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 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.
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Episode 263: Gene Editing for Brewers
October 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 2 mins
This week on the show, Gene editing for brewers... and where things might be headed for barley & hops.
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Episode 262: T90 Shelf Life Study
October 10th, 2022 | 41 mins 15 secs
What's the actual shelf life of the hops in your cooler, and what happens if you keep them there for a few more years?
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Episode 261: Optimizing Lab Props at New Belgium
October 3rd, 2022 | 34 mins 38 secs
Is your brewery just doing things the way they've always been done, or is someone like Paige optimizing processes to uncover new efficiencies and tremendous savings?
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Episode 172: What’s The Buzz? Non-alcoholic Beer Production
September 26th, 2022 | 53 mins 8 secs
There are lots of different approaches to producing NA beer. Justin McKellar walks us through the tradeoffs of each method.
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Episode 260: Beer & Health
September 19th, 2022 | 51 mins 36 secs
You and I both know that beer has a lot of nutritional value, but are we prepared to speak intelligently about that? How do we get consumers to look past beer's stereotypes and click-bait headlines?
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Episode 259: Cannabaceae Creep
September 12th, 2022 | 41 mins 21 secs
The quest to determine the origin of hop creep takes an interesting twist.