Master Brewers Podcast
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About the show
Each week, thousands of brewers download The Master Brewers Podcast to hear interviews with the industry's best & brightest in brewing science, technology, and operations. The show is known for featuring technical deep dives, a bit of brewing history, cutting edge research, hard lessons learned, important industry contributors, and no fluff. If you make beer for a living, this show is for you.
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Episodes
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Episode 340: Communicating How Genetic Engineering Works to Consumers
August 11th, 2025 | 40 mins 56 secs
Worried about how consumers will react to your GMO beer?
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Episode 200: Reconsidering the Congress Mash
August 4th, 2025 | 49 mins 19 secs
Should the numbers on your malt COA be produced from a mash that's more similar to your brewery mashes? Did you know that's already happening when you buy UK malt? Listen up, then join the conversation.
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Episode 339: Alternative Grains and Sugars
July 28th, 2025 | 42 mins 55 secs
Millet, canary seed, amaranth, chia, einkorn, farro, fonio, teff, purple corn, agave, birch sap, and more.
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Episode 214: Analysis of Commercial NEIPAs
July 21st, 2025 | 46 mins 52 secs
Our friends at Hopsteiner continue to unlock the secrets of New England IPA
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Episode 338: Cost Savings Through Analysis
July 14th, 2025 | 50 mins 7 secs
Analytical strategies for craft brewers.
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Episode 049: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
July 7th, 2025 | 45 mins 33 secs
Kerry Caldwell suffered severe injuries from an accident in the brewhouse. She was airlifted and overcame the 34% chance of survival calculated by the hospital. This episode is both the story of her accident and a description of a simple, inexpensive device that should be installed in your brewery to prevent similar accidents.
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Episode 337: CIP Flow Rates – when “rules of thumb” break
June 30th, 2025 | 37 mins 27 secs
What’s your optimal flow rate during CIP and what happens if you don’t hit it?
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Episode 220: Consistent Fermentations
June 23rd, 2025 | 52 mins 29 secs
How to keep your brewery from becoming condominiums.
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Episode 336: Financial Literacy for Brewers
June 16th, 2025 | 48 mins 11 secs
Could open-book management transform your brewery?
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Episode 210: Benchmarking Sustainability
June 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
3 different perspectives from breweries large & small. You'll hear about the BA's Benchmarking tool, other resources to support your sustainability journey, and how to take some baby steps if you haven't made any progress yet.
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Episode 335: RVA
June 2nd, 2025 | 32 mins 6 secs
Should you be paying more attention to fermentable sugars instead of total extract?
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Episode 203: Cloudy with a Chance of Production
May 26th, 2025 | 51 mins 19 secs
Our friends at Highland Brewing talk about the network of people, tools, forecasts, and workflows that build their production schedule.
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Episode 334: Haná
May 19th, 2025 | 48 mins 47 secs
What happens when you resurrect an old world landrace barley variety and give it to a bunch of brewers in CA?
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Episode 207: Spent Hops Disposal Dilemma
May 12th, 2025 | 44 mins 6 secs
How The Matt Brewing Company deals spent hop material & other things you wish you knew before you built a brewery.
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Episode 333: Six Irish Brewing Yeasts
May 5th, 2025 | 33 mins 12 secs
Effects of regional location on the genotype and phenotype of historical Irish brewing yeast
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Episode 216: Profiling 34/70
April 28th, 2025 | 42 mins 54 secs
What happens the world's most popular yeast strain gets fermented at different temperatures and pitch rates?