"We don't know what interesting things are in the data, " says Ed Lu, chief of innovative applications at Liquid Robotics, the maker of the Wave Glider.
But while the jam-packed launch day at Powell Street Craft Brewery kept beer maker David Bowkett busy, his operation was just the latest in a sudsy wave of new microbreweries and even-smaller nanobreweries that have opened in the city in recent months.