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 300: Turning the Tables
February 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 16 mins
We celebrate our 300th episode by giving John Bryce they day off...kind of.
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Episode 168: Spirit Barrel Aging
January 29th, 2024 | 40 mins 3 secs
We take a look at spirit barrel aging techniques from the perspective of Julian Shrago at Beachwood Brewing
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Episode 299: Can Liners and Hop Aroma
January 22nd, 2024 | 50 mins 27 secs
A case study at New Belgium to understand the impact of can coatings on beer volatiles.
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Episode 154: Juicy Dry Hopping
January 15th, 2024 | 26 mins 40 secs
This week on the show, presenters from the Juicy Dry Hopping workshop in Calgary join us to talk about their quest to maximize flavor, aroma, and efficiency in heavily dry hopped beers.
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Episode 298: Re-evaluating the malt quality COA for an uncertain climate future
January 8th, 2024 | 49 mins 25 secs
Adjusting expectations and processes to navigate an increasingly delicate malt supply chain.
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Episode 150: TPO Gone Wild? Managing Oxygen Ingress on Smaller Scale Canning Lines
January 2nd, 2024 | 24 mins 22 secs
Our friends at Goose Island talk about their journey reducing TPO on small-scale canning lines. This episode was recorded live during the 2019 Master Brewers Conference.
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Episode 297: Is it Really Lager/Ale?
December 26th, 2023 | 40 mins
Different paths of evolution and answers to questions about the genetic identity of commercially available yeast strains.
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Episode 147: Dry Hop Geyser Survivors
December 18th, 2023 | 36 mins 37 secs
Dry hop geyser survivors talk about their experiences and how you can avoid repeating their dangerous mistakes.
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Episode 296: Stratification
December 11th, 2023 | 39 mins 16 secs
Mechanisms and Strategies to Manage Temperature Stratification in Brewery Vessels
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Episode 142: What's In Your Can?
December 4th, 2023 | 29 mins 45 secs
To rinse or not to rinse - what's in your can? Our friends at Community Beer take us on a journey to eliminate microbes @ can filling.
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Episode 295: "Ghost Dimpling"
November 27th, 2023 | 24 mins 35 secs
Real-world can seamer troubleshooting courtesy of Master Brewer's award-winning technical brewing forum.
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Episode 137: How a Beer Comes to Life
November 20th, 2023 | 48 mins 38 secs
Jason Perkins talks about beer development at Allagash Brewing Co.
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Episode 294: Benchmarking and Reducing CO2 Consumption
November 13th, 2023 | 42 mins 50 secs
Frequent MBAA course lecturer, Gabriel Dominguez, offers tips to reduce your brewery's CO2 consumption.
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Episode 293: RO Sustainability at Firestone Walker
November 6th, 2023 | 42 mins 46 secs
A simple engineering solution with complex implementation.
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Episode 130: Yeast Genome Changes During Serial Repitching
October 30th, 2023 | 40 mins 16 secs
Maitreya Dunham and Tom Schmidlin talk about an exciting study that aims to better understand yeast mutations during serial repitching.
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Episode 115: Today's Challenges in Beer Quality
October 23rd, 2023 | 50 mins 53 secs
Author of Quality Management: Essential Planning for Breweries and founder of Top Note Tonic, Mary Pellettieri, discusses how innovation challenges quality systems.