One or more aspects of the present disclosure provide improved liquid systems, as well as improved liquid system techniques. For example, a liquid system may include a liquid blending system and a liquid dispensing system that more efficiently meets the demands of consumers/users. Specifically, liquid blending and dispensing systems described herein may facilitate user blending of various liquids, accurate user identification of sensory characteristics associated with various liquid blends and liquid blend components, efficient handling of user feedback and refinement of subsequent liquid blends, etc. For instance, a liquid blending system may take user selection input and provide a liquid. The liquid system may store data describing the provided liquid in a database. Further, the liquid system may receive and analyze user input regarding the provided liquid and provide a subsequent liquid blend recipe based on the user input and the stored data describing the original blend.

A method for determining required volumetric mass flow of alcoholic blended beverage ingredients for a continuous blend system using a computing device includes receiving a required syrup/water ratio, a selected target alcohol strength, an alcohol strength of an alcohol supply, a type of container, and a selected container filling rate; calculating a required volumetric mass flow of ingredients, a required alcohol volumetric mass flow of the alcohol supply, a required blended syrup and water volumetric mass flow of a proportioner, and a required syrup volumetric mass flow of a syrup supply to the proportioner for the production fill; calculating a volumetric mass flow of water in the required alcohol volumetric mass flow of the alcohol supply and a required water volumetric mass flow of a water supply to the proportioner for the production fill accounting for the calculated volumetric mass flow of; and, outputting instructions to the continuous blend system.