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.
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Episodes
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Episode 258: Sustainability of the American Hop Industry
September 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 23 mins
The popularity of heavily-hopped beer styles has put USA hops front and center, but threats are looming; wildfire, climate change, water availability, the loss of hop farming families, and the ongoing shift from public to private hops. Hop growers Darren Gamache (VGF) and John Segal (Segal Ranch), master brewer Karl Ockert, and hop consultant Eric Sannerud joined John Bryce on stage during the 2022 Brewing Summit to discuss these topics and more.
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Episode 107: Troubleshooting Acetaldehyde
August 29th, 2022 | 24 mins 34 secs
When Madtree Brewing Co. expanded from a 15 bbl brewhouse to a 100 bbl brewhouse, they experienced intermittent acetaldehyde spikes in one of their brands. Becca Ransohof & Trent Leslie walk us through the troubleshooting process that resolved the issue.
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Episode 255: Yeast Stress
August 8th, 2022 | 25 mins 17 secs
Graham Stewart discusses the mechanics of yeast stress during the 2019 Master Brewers Conference in Calgary.
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Episode 254: Sustainability of Hops
July 25th, 2022 | 53 mins 12 secs
OSU probes the sustainability of hops, from kiln cycles to double dry hopping.
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Episode 253: CIP Fundamentals
July 18th, 2022 | 52 mins 47 secs
Oliver Meinhold takes us back to the basics of cleaning & sanitation in the brewery.
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Episode 252: Wastewater at Mother Road & pFriem
July 11th, 2022 | 1 hr 10 mins
Like it or not, you're in the wastewater business.
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Episode 105: Wort Aeration
July 4th, 2022 | 30 mins 54 secs
Do you know how much DO is in your wort? What percentage of injected oxygen is solubilized? Derek Dawson set out to answer these questions at Modern Times Beer.
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Episode 250: Is Hop Terroir a Marketing Construct and/or a Biophysical Reality?
June 20th, 2022 | 43 mins 45 secs
A recent Master Brewers Technical Quarterly paper explores the answer.
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Episode 089: The Six-rowification of North American Two-row (Part 3: What you can do about it)
June 13th, 2022 | 53 mins 43 secs
The previous episode explained how and why North American 2-row barley evolved to take on 6-row traits. This week Joe Hertrich explains why that's problematic for all-malt brewers and what can be done about it.
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Episode 088: The Six-rowification of North American Two-row (Parts 1&2: history, how & why)
June 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
Since 1972 North American 2-row barley has slowly but steadily evolved into something that has more in common with 6-row than traditional European 2-row barley. Find out why this is great news for adjunct brewers and problematic for all-malt brewers.
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Episode 249: Malt Silos
May 30th, 2022 | 40 mins 32 secs
Things to consider before making the transition from bagged to bulk malt.
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Episode 248: Mashing
May 23rd, 2022 | 41 mins 21 secs
The author of one of the latest publications from ASBC & MBAA joins us to talk about Mashing.
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Episode 247: Malt
May 16th, 2022 | 57 mins 51 secs
Our friend, Dr. Yin, returns to discuss his new Malt book and the 2021 barley crop
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Episode 101: The Yeasts of Tomorrow
May 9th, 2022 | 32 mins 12 secs
Stijn Mertens and Jan Steensels talk about what's happening inside one of the world's most advanced yeast labs.