{"id":128,"date":"2016-02-02T18:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-02-02T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:03:09","slug":"how-what-to-brew-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/how-what-to-brew-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How What to Brew works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How in the world did I come up with a juniper berry gose? Is a Chai Saison actually good? A Hazelnut Belgian Tripel? How does this site work?<\/p>\n<p>Great questions. Here&#8217;s a bit of what goes on behind the scenes on this site.<\/p>\n<p>First, What to Brew collects a ton of data. Through our <a href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/what-to-brew\/id503633370?mt=8&amp;at=11l68r&amp;ct=wtbcom\">iOS app<\/a>, we ask people if a random beer style and a random fruit\/herb\/spice\/whatever is &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;gross&#8221;. Currently, we have over 60,000 votes. I take all of this data and find interesting ways of using it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m able to look at each <a href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/styles\">style<\/a>, and each <a href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/additions\">addition<\/a>, and find combinations that people think will likely work. Since it&#8217;s all random, this finds both the common things like chocolate and stout, as well as more unusual ones, like a blackberry English Porter. I&#8217;ve never had one, but it sounds delicious.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also able to do some more meta analysis. I have some algorithms that analyze the data to find interesting info. One example is the Similar Additions feature, where\u00a0I&#8217;m able to find additions that tend to work in similar beers. For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/additions\/ginger\">ginger<\/a>\u00a0is currently listed as close to\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/additions\/elderflower\">elderflower<\/a>, <a  href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/additions\/cranberry\">cranberry<\/a>, <a  href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/additions\/peach\">peach<\/a>, <a  href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/additions\/juniper+berries\">juniper berries<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/whattobrew.com\/additions\/blackberry\">blackberry<\/a>.\u00a0This can be helpful to give you ideas on combinations or substitutions.<\/p>\n<p>Another algorithm looks at additions, and finds what tags from the BJCP Style Guide correlate positively or negatively with an addition. 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