Master Brewers Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
338 episodes of Master Brewers Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 14th, 2017.
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Episode 240: Understanding the Risk of Can Pressure Failures
February 28th, 2022 | 38 mins 53 secs
Have you ever wondered if you're pushing the limits of how much pressure your cans can handle? A Master Brewers Past President joins us to discuss a chart he designed to keep you out of trouble.
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Episode 239: Yeast Propagation at Urban Chestnut
February 21st, 2022 | 49 mins 53 secs
How yeast propagation works (both in the lab & in the brewery) at Urban Chestnut Brewing Co.
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Episode 084: Brewing Hoppy Beer with CRISPR Instead of Hops
February 14th, 2022 | 48 mins 16 secs
As reported in Nature Communications, Charles Denby used CRISPR-Cas9 to successfully engineer brewers yeast to produce linalool and geraniol. We interview both Charles and Bryan Donaldson (Lagunitas) who oversaw the sensory analysis for this groundbreaking study.
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Episode 237: Packaging with Speise
January 31st, 2022 | 36 mins 32 secs
How & why Resident Culture conditions with speise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Episode 227: IRC7 + CRISPR = Cosmic Punch
October 18th, 2021 | 54 mins 41 secs
"Thiolized" CRISPR yeast, the world's 1st convincing argument for mash hopping, and more.
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Episode 063: Utilizing Predictive Analytics to Improve Quality & Maximize Capacity at Deschutes Brewery
October 11th, 2021 | 32 mins 13 secs
Brian Faivre explains how one of the largest craft brewers is using data and tools (accessible to breweries of any size) to improve their process.
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Episode 061: Glycol Systems for Breweries
September 13th, 2021 | 38 mins 26 secs
Dan Stromberg discusses industry best practices for glycol system piping. You'll learn how to balance your system, how to size headers for correct flow rates & velocity, which pipe materials to consider, why the ubiquitous solenoid valve is a bad choice, and more.
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Episode 223: Brewing with Honey
September 6th, 2021 | 37 mins 58 secs
Tips & inspiration for using honey in your beer.