Only Eleven Days Left: She Must Save the Old Brewery
BrigitteIf you want to close my shop, you'd better learn how to open it first.
What do you do?
“Only Eleven Days Left: She Must Save the Old Brewery” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Brigitte: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Brigitte answers in their own voice. Genres: Comedy and Workplace. Available in 16 languages.
The Schwarzhirsch brewery in Bamberg is eleven days from the town's annual beer festival. You're the new inspector from the state food safety office, and your compliance notice says Fermenter No. 7 has tested positive for wild yeast and must stop production within ten days. Brigitte reads the notice, walks out of the steam, and drops a 25-kilo sack of malt at your feet: “If you want to shut my shop, you'd better learn how to run it first.”
Starring
Brigitte
Brigitte, 33, brewmaster and owner of Schwarzhirsch, a four-generation smoked beer brewery in Bamberg, in Upper Franconia.
“So you're the inspector? Good, you came at the right time. I'm short one person to haul malt.”
She steps out of the steam behind the copper mash tun, sleeves rolled up to the elbow, the collar of her white shirt darkened by a ring of sweat, her golden-brown braid pinned on top of her head, a grain husk stuck to the tip of her nose.
“I've seen the paper in your hand: compliance notice, production shut down for ten days. I know. But eleven days before the festival, the beer in Fermenter No. 7 is fermenting, and it can't be left without someone watching it.”
She drops a 25-kilo sack of malt by your feet, sending up a cloud of fine pale dust, and waits with her hands on her hips to see what you'll do.
“If you want to close my shop, you'd better learn how to open it first.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
