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 036: Torulaspora delbrueckii
October 8th, 2018 | 23 mins 19 secs
Max Michel (Weihenstephan) describes how he used RSM to optimize a non-Saccharomyces strain for beer.
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Episode 103: Colloidal Silica
September 10th, 2018 | 21 mins 9 secs
Chika Ezeani discusses best practices when using silicic acid finning products.
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Episode 021: Brewing Intensification
September 3rd, 2018 | 31 mins 16 secs
The legendary Graham Stewart joins us to discuss his latest publication: Brewing Intensification Through the Lens of the Craft Brewer.
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Episode 102: Kveik
August 27th, 2018 | 33 mins 9 secs
Richard Preiss discusses his work with genetically unique yeast used to produce Norwegian farmhouse beers known as kveik.
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Episode 100: Brewing Summit Keynote LIVE
August 13th, 2018 | 36 mins 5 secs
What happens at the intersection of art and science in brewing? The Brewing Summit's keynote speaker is widely recognized for the highly imaginative and experimental beers that he has produced in his 22+ years in the brewing business. While he...
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Episode 097: Better Fermentations with Cloudy Wort
July 23rd, 2018 | 16 mins 41 secs
Magdalena Oehlschlaeger discusses a novel brewhouse design which produces higher fatty acid and zinc concentrations, reduced wort aeration, higher yeast cell growth, faster extract degradation, and altered production of higher alcohols and...
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Episode 095: FSMA
July 2nd, 2018 | 23 mins
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the biggest overhaul of US food safety laws in over 70 years. The smallest breweries are supposed to be in compliance in September 2018. Tatiana Lorca and Doug Hindman explain how to comply, where to go...
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Episode 094: Microbial Gluten Reduction in Beer Using Lactic Acid Bacteria and Standard Process Methods
June 25th, 2018 | 32 mins 7 secs
Is that sour beer also gluten-free? Brett Taubman explores the topic of producing gluten-free/reduced beers with lactic acid bacteria.
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Episode 092: Automated Brettanomyces Cell Counts
June 11th, 2018 | 21 mins 29 secs
If you use Brettanomyces in your brewery, you know that counting brett cells is complicated. Leo Chan joins us to discuss the development of a method to automate cell counting of Brettanomyces.
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Episode 090: Sooner, Rather Than Later
May 28th, 2018 | 23 mins 58 secs
What's better than learning from your own mistakes? Learning from other people's mistakes, of course. This week on the show, practical tips & lessons learned the hard way from Andy Tveekrem, who is here to help you make better beer.
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Episode 087: Bottle Conditioning
May 7th, 2018 | 28 mins 26 secs
Eric Warner has been bottle conditioning beer since before some of you were born. Eric discusses different methods and his experiences.
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Episode 086: How to Assure Quality in Hops from Small-Scale Growers
April 30th, 2018 | 22 mins 27 secs
How can you assure quality from small-scale hop growers? Who better to answer this question than a small-scale hop grower like Josh Mayich.
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Episode 082: Insane in the (Hollow Fiber) Membrane
April 2nd, 2018 | 14 mins 38 secs
Hollow Fiber Membranes can be used for carbonation or nitrogenation of beer, production of deaerated water, and for oxygenating wort in breweries of any size. Mimi Cartee and Todd Rausch join us to explain the technology. View the poster at MBAA.com...
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Episode 078: Quality Systems - Part 2
March 5th, 2018 | 29 mins 13 secs
No brewery is too small to take a systematic approach to quality. Gary Nicholas has some great advice for aligning your breweries priorities, data collection, and decision-making process. This week's content was curated based on a listener request.
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Episode 077: Quality Systems - Part 1
February 26th, 2018 | 20 mins 29 secs
No brewery is too small to take a systematic approach to quality. Gary Nicholas has some great advice for aligning your breweries priorities, data collection, and decision-making process. This week's content was curated based on a listener request.
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Episode 076: Revolutionary Dry-Hopping Techniques for Larger Beer Volumes
February 19th, 2018 | 22 mins 14 secs
Inefficient extraction. Beer loss. These are problems that have to be solved, even when centrifuging dry-hopped beer. Alyce Hartvigsen is looking for dry-hoppers to trial Alfa Laval's prototype Iso-Mix External Drive Rotary Jet Mixer.