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 327: Creep Control
February 17th, 2025 | 34 mins 33 secs
Understanding the enzymes that drive hop creep and a novel potential control strategy.
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Episode 199: The Yeast Hunter
February 10th, 2025 | 38 mins 50 secs
Remember learning about Kveik back on episode 102? This time, we catch up with the man who tracked down these yeasts and reinvigorated a traditional farmhouse brewing culture that nearly died out. You'll also hear about a time when it was illegal NOT to brew Christmas beer.
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Episode 198: Bierkrieg: Follow the Money
February 3rd, 2025 | 56 mins 32 secs
The guy who explained how we narrowly avoided an American Reinheitsgebot on episode 174 is back with more surprises. This time you'll hear about the widespread use of malt substitutes in Germany, a beer war, and the birthplace of America's most popular beer style.
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Episode 326: THP
January 27th, 2025 | 33 mins 36 secs
How mousey off-flavor is formed in beer and how it can be measured.
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Episode 209: How Bells Brewery Significantly Reduced its Electrical Bill & Carbon Footprint
January 20th, 2025 | 58 mins 40 secs
The story of how Bell's brewery reduced its electrical consumption 5% while growing production more than 3%.
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Episode 325: Controlling t2N
January 13th, 2025 | 40 mins 41 secs
Practical strategies for controlling trans-2 nonenal in your brewery.
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Episode 202: The Omission Story + New Gluten-Free/Reduced Regs
January 6th, 2025 | 48 mins 50 secs
The father of the gluten-removed beer category joins us to discuss recently updated federal regulations that may affect your gluten-free or gluten-reduced claims. That's the first part of today's show. After the break, stay tuned to hear the story of how the first commercial gluten-removed barley brew came to life.
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Episode 324: Flavor Stability
December 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 54 secs
What New Glarus prioritizes to maximize flavor stability.
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Episode 197: A History of Brewing Innovation
December 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
We look back at the last 70 years of innovations in brewing, we look forward to what the future holds, and we hear a pint full of great anecdotes from an author with whom we're all familiar.
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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