We use our own staff for R&D (training the models), but semi-trained tasters are reviewing the product at the brewery; we weight individuals on a verity of fac

We use our own staff for R&D (training the models), but semi-trained tasters are reviewing the product at the brewery; we weight individuals on a verity of factors and have a pre-processing method that controls for experience level in expected flavor perception per flaw. So experience level is important, but we often have to work around it. Most of the employees of a brewery or other beverage manufacturing are relatively experienced anyway!