Master Brewers Podcast
United We Brew™
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 123: Tracking IBU Through the Brewing Process: The Quest for Consistency
February 6th, 2023 | 35 mins 43 secs
Aaron Justus is back to lead us on an awesome journey tracking IBUs throughout the brewing process. This episode is full of surprises, and I guarantee you're going to learn something.
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Episode 273: Predicting & improving Brewhouse Efficiency
January 30th, 2023 | 36 mins 57 secs
Follow Joe Walts on his journey building lauter simulations to better predict & improve brewhouse efficiency.
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Episode 117: AromaSmart
January 23rd, 2023 | 55 mins 42 secs
Val Peacock talks about the biggest problem in hop quality - hop drying. You'll also hear from Bill Arendt, the Wisconsin hop grower who built a better mousetrap.
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Episode 272: Just The Haze
January 16th, 2023 | 39 mins 45 secs
The story behind the development of the first NA beer from Sam Adams
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Episode 271: Comprehensive Quality at Odell's
January 9th, 2023 | 41 mins 10 secs
Half of Odell's small but impressive quality team joins us to discuss what they do.
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Episode 270: What to Do Before Breaking Ground on Your New Brewery
January 2nd, 2023 | 58 mins 13 secs
Advice for how to navigate brewery construction
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Episode 116: Be Kind to Your Grind
December 26th, 2022 | 33 mins 4 secs
Kevin Sibbett discusses a lauter tun upgrade at Yuengling, the process of optimizing brewhouse efficiency, troubleshooting malt handling, and understanding mill gaps and grist composition.
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Episode 113: Reducing Error in Cell Counts
December 19th, 2022 | 37 mins 24 secs
It doesn't matter how good you are at counting cells if the sample wasn't prepared and handled properly. Bill Maca takes us on a deep dive into the most important part of yeast cell counts that nobody talks about.
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Episode 269: Thermal Degradation Units
December 12th, 2022 | 35 mins 24 secs
A powerful tool for making quality decisions.
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Episode 268: Free Thiol Release
December 5th, 2022 | 33 mins 19 secs
Cécile Chenot discusses observations from thiol research at Université Catholique de Louvain
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Episode 267: Effect of pasteurization on bright and hazy IPAs
November 28th, 2022 | 30 mins 12 secs
A thorough test of an age-old debate, conducted on modern beer styles
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Episode 111: Burst Bottle Detection & Mitigation
November 21st, 2022 | 39 mins 12 secs
From a consumer safety standpoint, glass shards from broken bottles present one of the most serious risks that a brewery may encounter. In order to mitigate the considerable risk to consumers, any brewery that runs a glass bottle filler should develop and implement a formal burst bottle mitigation procedure for their packaging department.
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Episode 266: NA Production for the Craft Brewer
November 14th, 2022 | 37 mins 45 secs
Mitch Steele has advice for craft brewers who want to produce non-alcoholic products.
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Episode 265: Measuring Sessionability
November 7th, 2022 | 29 mins 20 secs
Boston Beer determines how to accurately measure sessionability before releasing a new brand.
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Episode 264: Nuts!
October 31st, 2022 | 35 mins 8 secs
What happens when an allergen is grown on the farm next door?
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Episode 109: Timing is Everything
October 24th, 2022 | 40 mins 9 secs
Sierra Nevada studies the impact of dry hopping at different stages of fermentation.