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. Sponsored by:
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Episode List
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Episode 144: Dr. Lewis
September 16th, 2019 | 45 mins 22 secs
Dr. Michael Lewis has trained thousands of brewers since launching the UC Davis Brewing Science program in 1962. We talk about his journey, his love affair with stout, "extreme beer," why you're using the wrong beer glass, and the responsibilities we all have as brewers.
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Episode 143: Improving Process Steam Systems
September 9th, 2019 | 30 mins 32 secs
Tips for improving your process steam system from a longtime Master Brewers district officer, contributor, and course lecturer, Steve Huffman.
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Episode 142: What's In Your Can?
September 2nd, 2019 | 28 mins 36 secs
To rinse or not to rinse - what's in your can? Our friends at Community Beer take us on a journey to eliminate microbes @ can filling.
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Episode 041: Zinc in Fermentation
August 26th, 2019 | 20 mins 3 secs
It's no secret that yeast needs zinc for healthy fermentation, but how much and where/when should you add it? What happens when you add too much zinc? Microbiologist Joe Kinney of FX Matt Brewing Co. joins us to help you get the right amount of zinc into your fermentations.
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Episode 141: Brewery Bots
August 19th, 2019 | 29 mins 1 sec
What if you had a brewery bot that monitored for things like out of spec fermentations, glycol reservoir temp & level, or CIP temps & times, and sent your team alerts by text message? This week on the show, Sam McElwee explains how to leverage big data in small breweries.
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Episode 140: Think Twice Before You Dump: A Journey to Wastewater Compliance
August 12th, 2019 | 41 mins 36 secs
Ann Spevacek & Eric Ritchson from Pizza Port Brewing discuss water usage and their journey to wastewater compliance.
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Episode 139: Hot Side Aeration (HSA)
August 5th, 2019 | 24 mins 49 secs
Joe Williams, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Endowed Brewer at UC Davis, talks about HSA.
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Episode 49: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
July 29th, 2019 | 44 mins 26 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.
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Episode 138: Steeping: The Fulcrum Between Good and Bad Malt
July 22nd, 2019 | 43 mins 29 secs
Tyler Schoales of Country Malt Group takes us on a deep dive into the most important step in malting.
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Episode 137: How a Beer Comes to Life
July 15th, 2019 | 47 mins 37 secs
Jason Perkins talks about beer development at Allagash Brewing Co.
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Episode 136: Birra Nursia
July 8th, 2019 | 34 mins 52 secs
During the 2016 World Brewing Congress, MBP host John Bryce met a couple of beer-brewing monks from Italy. Fr. Martin and Br. Augustine join us to talk about monastic brewing, their brewery, and their beers.
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Episode 020: Kvass
July 1st, 2019 | 26 mins 2 secs
Alex Gertsman talks about brewing the traditional Russian beverage known as Kvass.
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Episode 135: Musings on a Malt COA
June 24th, 2019 | 59 mins 41 secs
Mary-Jane Maurice (the only American with a diploma from the Maltsters' Association of Great Britain) arms us with more knowledge about malting and malt COAs so we can all make better beer.
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Episode 134: Is PCR Right for your Brewery?
June 17th, 2019 | 27 mins 1 sec
Kevin McCabe talks about how PCR works, how he uses it at Full Sail, the different types of instruments available, their cost, and more.
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Episode 133: IPA
June 10th, 2019 | 50 mins 30 secs
Mitch Steele talks about the evolution of IPA. We go all the way from IPA's early history to modern times, as well as hear about some of Mitch's strategies for brewing IPA at New Realm.
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Episode 024: Malt Flavor Development
June 3rd, 2019 | 56 mins 11 secs
Industry veteran, Joe Hertrich, talks about malt flavor development, why lower color expectations are the enemy of malt flavor, and why the standard base malt used by lots of US craft brewers isn't the best choice for all-malt beers.