Master Brewers Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
312 episodes of Master Brewers Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 14th, 2017.
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Episode 097: Better Fermentations with Cloudy Wort
July 23rd, 2018 | 16 mins 41 secs
Magdalena Oehlschlaeger discusses a novel brewhouse design which produces higher fatty acid and zinc concentrations, reduced wort aeration, higher yeast cell growth, faster extract degradation, and altered production of higher alcohols and...
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Episode 095: FSMA
July 2nd, 2018 | 23 mins
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the biggest overhaul of US food safety laws in over 70 years. The smallest breweries are supposed to be in compliance in September 2018. Tatiana Lorca and Doug Hindman explain how to comply, where to go...
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Episode 094: Microbial Gluten Reduction in Beer Using Lactic Acid Bacteria and Standard Process Methods
June 25th, 2018 | 32 mins 7 secs
Is that sour beer also gluten-free? Brett Taubman explores the topic of producing gluten-free/reduced beers with lactic acid bacteria.
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Episode 092: Automated Brettanomyces Cell Counts
June 11th, 2018 | 21 mins 29 secs
If you use Brettanomyces in your brewery, you know that counting brett cells is complicated. Leo Chan joins us to discuss the development of a method to automate cell counting of Brettanomyces.
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Episode 090: Sooner, Rather Than Later
May 28th, 2018 | 23 mins 58 secs
What's better than learning from your own mistakes? Learning from other people's mistakes, of course. This week on the show, practical tips & lessons learned the hard way from Andy Tveekrem, who is here to help you make better beer.
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Episode 087: Bottle Conditioning
May 7th, 2018 | 28 mins 26 secs
Eric Warner has been bottle conditioning beer since before some of you were born. Eric discusses different methods and his experiences.
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Episode 086: How to Assure Quality in Hops from Small-Scale Growers
April 30th, 2018 | 22 mins 27 secs
How can you assure quality from small-scale hop growers? Who better to answer this question than a small-scale hop grower like Josh Mayich.
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Episode 082: Insane in the (Hollow Fiber) Membrane
April 2nd, 2018 | 14 mins 38 secs
Hollow Fiber Membranes can be used for carbonation or nitrogenation of beer, production of deaerated water, and for oxygenating wort in breweries of any size. Mimi Cartee and Todd Rausch join us to explain the technology. View the poster at MBAA.com...
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Episode 078: Quality Systems - Part 2
March 5th, 2018 | 29 mins 13 secs
No brewery is too small to take a systematic approach to quality. Gary Nicholas has some great advice for aligning your breweries priorities, data collection, and decision-making process. This week's content was curated based on a listener request.
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Episode 077: Quality Systems - Part 1
February 26th, 2018 | 20 mins 29 secs
No brewery is too small to take a systematic approach to quality. Gary Nicholas has some great advice for aligning your breweries priorities, data collection, and decision-making process. This week's content was curated based on a listener request.
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Episode 076: Revolutionary Dry-Hopping Techniques for Larger Beer Volumes
February 19th, 2018 | 22 mins 14 secs
Inefficient extraction. Beer loss. These are problems that have to be solved, even when centrifuging dry-hopped beer. Alyce Hartvigsen is looking for dry-hoppers to trial Alfa Laval's prototype Iso-Mix External Drive Rotary Jet Mixer.
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Episode 075: How Isinglass Works
February 12th, 2018 | 22 mins 35 secs
Andrew Fratianni explains how isinglass works, how to optimize results, when and why to use auxiliary finings (such as silica solutions), and more.
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Episode 074: Potential Causes for Loss of Extract in a Brewery
February 5th, 2018 | 22 mins 26 secs
During the MBAA Brewing & Malting Science Course, students are put into groups to work through hypothetical scenarios. The winning case study is then published in the Master Brewers Technical Quarterly. Simon Nielsen joins us to...
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Episode 073: Dry Hopping's Correlation with Diacetyl
January 29th, 2018 | 19 mins 59 secs
Have you ever noticed that diacetyl seems to rear its head more often in hoppy beers? Is dry hopping to blame? Kara Taylor & Devin Tani from White Labs join us to discuss a presentation given during the 2017 Master Brewers Conference.
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Episode 072: Yeast Propagation
January 22nd, 2018 | 37 mins 1 sec
Understanding the basics of yeast propagation is critical for commercial brewers of all sizes. With 50 years of experience researching yeast, Graham Stewart joins us to talk about the basic principles of brewer's yeast propagation.
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Episode 070: Malting & Brewing Naked...Oats
January 8th, 2018 | 20 mins 27 secs
Jordon Geurts joins us from Briess Malt & Ingredients to give us a behind-the-scenes look at product development for malted, naked oats, which can be used to enhance mouthfeel or to produce gluten free beers.