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 316: Consumer Testing
September 9th, 2024 | 40 mins 50 secs
How to tap into the power of consumer testing for even the smallest of breweries.
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Episode 186: CO2 Systems & Quality
September 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 13 mins
A Master Brewers member requested an episode about CO2 systems, CO2 quality, and best practices. Here it is.
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Episode 315: Hop Gene Editing at OSU
August 26th, 2024 | 46 mins 2 secs
An update from the fast-moving world of gene editing, as it relates to hops.
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Episode 189: Long Term Yeast Storage
August 19th, 2024 | 25 mins 4 secs
For smaller brewers, yeast management can be a challenging prospect. Many mid-size to small breweries attempt to make a wide range of beer styles that require a plethora of yeast strains. Due to production limitations, brewers are often forced to stretch yeast pitching windows or purchase brand new yeast pitches at a dramatically high cost. A study was performed to evaluate potential media that would allow for adequate dormancy and viability of harvested yeast slurries for long term re-pitching opportunity. Various media were added to decanted yeast slurry and viability was measured over determined time periods to track health of the stored yeast. Results indicate that monopotassium phosphate, standard distilled water, alkaline mineral water, and a solution with sunflower oil all provide varying degrees of health preservation of long storage periods up to one month. Minimal changes were observed with adequate dilutions and these results will be discussed.
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Episode 314: Pasteurization At Goose Island
August 12th, 2024 | 38 mins 50 secs
An overview of the options for pasteurizing beer, and how pasteurization works at Goose Island.
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Episode 185: Filler Cleaning Meets Quality at Surly
August 5th, 2024 | 40 mins 19 secs
To avoid having every brewery reinvent the wheel with filler cleaning practices and save the time and money it takes to trial new processes, we share one brewery’s story of developing a robust cleaning program on both of its canning lines.
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Episode 313: Omics
July 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
What's the buzz in omics all about and how can it help you make better beer?
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Episode 174: WHAT IS BEER?
July 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
"The Inspiring History and Legacy of American Lager Beer" is envisioned to be a nine-volume series of books covering the history of the American lager brewing industry from the 1840s to the 1940s and the evolution of adjunct lager beer as America’s “national beverage.” The “surprising” aspect of this history is that it ever happened at all, given the half-century-long assault on the industry between the 1870s and 1910s to impose an “American Reinheitsgebot.” Unified in this objective were a plethora of the nation’s political, cultural, and agricultural institutions—all seeking to ban to use of rice and corn-based products in the brewing of American ales and lagers. Equally united in opposition to this effort were the brewers and brewing scientists of America. In battles that were passionate, highly public, and intense in nature, these brewing industry advocates successfully defended the right of American brewers to brew with the ingredients of their choice. It is a powerful legacy not only for America’s first revolution in beer (the adjunct lager brewing industry) but also for the nation’s second revolution in beer (the American craft brewing industry).
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Episode 312: Foam
July 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
A deep dive on beer foam with a couple of familiar guests, one of whom literally wrote the book on foam.
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Episode 182: De-skunking Beer
July 8th, 2024 | 33 mins 27 secs
Just when you thought light-struck flavor in beer was permanent...
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Episode 311: Preventing Heat Illness in the Brewery
July 1st, 2024 | 35 mins 28 secs
A couple of experts offer tips to help your brewery beat the summer heat.
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Episode 049: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
June 24th, 2024 | 45 mins 27 secs
Kerry Caldwell suffered severe injuries from an accident in the brewhouse. She was airlifted and overcame the 34% chance of survival calculated by the hospital. This episode is both the story of her accident and a description of a simple, inexpensive device that should be installed in your brewery to prevent similar accidents.
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Episode 310: Identifying and Eliminating Pectinatus in a Craft Lager Facility - A Sensory Case Study
June 17th, 2024 | 27 mins 44 secs
If you have the same canning line as Jack, you might want to listen up.
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Episode 191: Too Much Noise!
June 10th, 2024 | 28 mins 29 secs
Noise exposure may not be on your brewery's radar, but this is an area in which an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Episode 309: Predicting and improving complex beer flavor through machine learning
June 3rd, 2024 | 56 mins 37 secs
Can chemical analytics be used to predict what a sensory panel will taste? Can machine learning be used to improve a beer?
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Episode 177: The Art & Science of Roasting Specialty Malt
May 27th, 2024 | 1 hr 57 secs
Specialty malt freshness, roaster technology, flavor development & complexity in specialty malts, and more.