GenAI marketing). Creative-tech company producing photorealistic wine and beverage product imagery via 3D rendering, and adding generative-AI tools to help brands create marketing visuals and content at scale. People: [Laurie Millotte](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauriemillotte) (Founder & CEO).
- **Overproof** (whiskey, 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. People: [Marc De Kuyper](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcdekuyper) (Founder and CEO).
- **Overview** (multiple, 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.
- **Oztera (TeraVina)** (wine, no ai claim, winery erp and power bi reporting). Oztera is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner that publishes TeraVina, a wine industry vertical listed on the Microsoft marketplace. TeraVina gives wineries unified customer visibility across tasting rooms and points of sale and lets them see production cost mid process rather than after the fact. Oztera makes no machine learning claim, the analytics are Business Central plus Power BI reporting, which makes it a system of record rather than an AI vendor.
- **ParallelDots (ShelfWatch)** (multiple, 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.
- **Park Street** (multiple, 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. People: Harry Kohlmann (Chief Executive Officer and co-founder).
- **Parsable** (multiple, 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.
- **Parsec** (wine, algorithmic fermentation kinetics control and nutrient dosing). Parsec builds automation and control systems for wineries, covering micro-oxygenation, fermentation control, selective extraction and real-time monitoring, with patented technology installed in more than 30 countries. Its named products are the SAEn5000 monitoring and vinification automation platform, ADCF (dynamic analysis of fermentation kinetics), which measures CO2 output continuously to track sugar consumption and flag slowdowns or stuck fermentations, EVO2FERM, which adapts yeast nutrient additions in real time, and Aphromate for sparkling wine prise de mousse. Parsec describes these as intelligent algorithms developed experimentally; there is no machine learning claim. Parsec is being acquired by Enartis.
- **Partender** (multiple, 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.
- **Peco InspX** (beer, 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.
- **Peerox GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Pellenc (Pera-Pellenc)** (wine, connected winery press and cellar telemetry). Pellenc, through its Pera-Oenoprocess winery division, builds pneumatic presses, destemmers and cellar process equipment for wineries. Its named digital product P-Connect transmits real-time pressing data to a smartphone or PC (press state, time remaining, programme number, phase number, and juice volume in hectolitres with EasyPress 2), sends SMS alerts on cycle end and press faults, and supports remote diagnostics for after-sales assistance. The wider Pellenc Connect platform visualises machine, agronomic and oenological data from vineyard to winery. No AI or predictive maintenance claim is made.
- **PEMDAS Winery Solutions** (wine, winery financial modelling and business consulting, no ai claim). PEMDAS Winery Solutions is a one person winery business consultancy run by Genevieve Rodgers, covering acquisition evaluation, profitability analysis and startup planning. The work is financial modelling and operational planning grounded in wine business benchmarks, sold alongside downloadable planning tools. It publishes analysis on climate volatility and harvest timing risk. There is no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim anywhere in the offering; it is included because winery financial and operational data modelling is part of the beverage data landscape. People: Genevieve Rodgers (Principal).
- **Pentair Haffmans** (beer, 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.
- **PepsiCo** (non_alcoholic, 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.
- **Peritos Solutions** (wine, wine label recognition and provenance enrichment on aws). Peritos Solutions is a cloud, data and AI consultancy operating across India, New Zealand, Australia and the United States, and an AWS partner. For Wine-Searcher it built an AI label assist pipeline: a custom CNN trained on more than 500,000 labelled wine label images hosted on an Amazon SageMaker real-time endpoint, Amazon Textract OCR to structure label text into JSON, and RAG-grounded provenance summaries generated with Amazon Bedrock against a wine knowledge base indexed in OpenSearch. Its own case page claims 94 percent label identification accuracy, enrichment of over 8 million wine listings, and a drop from 15 to 20 minutes of manual research per SKU to under 2 seconds. AWS separately published a Wine-Searcher and Peritos success story in August 2025 covering the wider AWS platform work.
- **Pernod Ricard** (multiple, 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. People: [Solene Bergaire](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sol%C3%A8ne-bergaire-a68472108) (Senior Data Scientist, revenue growth management, pricing and promotion).
- **Phocas Software** (multiple, 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.
- **Phytech** (wine, ai based irrigation and vine stress recommendations). Phytech runs an IoT platform combining plant based sensors, in field irrigation hardware and satellite imagery, and states plainly that it delivers AI based agronomic recommendations that can be executed automatically. It is listed as a supplier in the Wine Industry Network directory and publishes vineyard case studies, including Gorton Drive Estates in the Swan Hill region of Victoria, Australia. The company reports over 1000 grower customers across wine grapes and other permanent crops. The AI is a recommendation engine over sensor and irrigation telemetry, not a claim about generative models.
- **Pinpointed** (multiple, 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.
- **PlantCT (SmartVineyard)** (wine, vineyard disease forecasting from in-canopy sensors). PlantCT, sold internationally under the SmartVineyard name, is a Hungarian in-vineyard plant-protection station: leaf wetness, humidity and temperature sensors report every 20 minutes to a cloud backend that runs disease forecast models and shows hyper-local risk on web and mobile. Subscriptions start around 19,900 HUF a month with add-on forecast models. The forecasts are documented as agronomic risk models built on measured microclimate; the company makes no machine learning claim.
- **PlantVoice** (multiple, 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. People: Matteo Beccatelli (CEO and Co-founder), Tommaso Beccatelli (Head of Production and Co-founder), Pierluigi Lodi Rizzini (Legal and Co-founder).
- **Pluto7** (beer, 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. People: [Manju Devadas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/manjudevadas/) (Founder & CEO), [Hemalatha Karveti](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemalathakarveti/) (Chief People Officer), Aparna Penumarthy (Head Business Architecture).
- **PM Group** (whiskey, 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.
- **Poka** (non_alcoholic, 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. People: Alex Leclerc (Co-Founder), Antoine Bisson (Co-Founder).
- **Polestar Analytics (Polestar Solutions)** (multiple, 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. People: Chetan Alsisaria (Co-Founder and CEO), Amit Kumar (Co-Founder and Executive Director), Ajay Goenka (Co-Founder and CFO).
- **Pour Now** (multiple, 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.
- **PourMyBeer** (beer, 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. People: Josh Goodman (Founder and CEO).
- **Praj Industries** (beer, 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.
- **Precision Fermentation (Sennos)** (beer, 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. People: [Jared Resnick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-resnick-9b8745115) (Founder and CEO), John Considine (CTO).
- **PRECOGIT GmbH** (beer, 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. People: Michael Eberhard (Co-founder), Christian Gradt (Co-founder).
- **Prefe** (wine, retail distribution and pricing intelligence). Prefe is an Italian wine tech startup that runs an instant intelligence system tracking more than 8,000 retail outlets every day, so wineries can manage distribution and pricing across large grocery chains. It was selected as one of eight finalists in the 2026 Wine Tech Challenge, an Italian open innovation programme run with major wine companies.
- **Premier Stainless Systems** (beer, 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.
- **Pressco Technology** (beer, 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.
- **Primus Soft** (wine, wine and spirits erp with customs and regie compliance). Primus Soft is a French Microsoft Dynamics partner that publishes Primus WINE, an ERP for wine, alcohol and spirits businesses, offered on Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central and listed on Microsoft AppSource. Modules cover French customs and Regie declarations, bulk and bottled stock, primeur campaigns, winery production, EDI, SSCC logistics labelling and mobile sales, with an Azure hosted cloud edition. The company is also an authorised reseller of Insight Works shop floor apps. Primus Soft makes no machine learning claim: the product is a system of record with compliance reporting.
- **Process and Data Automation (PDA)** (beer, 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.
- **Process2Wine (Ertus Group)** (wine, machine learning for production cost reduction and environmental footprint in viticulture). Process2Wine is a SaaS vineyard and cellar management platform from Ertus Group, a Bordeaux company formed in 2016 by the merger of the Ertus Consulting wine consultancy and the D2E software house, with offices in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Reims and Santa Barbara. It handles vineyard work orders, plot mapping, tank and cellar operations, packaging and traceability reporting for wineries, cooperatives, Champagne houses and negociants. Ertus states it is a pioneer in applying machine learning to viticulture and that its Exapta decision-support module, developed with INRIA and supported by BPI Aquitaine and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, targets production cost reduction and environmental footprint calculation. The core Process2Wine product itself is a traceability and production system of record; the ML sits in the adjacent Exapta module and no model detail or performance figure is published.
- **ProcesTeh d.o.o.** (beer, 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.
- **Prodeb Brewery Technology Belgium** (multiple, 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.
- **ProLeiT** (multiple, 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.
- **ProMach** (multiple, 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.
- **Proof 8** (whiskey, 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.
- **Prosper Insights & Analytics** (multiple, 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. People: Gary Drenik (CEO and Co-Founder), Phil Rist (Co-Founder).
- **Provenate** (whiskey, 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.
- **Provi** (multiple, 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. People: Taylor Katzman (Founder and CEO), David Herman (Chief Product Officer).
- **Pubinno** (beer, 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.
- **Q-Interline** (multiple, 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.
- **Qualflow Systems Ltd** (beer, 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.
- **Quantiphi (OrderSmart)** (beer, 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.
- **Quantis International** (multiple, 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.
- **Rafal Cycon** (multiple, 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. People: Rafal Cycon (Chief Data Scientist, FORM).
- **RAMP RFID** (beer, 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.
- **Ranch Systems** (wine, vineyard telemetry, soil moisture and irrigation control). Ranch Systems has built cloud connected agricultural telemetry since 2005, selling RM400, RS130, RS330 and RS10 telemetry devices, data loggers, weather stations and the myRanch cloud dashboard. Deployments cover irrigation valve and pump control, soil moisture, weather, tank and pond monitoring, remote cameras and water resource management for districts. It also offers custom agtech software development for other companies. The platform is sensor telemetry and alerting with no machine learning claim. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 426.
- **Rare Whisky 101** (whiskey, 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.
- **RaspberryPints** (beer, 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.
- **RATOC Systems (Moromi Diary Cloud)** (multiple, 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.
- **Reactory** (whiskey, 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. People: Dr Mark Eltom (Founder and CEO).
- **RedChirp** (wine, compliant two way business texting for wineries, no ai claim). RedChirp is a compliant two way business messaging platform aimed at regulated industries, with wineries named as a core segment alongside healthcare and financial services. Named winery customers on its own site include Judd's Hill, Cuvaison and Hess Persson Estates, and it has acquired Vimbibe. Pricing starts at 99 dollars per month and it integrates with existing winery web and commerce stacks, partnering with Corksy on winery messaging. RedChirp describes automation and workflow, not artificial intelligence, and makes no machine learning claim.
- **Redfaire** (beer, 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. People: Brian McInerney (CEO and Co-founder), Barry Yelverton (CTO and Director of Product Development).
- **ReFlow Tech** (beer, 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).
- **Regrow Ag** (multiple, 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. People: Anastasia Volkova (Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer).
- **Rehrig Pacific Company** (multiple, 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.
- **Renaissance BioScience** (multiple, 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. People: John Husnik (Co-CEO and Chief Scientific Officer).
- **Repify AI** (beer, 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.
- **Repsly** (beer, 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. People: Matthew Brogie (CEO).
- **Research Institute of Brewing and Malting (Vyzkumny ustav pivovarsky a sladarsky)** (beer, 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.
- **Revida Water** (wine, winery wastewater reuse as a service). Revida Water designs, builds and operates containerised onsite water reuse systems that turn winery process wastewater into irrigation, wash and in one verified case drinking water. It sells treatment on a per gallon subscription rather than selling equipment, and its reference deployment is the Teaching and Research Winery at UC Davis, where treated harvest wastewater was independently lab verified against US EPA drinking standards in 2025. It matters because more than 1,500 California wineries now fall under the state Winery General Order for effluent. The company makes no AI or machine learning claim; it is a treatment and operations business, not a data product. People: Ashish Shah (Founder and CEO).
- **REVORN Co., Ltd.** (multiple, 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. People: Hiroaki Matsuoka (CEO).
- **RITE Enterprises (Cloud Retailer)** (multiple, 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.
- **Rockwell Automation (FactoryTalk, Plex)** (beer, 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.
- **Rohit Jafa Brewing Solutions** (beer, 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. People: Rohit Jafa (Founder).
- **Route4Me** (multiple, 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.
- **RouteMagic** (multiple, 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.
- **RoviSys** (beer, 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.
- **Ruland Engineering & Consulting GmbH** (multiple, 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.
- **Saga Robotics** (wine, Autonomous vineyard robots with camera-based disease detection and yield prediction). Norwegian ag-robotics company whose autonomous Thorvald platform treats powdery mildew in California wine vineyards with UV-C light under a Robots-as-a-Service model. Its machines carry cameras that collect vineyard data to detect disease and predict yields.
- **Sage Software Solutions India** (multiple, 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.
- **SAKENOVA (Sakeai Inc. / サケノヴァ)** (multiple, 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. People: Daichi Niiyama (Founder, CEO and Master Brewer).
- **Salesforce** (multiple, 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.
- **Salient Management Company** (multiple, 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.
- **Samsara** (beer, 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.
- **Sante** (multiple, 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).
- **SAP SE** (multiple, 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.
- **SAPTOOLS (a valantic company)** (beer, 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.
- **Savantis Solutions** (multiple, 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.
- **Scantrust (U-label)** (multiple, 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. People: Nathan J. Anderson (Co-founder and CEO), Justin Picard (Co-founder and CTO).
- **SCENTMATIC (KAORIUM for Sake & Wine)** (multiple, 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. People: Toshiharu Kurisu (Founder).
- **Scotch** (multiple, 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.
- **Scotch Whisky Association** (whiskey, 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.
- **Scotch Whisky Research Institute** (whiskey, 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.
- **Scout (Agriculture Scout AI)** (wine, computer vision vine-by-vine scanning). Scout mounts a sensor rig on a tractor or ATV so a routine vineyard pass captures vine-by-vine data. The company states it uses computer vision and AI to turn each scan into vineyard inventory, plant measurements, canopy volume and cluster metrics, rolled up by row, block, zone and vineyard. It sells to wineries, estate growers and vineyard management companies, and says the Scout AMP Gen5 platform is already deployed across leading California vineyards. Products named on its own site are Scout AMP Gen5 for Vineyards and Scout VIA.
- **Sculpture Hospitality** (multiple, 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.
- **seedalive GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Seeq** (beer, 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.
- **Selartag** (wine, wine cellar inventory and sales advisory). Selartag is a French startup that digitises wine cellar and bottle inventory using RFID or QR smart labels, handheld and fixed portal readers, and a mobile and web app, sold to restaurants, sommeliers, wine merchants, collectors and vineyards. Its AWS architecture is documented in an AWS partner success story built with Eviden/Atos, running Lambda, EC2, RDS Postgres and Amazon Bedrock. Bedrock powers the AI features: auto-generating bottle records in one click, suggesting which wines are likely to sell based on historical data and weather, and food pairing recommendations. The case study reports inventory audits dropping from over two days to under 30 minutes and error rates from roughly 10 percent to under 1 percent. People: Herve Lemaire (Founder and President).
- **Selinko** (multiple, 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. People: Patrick Eischen (Founder).
- **Sennos (formerly Precision Fermentation)** (beer, 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.
- **Senseen** (wine, handheld spectroscopy plant analysis with AI advisory). French startup selling Nutriscope, a low cost handheld photonic and bioelectronic scanner that measures plant health indicators (redox, pH, conductivity, chlorophyll, stress index) and mineral and trace element content in the field, with results read through the Senseen app and portal. The vine is one of the crops calibrated for both the mineral and redox measurements, alongside wheat, maize, rapeseed, potato, tomato, strawberry, orange and melon, and the company markets the scanner to winegrowers through the Inno'vin wine cluster in Bordeaux. Senseen states the decision support built on those readings uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalised agronomic recommendations.
- **Sepasoft** (beer, 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.
- **SGS Food Nexus (Foodakai and Digicomply)** (multiple, 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.
- **ShareThis** (multiple, 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.
- **Shipsy** (beer, 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.
- **Shreya Kale** (wine, AI engineering for vineyard and crop imaging). AI engineer at Bloomfield Robotics, working on the computer vision imaging platform used to monitor vineyards and other specialty crops. Listed on the company's current team page. People: Shreya Kale (AI Engineer, Bloomfield Robotics).
- **Sidel** (beer, 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.
- **Siemens (Opcenter)** (beer, 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.
- **Sigrist-Photometer** (beer, 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.
- **Simon Lucey** (beer, 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. People: Simon Lucey (Director Machine Learning, Deep Liquid).
- **SimpliRoute** (multiple, 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. People: Alvaro Echeverria (Co-founder and CEO), Eyal Shats (Co-founder).
- **SimplyDepo** (multiple, 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.
- **SipSource** (multiple, 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.
- **SLOKER Inc. (Hansan Brewery)** (multiple, 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. People: Kim Jeong-hyuk (CEO), Na Jang-yeon (Master Brewer).
- **SMAG (Agreo Vine & Wine)** (wine, no ai claim; vineyard and cellar traceability software). SMAG is a French agricultural software house, active on the agricultural web since 2001, whose Agreo Vine & Wine product is a customisable vineyard and winery management system for wine trading houses, cooperative cellars and estates. It handles step-by-step production plans, production and service contracts, traceability from vineyard to cellar, work time analysis, input use and environmental certification paperwork, with a mobile app that auto-detects the plot being worked. The company markets an AgrOptimization System built on agricultural big data but makes no substantiated machine learning claim for the wine product.
- **Small Batch Standard** (beer, 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. People: Chris Farmand (Founder).
- **Smart DRS** (multiple, 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.
- **SmartCask by Checkpoint** (whiskey, 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.
- **SMARTCRM** (beer, 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.
- **SmartSkin Technologies** (multiple, 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.
- **Snowflake** (multiple, 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.
- **Softwin Technologies** (whiskey, 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.
- **Softysol GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Soil Capital** (beer, 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.
- **Solera** (wine, recommendation / personalization). Winery operating system spanning vineyard operations, cellar management, lab tracking, compliance, inventory, DTC and wine club in one platform, with AI built into the workflow. Covers the direct-to-consumer end of the chain that most production-focused tools stop short of.
- **Solon Consulting** (multiple, 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. People: Matt Couch (Partner, Co-Founder), Kirby Kirkconnell (Co-Founder).
- **Solumatic (Vitisoft / VINCA)** (wine, conversational assistant over winery management data). Solumatic publishes Vitisoft, a management suite used by more than 1,600 wine and spirits businesses in France covering CRM, marketing, stock and bottling, invoicing, point of sale and DRM/DAES excise compliance. Its own site lists an integrated AI called VINCA under decision statistics. French trade press reports VINCA shipped in the second half of 2025 and is built on Mistral models, answering plain language questions about the estate's own Vitisoft data and drafting commercial prospecting messages. The rest of the suite is a system of record rather than machine learning.
- **Solène Bergaire** (multiple, 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. People: [Solène Bergaire](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sol%C3%A8ne-bergaire-a68472108) (Lead Data Scientist (revenue growth management, pricing and promotion analytics) — Pernod Ricard).
- **Somm'It** (wine, wine list and cellar inventory connected to the POS, no ai claim). Somm'It is a French wine list and drinks inventory platform for restaurants, hotels, wine bars and wine merchants, published as a validated Oracle Simphony POS integration on the Oracle Restaurants Marketplace. It generates an always-current wine list from the cellar inventory, runs the inventory count in-app, and syncs sales from the till so stock and the printed or QR wine list never drift apart. It ships a reference library of more than 100,000 wines with technical sheets, used both to speed up counting and to train floor staff. The company was founded in 2015 by Gregory Castelli with the late Gerard Basset MS after a wine world tour, was picked by Techstars in 2016 as one of ten foodtech startups to watch, and says more than 30 Michelin-starred venues use it. Somm'It makes no AI or machine learning claim on its site: the product is a wine data library, an inventory app and a POS connector. People: Gregory Castelli (Founder).
- **Sommelier.bot** (multiple, sensory). Berlin-based AI agent for the wine and spirits industry offering a chatbot that gives consumers personalized drink recommendations.
- **Soufflet Malt** (multiple, 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.
- **Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits** (multiple, 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. People: Tom Kornegay (SVP, Head of Data, Analytics and Insights), Duan Peng (SVP, Head of Data Science, AI and Machine Learning), Bharathi Sampangi (VP, Data Platforms and Services).
- **Sovos ShipCompliant** (multiple, 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.
- **SpectraA Technology Solutions Limited** (multiple, 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.
- **Spectramatics** (beer, 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.
- **Spendrups Bryggeri** (beer, 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. People: Fredric Melin (Maintenance Manager).
- **Spicetech GmbH** (beer, 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. People: Dr. Alexander Kauffeldt-Thiess (Managing Director and Co-Founder).
- **Spirit Sight** (whiskey, 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.
- **Spirits Consulting Group** (multiple, 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. People: Andrew Cassara (Owner).
- **StayinFront** (multiple, 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.
- **Stravito** (beer, 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.
- **Suntory Global Spirits** (whiskey, 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. People: Hernan Tabah (Chief Digital and Technology Officer).
- **Sustainable Wine Roundtable** (wine, wine sustainability benchmarking and packaging data). The Sustainable Wine Roundtable is an independent global membership body, over 130 members across 25 countries, that builds shared sustainability measurement for wine. Its Global Reference Framework standardises what gets measured, its Sustainable Vineyard Practice Survey collects producer evidence, and its Bottle Weight Accord tracks and reduces average glass weight across signatories, now covering more than 2.5 billion bottles a year and an estimated 440,000 tonnes of CO2 mitigated. Members include Treasury Wine Estates, Systembolaget, Waitrose, The Wine Society, Naked Wines and Amorim. It makes no AI claim; this is standards, survey and benchmark data, not modelling.
- **Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand** (wine, national winegrowing sustainability data collection and benchmarking). SWNZ is the national sustainability programme run by New Zealand Winegrowers, launched in 1995 and now certifying 98 percent of New Zealand's producing vineyard area and over 90 percent of wine produced. Members submit annual data online across six focus areas including water, waste, soil, plant protection and climate change, vineyard members also file a full spray diary, and independent auditors verify before certification renews. Energy, water and greenhouse gas scorecard records feed the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard, which returns individualised benchmark reports matched on region, size, variety, climate and soil, plus regional and national reports. No AI claim; this is structured benchmarking, not modelling.
- **Symbotic** (multiple, 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. People: Rick Cohen (Founder and CEO).
- **SymphonyAI** (beer, 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.
- **Symrise (SymVision)** (multiple, 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.
- **Syscona Kontrollsysteme GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **TARGIT** (wine, bi platform with an ai insights feature, winery kpi dashboards). TARGIT is a Danish business intelligence and analytics vendor, acquired by Forterro in 2025, that runs a named winery vertical: TARGIT for Wineries covers KPI dashboards from the vine through the tasting room to the consumer's cart. Its published winery reference is Hess Collection Winery, whose business analyst is quoted on moving from waiting for reports to discussing the data. The winery material itself is dashboards and reporting with no machine learning in it; the AI claim sits at platform level as TARGIT Insights, an AI-driven analytics capability in the Decision Suite, not as anything winery-specific.
- **Tastewise** (multiple, 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. People: [Alon Chen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alonchen) (CEO and Co-founder).
- **Technomic** (multiple, 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.
- **TecnoVict (Spezia srl)** (wine, none, sensor driven variable rate vineyard spraying). TecnoVict, part of Spezia srl, designs, sells and services vineyard machinery in Italy, including trimmers, tying machines, leaf removers, pre-pruners and post drivers, and distributes DICKEY-john products in Italy. Its IN.NO.VA.R. retrofit kit, a SITEVI 2025 Innovation Awards nominee, converts a fixed dose airblast sprayer into a real time variable dose machine by combining ultrasonic and optical canopy sensors with pulse width modulation to control each nozzle individually at 0.1 second resolution. Checked, and TecnoVict makes no AI or machine learning claim: this is sensor and control engineering for precision viticulture.
- **Tecon Soluciones Informaticas (Uvatec)** (wine, winery erp and traceability, no ai claim). Tecon Soluciones Informaticas is a Spanish Microsoft Dynamics partner whose Uvatec product is a winery vertical built on Dynamics 365 Business Central, sold to bodegas and wine cooperatives and listed on Microsoft AppSource. Uvatec covers the Cuaderno de Explotacion vineyard record required by the Spanish agriculture ministry, weighbridge capture of grape weight, variety and quality at intake, cooperative member accounting and payment calculation, and traceability across the winery. The Uvatec product page makes no machine learning or AI claim: the Copilot and Power BI references on the site are separate Microsoft services the firm resells, not capability inside the winery product.
- **TeepTrak** (beer, 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.
- **TEKreset** (wine, winery power bi data unification, no ai claim). A Napa-based winery data consultancy that unifies tasting room, wine club, wholesale, distribution, inventory and compliance data into a single model and delivers role-specific dashboards. It builds on the Microsoft Power Platform, using Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate over the winery's existing ERP rather than replacing it, and publishes public demo dashboards including a Napa Valley winery explorer and an inventory location view over legacy ERP data. It is a services and dashboard consultancy with no AI or machine-learning claim. People: Ben Wilson (contact).
- **Tenso AI** (beer, 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.
- **Terillium** (multiple, 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. People: Warren Bach (CEO), Dave Woodworth (President), Shane Eisenhauer (VP, Fusion Cloud).
- **Terra Bioindustries** (beer, 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.
- **TerraClim** (multiple, 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.
- **TerraNIS (Oenoview)** (wine, satellite mapping for precision viticulture). TerraNIS is a French Earth observation SME founded in March 2014 by two former Airbus/Spot Image space applications specialists. Its wine product Oenoview, co-developed and sold with the oenological consultancy Groupe ICV, turns high resolution satellite imagery into vineyard maps used for harvest planning and lot allocation, fertilisation, vine water status and young vine growth checks. Processing rests on in-house remote sensing algorithms; the company describes using an artificial intelligence approach in specific work such as mapping biodiversity features in Champagne vineyards, rather than as the core of the product. Around 20 staff, roughly a quarter of revenue in R&D, with a subsidiary in Chile. People: Marc Tondriaux (Co-founder), David Hello (Co-founder).
- **Terraview** (wine, vineyard yield, risk and irrigation forecasting). Terraview builds TerraviewOS, a vineyard management platform that merges satellite and field data into ripening analysis, production controls and block level decision support for wine grape growers. The company markets it plainly as an AI powered solution to raise yield and cut costs, with production, risk and irrigation forecasts. In July 2024 Terraview merged with the Swiss hyperspectral crop analytics company Gamaya and now operates from Lausanne; Yury Vasilkov is CEO and Terraview founder Piyush Harsh is Chief Science Officer. Named users include Vallformosa in Spain. People: Yury Vasilkov (CEO), Piyush Harsh (Chief Science Officer and founder), Andy Edmonds (CTO).
- **Tetra Pak** (multiple, 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.
- **The 5th Ingredient** (beer, 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. People: [Pulkit K. Agrawal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pulkitkagrawal) (Founder and CEO).
- **The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI)** (wine, no substantiated ml claim; wine analytical chemistry and genomics data). The AWRI is the Australian wine industry's research, development and extension body, based at the Waite campus in South Australia. It runs Metabolomics SA for analytical chemistry profiling, the South Australian Genomics Centre for genetic analysis, a wine microorganism culture collection and a trial-scale no- and low-alcohol facility, and provides grapevine clonal identification services. It is a primary generator of wine composition and sensory data for the industry, but its own site does not substantiate a machine learning or predictive modelling claim, so it is recorded here as data infrastructure rather than an AI vendor.
- **The Coca-Cola Company** (non_alcoholic, 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.
- **The Porto Protocol** (wine, shared climate solutions database for wine). The Porto Protocol is a wine industry climate action network founded by Taylor's Port, with 252 members across 20 countries. Its core asset is the Solutions HUB, an open catalogue of 125 documented climate solutions, case studies and data covering water management, packaging, ecosystem restoration and mitigation across the wine value chain. Members include Jackson Family Wines, Catena Zapata, Spier, Salcheto, Amorim and Geisenheim University, and it signed a partnership with International Wineries for Climate Action in 2024. It makes no AI claim: the platform is a curated knowledge base, not a model. People: Adrian Bridge (Founder, CEO of Taylor's Port and The Fladgate Partnership).
- **The Smart Container Company (KegTracker)** (beer, 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.
- **The Weinheimer Group (VINTAGE2)** (wine, VINTAGE2 is an AI marketing readiness and generative-engine-optimisation model for wineries: audits how a winery brand is represented and retrieved by AI assistants and search, then restructures brand content for machine discoverability.). Austin, Texas consultancy selling an AI brand visibility framework aimed specifically at wineries.
- **Thirstie** (multiple, 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.
- **TIANTAI Brewtech** (beer, 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.
- **Tipple** (multiple, 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. People: Eoin Bara (Co-founder and CEO).
- **Tom Kornegay** (multiple, 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. People: Tom Kornegay (SVP, Head of Data, Analytics and Insights (Enterprise Data Center of Excellence) — Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits).
- **Tonnellerie Radoux (OakScan)** (multiple, 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.
- **Toyota Automated Logistics** (multiple, 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.
- **TraceGains** (multiple, 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.
- **TrackAbout** (multiple, 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.
- **Tractian** (whiskey, 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.
- **Trax** (multiple, 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. People: Joel Bar-El (Co-founder), Dror Feldheim (Co-founder), David Gottlieb (Chief Revenue Officer).
- **Treasury Wine Estates** (wine, sales and demand forecasting, consumer trend agents). Treasury Wine Estates is one of the largest listed wine groups in the world, owning Penfolds, Wolf Blass, 19 Crimes and Beringer. In June 2026 it made digital, data and AI a named pillar of its Ascent transformation, covering a single source of truth for reporting and scorecards, sales automation, promotion tracking and advanced forecasting, with about 100 million dollars a year of cost reduction targeted by FY29. It has also put AI into commercial decision making: two internal agents called Aivi and Viti interrogate trend data to flag varieties likely to come into fashion, and it deployed Complexica's What-if Simulator and Optimiser for territory mapping, call frequency and service level optimisation. The AI is partner-built but operated by TWE against its own sales and consumer data. People: Kate Whitney (Chief Digital and Technology Officer).
- **TrendMiner** (multiple, 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.
- **Trusty** (multiple, 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.
- **TryCatch Solutions (WT Manager)** (wine, wine production management, no ai claim). TryCatch di Alex Bertini is a small Italian ICT firm doing cloud, custom application development and business intelligence work. It publishes WT Manager on Microsoft AppSource, a cloud platform the publisher describes as simplifying the wine production process for teams, alongside its SOMC sales management product. Neither the AppSource listing nor the company site makes any AI or machine learning claim.
- **UB Technology Innovations** (multiple, 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.
- **Unhyped AI (Vintelligence)** (wine, terroir and vineyard parcel intelligence API). Unhyped AI runs a spatial intelligence engine over roughly 7.3 million land parcels, scoring more than 800,000 vineyard plots on bedrock geology, slope, elevation, aspect and classification across 19 to 23 regions in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Australia. It sells the data two ways: Vintelligence, a REST and MCP native API for wine businesses and AI assistants, and Unhyped, a consumer app that surfaces bottles sharing terroir with Grand Cru sites at lower prices. The engine is geological and geospatial scoring plus producer lineage mapping rather than a learned taste model, and the company says so on its own site.
- **Unicorn Auctions** (multiple, 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. People: [Phil Mikhaylov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philmikhaylov) (CEO and Co-founder), [A.J. Heindel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajheindel) (Co-founder).
- **Unify Dots** (wine, winery erp with copilot based assistants). Unify Dots is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 consulting firm that publishes Winery Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management on the Microsoft marketplace, covering vineyard, crush, cellar and bottling operations for wineries. The company positions itself as an AI enabled Dynamics partner and reached Ready Tier in Microsoft Copilot Jumpstart in March 2026. The AI is Microsoft Copilot and agent tooling applied to the ERP, there is no wine specific model claimed.
- **UNISENSOR Sensorsysteme GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **United Breweries Limited (Kingfisher, Heineken-owned)** (beer, 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. People: Jelle Van Etten (Chief Data Officer, Heineken).
- **UXPay Solutions** (multiple, 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.
- **Vaisala** (multiple, 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.
- **Vapour** (whiskey, unspecified use case). 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. People: William Binnie (COO), Stephen Hamilton (CTO).
- **Varelmann Beratungsgesellschaft mbH** (multiple, 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. People: Georg Varelmann (Managing Director, Sales), Gerrit Ellinghausen (Managing Director, Development), Lars Sonka (Managing Director, Consulting).
- **Velosio** (wine, vineyard and winery erp with production and yield reporting). Velosio is a Microsoft partner that sells and supports SilverLeaf, an agribusiness ERP built on Dynamics 365 Business Central and listed on Microsoft AppSource, with a dedicated vineyard and winery configuration. It covers vine health and production metrics, inventory, traceability from grape to bottle, and compliance, alongside Power Platform and Azure services. Velosio makes no machine-learning claim for the wine offering: the analytics described are dashboards, custom reports and yield reporting, which is standard business intelligence rather than AI.
- **Vendome Copper and Brass Works** (whiskey, 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. People: Elmore Sherman Sr. (Founder).
- **VerAIsonio** (wine, AI consulting). VerAIsonio is a data and AI consulting firm specialized in the wine industry, helping producers, merchants, and trade organisations apply AI to customer segmentation, demand forecasting, pricing, and supply-chain decisions from vineyard to market. It positions AI as support for winemaking domain expertise.
- **Verdi** (wine, retrofit irrigation automation with sensor driven scheduling). Verdi sells low cost retrofit irrigation automation for specialty crops including vineyards: smart valves, block level and row level controllers, wireless sensors and gateways plus irrigation software. It claims over 5,000 devices installed, one day retrofit onto existing systems, 30 percent water savings and sensor driven automation where field conditions drive decisions. The company states an ambition to bring agriculture into the AI age but describes sensor threshold automation rather than a shipped machine learning model. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 200 and sponsored the 2026 Unified Wine and Grape Symposium.
- **Vertech** (beer, 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.
- **Vertique** (multiple, 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.
- **VETTE EDV-Beratung & Entwicklung** (beer, 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.
- **Vicinity Software (VicinityBrew)** (beer, 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.
- **Vignee** (wine, vineyard decision support from plot data and photos). Vignee is a modular French web and mobile app for wine growers covering work planning, plot mapping with growing degree day harvest estimates, plot level weather from five cross referenced models, cellar and vinification records with exportable DGDDI registers, stock and local intelligence. A paid Vision IA / Pilotage IA module, priced at 15 euros on top of the per hectare base, analyses the estate's vineyard data including plot photographs and returns prioritised attention points, positioned by the vendor as decision support that suggests and alerts rather than decides.
- **Vigneto Sicuro (Trace Technologies)** (wine, vineyard disease and weather risk prediction). Vigneto Sicuro is a subscription app for winegrowers built by Trace Technologies S.r.l., an Abruzzo startup. It pulls real-time climate data for a vineyard block selected on a map, with no hardware installed in the field, and runs prediction models the company describes as artificial intelligence to produce a downy mildew (peronospora) and powdery mildew (oidio) risk index several days ahead, plus a localised weather forecast. Products are sold as Peronosporazero, Oidiozero and Meteowine. The claimed 99 percent accuracy figure is the vendor's own marketing and is not independently substantiated.
- **Vina Concha y Toro** (wine, harvest volume prediction from drone and sensor data). Vina Concha y Toro is one of the largest wine producers in South America and runs its own Center for Research and Innovation, opened in 2014 in Chile's Maule Region. The CRI has built an artificial intelligence model that combines multispectral drone imagery with terrain data, weather stations and ground sensors to predict harvest volume; in reported trials the model gave prediction errors of 2 to 9 percent against 20 to 30 percent for traditional estimation methods. The company also cites AI for irrigation scheduling and for diagnosing fungal disease from tractor mounted cameras. This is an operator, not a vendor: the models are its own R and D, developed with the Chilean partner Smartdici and public funding from Corfo. People: Alvaro Gonzalez (Deputy Manager of Research and Development), Jose Cuevas (Researcher, Engineering).
- **VINAI** (wine, sales forecasting for wineries and distributors). VINAI is a Spanish cloud management platform for wineries, distributors and Horeca buyers that bundles an ERP with its own wine marketplace. It sells a distinct artificial intelligence module that predicts sales from historical and market data, alongside stock, customer and order, traceability (libro de campo) and labelling modules. The labelling module manages the QR codes required by the new EU wine e-label rules, so the product straddles analytics and compliance.
- **vinCreative** (wine, winery direct to consumer data hub). vinCreative is an Australian owned and developed cloud platform for winery direct to consumer operations, bundling CRM, website, ecommerce, point of sale, wine club, inventory and reporting. It markets a Unified Data Hub that consolidates customer data from every touchpoint into one store. It is listed in the Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Directory under computer services and software. There is no AI or machine learning claim on its site; the personalisation it describes is rules and segmentation.
- **Vinealytics** (wine, vineyard yield forecasting and winery analytics). Vinealytics is a single platform for estate wineries covering block-level vineyard management, spray and labour records, weather and frost alerts, harvest coordination, fermentation and cellar tracking, DTC and wine club sales analytics, and automated TTB and state compliance reporting. It advertises an AI-powered analytics module described as machine learning insights across the operation, specifically yield forecasting, sales analytics and trend detection, with a yield prediction and NDVI trend view in its command centre. The site states it is in production across more than 50,000 acres with estate vineyards in Napa and Sonoma, but names no customers and publishes no company, funding or team detail; a live demo instance responds at demo.vinealytics.com.
- **VineInfo** (wine, vineyard block records and yield tracking). Web application and viticultural consultancy for winegrape growers, holding block-level vineyard records, annual farm plans, activity work orders, yield data, quality control and monitoring in one place, with free irrigation scheduler and degree-day calculator tools. It states it serves more than 1,000 acres of ultra-premium vineyard in the Napa and Sonoma valleys. VineInfo makes no AI, machine-learning or predictive claim; it is a record-keeping and reporting system tracked here as a vineyard data source, not as an AI vendor.
- **VineOps** (wine, prescriptive depletion and distributor performance briefings). VineOps sells commercial intelligence to mid-market wine and spirits suppliers, importers and brand owners in the three-tier system. It automates collection, normalisation and reconciliation of depletion reports across dozens of distributors, then produces daily briefings, distributor scorecards, slow-moving SKU alerts and depletion allowance reconciliation. The AI claim is specific and prescriptive rather than a dashboard: plain-language recommendations naming an action, a reason and a deadline, delivered to the rep who has to act. Small vendor operating out of Oakling Systems, positioned explicitly against both generic BI and enterprise platforms.
- **VinesOS** (wine, unspecified use case). VinesOS is an all-in-one direct-to-consumer platform for wineries, covering point of sale, wine club and subscription management, ecommerce, tasting room events and reservations, CRM and email, loyalty, inventory management and website hosting on a single system with Stripe payments. It is sold on flat-rate pricing from 299 US dollars per month with no percentage taken on transactions, and the entry tier is also marketed to smaller breweries, distilleries and drinks shops. Its analytics are conventional sales reporting sliced by location, channel, product and customer. There is no AI or machine learning claim on the site; this is a system of record for winery DTC revenue.
- **VineView** (wine, quality control / computer vision). Vineyard crop diagnostics provider using aerial and satellite imaging with AI-powered analytics to map vine vigor, detect grapevine disease and guide vineyard management, mainly in California and France. Formed in 2018 from the merger of SkySquirrel Technologies and Scientific Aerial Imaging. People: [Richard van der Put](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-van-der-put-4a8aa17) (CEO), [Christopher MacDonald](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-macdonald-9170542) (COO).
- **Vineyard Robotics (Orchard Robotics)** (wine, computer vision yield estimation per vine). Vineyard Robotics is the vineyard division of Orchard Robotics, which describes itself as an AI farming company. Its FruitScope Vision camera system mounts to a tractor or ATV and is driven down vineyard rows at 1 to 12 mph, using computer vision models to count and size buds, shoots, flowers and clusters on every individual vine. Data lands in FruitScope Vault, a system of record, and FruitScope OS, a vineyard management software suite. The company states it has built large multi-season crop datasets and is developing Canary, an AI decision layer that is not yet released.
- **Vineyard Vantage** (wine, vineyard health and frost prediction, ai recommendations). Vineyard Vantage sells precision viticulture analytics to small and mid-size wineries, started in 2023 in partnership with Brix and Columns Winery in Virginia. It combines IoT sensors with real-time dashboards covering hyperlocal weather, frost prediction, leaf wetness, growing degree days and zone-level vineyard health. The company claims proprietary AI models and AI-powered recommendations on top of that sensor data, and also offers blockchain-stored vintage reports. It reports serving about a dozen vineyards across Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, so this is early commercial deployment rather than scale.
- **Vinhood** (multiple, 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.
- **Vinicola Casa Tertulia** (wine, genetic algorithms and machine learning for wine blend composition). Casa Tertulia is a family winery in the Alto Uruguai region of Rio Grande do Sul that built its own blending system using machine learning and genetic algorithms. The system reads the physicochemical structure of each lot, learns from the scores that professional analysts gave internationally awarded wines, and searches blend combinations that could not be tasted by hand, predicting how a candidate blend will be rated in sensory analysis. The output is a commercial product line: Corte I, Genetic Algorithm No 10, a blend of Marselan, Merlot, Teroldego and Cabernet Sauvignon, presented at ProWine Sao Paulo 2024. The AI is the winery's own work, developed in-house by algorithm engineer Gabriel Hilgert alongside enologist Viviane Hilgert. People: Gabriel Hilgert (Algorithm Engineer), Viviane Hilgert (Enologist), Leodir Hilgert (Founder).
- **VinNOW** (wine, unspecified use case). VinNOW is winery management software originally built by a winery for its own use, covering tasting room and web point of sale, wine club processing with automated credit card billing, multi-location inventory, CRM, accounting, compliance and shipping label generation for UPS, FedEx and GLS. It integrates with QuickBooks, VinoShipper and ShipCompliant and runs either on local machines or in the cloud. It is a plain system of record with reporting; there is no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on the site.
- **VinoCheck** (wine, direct to consumer wine compliance and tax filing automation). VinoCheck is wine compliance software for wineries selling direct to consumer. It calculates destination based sales tax, wine specific fees and pass through taxes on orders, runs real time compliance checks against volume limits, dry areas and ABV restrictions, and generates sales tax, excise tax and direct shipper filings in one click. It offers a free backtest against a winery's historical order data. This is rules driven compliance automation with no AI claim. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 342. People: Zach Kamphuis (Founder, President), Andrew Kamphuis (Advisor, Board Member), Jeff Carroll (Advisor, Board Member).
- **Vinoshipper** (multiple, unspecified use case). 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.
- **Vinotracker** (wine, wine market data and commercial analytics). French consultancy near Bordeaux specialising in wine data, turning the sales, distribution and production data of estates, negociant houses, cooperatives and groups into commercial strategy. Its Datawatch product collects, analyses and visualises publicly available wine market data in one place and makes the data and visualisations available for download, alongside bespoke analysis and dashboard work on client data. Vinotracker makes no machine learning claim: the offer is analyst-led diagnostics, market data and data visualisation. It is a member of the Inno'vin wine cluster in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
- **Vinsight** (multiple, 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. People: Simon Lampen (Founder).
- **vinSUITE** (wine, wine club member churn prediction). vinSUITE is a direct-to-consumer winery platform covering wine club management, tasting room POS, ecommerce, CRM and payments, claiming over 200,000 wine club members supported and more than 2 billion dollars in annual DTC sales processed. Its vinSIGHT analytics module is the AI component: a churn model that scores which club members are about to cancel using signals such as skipped shipments, fewer visits and declining engagement, then surfaces a weekly at-risk list with recommended actions. The company advertises 94 percent prediction confidence and positions the churn model as the one thing competing DTC platforms do not offer; the confidence figure is a vendor claim with no published methodology. People: Jimmy Wu (President), Brad Bottjen (Lead Software Architect), Jon Trafton (Lead Data Analyst).
- **Vintegrate** (wine, winery erp and direct to consumer system of record, no ai claim). Vintegrate is a winery-specific enterprise system built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and .NET, sold as four modules: Vintegrate Winemaking for tracking and directing cellar processes, Back Office, Vintegrate 360 for direct-to-consumer covering POS, wine club, ecommerce and events, and a network security offering. It is a division of KLH Consulting and is run out of Sonoma County, California, so it sits outside the Oracle stack despite competing for the same winery ERP work. It makes no AI or machine learning claim: it is a system of record and the wine production and DTC data source underneath one.
- **VinterActive** (wine, ai winery concierge agents for dtc marketing and service). VinterActive sells preference based direct to consumer marketing tools to wineries, including myWineClubApp, and now ships AI Marketing Agents. Its AI Winery Concierge is a branded conversational agent trained on the winery's own voice, running across web, mobile and social channels, priced from 299 dollars per month with Facebook, Instagram and voice add ons. The company was founded in 2002 and is listed in the Wine Industry Network supplier directory. The AI is a deployed conversational agent, not an in house model. People: Bryan St. Amant (Founder and CEO).
- **Vintiga Labs** (multiple, 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. People: [Jim Secord](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimsecord) (Founder).
- **vintrace** (wine, winery production system of record). vintrace is cloud winery management software built in Australia that tracks fruit from grape to bottle: work orders, blending, vessel and barrel tracking, compliance and mobile cellar entry. It is now part of Encompass Technologies, which acquired the Slovenian vineyard software eVineyard in 2025 and rebadged it as vintrace Vineyard Management to link block-level vineyard data to winery production. The core product is a system of record; the AI branding on the parent platform sits in the Encompass distribution products, not in vintrace winemaking.
- **Vinventions** (wine, wine oxygen and phenolic measurement instruments). Vinventions makes wine closures (NOMACORC synthetic, SUBR micro natural cork, VINTOP screwcaps) and, through its Wine Quality Solutions division, analytical instruments used by winemakers: Nomasense O2 and P6000 oxygen meters, Nomasense CO2, Polyscan for phenolic and oxidation potential measurement, and colour analysis tools. It makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim; WQS is measurement hardware and decision support based on established oenological chemistry. It matters to the wine data landscape as one of the main sources of in cellar oxygen and phenolic measurement data. The company was formed in 2015 around Nomacorc, founded by the Belgian Noel family, and is headquartered in Wallonia.
- **VIP (Vermont Information Processing)** (multiple, 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.
- **Virtualworkforce** (multiple, 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.
- **vision-tec gmbh** (beer, 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.
- **Vision33 (Brutos)** (multiple, unspecified use case). 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.
- **Vistaar Technologies** (multiple, 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.
- **VisualK Group** (wine, no ai claim, sap business one for winery production and vineyard to bottle traceability). VisualK Group is a Chilean SAP Business One distributor and implementation partner founded in 2004, the first SAP Business One partner in Chile, operating across Chile, Argentina and Peru with a certified development arm, VisualD. It publishes wine industry material covering SAP Business One for vineyard cultivation, cellar production, inventory, traceability from vine to bottle and distribution, aimed at South American bodegas. It makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim; the wine work is ERP, traceability and reporting, and no winery customer is named publicly.
- **VitiBot** (wine, autonomous vineyard straddle tractor). VitiBot builds Bakus, an electric autonomous straddle tractor (enjambeur) for vineyard row work, sold into Champagne and other French wine regions. The company is owned by SDF Group, the Italian tractor manufacturer. VitiBot's public site describes full autonomy and worker safety benefits but does not disclose the perception stack, so no computer vision or machine learning claim is verified here; treat it as autonomous machinery until the navigation technology is documented. It matters to the wine data landscape as one of the main European sources of in row robotic operating data.
- **Vitirover** (wine, autonomous vineyard mowing robots). Vitirover builds small solar-powered four-wheel-drive autonomous mowing robots that keep vineyard rows and other complex terrain herbicide free, sold as a managed service combining robot fleets with human finishing teams and supervised through its Viticloud platform. The robot was invented by the founder to maintain the family estate Chateau Coutet in Saint-Emilion. Navigation is GPS-based; the company claims autonomy and fleet supervision, not machine learning. People: Xavier David Beaulieu (Founder).
- **VIVA Sustainable Wine** (wine, wine carbon and water footprint certification). VIVA is Italy's public sustainability standard for the wine sector, run by the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security with scientific support from the OPERA research centre at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Producers are measured on four indicators: Air, which is a product and organisation carbon footprint calculated to ISO 14067 and ISO 14064-1, Water, based on evapotranspiration and water footprint methods, Vineyard, and Territory. Certified scope now covers 69,110 hectares and 5.4 million certified bottles. It is an LCA and certification scheme with no AI claim.
- **Vivelys** (wine, fermentation and maturity decision support). French oenology technology company selling decision-support systems across the whole wine chain: grape maturity monitoring, native yeast selection, must oxygenation, real-time fermentation density tracking and automated micro-oxygenation aging, plus a digital cellar notebook. It also sells into beer. The site describes sensor-driven process control and expert models rather than machine learning, and the company makes no explicit AI or ML claim.
- **Vivid Machines** (wine, quality control / computer vision). Canadian ag-tech company whose multispectral computer-vision system mounts to farm equipment to capture per-plant data in vineyards and orchards for automated fruit counting, early yield prediction and plant-health insights. People: [Jenny Lemieux](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennylemieux) (Co-Founder & CEO), Jonathan Binas (Co-Founder & CTO).
- **Vividly** (multiple, 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. People: Johnathan Hodge (CEO).
- **Vizanar Advisors** (multiple, 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. People: Vijay Rekhi (Leader, former Managing Director of United Spirits Limited).
- **VLB Berlin (Versuchs- und Lehranstalt fuer Brauerei)** (beer, 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.
- **VXP Technologies (Volume x Profit)** (beer, 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. People: Bud Dunn (President).
- **Wahtari nScan GmbH** (beer, 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.
- **Waterplan** (beer, 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. People: Jose Ignacio Galindo (Co-founder and CEO), Nicolas Wertheimer (Co-founder).
- **Weather Trends International (weathertrends360)** (wine, year ahead weather forecasting for wine shipping and demand planning). Weather Trends International sells year ahead weekly temperature and precipitation forecasts and weather driven sales analytics, delivered as datasets on AWS Data Exchange and AWS Marketplace under the weathertrends360 brand. Its named beverage customer is the direct to consumer wine retailer Wine Access, which subscribes to the Daily 14-Day Forecast dataset and uses it to decide when to place weather holds on wine shipments so bottles are not left in heat or freezing conditions, documented in an AWS Marketplace blog post. The forecasting method the company describes is statistical, built on 100 plus years of weather history and 24 oceanic climate cycles; the site makes no machine learning or AI claim. People: Bill Kirk (Co-founder and CEO).
- **WECO** (wine, No AI claim. Optical sorting machines including a dedicated wine grape sorting line, plus moisture monitoring. Machine vision hardware sold on sorting accuracy and yield, with no stated learned model.). Woodland, California optical sorting manufacturer, part of Duravant, with a wine grape sorting product line.
- **Western Computer** (multiple, 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.
- **Westfalia Technologies** (multiple, 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.
- **Wherefour** (multiple, 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.
- **Whiskey House of Kentucky** (whiskey, 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. People: Roger Henley (VP of Engineering and Technology), Patrick Mannion (Director of Technology), James Oeswein (Director of Engineering).
- **Whisky Hunter** (whiskey, secondary market auction price intelligence). Whisky Hunter is a subscription market intelligence platform for the secondary whisky market, built on a database of auction results. As of 11 August 2026 the site reported 27 auction houses tracked, 5,392,761 past sale records and 5,993 lots live, with per bottle price history, average price trends and percentage change over multi year windows. Paid tiers add advanced market data and cask sales history, and the site exposes both a REST API and an MCP endpoint for programmatic access. It makes no machine learning claim; the product is statistical aggregation of auction and retail price data.
- **Whisky Project** (whiskey, recipe / flavor prediction). Community whisky blending initiative (Whisky Project Ltd) that uses a genetic-algorithm AI, robotics-driven bottling and crowdsourced sensory feedback to iteratively optimize new whisky blends. People: [Radoslaw Pilarski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpilarski) (Lead / Coordinator).
- **Whisky Returns** (whiskey, bottle investment analytics and liquidity scoring). Whisky Returns publishes secondary market investment analytics for collectable whisky bottles, covering more than 740 whiskies with price history, annualised returns, all time highs and lows, estimated demand and a liquidity score indicating how easily a bottle resells. The site states that it uses data science on validated price sources and that its content is mostly generated by automated scripts rather than reviewed by humans. It is operated by Adattenger Kft, a Hungarian registered company, and also sells a video course on whisky investing. No specific machine learning model or algorithm is described.
- **WhiskyCircle** (whiskey, ai whisky sommelier and taste profile recommendations). WhiskyCircle is a Dutch consumer whisky platform, described by early coverage as a Vivino for whisky, that launched iOS and Android apps in April 2026. Users log tastings, rate bottles on a 1 to 5 scale in 0.25 steps, track collections and follow festivals and tastings. Its own site fronts an AI sommelier called Isla that reads a user's rating history to build a taste profile and recommend bottles. Catalogue is reported at over 33,000 whiskies across 1,200 distilleries.
- **WhiskyInvestDirect** (whiskey, maturing scotch exchange and market data). WhiskyInvestDirect operates a live 24/7 order-board exchange where private investors buy and sell maturing Scotch by the litre of pure alcohol, held in bonded warehouses. It publishes genuine market data: live and historical prices, monthly audited stock and ownership registers, and distillery-by-quarter volume tables that few other sources make public. It states it holds roughly 36 million bottles equivalent for about 5,000 users. The platform does not run predictive models or AI; its value in this database is as an open source of spirits market data.
- **Whiskystats** (whiskey, no substantiated ai claim; whisky secondary market indices and bottle valuation). Whiskystats publishes secondary-market price indices and valuation analytics for collectible whisky, tracking the roughly 500 most traded bottles each month across auctions. Its flagship Whiskystats Whisky Index requires at least ten trades in a month before an index change is computed and caps any single brand at ten percent weight, alongside regional and distillery indices. This is a curated auction-price dataset with published statistical methodology; no machine-learning claim appears anywhere on the site.
- **White Labs** (multiple, 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.
- **Willy Lin** (beer, 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. People: [Willy Lin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/willy-lin/) (Former Product Lead, Tech Supply (brewery data and predictive analytics) — Amazon (formerly Anheuser-Busch InBev)).
- **Wine Australia** (wine, wine export, production and market insight dashboards). Wine Australia is a Commonwealth Government statutory authority established under the Wine Australia Act 2013 that measures and publishes the Australian wine sector's market data. Its Market Insights function covers wine markets by region, Australian wine exports, grape and wine production, and a set of Market Insights dashboards and calculators used by producers and exporters, alongside the Wine Export Approval system. It also funds grape and wine research. The published tools are reporting and analytics rather than machine learning.
- **Wine Compliance Alliance** (wine, winery compliance file management and TTB training). Wine Compliance Alliance works with wineries to organise and manage the regulatory record of each wine from grape to bottle, covering new licensing, ongoing compliance maintenance and TTB training courses such as harvest tracking and reporting. It either manages the files on the winery's behalf or trains the winery to do it. This is a consulting and training practice with no software product and no AI claim. It exhibited at WIN Expo Sonoma at booth 120.
- **Wine Lister** (wine, fine wine benchmarking and market research). Wine Lister is a London fine wine data and consulting company, now part of Groupe Figaro, that sells benchmarking, market research and bespoke consulting to wine producers, regional associations and merchants. It says it works with over 150 of the world's top wine producers, with published engagements including Chateau Leoville Poyferre, Chateau Larrivet Haut-Brion, Chateau de Ferrand, Domaine Belargus and Ipsus, and it combines its own data and analysis division with marketing and communications work. It makes no AI or machine-learning claim; the offer is human analysis over price, critic score and trade demand data. People: Ella Lister (Founder and CEO).
- **Wine Luthier** (wine, recipe / flavor prediction). Wine Luthier is an AI service for wineries that converts a wine's physical parameters into objective flavor data and computes exact blending percentages to reach a target profile. Its tools cover flavor visualization, competitive positioning, and blend optimization for enology and production teams.
- **Wine Market Council** (wine, no substantiated ai claim). Wine Market Council is a member funded US nonprofit that has researched American wine consumer buying habits, attitudes and trends since 1996, delivering three to four member selected studies a year plus a biennial US Consumer Benchmark Segmentation Study. Members across all three tiers receive proprietary reports, quarterly research webinars, an annual conference and raw Excel data files with custom sorting. It is a shared industry research pool rather than a commercial vendor, with dues starting around 400 dollars by company size. It makes no AI or machine learning claim; the method is quantitative and qualitative consumer survey research.
- **Wine Opinions** (wine, no substantiated ai claim). Wine Opinions provides US wine market research to wineries, wine marketing companies and trade associations, using proprietary national panels of more than 4,000 US wine trade members and over 14,000 US wine consumers weighted to high frequency and high end buyers. Services are quantitative consumer and trade surveys, qualitative focus groups and moderated tastings, and baseline and tracking studies. It is a wine only consumer intelligence house rather than a scan data reseller. The site makes no AI or machine learning claim; the method is panel survey research analysed by its own team. People: John Gillespie (Founder and CEO), Christian Miller (Consultant for Design and Analysis), Katie Griffitts (Qualitative Research Director).
- **Wine Owners (Wine Hub)** (wine, wine and spirits business management platform). London company selling Wine Hub, an ERP-class business management and stock platform built specifically for wine and spirits merchants, importers, agencies and producers, plus Wine Keep for bonded storage operators. It handles fine wine stock, en primeur, client-stored wines, duty, multi-channel selling and integrations with accounting, LCB warehouses and trading exchanges. Wine Owners makes no public AI or machine-learning claim; it is tracked here as a wine trade system of record, not as an AI vendor. Registered in the UK, company number 07645873. People: Nick Martin (Co-founder and CEO), Wolter Visscher (Co-founder and CTO), Nick Corker (COO), John Cox (Head of Product and Engineering).
- **Wine Services** (wine, wine and spirits market, pricing and distribution intelligence). Wine Services is a Bordeaux-based market intelligence platform tracking on-trade and off-trade distribution, pricing and competitive placement for wine and spirits brands. Its own site reports 805,000 wines and spirits tracked, 100,000 points of sale, and coverage of 105 markets across more than 25 countries, used by over 250 brands. Honest read on the AI: this is a data-collection and SaaS analytics business rather than an ML business, and the AI feature it advertises is an MCP server letting customers pipe the market dataset into Claude, Codex and custom agents.
- **Wine Technology Incorporated (VinWizard)** (wine, winery tank and cellar process control). Wine Technology Incorporated sells VinWizard, a winery automation, monitoring and control system used by over 200 wineries, with a second base in Marlborough, New Zealand. It controls tank temperature, automated pumpovers, air injection, headspace gassing and agitators, reads in-tank sensors for temperature stratification, brix and redox, and extends to chillers, barrel and case goods rooms, CO2, water and power. Its IOWIZ-4 and IOWIZ-16 IO controllers have been built in-house since 2016, and CellarView is a browser-based digital tank board. Alerts go out by email or SMS when tanks drift out of range. No AI or machine learning claim is made.
- **WineBusiness Analytics** (wine, wine industry databases and market reporting, no ai claim). WineBusiness Analytics sells wine industry data and analysis, including the Wine Analytics Report, the Wine Analytics Database, winery, grower and distributor databases, a Distributor Market Service and the WineBusiness Directory and Buyer's Guide covering more than 2,000 vendor profiles across 190 winery categories. It sits alongside WineBusiness Monthly and carries the Gomberg Fredrikson wine shipment reporting brand. Customers such as Far Niente use the Analytics Report to evaluate performance and segment markets. The site makes no artificial intelligence claim, so this is a database and reporting business rather than an AI vendor.
- **WineDirect Fulfillment** (wine, dtc wine fulfillment and temperature protected packaging). WineDirect Fulfillment is the wine direct to consumer fulfillment and warehousing business that remained after the WineDirect software platform became Commerce7, and it is now Commerce7's preferred fulfillment partner. It runs a multi site national network including a Paso Robles facility, with a fulfillment portal for order and inventory management and integrations into winery ecommerce systems. Its logistics work is heavily temperature driven, including its EcoCool and CoolPack heat protection packaging and regional white glove final mile partnerships. No AI or machine learning capability is claimed.
- **Winemetrics** (wine, on-premise wine list data and reporting). Winemetrics sells on-premise wine distribution intelligence in the US market, built from by-the-glass and bottle wine lists collected across chain restaurants. Its products are competitive analysis reports, wine list databases and a Wine Equity Quotient brand measure sold to wine suppliers, and it says all of the top 20 on-premise suppliers have been clients over 15 years. The site makes no machine learning or AI claim of any kind: this is human-collected menu data turned into reports. People: Charles Gill (Founder and CEO).
- **WineMS** (wine, unspecified use case). WineMS is a specialist cloud winery management suite operating out of the VinPro Building in Suider-Paarl in the South African Cape winelands. It runs three integrated applications: farm management for vineyard activities, chemical and fertiliser tracking and production planning; bulk management for grape receipt, crushing, barrel management, bulk transfers and dispatch; and production and sales management for bottling and labelling runs, dry stock and sales. It markets analytics and data insight but makes no AI or machine learning claim.
- **Winerim** (wine, wine list recommendation and margin optimisation). Winerim sells a cloud digital wine list for restaurants, hotels and wine bars in Spain. Its AI recommender analyses the diner's stated preferences, the dish chosen and the service context to suggest a wine from that venue's own list, alongside stock management, margin analytics and aggregated market intelligence. The company also publishes free diagnostic tools for wine list Pareto analysis and margin leakage.
- **WineSecret** (wine, ai sommelier chatbot over a merchant wine catalogue). WineSecret is a Hong Kong wine recommendation platform sold to restaurants, distributors, hoteliers and online wine retailers. A venue uploads its inventory or food and wine menus, WineSecret tags the wines automatically against a master catalogue, and an embeddable chatbot answers customer questions and recommends bottles the venue actually stocks, with tasting notes, grape variety, ageing, critic ratings and food pairings; the company says its recommendations are supervised by its own sommeliers and its site advertises a RAG query-to-insights feature as coming soon. Plans start at HK$4,166 per month and the Drinks Business reported around 1,000 end users in January 2026. Founded by Alex Wong and Derek Yip out of an existing monthly wine subscription business. People: Alex Wong (Co-founder), Derek Yip (Co-founder).
- **Wineshipping** (wine, temperature controlled wine fulfilment, no ai claim). Third party logistics provider dedicated to the wine industry, running direct to consumer, direct to trade and wholesale fulfilment out of temperature controlled bonded and tax paid warehouses, including weather triggered ice pack and hold protocols. Its software layer is a client portal for order, inventory and shipment visibility across the warehouse and carrier network. It makes no AI or machine learning claim anywhere on its site. It belongs in this database because it holds one of the largest pools of wine cold chain and DTC shipment data in the United States.
- **Winespace** (wine, sensory). Bordeaux startup whose Tastee AI tool digitizes wine tasting notes into structured, comparable taste data, developed with French research institute INRIA and able to analyze comments in 32 languages. People: [Sylvain Thibaud](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvain-thibaud) (CEO and Co-founder), [Julien Laithier](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-laithier) (President).
- **WineSpeak.ai** (wine, rag concierge and search for winery websites). WineSpeak.ai sells an AI agent that wineries embed in their own websites as a virtual concierge and wine curator. The company states the agent uses natural language processing and retrieval augmented generation over the winery's own content to answer visitor questions, recommend wines and food pairings, and push visitors towards tasting room bookings, club memberships and purchases; it also ships an AI search bar built for winery sites. Named winery customers on its site include Goosecross Cellars, Jessup Cellars, Thomas Fogarty Winery, Halleck Vineyard, Hestan Vineyards, Potters Vineyard and Lightning Rock Winery, and it integrates with Commerce7, eCellar, Shopify, Klaviyo and RedChirp. The site is a JavaScript app; the product copy quoted here was read from the application bundle served by winespeak.ai. People: Robert Noakes (Founder and CEO).
- **WineSpotAi** (wine, AI customer service agent for wineries: answers wine club and tasting room enquiries, handles routine support and personalisation across SMS and web chat.). Temecula, California vendor selling an AI-powered customer support and personalisation layer to winery DTC teams.
- **Winestro (Weinbau-online GmbH & Co. KG)** (wine, no ai claim; winery and wine trade management software). Winestro.Cloud, formerly Weinbau-online.de, is a German cloud system of record for wine estates, sparkling wine producers, Vinotheken, wine merchants and small distilleries. It covers vineyard block work, the cellar book and bottle book, orders, room bookings, a web shop (Winestro.Shop), parcel labels and EU e-labels. The company states it works with more than 2,300 wine estates and merchants over more than 15 years. It makes no substantiated machine learning claim: the platform is transactional software, and AI appears only as blog commentary.
- **Wise Systems** (beer, 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.
- **WiseConn** (wine, irrigation automation telemetry and ndvi imagery, no ai claim). WiseConn builds DropControl, a wireless monitoring and control platform for precision irrigation, with its own node hardware and an NDVI imagery analysis tool. It was founded in Chile in 2006 by Guillermo Valenzuela, Jose Ulloa, Luis Felipe Escobar and Cristobal Rivas, opened a Fresno office in 2015 and later added Mildura, Madrid and other locations, and reports around 500,000 acres monitored. It is listed in the Wine Industry Network supplier directory and publishes vineyard specific guidance on soil moisture and vine water status. WiseConn makes no artificial intelligence or machine learning claim; it is sensing, automation and reporting.
- **WISK** (multiple, 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.
- **WithWine** (wine, winery point of sale, wine club and CRM). WithWine sells direct to consumer software for wineries: tasting room point of sale, a WordPress based website plugin with widgets and APIs, wine club and subscription management, and CRM. It is listed in the Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Directory under technology. The site describes automated club allocations and reengagement campaigns but makes no AI or machine learning claim.
- **Wizata** (multiple, 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.
- **Worter** (beer, 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. People: Shaju Balakrishnan, Kranti Satyanarayan Mamidpalliwar (directors).
- **Worximity** (multiple, 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.
- **Wunderlich-Malec Engineering** (multiple, 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.
- **xkzero (XMC)** (multiple, 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.
- **Yakima Chief Hops** (beer, 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. People: Cesar Silva-Monroy (Chief Information and Strategy Officer).
- **Yalo** (multiple, 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. People: Javier Mata (Founder and CEO).
- **Yamaha Agriculture (The Yield)** (wine, vineyard yield and harvest forecasting). Yamaha Agriculture sells AI Crop Prediction, an analytics platform that forecasts vineyard yields and grape volumes from operational and sensing data, alongside the Prospr autonomous hybrid vehicle for vineyard work and the FAZER R unmanned helicopter. The analytics line descends from the Australian agtech The Yield, whose Sensing+ irrigation and harvest prediction models were sold to Treasury Wine Estates before Yamaha took the business over; theyield.com now redirects to this domain. Dealers are listed in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and the company runs a 100 acre test orchard in Washington State.
- **Yanu** (multiple, 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. People: Alan Adojaan (Founder and CEO).
- **Yeastime** (beer, 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.
- **Yellow Dog Software** (multiple, 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.
- **Yokogawa Electric** (beer, 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.
- **YoLong Brewtech** (beer, 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.
- **Zap (Zap Data Hub)** (beer, 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. People: Max Smith (Data and Analytics Manager, Beavertown Brewery).
- **Zaptic** (multiple, 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.
- **Zero Carbon Forum** (beer, 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. People: Mark Chapman (Founder and CEO), Bob Gordon (Director).
- **Zevero** (multiple, 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.
- **Ziemann Holvrieka** (beer, 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.
- **ZoomAgri** (beer, 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.

## Dormant companies

- Analytical Flavor Systems (Gastrograph AI) (last seen 2025-01-01)
- Aromyx (last seen 2023-01-01)
- BarTrack (last seen 2022-04-28)
- Bespoken Spirits (last seen 2020-10-07)
- Bira 91 (B9 Beverages) (last seen 2023-07-18)
- Bloomfield Robotics (last seen 2024-06-01)
- Bodegas Cepa 21 (last seen 2020-08-18)
- Bright Cellars (last seen 2017-05-24)
- Carlsberg (last seen 2018-10-15)
- Ceres Imaging (Ceres AI) (last seen 2021-09-01)
- Circumstance Distillery (last seen 2020-07-01)
- Deep Liquid (last seen 2025-03-19)
- Deep Planet (last seen 2025-03-02)
- Deschutes Brewery (last seen 2019-08-12)
- IntelligentX (last seen 2019-02-01)
- ITK (Vintel) (last seen 2023-01-04)
- Mackmyra (last seen 2019-06-19)
- McCoy & Partners (last seen 2024-04-02)
- Molson Coors (Atwater Brewery) (last seen 2023-01-31)
- Next Century Spirits (last seen 2024-02-08)
- PLAATO (last seen 2024-05-28)
- Preferabli (last seen 2024-12-16)
- Propagate Lab (last seen 2024-08-13)
- SACMI (last seen 2023-11-12)
- Sapporo Breweries (last seen 2023-03-04)
- Scanopy (last seen 2019-06-01)
- Sommify (last seen 2023-01-01)
- Tastry (last seen 2024-03-01)
- Tule Technologies (last seen 2023-01-31)
- VineForecast (last seen 2023-11-09)
- VinoVoss (BetterAI) (last seen 2024-12-29)
- Vivino (last seen 2017-08-01)
- Watgrid (WINEGRID) (last seen 2022-10-13)
- Whiskey Wise Group (last seen 2024-01-01)
- Zymoscope (last seen 2024-08-01)

## By vertical (active)

- multiple: 335
- beer: 231
- wine: 201
- whiskey: 70
- non_alcoholic: 7

## By use case (active)

- demand forecasting: 10
- quality control / computer vision: 10
- data analytics / BI / market intelligence for beverage: 10
- no substantiated ai claim: 9
- sensory: 6
- supply chain: 6
- production data: 5
- recipe / flavor prediction: 4
- GenAI marketing: 4
- AI consulting: 4
- none: 4
- recommendation / personalization: 3
- consumer insight / trend prediction: 2
- process & operations: 2
- shelf image recognition for retail execution: 2
- accelerated spirit maturation: 2
- vineyard yield, risk and irrigation forecasting: 2
- none claimed: 2
- machine learning on beer recipes and consumer review data: 2
- harvest volume prediction from drone multispectral imagery: 2
- data and AI platform for beverage and CPG operators: 2
- disease / yield prediction: 1
- quality control: 1
- Autonomous vineyard robots with camera-based disease detection and yield prediction: 1
- brewery digital twin with AI production analytics: 1
- IIoT data-driven production intelligence: 1
- AI-powered draft beer operating system: 1
- AI-driven production and supply chain planning: 1
- in-line sensors plus AI to optimize CIP: 1
- AI and blockchain product traceability and inspection data: 1
- AI-native connected worker platform: 1
- brewery maintenance software with sensor data: 1
- IT, data, and AI consultancy for breweries: 1
- digital container twins and line data analytics: 1
- connected worker SaaS with AI-powered analytics: 1
- manufacturing data platform with AI assistant: 1
- supply chain planning with AI forecasting and digital twin: 1
- beer sales and quality analytics with AI insights: 1
- factory-trained AI agents for production lines: 1
- on-premise AI knowledge and workflow platform: 1
- AI evaluation of malting barley germination: 1
- AI-powered deposit return system with container ID codes: 1
- ML demand forecasting (SKU/retailer level) on a shared data platform: 1
- AI-driven pricing/demand forecasting + automation-led ops + GenAI reporting: 1
- consumer-preference NLP, recipe optimization ML, predictive maintenance, demand forecasting: 1
- AI-driven batch-consistency analytics on fermentation IoT data: 1
- advising brewers on data infrastructure and AI for demand forecasting: 1
- taproom/point-of-sale data & analytics for craft beverage operators: 1
- production data / reporting: 1
- compliance & licensing: 1
- packaging line performance: 1
- process data historian + predictive analytics: 1
- AI digital twins for beverage line simulation: 1
- brewery automation and MES production data: 1
- brewing MES, R&D formulation and production scheduling: 1
- sales intelligence / depletions analytics: 1
- sales execution and trade promotion analytics: 1
- distributor and supplier BI analytics: 1
- sales automation with natural-language data assistant: 1
- winery production data and workflow automation: 1
- production data / predictive analytics: 1
- order intelligence / production data: 1
- demand forecasting / retail agents: 1
- consumer alcohol propensity modeling: 1
- wine and whisky auction price data feed: 1
- social media purchase intent and sentiment signals: 1
- wine cellar inventory and sales advisory: 1
- brewery customer service and operations agents: 1
- supply and demand optimisation for beverage alcohol producers and distributors: 1
- wine club churn and signup prediction plus natural-language analytics: 1
- ai-enhanced product content and catalog data for alcohol suppliers and distributors: 1
- bigquery ml predictive analytics for direct-to-consumer wine and spirits: 1
- demand forecasting and predictive maintenance on google cloud: 1
- real-time brewhouse and fermentation performance analytics: 1
- predictive machine health on brewery packaging lines: 1
- brewery digital twin with ai-supported process recommendations: 1
- inline brewing process measurement and spoilage detection: 1
- fermentation and distillation process measurement automation: 1
- packaging line performance and predictive maintenance analytics: 1
- brewing line drift detection and root cause analysis: 1
- brewery oee and downtime monitoring: 1
- filling line micro-stop and oee monitoring: 1
- rare whisky market data and valuation: 1
- maturing scotch exchange and market data: 1
- machine learning demand forecasting for spirits and wine: 1
- flavour and consumer trend prediction for drinks product development: 1
- molecular spirit formulation from analytical chemistry data: 1
- distillery production data and ttb compliance analytics: 1
- barrel maturation analytics and angel's share forecasting: 1
- cask valuation from distillery and auction comparables: 1
- ai whisky sommelier and taste profile recommendations: 1
- distillery digital twin for energy and waste heat optimisation: 1
- carbon footprint modelling for single malt production: 1
- vine-by-vine computer vision scanning for disease, yield and pruning counts: 1
- drone imagery analysis for vine disease and vigour mapping: 1
- vine water status and grape maturation prediction from sap flow and climate data: 1
- grapevine stress and disease prediction from in-trunk sap biosensors: 1
- consumer taste profiling and wine recommendation: 1
- vineyard disease forecasting and irrigation decision support: 1
- satellite vigour mapping and phytopathology forecast models for vineyards: 1
- computer vision quality inspection of wine during bottling: 1
- wine and spirits market, pricing and distribution intelligence: 1
- vineyard climate and terroir intelligence mapping: 1
- distributor pricing, predictive ordering and conversational reporting: 1
- marketplace search and product recommendations: 1
- dtc ecommerce inventory and purchase order recommendations: 1
- order routing and marketing automation for alcohol dtc: 1
- invoice extraction and par based ordering for bars and taprooms: 1
- price and revenue management for the alcohol value chain: 1
- consumer consumption data analytics and generative menu design: 1
- self pour taproom pour level sales analytics: 1
- retrieval assistant over brewing technical and regulatory resources: 1
- ai review of alcohol labels and marketing for ttb compliance: 1
- beverage alcohol shipping and registration compliance system of record: 1
- genetic algorithms and machine learning for wine blend composition: 1
- machine learning prediction of beer flavor and consumer appreciation: 1
- production scheduling and batch planning for craft beverage producers: 1
- none claimed, commerce and compliance infrastructure: 1
- none verified, licensing and enforcement workflow SaaS: 1
- sensory data mining and beer recommendation: 1
- flavour compound modelling for on demand beer formulation: 1
- demand forecasting and shelf space optimisation for alcohol retail: 1
- none substantiated, B2B ordering and retail execution: 1
- back office automation for importing and compliance: 1
- ai advanced process control for brewery utilities and thermal processes: 1
- deep learning vision inspection of closures and can codes on filling lines: 1
- no ai claim; mes modules for oee, downtime, batch procedure and spc on brewery lines: 1
- no ai claim; inline and at-line dissolved co2, o2 and total package oxygen measurement for breweries: 1
- condition-based predictive maintenance and yield analytics via the buhler insights iiot platform: 1
- no ai claim, winery erp and power bi reporting: 1
- winery erp with copilot based assistants: 1
- no ai claim, brewery erp and batch analytics: 1
- flavour profiling and preference matching: 1
- demand forecasting and commercial insight agents: 1
- cask records and production tracking: 1
- cask ownership verification: 1
- tokenised cask asset marketplace: 1
- spirits authentication from electrochemical fingerprints: 1
- demand forecasting and computer vision data capture: 1
- vine level data platform with machine learning disease detection: 1
- harvest volume prediction from drone and sensor data: 1
- wine oxygen and phenolic measurement instruments: 1
- cross border excise and customs automation for alcohol: 1
- generative ai assistant over winery erp and traceability data: 1
- autonomous vineyard straddle tractor: 1
- keg fleet tracking / sales CRM: 1
- brewhouse process control / cloud maintenance: 1
- inline and lab beverage measurement: 1
- mash filtration and brewhouse technology: 1
- brewery ERP / mass-balance recipe engine: 1
- AI-enabled precision fermentation / brewery plant engineering: 1
- brewery process control and MES: 1
- iot keg fleet tracking: 1
- smart keg supply chain insights: 1
- shared keg pool logistics: 1
- keg and draught asset tracking: 1
- keg level and pour monitoring: 1
- cellular smart keg trackers: 1
- keg scan tracking and traceability: 1
- returnable asset and keg tracking: 1
- wine cold chain scoring: 1
- beverage freight and cold chain logistics: 1
- serialised bottle track and trace: 1
- water risk and replenishment modelling: 1
- automated scope 3 emission factor matching: 1
- carbon footprint accounting for drinks producers: 1
- remote monitoring of brewery wastewater treatment: 1
- remote real time control of modular wastewater reactors: 1
- sector carbon benchmarking and reduction roadmaps: 1
- chat assistant over distillery production and duty data: 1
- brewery discrete event simulation and digital twin, plus industry benchmarking: 1
- no ai claim; process engineering design and build for breweries and distilleries: 1
- self service time series analytics and golden batch profiling on brewery process historian data: 1
- self service industrial time series analytics and anomaly monitoring for process plants: 1
- no ai claim; food and beverage plant design build with automation and controls data integration: 1
- iot condition monitoring and root cause analytics on brewery and beverage process equipment: 1
- connected winery press and cellar telemetry: 1
- brewhouse process automation and recipe control: 1
- anomaly detection and asset health monitoring on brewery production lines: 1
- algorithmic fermentation kinetics control and nutrient dosing: 1
- winery tank and cellar process control: 1
- distilling process control and automatic fractionation: 1
- brewhouse assisted brewing automation: 1
- computer vision barley varietal purity and grain quality grading: 1
- machine learning prediction of yeast contribution to beer aroma: 1
- synthetic biology strain engineering for flavour, no machine learning claim: 1
- ai assisted wild yeast strain discovery from genomic and phenotypic data: 1
- genomics assisted hop breeding, no machine learning claim: 1
- llm assistant that drafts quality-control test definitions: 1
- machine learning for production cost reduction and environmental footprint in viticulture: 1
- wine club member churn prediction: 1
- brewery management software: 1
- wine label recognition and provenance enrichment on aws: 1
- irrigation decision support for vineyards: 1
- retail sales analytics for beverage alcohol: 1
- beverage alcohol category analytics and shopper insights consulting: 1
- connected vineyard sensing and precision viticulture: 1
- brewery production and quality analytics using statistical process control: 1
- taproom and tasting room experience analytics with AI feedback analysis: 1
- brewery production, sales and keg management system of record: 1
- taproom and tasting room point of sale and member analytics: 1
- AIoT monitoring of brewhouse, fermentation and keg assets: 1
- no ai claim; distillery engineering, automation and controls with historian delivery: 1
- no ml claim; digital twin simulation and production data modelling for drinks plants: 1
- no ai claim; scada and tag historian as the distillery process data layer: 1
- no ai claim; brewery mes, process historian and oee integration: 1
- no ai claim; brewery scada, isa 88 batch recipe and energy data platform: 1
- no ai claim; open process historian and mes for fermentation plants: 1
- connected press monitoring and remote fault finding: 1
- automated still control and fraction data acquisition: 1
- remote machine monitoring and alarm diagnostics: 1
- line performance monitoring and remote predictive maintenance: 1
- co2 capture monitoring and performance tracking: 1
- closed loop packaging and carbon reduction reporting: 1
- vineyard and winery sustainability certification data: 1
- sensor driven precision irrigation and vineyard analytics: 1
- distribution of ai fermentation monitoring to wineries: 1
- beverage operator reporting dashboard: 1
- generative engine optimization for winery discovery: 1
- enterprise ai, asset maintenance and supply chain for beverage producers: 1
- viticultural zoning and grape ripening prediction: 1
- deep learning machine vision inspection of empty and full bottles on brewery filling lines: 1
- fully instrumented contract distillery building ai-ready production data for ml and model predictive control: 1
- no ai claim; inline optical sensors feeding brewery process control: 1
- no ai claim; scada, plc and process historian integration for distilleries and breweries: 1
- no ai claim; mes, scada and industrial data integration for distilleries: 1
- ai recommended malting recipes and a group malt data platform: 1
- machine learning on yeast sensory data plus protein language models for strain and enzyme engineering: 1
- predictive inventory modelling and brewing supply analytics: 1
- ai route optimisation for delivery fleets: 1
- temperature controlled wine fulfilment, no ai claim: 1
- keg rental and return logistics, no ai claim: 1
- cask inventory and still telemetry, no ai claim: 1
- route sequencing for beverage distributors: 1
- genai assistant over retail and on-trade drinks measurement data: 1
- ai analytics layer over alcohol point of sale and depletion data: 1
- generative ai research assistant over proprietary drinks market intelligence: 1
- consumer panel and receipt data for bevalc, no ai product named: 1
- beverage alcohol market data and data science consulting, no ai claim: 1
- control state spirits sales data warehouse, no ai claim: 1
- wine industry databases and market reporting, no ai claim: 1
- copilot order entry and financial reporting inside wine and spirits erp: 1
- vineyard and winery erp with production and yield reporting: 1
- wine and spirits distribution erp with demand forecasting: 1
- llm assistant embedded in netsuite: 1
- ai production scheduling on netsuite: 1
- none claimed; craft drinks erp reseller: 1
- shelf image recognition and ai territory planning for beverage field teams: 1
- computer vision shelf auditing for drinks brands: 1
- ai assisted field sales and visit execution on salesforce: 1
- platform layer under beverage crm, retail execution and route to market: 1
- salesforce crm and einstein consulting for wineries and spirits brands: 1
- salesforce b2b commerce accelerator for alcohol distribution: 1
- salesforce and agentforce implementation for beverage distributors: 1
- no ai claim, sap erp add-ons for beverage excise duty and batch traceability: 1
- machine learning demand forecasting in sap ibp for a brewing group: 1
- sap systems integration for drinks companies, marketed with predictive and augmented analytics: 1
- no ai claim, sap business one distillery erp with batch and excise traceability: 1
- no ai claim, sap business one for winery production and vineyard to bottle traceability: 1
- tableau production and supply chain dashboards, no ai claim: 1
- alcohol invoice and scan data analytics, no ai claim: 1
- retail bi dashboards and category management for drinks brands, no ai claim: 1
- winery power bi data unification, no ai claim: 1
- winery depletion and cross-channel kpi dashboards, no ai claim: 1
- predictive maintenance and fermentation anomaly detection: 1
- whiskey barrel valuation and pricing: 1
- genai assistant for scotch collecting and valuation: 1
- tractor mounted computer vision for vine disease mapping: 1
- conversational assistant over winery management data: 1
- terroir and vineyard parcel intelligence API: 1
- vineyard yield and harvest forecasting: 1
- brewery management with fermentation forecasting and voice assistant: 1
- automated cut control plus a genai distilling assistant: 1
- winery greenhouse gas inventory and carbon accounting: 1
- iot keg telemetry and fleet visibility: 1
- beverage erp implementation for breweries and distilleries: 1
- none claimed; drinks erp system of record: 1
- airborne spore detection for vineyard disease risk: 1
- computer vision yeast cell analysis for brewing, wine and bioethanol fermentation: 1
- reinforcement-learning autonomous control of fermentation temperature scheduling: 1
- real-time liquid fingerprinting for changeover and CIP optimisation: 1
- deep learning machine vision for production line quality assurance: 1
- machine learning bottle and embossing recognition on returnable beverage lines: 1
- particle fingerprinting of drinks samples with machine learning shape analysis: 1
- none claimed, SAP-based digitalisation consulting for breweries: 1
- data driven inspection of containers and filled packs: 1
- none claimed, optical and 3D inspection on beverage filling lines: 1
- none claimed, inspection and track and trace on beverage packaging lines: 1
- none claimed, benchtop photometric beer and wort analysis: 1
- none claimed, industry ERP for breweries and beverage wholesalers: 1
- computer vision yield estimation per vine: 1
- autonomous route planning and delivery optimisation: 1
- warehouse automation and control software for beer distributors: 1
- sales execution analytics and incentive tracking for beer distributors: 1
- automated sales incentive and execution tracking for beverage distributors: 1
- sales performance management and display execution reporting: 1
- power bi reporting for beverage wholesalers: 1
- vineyard equipment telematics and spray pass verification: 1
- direct to consumer wine compliance and tax filing automation: 1
- winery direct to consumer system of record and reporting: 1
- precision irrigation automation and block level water monitoring: 1
- retrofit irrigation automation with sensor driven scheduling: 1
- vineyard telemetry, soil moisture and irrigation control: 1
- irrigation, fertigation and frost protection automation: 1
- vineyard sensor data integration and irrigation decision guidance: 1
- analytical instruments and calibration models for wine and beer quality: 1
- alcohol licensing, reporting and compliance consulting: 1
- winery compliance file management and TTB training: 1
- aiot fermentation control for makgeolli: 1
- iot sensing and data analytics for sake fermentation: 1
- none claimed, oscillating tube density and alcohol analysis: 1
- none claimed, refractometry and inline concentration measurement: 1
- none claimed, plc brewery control and process automation: 1
- none claimed, brewery automation and control systems: 1
- consumption intelligence for taproom and keg operations: 1
- none claimed, distillery erp with excise record keeping: 1
- none claimed, distillery erp with scada and plc data acquisition: 1
- none claimed, distillery erp and operational analytics: 1
- none claimed, alcobev strategy and operations advisory: 1
- none claimed, brewery and distillery setup consulting: 1
- pricing, promotion and revenue growth management analytics: 1
- distributor data platform and commercial analytics: 1
- beverage and food AI, GenAI and data engineering consulting: 1
- data engineering and applied AI for fermentation prediction, quality anomaly detection, production and commercial analytics, and sustainability reporting across beer, wine and spirits: 1
- enterprise data platform architecture for beverage alcohol distribution: 1
- computer vision for plant level vineyard and crop monitoring: 1
- data science for vineyard and crop imaging analytics: 1
- AI engineering for vineyard and crop imaging: 1
- data systems and ML data pipelines for crop imaging: 1
- applied machine learning for beverage recipe and consumer feedback modelling: 1
- image recognition for retail and on-premise shelf execution: 1
- winery DTC and wine club analytics: 1
- agentic compliance filing and distributor chargeback validation: 1
- trade promotion optimisation and demand forecasting for alcoholic beverages: 1
- on-device image recognition for liquor retail execution: 1
- loyalty and personalisation for liquor retail e-commerce: 1
- generative AI craft beer recipe and brand copy co-creation: 1
- ultrasound fermentation acceleration with remote monitoring: 1
- hop aroma profile prediction from essential oil composition: 1
- vineyard disease and weather risk prediction: 1
- sales forecasting for wineries and distributors: 1
- no ai claim; winery and wine trade management software: 1
- supply chain traceability and digital product passports: 1
- no ai claim; eu wine and spirits e-label compliance: 1
- satellite mapping for precision viticulture: 1
- no ai claim; vineyard and cellar traceability software: 1
- no ai claim; cellar traceability and wine sales administration: 1
- smart farming advisories for vineyards: 1
- no ai claim; winemaking process control equipment: 1
- predicting wine quality from wine chemistry: 1
- no substantiated ml claim; wine analytical chemistry and genomics data: 1
- cask digital twin with rag assistant and maturation forecasting: 1
- conversational genai whisky guide for consumers: 1
- document extraction for beverage brand registration compliance: 1
- ttb compliance calculation engine, no ai claim: 1
- conversational ai for autonomous robotic drink service: 1
- cask investment advisory, no ai claim: 1
- inline mid-infrared mash monitoring with chemometric models: 1
- fermentation temperature control with early trend detection: 1
- inline yeast biomass measurement for pitching control: 1
- distillery control systems and instrumentation: 1
- distillery and bottling hall process control: 1
- inline container and fill level inspection: 1
- high speed vision inspection of beverage containers: 1
- brewery MES and packaging line downtime tracking: 1
- inline process measurement, no AI claim: 1
- brewery process control and remote service, no AI claim: 1
- automated pressing and filling control, AI claim not substantiated: 1
- hop yield, irrigation and plant stress forecasting: 1
- hop irrigation and yield prediction for growers: 1
- warehouse work and travel optimization: 1
- keg fleet tracking and delivery route optimisation: 1
- route accounting and demand forecasting for beverage DSD: 1
- last mile route execution and route plan data improvement: 1
- carbon accounting with ai assisted decarbonisation planning: 1
- farm level ghg, water and biodiversity footprinting: 1
- vineyard and winery carbon footprint calculation: 1
- regenerative agriculture carbon and soil outcome measurement: 1
- none claimed, distillation plant engineering: 1
- none claimed, still and distillation system fabrication: 1
- industrial automation and analytics for food and beverage plants, no ai claim: 1
- cip and water monitoring with predictive analytics: 1
- predictive order proposals and basket analysis for beverage distribution: 1
- genai menu, trend and consumer intelligence: 1
- genai insight assistant over cpg product database: 1
- social data trend prediction for drinks innovation: 1
- predictive and genai models over brand and shopper panels: 1
- machine learning applied to market research production: 1
- vertical ai assistant and shelf image recognition for beverage route to market: 1
- shelf image recognition for beverage retail execution: 1
- no ai claim, field sales crm for beverage brands: 1
- no ai claim, salesforce native crm for wineries: 1
- no ai claim, salesforce integration for winery dtc and wholesale data: 1
- beverage erp for producers and distributors, no ai claim: 1
- excise duty and customs compliance automation for alcohol producers: 1
- wine and spirits erp with customs and regie compliance: 1
- digital contract management for brewery and beverage supply contracts: 1
- wine production and excise erp with budgeting and forecasting: 1
- winery visitor, tasting and direct to consumer management: 1
- ai assisted alcohol licensing intake and compliance review for regulators: 1
- embedded business ai in erp plus a smart winery solution with predictive fermentation models: 1
- enterprise genai rollout, 500 variable demand forecasting and image recognition for tap detection: 1
- sap btp extensions for a smart winery, built on sap ai core and joule: 1
- no ai claim in the product, rules driven sap btp production cockpit with winery and tank extensions: 1
- draft beverage flow telemetry and pour-to-sale variance reconciliation: 1
- self-pour tap wall metering and per-ounce consumption analytics: 1
- bar beverage inventory counting, pour cost and variance reporting: 1
- bar beverage inventory, ordering and pour cost analytics: 1
- IoT pour spout sensing matched to POS transactions to detect overpour: 1
- platform substrate under beverage POS and beverage ERP, no beverage-specific AI: 1
- vineyard water demand prediction and irrigation management: 1
- condition based maintenance on brewing assets (no ai claim): 1
- centralised digital brand experience platform (no ai claim): 1
- guest insight and wine club retention scoring: 1
- advisory on predictive maintenance, vision inspection and brew scheduling: 1
- beverage distributor performance analytics: 1
- decision intelligence over three-tier beverage alcohol data: 1
- semantic layer over distributor and POS data: 1
- vineyard yield forecasting and winery analytics: 1
- none claimed, winery production tracking: 1
- beverage alcohol licensing and compliance automation: 1
- consumer interest and purchase intent scoring for wine and beer audiences: 1
- year ahead weather forecasting for wine shipping and demand planning: 1
- ai optical inspection and anomaly detection: 1
- deep learning machine vision inspection: 1
- custom data and ai platforms for food and beverage: 1
- self-pour dispense with age verification and pour analytics: 1
- none claimed, beer line cleaning verification data: 1
- none claimed, inline spectroscopic beverage measurement: 1
- none claimed, container and pallet inspection vision: 1
- none claimed, production and machine data acquisition: 1
- none claimed, beverage line inspection controllers: 1
- none claimed, hygienic process instrumentation: 1
- none claimed, accredited beverage analytics laboratory: 1
- none claimed, oee and line performance data services: 1
- computer vision sku verification and delivery iot analytics: 1
- warehouse execution orchestration for beverage dsd: 1
- draft line level market intelligence for beer distributors: 1
- distributor systems and cost to serve data consulting: 1
- warehouse execution and orchestration software for beverage distribution: 1
- nlp flavour extraction and taste-based recommendation for sake: 1
- liquor track and trace and excise revenue stamps: 1
- brewery and distillery erp with excise compliance: 1
- qr code authentication and consumer data capture for spirits and wine: 1
- OCR label reading with a deterministic TTB compliance rules engine: 1
- agentic sales coaching and image-recognition retail execution for beverage route-to-market: 1
- computer-vision bottle identification and recommendation for whisky collectors: 1
- order, route and inventory decision optimisation for beverage distributors: 1
- no ai claim; inline process sensors for brewhouse and fermentation: 1
- no ai claim; FT-NIR analysis with chemometric calibration for malt, wort and spirit: 1
- no ai claim; brewing yeast and fermentation science: 1
- no substantiated ai claim; whisky secondary market indices and bottle valuation: 1
- no ai claim; inline fluid identification and CIP sensing: 1
- no ai claim; bar liquor inventory and consumption analytics: 1
- no ai claim; wine and spirits traceability ERP, MES and WMS: 1
- IoT sensor telemetry with analytics for cask verification and insurance: 1
- no ai claim; brewhouse and process plant engineering: 1
- no ai claim; food and beverage facility design, construction and consulting: 1
- no ai claim; distillery management and blockchain provenance: 1
- AI customer service agent for wineries: answers wine club and tasting room enquiries, handles routine support and personalisation across SMS and web chat.: 1
- VINTAGE2 is an AI marketing readiness and generative-engine-optimisation model for wineries: audits how a winery brand is represented and retrieved by AI assistants and search, then restructures brand content for machine discoverability.: 1
- Winery production, inventory and compliance software with an in-product AI assistant, Barry, layered over winemaking, case goods and cost of goods data.: 1
- No AI claim. Wine and distillery DTC stack: point of sale, club and allocation management, ecommerce, CRM, inventory, fulfilment, reporting and dashboards. Reporting is conventional BI, not modelled.: 1
- No AI claim. Winery DTC platform with a centralised customer database across club, POS, reservations and ecommerce, marketed on customer analytics and data-driven segmentation rather than any model.: 1
- 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.: 1
- No AI claim. Vineyard consulting and management built on sensor telemetry: soil moisture probes driving irrigation decisions, plus an air quality sensing line and the Avterra product. Data-led agronomy, no modelling claim.: 1
- No AI claim. Subscription wine and juice lab analysis using FOSS WineScan instrumentation, returning a full data panel per sample so wineries can trend key parameters continuously instead of testing ad hoc. Instrumented data, no model.: 1
- No AI claim. Optical sorting machines including a dedicated wine grape sorting line, plus moisture monitoring. Machine vision hardware sold on sorting accuracy and yield, with no stated learned model.: 1
- 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.: 1
- No AI claim. Velvet Blade patent-pending membrane system for precision ethanol separation, starting with wine, so producers can dial alcohol down while preserving flavour. Separation engineering, no model.: 1
- 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.: 1
- 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.: 1
- digital twin plant and supply chain simulation: 1
- operations automation and digital twins: 1
- retail distribution and pricing intelligence: 1
- fermentation and maturity decision support: 1
- autonomous vineyard mowing robots: 1
- vineyard disease forecasting from in-canopy sensors: 1
- winery production system of record: 1
- autonomous electric vineyard tractors: 1
- genai blend curation and brand marketing: 1
- rag assistant over consumer research and insights: 1
- agentic llm assistant over enterprise policy and knowledge: 1
- ai over supplier specs, coas and formulation data: 1
- frontline knowledge capture and retrieval for plant operators: 1
- ai over shop floor data and digital sops: 1
- enterprise llm assistant over internal knowledge and systems: 1
- ai analyst over winery direct to consumer data: 1
- demand forecasting inside an operations platform, no ml detail disclosed: 1
- resold netsuite cash flow forecasting and finance ai: 1
- none, winery erp with budgeting and forecasting reports: 1
- none, brewery production tracking and keg management: 1
- none, brewery operations ledger: 1
- none, brewery field sales crm: 1
- nlp menu reading and on-premise account intelligence: 1
- genai knowledge base and synthetic panels for sensory and consumer research: 1
- advisory on data, analytics and ai for wine, spirits and beer brands: 1
- beverage alcohol market data publishing and data analysis services: 1
- forward-looking beer demand index from distributor purchase surveys: 1
- us beer shipment and taxable removals statistics: 1
- us spirits volume, revenue and category market data: 1
- wine export, production and market insight dashboards: 1
- czech beer production, consumption and export statistics: 1
- scent to language translation for sake and wine: 1
- ai olfactory sensing and aroma visualisation: 1
- sake fermentation temperature monitoring and record keeping: 1
- ai process model and digital twin for traditional korean liquor: 1
- automated brewing control with app and cloud recipe platform: 1
- craft beer recipe and ingredient reference database: 1
- brewery and distillery plant automation and reconciliation: 1
- brewery and distillery process automation and industrial software: 1
- brewery process equipment engineering and lab supply: 1
- turnkey microbrewery and distillery equipment with process control: 1
- ai based irrigation and vine stress recommendations: 1
- vision based autonomy for vineyard and orchard machinery: 1
- ai winery concierge agents for dtc marketing and service: 1
- dtc wine commerce data with ai club retention analysis: 1
- irrigation automation telemetry and ndvi imagery, no ai claim: 1
- erp selection and implementation consulting, no ai claim: 1
- winery financial modelling and business consulting, no ai claim: 1
- compliant two way business texting for wineries, no ai claim: 1
- ai food safety and regulatory intelligence over global documents: 1
- distributor depletion data cleanup and sales analytics: 1
- liquor retail store level data exchange and forecasting: 1
- invoice extraction and ranked purchasing actions for bar beverage programs: 1
- none claimed; accredited brewing and malting analysis: 1
- none claimed; hop breeding, HPLC analysis and variety data: 1
- none claimed; direct to consumer beer commerce and membership clubs: 1
- none claimed; draft inventory and keg profitability analytics: 1
- none claimed; beer availability catalogue and on premise menu marketing: 1
- instrumental and sensory flavour analysis: 1
- industry export and production statistics: 1
- secondary market auction price intelligence: 1
- bottle investment analytics and liquidity scoring: 1
- cask valuation and portfolio performance data: 1
- collection pricing data and vaulted bottle authentication: 1
- distillery consulting, analytical testing and sensory evaluation: 1
- genome sequencing guided yeast strain development: 1
- soil microbiome dna analysis with machine learning: 1
- farm level barley supply chain emissions modelling: 1
- molecular marker assisted hop breeding: 1
- genotyping and genomic selection for crop breeding: 1
- searchable hop variety knowledge database: 1
- analytical aroma fingerprinting of hop varieties: 1
- sensory panel data management software: 1
- plc brewhouse and cellar control with remote access: 1
- brewhouse and cellar automation panels with data trending: 1
- brewery process automation and remote hmi monitoring: 1
- potstill monitoring and remote control: 1
- microbrewery measurement and control systems: 1
- brewhouse control panels with remote service access: 1
- inline refractometry for wort, distillate and grape must: 1
- flow and energy metering for brewing and distilling: 1
- nmr wine authentication against a reference database: 1
- titration, ion chromatography and nir quality control for beer and wine: 1
- real time oee and downtime analytics on beverage packaging lines: 1
- plc, scada and mes integration for wineries, distilleries and breweries: 1
- brewery historian and mes standardisation: 1
- packaging line integration and production line digital intelligence: 1
- plant performance improvement programmes for beverage producers: 1
- keg fleet pooling and tracking: 1
- iot unit level traceability and condition monitoring: 1
- nfc digital product identity and track and trace: 1
- dtc wine fulfillment and weather aware shipping: 1
- dtc wine fulfillment and temperature protected packaging: 1
- temperature controlled final mile wine delivery: 1
- route optimization for beverage distributors: 1
- rfid keg tracking: 1
- winery erp, no ai claim: 1
- vineyard data capture and sensor analytics: 1
- wine and spirits erp, no ai claim: 1
- wine label image recognition: 1
- liquor retail pos and inventory forecasting: 1
- wine production management, no ai claim: 1
- conversational analytics over spirits depletion and pricing data: 1
- liquor licensing and compliance system of record, no ai claim: 1
- erp digital core and distribution route management: 1
- winery erp with ai document capture: 1
- distillery erp and production analytics: 1
- erp data warehouse automation with analytics copilots: 1
- vineyard yield forecasting and winery supply planning: 1
- no ai claim; plant engineering plus digital transformation and controls: 1
- no ai claim; beverage plant design with controls and automation: 1
- no ai claim; brewery and distillery process plant engineering: 1
- brewery carbon accounting and net zero reporting: 1
- winery wastewater reuse as a service: 1
- wine sustainability benchmarking and packaging data: 1
- shared climate solutions database for wine: 1
- winery sustainability self-assessment and certification data: 1
- wine carbon and water footprint certification: 1
- national winegrowing sustainability data collection and benchmarking: 1
- ai assistant for machine fault resolution: 1
- deep learning vision inspection of packaging: 1
- brewery process control and mes software: 1
- mes and quality management software for beverage producers: 1
- connected beer dispense monitoring: 1
- instrumented container sensors for bottling line analytics: 1
- inline and laboratory beverage analysers: 1
- x-ray and fill level inspection of beverage containers: 1
- inline beverage quality measurement with dashboarding: 1
- enzymatic biosensors for sugars and fermentation products: 1
- mes and process automation for beverage plants: 1
- brewery and distillery process control software: 1
- automation and mes software for filling lines: 1
- route and load optimization for beer distribution: 1
- route optimization and fleet analytics for beverage distributors: 1
- robotic warehouse automation software for beverage distribution centres: 1
- warehouse execution software for beverage distribution: 1
- iot telemetry on refrigerated beverage merchandisers: 1
- bar and beverage inventory back office, no ai claim: 1
- connected keg and bottle scales for real time draught and liquor stock, no ai claim: 1
- oracle fusion demand and supply planning for beverage production and distribution: 1
- oracle jd edwards and oci for brewery and distillery production, shelf life and distribution data: 1
- hospitality procure to pay and food and beverage inventory, ai claimed but unspecified: 1
- winery erp and direct to consumer system of record, no ai claim: 1
- route-to-market retail execution intelligence: 1
- vineyard farm management and AI advisory: 1
- conversational b2b ordering agents for beverage distribution: 1
- route-to-market sales force recommendations: 1
- no AI claim; brewery IT and business systems moved to cloud: 1
- no ai claim, beverage alcohol bi and reporting: 1
- sales and demand forecasting, consumer trend agents: 1
- prescriptive depletion and distributor performance briefings: 1
- no ai claim, brewery production and keg fleet analytics: 1
- bi platform with an ai insights feature, winery kpi dashboards: 1
- vineyard health and frost prediction, ai recommendations: 1
- no ai claim, craft brewery financial benchmarking: 1
- blockchain supply chain traceability with anomaly detection: 1
- precision irrigation from satellite and sensor data: 1
- maintenance data and reporting for brewing operations: 1
- brewery production and sales management software: 1
- subscription brewery QA/QC lab with a batch data platform: 1
- direct to consumer alcohol e-commerce and fulfilment: 1
- b2b beverage ordering between retailers, distributors and suppliers: 1
- announced ai based sales and personalisation model for craft beer: 1
- predictive fermentation monitoring and analytics: 1
- beverage distribution with b2b and dtc e-commerce: 1
- taproom digital taplist and menu synchronisation: 1
- ai agents for erp process automation and vision inspection: 1
- in app brewing assistant grounded in the brewer's own recipes, inventory and equipment: 1
- wine list recommendation and margin optimisation: 1
- none, vineyard ERP on Odoo: 1
- none, rapid microbiology testing instruments: 1
- vineyard decision support from plot data and photos: 1
- none, sensor triggered retractable vineyard canopy: 1
- harvest yield forecasting across an appellation: 1
- mineral fingerprinting for authenticity and blending decisions: 1
- predictive alerts on fermentation and ageing drift: 1
- camera vision post detection on vineyard pre-pruners: 1
- none, sensor driven variable rate vineyard spraying: 1
- generative imagery for wine and spirits packshots: 1
- none, wine and spirits commercial management software: 1
- brewery lab and production data management: 1
- beverage line production planning and forecast of changeover duration: 1
- inline and lab measurement of gravity, alcohol and dissolved CO2: 1
- vision inspection of bottles, closures and preforms: 1
- inline turbidity and colour measurement in brewing: 1
- brewery sales CRM and business intelligence: 1
- brewing research institute with an AI and energy optimisation unit: 1
- SCADA and plant data reporting into MES and ERP: 1
- no ai claim, photo and gps verified retail execution records: 1
- no ai claim, three tier alcohol pricing and new item data exchange: 1
- ai dash cam risk detection for beverage delivery fleets: 1
- no ai claim, dex direct store delivery data exchange: 1
- no ai claim, last mile route optimization for beverage delivery: 1
- no ai claim, warehouse execution and control software for beverage distribution centres: 1
- no ai claim, automated order consolidation for beverage distribution centres: 1
- shop floor quality and efficiency data capture: 1
- excise stamp track and trace for alcohol: 1
- bottle level authentication and supply chain scan data: 1
- liquor retail stock ledger and excise reporting: 1
- computer vision vine-by-vine scanning: 1
- vineyard farm management and harvest reporting: 1
- wine analytical testing and results dashboard: 1
- automated wet chemistry analysis for wine and beer labs: 1
- winery direct to consumer data hub: 1
- winery point of sale, wine club and CRM: 1
- brewery taproom loyalty and membership data: 1
- data pipelines with AI/ML endpoints for beer distributors: 1
- none, machine vision and robotics for mixed SKU beer pallet building: 1
- none, on-premise beverage inventory and purchasing: 1
- computer vision for vine pruning guidance: 1
- precision viticulture and vine disease diagnosis: 1
- real time fermentation monitoring: 1
- handheld spectroscopy plant analysis with AI advisory: 1
- wine market data and commercial analytics: 1
- wine analysis laboratory network: 1
- voice agent for field record keeping: 1
- patented pressure-aged maturation process: 1
- bourbon and malt concentrate formulation for IMFL blending: 1
- near infrared grading of oak staves by polyphenol content: 1
- erp for distillery and alcohol manufacturing: 1
- predictive maintenance in distilleries: 1
- condition monitoring and predictive maintenance on bottling lines: 1
- brewing recipe prediction and inverse recipe search: 1
- maintenance work order management with AI generated procedures: 1
- maintenance analytics with anomaly detection and forecasting: 1
- line control, OEE and inspection for wine and beer packaging lines: 1
- brewery steam and energy benchmarking and monitoring: 1
- inline and lab water and beer quality analysis: 1
- brewhouse automation and plant management software: 1
- brewhouse process control, recipe management and batch data logging: 1
- plc based microbrewery control systems: 1
- machine vision inspection of filled and empty beer bottles and cans: 1
- connected pneumatic presses with remote recipe and parameter management: 1
- brewhouse and cellar automation control systems: 1
- winery erp and traceability, no ai claim: 1
- alcohol excise duty and customs compliance, no ai claim: 1
- vineyard sensor monitoring platform: 1
- wine list and cellar inventory connected to the POS, no ai claim: 1
- franchised bar beverage stocktaking and variance consulting, no ai claim: 1
- patented pour and bottle weighing telemetry reconciled to pos sales, no ai claim: 1
- self-serve dispense control and per-pour consumption data, no ai claim: 1
- digital tap list and beer menu boards driven by pos and inventory data, no ai claim: 1
- image recognition for on-shelf availability: 1
- trade promotion forecasting and optimization: 1
- on-trade prospect scoring: 1
- wine and spirits business management platform: 1
- winery production and sales software: 1
- vineyard block records and yield tracking: 1
- brewery and winery production management: 1
- beverage inventory and purchasing: 1
- natural language analytics assistant over taproom and brewery sales data: 1
- industrial iot and ml anomaly detection on brewery production lines: 1
- on-premise wine list data and reporting: 1
- natural language analytics over distributor sales data: 1
- delivery route optimisation for liquor distribution: 1
- transportation management and returnable asset tracking for brewery distribution: 1
- route optimisation and delivery tracking for wine and spirits distribution: 1
- fleet telematics, AI dash cams and reefer temperature monitoring for beer distribution: 1
- barrel level free SO2 measurement and cellar data capture: 1
- brewery refrigeration energy and emissions optimisation: 1
- whisky by-product biorefining, no ai claim: 1
- remote sensing and biogeochemical mrv for agricultural scope 3: 1
- distillery epcm engineering, no ai claim: 1
- brewery mes and electronic brew book, no ai claim: 1
- multi-brewery historian data standardisation, no ai claim: 1
- brewery scada, hmi and mes integration, no ai claim: 1
- brewery and distillery process controls, no ai claim: 1
- wine and spirits plant engineering with historian and oee, no ai claim: 1
- ai driven plant phenotyping and genomic selection in barley breeding: 1
- none (yeast and fermentation nutrient supply): 1
- none (malt supply and malt sensory): 1
- none (malt supply and barley agronomy data): 1
- none (hop breeding and supply): 1
- fine wine transactional price data and market indices: 1
- syndicated scan and depletion dashboards for drinks brands: 1
- fine wine benchmarking and market research: 1
- out of home food and drink channel measurement: 1
- rag concierge and search for winery websites: 1
- ai sommelier chatbot over a merchant wine catalogue: 1
- conversational ai sommelier for drinks retailers: 1
- eu wine e-label compliance documents, no ai claim: 1
- supply chain production planning and packaging design generation: 1
- brewery wholesale ordering portal, no ai claim: 1