Master Brewers Podcast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

285 episodes of Master Brewers Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 14th, 2017.

  • Episode 238: Winter Barley

    February 7th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins

    An exciting, new 2-row winter variety coming out of Virginia Tech, the advantages winter barley brings to growers, maltsters, and brewers, the challenges ahead, and how you can get involved.

  • Episode 237: Packaging with Speise

    January 31st, 2022  |  36 mins 32 secs

    How & why Resident Culture conditions with speise.

  • Episode 236: Sustainability at Drake's

    January 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins

    How Drake's Brewing Co approaches sustainability.

  • Episode 096: Efficacy of Sanitizers in the Brewery

    January 17th, 2022  |  25 mins 18 secs

    Elliot Parcells & Josh Pohlmann put together some experiments to better understand if the sanitizers used at Bell's Brewery were doing their jobs.

  • Episode 235: Flavorings That Go BOOM in the Night

    January 10th, 2022  |  33 mins 39 secs

    Everyone is doing it. Are you doing it safely?

  • Episode 234: New Year's Resolution

    January 3rd, 2022  |  32 mins 2 secs

    2 real-life brewery horror stories and 3 guys who hope you'll make a new year's resolution to take brewery safety seriously.

  • Episode 069: Diastaticus - Part 2

    December 27th, 2021  |  35 mins 35 secs

    Over-carbonation. Exploding bottles. Lawsuits. Super-attenuation caused by diastaticus contamination is a hot topic in the brewing industry. We bring you interviews with brewers, yeast suppliers, and independent microbiologists to talk about detection, prevention, and more. Whether your strategy is to keep diastaticus out of your brewery altogether or to manage it alongside other Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains lacking the STA gene, you're guaranteed to learn something from these interviews.

  • Episode 068: Diastaticus - Part 1

    December 20th, 2021  |  29 mins 11 secs

    Over-carbonation. Exploding bottles. Lawsuits. Super-attenuation caused by diastaticus contamination is a hot topic in the brewing industry. We bring you interviews with brewers, yeast suppliers, and independent microbiologists to talk about detection, prevention, and more. Whether your strategy is to keep diastaticus out of your brewery altogether or to manage it alongside other Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains lacking the STA gene, you're guaranteed to learn something from these interviews.

  • Episode 233: Deconstructing Le Petit Prince

    December 13th, 2021  |  49 mins 35 secs

    Franco-Belgian style table beer & how Jester King brews their version

  • Episode 091: How a Chiller System Works

    December 6th, 2021  |  35 mins 42 secs

    How brewery chillers work, troubleshooting tips, common mistakes, and easy preventative maintenance to keep it running for years to come.

  • Episode 232: 074 (US Vista)

    November 29th, 2021  |  47 mins 8 secs

    The hotly anticipated release of the USDA public hop breeding program's 1st tropical aroma bomb. What it took to finally get here, what the future looks like, and more.

  • Episode 231: The Black Box of Biotransformation

    November 22nd, 2021  |  44 mins 44 secs

    Why does dry-hopping during active fermentation change sensory profiles? Is the black box of biotransformation really what drives those changes or is it something else entirely?

  • Episode 230: Under Pressure

    November 15th, 2021  |  44 mins 58 secs

    Using the dissolved CO2 content of active fermentations to control your process.

  • Episode 083: The Red Queen Hypothesis

    November 8th, 2021  |  42 mins 29 secs

    The disease has moved out of Africa, it's now in the Middle East. It's only a matter of time before it arrives. It's a numbers game. Pat Hayes joins us to talk about barley breeding, the race against disease, genetic tools, and more.

  • Episode 229: Is Hop Creep Caused by Microorganisms?

    November 1st, 2021  |  33 mins 48 secs

    Are we one step closer to understanding the origin of Hop Creep?

  • Episode 228: The Challenging 2021 Barley Outlook

    October 25th, 2021  |  54 mins 50 secs

    Are you prepared to face the most challenging barley crop most of us have ever seen?