Beverage dispensing container, apparatus, system and method

A beverage dispensing system, said system comprising:

• (a) a plurality of beverage dispensing containers, each container comprising:
• a reservoir containing a beverage;
• a container outlet that dispenses the beverage from the reservoir into a drinking vessel separately to any other container outlet;
• a wireless communication element having storage means for storing data indicative of contents of a particular beverage dispensing container;
• (b) a mobile computing device configured to run a software application providing a user interface configured to provide a mixed beverage recipe thereon, said recipe being associated with at least a first and a second different beverage and respective beverage amount data, the first and second different beverage being, respectively, in first and second beverage dispensing container of the plurality of containers;
• (c) a base unit upon or within which, in use, the plurality of containers are positioned, the base unit further comprising:
• a plurality of base-container transceivers for wirelessly reading data from and writing data to the wireless communication elements;
• at least one base-device transceiver for wirelessly communicating data with the mobile computing device;
• a control unit for controlling communication of data from the mobile computing device to the wireless communication elements and vice-versa, and
• an input to receive instructions from a user;
• (d) a beverage dispenser in communication with the input of the base unit and control unit and with the reservoir of at least the first and second beverage dispensing containers, the beverage dispenser comprising an electro-mechanical structure including an electrically-driven pump that directs beverage from the reservoir and out of the container, the beverage dispenser being configured to cause beverage to be dispensed from at least the first and second beverage dispensing containers of the plurality of containers when instructions to do so have been received from the user via the base unit input or from the user interface;
• wherein the beverage dispensing system is configured to direct a user sequentially between a respective container outlet of at least the first and second beverage dispensing containers of the plurality of containers in accordance with the mixed beverage recipe.