Wade Begrow
Special guest
Wade Begrow is the Microbiology and Food Safety Manager at Founders Brewing Company in Grand Rapids, MI. He is an avid fan of quality beer and has a strong interest in brewing microbiology and food safety. His interests include traditional and advanced microbiological techniques to detect bacterial and fungal beer spoilers in the brewing process. He is a member of the MBAA Food Safety Committee and serves on the board for MBAA District Michigan.
Wade is a second-generation graduate from Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University. He earned a B.S. in Biology in 2009 and completed his M.S. in Food Safety in 2014. Additionally, Wade is a part-time Assistant Lecturer at Southern Illinois University at the Fermentation Science Institute (FSI) in Carbondale, IL.
Wade Begrow has been a guest on 4 episodes.
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Episode 264: Nuts!
October 31st, 2022 | 35 mins 8 secs
What happens when an allergen is grown on the farm next door?
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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 132: Yeast at Founders Brewing Co.
May 27th, 2019 | 45 mins 10 secs
Back in January, Wade Begrow gave a great presentation during the annual conference District Michigan puts on together with the Michigan Brewers Guild. Master Brewers members can download Wade's Yeast 101 presentation (both slides & audio) or any...