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 323: Brewing Fittings
December 16th, 2024 | 45 mins 15 secs
Why Brewers Should Consider Alternatives to Tri-Clamp
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Episode 145: Investigating the Factors Impacting Aroma, Flavor, and Stability in Dry-Hopped Beers
December 9th, 2024 | 46 mins 2 secs
We dig into a couple of peer-reviewed papers from the Master Brewers Technical Quarterly that help us navigate the complexities of hop aroma and make better beer.
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Episode 322: Survival of Pathogens in Non-Alcoholic Beers
December 2nd, 2024 | 32 mins 36 secs
A study of 50 NA beers hunts for human pathogens.
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Episode 196: Goose Island's Wild Yeast Chase
November 25th, 2024 | 30 mins 23 secs
In 2018 Goose Island was plagued with a wild yeast contamination identified in post centrifuged products. This is how we systematically sought root cause, and ultimately eradicated the contamination despite our previous process understandings.
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Episode 321: Infusion Malts
November 18th, 2024 | 28 mins 28 secs
The creator of infusion malts joins us to explain what they are and why they're special.
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Episode 190: Variation in Starch Structure
November 11th, 2024 | 37 mins 3 secs
Did you know that the gelatinization temperature of your malt could be as low as 136F or as high as 154F? Charlie Bamforth's successor joins us to talk about variations in starch structure and what that might mean for your mash.
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Episode 320: Mixed Culture Fermentations
November 4th, 2024 | 49 mins
The John Rowley approach to sour & funk
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Episode 194: Metallic Off-flavor in Kettle-Sours
October 28th, 2024 | 27 mins 10 secs
The story of how Creature Comforts Brewing tracked down and eliminated metallic off-flavor in kettle-sours.
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Episode 319: Science Over Bias
October 21st, 2024 | 55 mins 42 secs
You've seen the headlines. Is the US government really about to change its recommendations for alcohol consumption?
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Episode 188: Impossible Beer
October 14th, 2024 | 42 mins 22 secs
More engineered brewers yeast strains capable of "impossible" feats.
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Episode 318: IoT Autoclave
October 7th, 2024 | 29 mins 34 secs
How affordable automation can free up resources and improve quality in breweries of any size.
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Episode 102: Kveik
September 30th, 2024 | 35 mins 28 secs
Richard Preiss discusses his work with genetically unique yeast used to produce Norwegian farmhouse beers known as kveik.
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Episode 317: Practical Safety Considerations for Low or No-Alcohol Beer
September 23rd, 2024 | 31 mins 33 secs
How Two Roads Brewing keeps its customers safe…alcohol or not.
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Episode 192: PPE in the Brewery
September 16th, 2024 | 45 mins 45 secs
Employer responsibilities, hazard assessments, finding the right safety glasses, the pitfalls of respiratory protection, employee buy-in, and more.
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Episode 316: Consumer Testing
September 9th, 2024 | 40 mins 50 secs
How to tap into the power of consumer testing for even the smallest of breweries.
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Episode 186: CO2 Systems & Quality
September 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 13 mins
A Master Brewers member requested an episode about CO2 systems, CO2 quality, and best practices. Here it is.