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 141: Brewery Bots
August 19th, 2019 | 29 mins 1 sec
What if you had a brewery bot that monitored for things like out of spec fermentations, glycol reservoir temp & level, or CIP temps & times, and sent your team alerts by text message? This week on the show, Sam McElwee explains how to leverage big data in small breweries.
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Episode 140: Think Twice Before You Dump: A Journey to Wastewater Compliance
August 12th, 2019 | 41 mins 36 secs
Ann Spevacek & Eric Ritchson from Pizza Port Brewing discuss water usage and their journey to wastewater compliance.
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Episode 138: Steeping: The Fulcrum Between Good and Bad Malt
July 22nd, 2019 | 43 mins 29 secs
Tyler Schoales of Country Malt Group takes us on a deep dive into the most important step in malting.
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Episode 020: Kvass
July 1st, 2019 | 26 mins 2 secs
Alex Gertsman talks about brewing the traditional Russian beverage known as Kvass.
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Episode 134: Is PCR Right for your Brewery?
June 17th, 2019 | 27 mins 1 sec
Kevin McCabe talks about how PCR works, how he uses it at Full Sail, the different types of instruments available, their cost, and more.
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Episode 024: Malt Flavor Development
June 3rd, 2019 | 56 mins 11 secs
Industry veteran, Joe Hertrich, talks about malt flavor development, why lower color expectations are the enemy of malt flavor, and why the standard base malt used by lots of US craft brewers isn't the best choice for all-malt beers.
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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...
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Episode 008: Steam Boilers in the Craft Brewing Industry
May 6th, 2019 | 21 mins 50 secs
Dave Baughman talks about boiler safety, mistakes many brewers make when purchasing steam boilers, the pros and cons of atmospheric vs forced draft boilers, and more.
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Episode 129: Beer Flavor Stability (Live Episode)
April 29th, 2019 | 37 mins 29 secs
Pattie Aron and Xiang Yin join us (live from CBC19) to talk about beer staling mechanisms and preventative measures that are important in malting and brewing.
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Episode 128: United We Brew (Live Episode)
April 22nd, 2019 | 29 mins 40 secs
This week on the show, we take a break from technical brewing to chat with current Master Brewers president, Toby Eppard, live from the CBC in Denver. Toby talks about recent changes at MB, where the organization is headed, and the importance of...
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Episode 127: Dry Hop Creep Continued - Does Variety Matter? (Live Episode)
April 15th, 2019 | 28 mins 11 secs
Tom Shellhammer is back (This time, live from CBC in Denver) to talk about the latest findings regarding varietal differences in hop creep. Jeff Clawson also joins us to talk about the new brewery at OSU.
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Episode 015: Simplifying the Understanding of Malt COAs
March 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 11 mins
Industry veteran Joe Hertrich talks about what matters most on your malt Certificates of Analysis.
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Episode 122: The Pursuit of Freshness
March 4th, 2019 | 38 mins 8 secs
David Oldenburg & Krystina Engebos talk about the commitments and resources required to leverage freshness as a competitive advantage.
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Episode 042: Kilned vs. Roasted: A Differentiation of Caramelized Specialty Malts
February 25th, 2019 | 24 mins 3 secs
Cassie Liscomb and Bob Hansen of Briess Malt & Ingredients Co. explain the various methods of production of caramel malts, as well as some fast/easy/affordable sensory methods for evaluating caramel malts in the brewery for QA and...
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Episode 121: Hot Side Hop Usage - Optimization with Extract
February 18th, 2019 | 33 mins 41 secs
Founders is known for using a lot of CO2 extract in the brewhouse. Alec Mull talks about how Founders uses hop extract to yield more bbl of higher quality beer.
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Episode 120: Hop Contracting 101
February 11th, 2019 | 48 mins 17 secs
Industry veteran Karl Ockert talks about the economics of hop growing, contracting tips, things to look for during hop selection, contributing factors of recent hop market swings, and more.