We never stop seeing how everything is being made smart and tactile. Car control, opening doors at home… Everything is prone to being “smartified”, although they are often trivial things that end up worsening the experience or making it inaccessible to certain people without providing a clear benefit. But you have to experiment with everything, and now they are on the way to making serving a beer in a bar or a beach bar smart by means of a smart tap.
As part of the Octobertech party, Pubinno's smart beer dispenser was exhibited. This brand hopes to popularize this beer dispenser in bars, pubs that imitate the Irish style and beach bars that have a high influx, so that the work of waiters and managers is easier.
The technology to make a beer tap smart to make work easier for bartenders
Being a bartender is, as Mr. White from Quentin Tarantino's " Reservoir Dogs " would say, hard work, and it's one of the most accessible jobs for people without formal education. It's also the most immediate career path for many students and people without resources. Speaking from experience, I spent several years working at a bar during neighborhood festivals, and the most requested item is large glasses of beer, which you have to know how to pour, leaving just the right amount of foam , otherwise you can't serve them. It's not easy, even though it seems as simple as just pouring beer. You have to control the angle of the glass, the pressure, consider the type of beer you're serving, and react quickly to avoid overflowing and having to clean up.
I insist, on a personal level, it is difficult and complicated. In the end, it ends up being more efficient to find the person who best knows how to throw a beer to ensure that it goes well, and that person can be on break or busy many times. It's not easy to learn and when you try, you waste a lot of beer because of nerves or a bad lesson.
With all this, Pubinno's smart beer tap aims to eliminate this problem entirely. It makes everything as easy as pressing a button. It requires installation, specifying the beer being dispensed , the amount of liquid, and the desired foam. Then, the mug, glass, or cup is placed on the tap, and the beer is poured. Being an automated smart device, it automates the entire process, precisely dispensing the beer thanks to instructions received via the cloud for that specific brand.
“Smart” is more than just serving beer well
But anyone could create a beer server that reacts to when you push a button and that's it. In addition to serving beer in the perfect way according to updated data in the cloud, this tap is synchronized with an app dedicated to the person in charge, who would normally be the owner of the bar or beach bar where the beers are served.
By syncing via an app, you can gather data on how much beer is left , how many glasses have been served, and at what time and how often. This is ideal for tracking, for example, whether a Happy Hour beer offer is working, whether some beers are rarely ordered, whether there are high demand late at night, or whether there are high demand at social events organized by a pub. Beer is one of the most popular and profitable beverages, so having a clear indicator of its popularity, sales, and availability adds significant value to management.
What to do with this data? There and what one considers the manager. You can raise the price of Happy Hour if there are a lot of sales and not the normal one, change the brand if the one you are using is not selling enough, organize more events if this is offset by the increase in drinks, be prepared for when to ask for more barrels… Everything is at the discretion of the organizer, since the app only gives raw results.
Technology has to make difficult everyday things easy
Technology, in general, should be for 3 things:
- Solve problems without solution so far.
- Facilitate a task.
- Improve the quality of life or make it more comfortable.
Here we see that it fulfills at least two objectives. It simplifies the work of the waiters and the management of supplies; and with that, it improves the quality of life of those who work serving beer. Some may think that technology and research should be used for grand things like eventually going to Mars, space rockets… But with that perspective, it's easy to ignore the problems around us, and although some don't like the idea of beer and avoid it, we must understand that being a waiter is a job that a large part of society has to do , or has to do because their economic or educational situation has forced them into it. They, too, deserve a more comfortable job, not just those who have been able to study for jobs that can be done remotely.
Something so simple can turn valuable hours teaching how to pour a beer, and precious seconds waiting to serve it accurately and without wasting it, become precious moments of rest and tasks avoided. And that without going into the details of management. Very surely a smart tap to pour beer is not going to change the world. But those little quality-of-life benefits can help a lot of people in their day-to-day lives.
