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

  • Episode 325: Controlling t2N

    January 13th, 2025  |  40 mins 41 secs

    Practical strategies for controlling trans-2 nonenal in your brewery.

  • Episode 202: The Omission Story + New Gluten-Free/Reduced Regs

    January 6th, 2025  |  48 mins 50 secs

    The father of the gluten-removed beer category joins us to discuss recently updated federal regulations that may affect your gluten-free or gluten-reduced claims. That's the first part of today's show. After the break, stay tuned to hear the story of how the first commercial gluten-removed barley brew came to life.

  • Episode 324: Flavor Stability

    December 30th, 2024  |  1 hr 54 secs

    What New Glarus prioritizes to maximize flavor stability.

  • Episode 197: A History of Brewing Innovation

    December 23rd, 2024  |  1 hr 9 mins

    We look back at the last 70 years of innovations in brewing, we look forward to what the future holds, and we hear a pint full of great anecdotes from an author with whom we're all familiar.

  • Episode 323: Brewing Fittings

    December 16th, 2024  |  45 mins 15 secs

    Why Brewers Should Consider Alternatives to Tri-Clamp

  • Episode 145: Investigating the Factors Impacting Aroma, Flavor, and Stability in Dry-Hopped Beers

    December 9th, 2024  |  46 mins 2 secs

    We dig into a couple of peer-reviewed papers from the Master Brewers Technical Quarterly that help us navigate the complexities of hop aroma and make better beer.

  • Episode 322: Survival of Pathogens in Non-Alcoholic Beers

    December 2nd, 2024  |  32 mins 36 secs

    A study of 50 NA beers hunts for human pathogens.

  • Episode 196: Goose Island's Wild Yeast Chase

    November 25th, 2024  |  30 mins 23 secs

    In 2018 Goose Island was plagued with a wild yeast contamination identified in post centrifuged products. This is how we systematically sought root cause, and ultimately eradicated the contamination despite our previous process understandings.

  • Episode 321: Infusion Malts

    November 18th, 2024  |  28 mins 28 secs

    The creator of infusion malts joins us to explain what they are and why they're special.

  • Episode 190: Variation in Starch Structure

    November 11th, 2024  |  37 mins 3 secs

    Did you know that the gelatinization temperature of your malt could be as low as 136F or as high as 154F? Charlie Bamforth's successor joins us to talk about variations in starch structure and what that might mean for your mash.

  • Episode 320: Mixed Culture Fermentations

    November 4th, 2024  |  49 mins

    The John Rowley approach to sour & funk

  • Episode 194: Metallic Off-flavor in Kettle-Sours

    October 28th, 2024  |  27 mins 10 secs

    The story of how Creature Comforts Brewing tracked down and eliminated metallic off-flavor in kettle-sours.

  • Episode 319: Science Over Bias

    October 21st, 2024  |  55 mins 42 secs

    You've seen the headlines. Is the US government really about to change its recommendations for alcohol consumption?

  • Episode 188: Impossible Beer

    October 14th, 2024  |  42 mins 22 secs

    More engineered brewers yeast strains capable of "impossible" feats.

  • Episode 318: IoT Autoclave

    October 7th, 2024  |  29 mins 34 secs

    How affordable automation can free up resources and improve quality in breweries of any size.

  • Episode 102: Kveik

    September 30th, 2024  |  35 mins 28 secs

    Richard Preiss discusses his work with genetically unique yeast used to produce Norwegian farmhouse beers known as kveik.