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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Bonus: The New Normal
April 10th, 2020 | 27 mins 48 secs
Now that we've got some historical COVID-19 sales data, Ross is back with insights on the new normal.
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Episode 045: Spoiler Alert
April 6th, 2020 | 36 mins 12 secs
Eric Jorgenson joins us to talk about his approach to microbiology and his quick reference guide of significant bacteria found in the brewery environment.
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Episode 165: Bypassing the Malting Process with Koji
March 30th, 2020 | 28 mins 8 secs
This week on the show, our friends from Appalachian State University join us in Calgary to talk about their work evaluating koji as an alternative to traditional malting.
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Episode 164: When Draught Dries Up
March 23rd, 2020 | 23 mins 57 secs
This week, we take a break from technical brewing to talk about the new realities of selling beer during a pandemic.
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Episode 163: Kiln Temperature & Hop Quality
March 16th, 2020 | 32 mins 59 secs
New information from OSU regarding how hop kiln temperature impacts hop quality.
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Episode 013: Uneven Heating? Damaged Jackets?
March 9th, 2020 | 17 mins 42 secs
David Kapral joins us to talk about why it's critical to have thermostatic air vents and vacuum breakers on your steam jackets, and what happens when you don't.
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Episode 162: LAB Propagation & Process Control
March 2nd, 2020 | 20 mins 36 secs
Jordan Kelly joins us in Calgary to talk about Odell Brewing Company's low-cost lactic acid bacteria propagation system, as well as how they dialed-in and scaled their process.
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Episode 161: New Malting Barley Varieties in Canada
February 24th, 2020 | 18 mins 21 secs
Peter Watts joins us in Calgary to talk about a bunch of new malting barley varieties coming out of Canada.
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Episode 160: Quantifying and Probing the Inefficiency of Dry-hopping
February 17th, 2020 | 24 mins 53 secs
Tom Shellhammer joins us from the 2019 Master Brewers Conference in Calgary to shed some light on the inefficiencies of dry hopping.
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Episode 035: Brewhouse Water & Mash Chemistry
February 10th, 2020 | 24 mins 55 secs
Joe Walts joins us to talk about his TQ paper and experiences managing water chemistry in the brewhouse.
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Episode 159: How Much Does it Take?
February 3rd, 2020 | 27 mins 5 secs
Kim Syring from Surly Brewing joins us in Calgary to talk about her outside the box controlled spoilage studies to determine micro tolerance limits.
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Episode 158: Hemp Flavor Development in Beer
January 27th, 2020 | 24 mins 38 secs
Ross Koenigs from New Belgium sits down with us in Calgary to talk about his poster and quest to better understand hemp flavor in beer.
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Episode 157: Hop Oils & Haze Stabilization
January 20th, 2020 | 23 mins 51 secs
Two presenters from the hops technical session during the 2019 Master Brewers Conference in Calgary discuss the use of beta acid products in haze stabilization, as well as some practical aspects of using hop oils in the brewery.
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Episode 044: Improving Brewhouse Efficiency by Adjusting Mash Thickness and Lauter and Sparge Volumes
January 13th, 2020 | 27 mins 51 secs
Our friends from Saint Arnold Brewing Company in Houston describe how they reduced lauter times, decreased their grain bills by 5%, and increased average brewhouse efficiency from 89.3% to 95.5%.
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Episode 156: How Low Can You Go?
January 6th, 2020 | 24 mins 55 secs
Our friends from Escarpment Labs (EP102) discuss the impact of inoculation rate on Norwegian kveik yeast fermentation.
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Episode 155: Continuum of Malt Opportunities
December 30th, 2019 | 42 mins 27 secs
Our friends from a "large" craft maltster and a "large" craft brewer get together to talk about craft malt, winter barley, AMBA's guidelines for all-malt brewers, and more.