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 098: Dry Hop Creep
March 14th, 2022 | 39 mins 31 secs
Luke Chadwick (Bell's), Andy Farrell (Bell's), Tom Shellhammer (OSU), and Jason Perkins (Allagash) take a deep dive into the phenomenon known as Dry Hop Creep.
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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 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.
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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 236: Sustainability at Drake's
January 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
How Drake's Brewing Co approaches sustainability.
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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 235: Flavorings That Go BOOM in the Night
January 10th, 2022 | 33 mins 39 secs
Everyone is doing it. Are you doing it safely?
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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.
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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 233: Deconstructing Le Petit Prince
December 13th, 2021 | 49 mins 35 secs
Franco-Belgian style table beer & how Jester King brews their version
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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 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.