One Victoria craft brewery has entered a new age with its latest beer recipe 鈥� a hazy pale ale completely generated by artificial intelligence.

Whistle Buoy Brewing partner Isaiah Archer said the team had been experimenting with ChatGPT when it launched last year with the initial goal of developing product descriptions and writing social media posts, when another idea came to them.

鈥淲e asked ChatGPT to write us a beer recipe for a hazy pale ale,鈥� he told Black Press Media. 鈥淎nd it instantaneously spat out a recipe that made sense.鈥�

The recipe offered wasn鈥檛 ready just yet, however 鈥� Archer said the program gave measurements for home brewing, so they had to make some adjustments. Even then, the recipe still wasn鈥檛 quite right.

But just after about two minutes writing back-and-forth with the open-source AI program, the team had their new hazy pale ale Robo Beer, which came out on Friday (Feb. 17).

鈥淚t was certainly surprising how quick and how accurate it was,鈥� he said. 鈥淵ou have to be able to use your own reasoning and logic and communicate with it like any person, that鈥檚 important to remember.鈥�

Creative lead Ryan Steele also used AI to generate images for the beer鈥檚 promotional , which he then stitched together and animated.

鈥淚t kind of blew my mind. It鈥檚 pretty wild what it can do,鈥� said Steele. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not the most easily-controllable thing. You鈥檙e at the will of what it will give you.鈥�

While Whistle Buoy doesn鈥檛 anticipate using AI to generate its brew recipes in the near future, Archer said it could help ease the process.

As far as the beer鈥檚 taste goes, he said you might just have to try it for yourself.

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