If you know anything about coffee, and coffee snobsyou will know that they always go where their seeds come from. Opting for single origin beans is better for traceability, transparency, and if you discover a variety you like, you can keep coming back. The Japanese company Mihatama, however, turned to CES 2025 in Las Vegas with Flavor Craft AI, an app-controlled system to measure beans to suit your specific taste. You can imagine coffee snobs scratching their heads at the thought of mixing beans in such a way.

Basically, you fire up the app and select preferences based on your taste preferences, choosing for strength, acidity, bitterness, astringency and richness. Once you’ve done this, the AI ​​will direct the machine to create a blend of different beans in sufficient quantities to match the flavor you’ve requested. Said beans are collected in the bottom tray, where you can drop them into your grinder of choice and brew your drink.

The company has put up a pre-launch page on Indiegogo which will open pre-sales at some point in the near future. Its representatives say it will cost about $400 when it goes on sale, plus or minus the cost of not inviting your coffee snob friends over to your house.