Master Brewers Podcast

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15/06/2020
 Jun 15, 2020

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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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Episode Date
Episode 304: Kernza
Mar 25, 2024
Episode 170: Centrifuge Operation
Mar 18, 2024
Episode 303: Cheers to a Decade of Craft Malt
Mar 11, 2024
Episode 169: Oak
Mar 04, 2024
Episode 302: World Brewing Congress 2024
Feb 26, 2024
Episode 301: Ask The Brewmasters
Feb 19, 2024
Episode 171: Best Practices - Container Rinsing with Water
Feb 12, 2024
Episode 300: Turning the Tables
Feb 05, 2024
Episode 168: Spirit Barrel Aging
Jan 29, 2024
Episode 299: Can Liners and Hop Aroma
Jan 22, 2024
Episode 154: Juicy Dry Hopping
Jan 15, 2024
Episode 298: Re-evaluating the malt quality COA for an uncertain climate future
Jan 08, 2024
Episode 150: TPO Gone Wild? Managing Oxygen Ingress on Smaller Scale Canning Lines
Jan 02, 2024
Episode 297: Is it Really Lager/Ale?
Dec 26, 2023
Episode 147: Dry Hop Geyser Survivors
Dec 18, 2023
Episode 296: Stratification
Dec 11, 2023
Episode 142: What's In Your Can?
Dec 04, 2023
Episode 295: "Ghost Dimpling"
Nov 27, 2023
Episode 137: How a Beer Comes to Life
Nov 20, 2023
Episode 294: Benchmarking and Reducing CO2 Consumption
Nov 13, 2023
Episode 293: RO Sustainability at Firestone Walker
Nov 06, 2023
Episode 130: Yeast Genome Changes During Serial Repitching
Oct 30, 2023
Episode 115: Today's Challenges in Beer Quality
Oct 23, 2023
Episode 292: Authenticity vs Technology
Oct 16, 2023
Episode 110: The Microbiological Impact of Dry Hopping Beers with Pelletized and Whole Cone Cascade Hops
Oct 09, 2023
Episode 291: The Master Brewers Innovation Fund
Oct 02, 2023
Episode 106: Electrical Safety in the Brewery
Sep 25, 2023
Episode 290: Pat Hayes
Sep 18, 2023
Episode 108: Sensory Programs - Finding Value From Day 1
Sep 11, 2023
Episode 289: HZY1
Sep 04, 2023
Episode 288: Sensory for Mixed Fermentations
Aug 28, 2023
Episode 104: The Hidden Secrets of New England IPA
Aug 21, 2023
Episode 287: 100% Adjunct, Gluten-Free Brewing
Aug 14, 2023
Episode 286: Fluid for Thought
Aug 07, 2023
Episode 099: Cask Beer
Jul 31, 2023
Episode 093: Active Dry Yeast
Jul 24, 2023
Episode 285: Bottles vs Cans
Jul 17, 2023
Episode 136: Birra Nursia
Jul 10, 2023
Episode 284: Hop Grower and Pellet Mill Audits
Jul 03, 2023
Episode 049: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
Jun 26, 2023
Episode 251: Boil-Over Safety at Goose Island
Jun 19, 2023
Episode 283: Brewing with Vista
Jun 12, 2023
Episode 282: Mid Fermentation Dry Hopping at New Belgium
Jun 05, 2023
Episode 133: IPA
May 29, 2023
Episode 281: Progress in Prosser
May 22, 2023
Episode 081: Irish Moss
May 15, 2023
Episode 280: Hard Seltzer Fermentation Analysis & Optimization
May 08, 2023
Episode 139: Hot Side Aeration (HSA)
May 01, 2023
Episode 279: CO2 Recapture Station #1
Apr 24, 2023
Episode 135: Musings on a Malt COA
Apr 17, 2023
Episode 278: The Heart of Barley
Apr 10, 2023
Episode 131: Brewing Berliner Weisse at the August Schell Brewing Co.
Apr 03, 2023
Episode 277: Survival of the Fittest
Mar 27, 2023
Episode 126: Passivation of Stainless Steel
Mar 20, 2023
Episode 276: FAN, YAN, and Dry Hop Creep
Mar 13, 2023
Episode 125: Spent Grains
Mar 06, 2023
Episode 275: A Look at Biases in Density Measurements
Feb 27, 2023
Episode 124: Fritz Maytag
Feb 20, 2023
Episode 274: Professor Moose's Magical Corn
Feb 13, 2023
Episode 123: Tracking IBU Through the Brewing Process: The Quest for Consistency
Feb 06, 2023
Episode 273: Predicting & improving Brewhouse Efficiency
Jan 30, 2023
Episode 117: AromaSmart
Jan 23, 2023
Episode 272: Just The Haze
Jan 16, 2023
Episode 271: Comprehensive Quality at Odell's
Jan 09, 2023
Episode 270: What to Do Before Breaking Ground on Your New Brewery
Jan 02, 2023
Episode 116: Be Kind to Your Grind
Dec 26, 2022
Episode 113: Reducing Error in Cell Counts
Dec 19, 2022
Episode 269: Thermal Degradation Units
Dec 12, 2022
Episode 268: Free Thiol Release
Dec 05, 2022
Episode 267: Effect of pasteurization on bright and hazy IPAs
Nov 28, 2022
Episode 111: Burst Bottle Detection & Mitigation
Nov 21, 2022
Episode 266: NA Production for the Craft Brewer
Nov 14, 2022
Episode 265: Measuring Sessionability
Nov 07, 2022
Episode 264: Nuts!
Oct 31, 2022
Episode 109: Timing is Everything
Oct 24, 2022
Episode 263: Gene Editing for Brewers
Oct 17, 2022
Episode 262: T90 Shelf Life Study
Oct 10, 2022
Episode 261: Optimizing Lab Props at New Belgium
Oct 03, 2022
Episode 172: What’s The Buzz? Non-alcoholic Beer Production
Sep 26, 2022
Episode 260: Beer & Health
Sep 19, 2022
Episode 259: Cannabaceae Creep
Sep 12, 2022
Episode 258: Sustainability of the American Hop Industry
Sep 05, 2022
Episode 107: Troubleshooting Acetaldehyde
Aug 29, 2022
Episode 257: ISTT
Aug 22, 2022
Episode 256: Eureka!
Aug 15, 2022
Episode 255: Yeast Stress
Aug 08, 2022
Episode 254: Sustainability of Hops
Jul 25, 2022
Episode 253: CIP Fundamentals
Jul 18, 2022
Episode 252: Wastewater at Mother Road & pFriem
Jul 11, 2022
Episode 105: Wort Aeration
Jul 04, 2022
Episode 250: Is Hop Terroir a Marketing Construct and/or a Biophysical Reality?
Jun 20, 2022
Episode 089: The Six-rowification of North American Two-row (Part 3: What you can do about it)
Jun 13, 2022
Episode 088: The Six-rowification of North American Two-row (Parts 1&2: history, how & why)
Jun 06, 2022
Episode 249: Malt Silos
May 30, 2022
Episode 248: Mashing
May 23, 2022
Episode 247: Malt
May 16, 2022
Episode 101: The Yeasts of Tomorrow
May 09, 2022
Episode 246: Putting the Stank in Dr. Dank
May 02, 2022
Episode 245: Romp of Otters
Apr 25, 2022
Episode 244: Dialing in Haze
Apr 18, 2022
Episode 052: Let Your Process Evaluate Your Malt - Part 2
Apr 11, 2022
Episode 051: Let Your Process Evaluate Your Malt - Part 1
Apr 04, 2022
Episode 243: Terrified of Being Torrified
Mar 28, 2022
Episode 242: Brewing Purposefully with Wood
Mar 21, 2022
Episode 098: Dry Hop Creep
Mar 14, 2022
Episode 241: Mash Filters
Mar 07, 2022
Episode 240: Understanding the Risk of Can Pressure Failures
Feb 28, 2022
Episode 239: Yeast Propagation at Urban Chestnut
Feb 21, 2022
Episode 084: Brewing Hoppy Beer with CRISPR Instead of Hops
Feb 14, 2022
Episode 238: Winter Barley
Feb 07, 2022
Episode 237: Packaging with Speise
Jan 31, 2022
Episode 236: Sustainability at Drake's
Jan 24, 2022
Episode 096: Efficacy of Sanitizers in the Brewery
Jan 17, 2022
Episode 235: Flavorings That Go BOOM in the Night
Jan 10, 2022
Episode 234: New Year's Resolution
Jan 03, 2022
Episode 069: Diastaticus - Part 2
Dec 27, 2021
Episode 068: Diastaticus - Part 1
Dec 20, 2021
Episode 233: Deconstructing Le Petit Prince
Dec 13, 2021
Episode 091: How a Chiller System Works
Dec 06, 2021
Episode 232: 074 (US Vista)
Nov 29, 2021
Episode 231: The Black Box of Biotransformation
Nov 22, 2021
Episode 230: Under Pressure
Nov 15, 2021
Episode 083: The Red Queen Hypothesis
Nov 08, 2021
Episode 229: Is Hop Creep Caused by Microorganisms?
Nov 01, 2021
Episode 228: The Challenging 2021 Barley Outlook
Oct 25, 2021
Episode 227: IRC7 + CRISPR = Cosmic Punch
Oct 18, 2021
Episode 063: Utilizing Predictive Analytics to Improve Quality & Maximize Capacity at Deschutes Brewery
Oct 11, 2021
Episode 226: Stainless Steel
Oct 04, 2021
Episode 225: Cold IPA
Sep 27, 2021
Episode 224: Can Liner Quality & Testing
Sep 20, 2021
Episode 061: Glycol Systems for Breweries
Sep 13, 2021
Episode 223: Brewing with Honey
Sep 06, 2021
Episode 222: The Top 10
Aug 30, 2021
Episode 221: The Best of Both Worlds
Aug 23, 2021
Episode 080: Brewing Hoppy Beers - Targeting Flavor, Not Varietal
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 220: Consistent Fermentations
Aug 09, 2021
Episode 219: Repitching Cal Ale
Aug 02, 2021
Episode 218: Including Fermentation in Your Beer Recipe
Jul 26, 2021
Episode 217: Dry Hopping & Yeast Health
Jul 12, 2021
Episode 216: Profiling 34/70
Jul 05, 2021
Episode 215: Hops & Foam
Jun 28, 2021
Episode 059: Process Control Through Enzyme Understanding
Jun 21, 2021
Episode 214: Analysis of Commercial NEIPAs
Jun 14, 2021
Episode 213: Magnesium-accelerated Maillard reactions
Jun 07, 2021
Episode 212: Yeast Nutrient: Hard Seltzer vs Wort
May 31, 2021
Episode 067: In the Blink of an Eye
May 24, 2021
Episode 211: The Sweet Spot
May 17, 2021
Episode 210: Benchmarking Sustainability
May 10, 2021
Episode 209: How Bells Brewery Significantly Reduced its Electrical Bill & Carbon Footprint
May 03, 2021
Episode 065: Troubleshooting Off-flavors
Apr 26, 2021
Episode 208: Understanding Thiol Precursor in Hops & Malt
Apr 19, 2021
Episode 207: Spent Hops Disposal Dilemma
Apr 12, 2021
Episode 206: Practical Sustainability
Apr 05, 2021
Episode 066: Sulfate to Chloride Ratio
Mar 29, 2021
Episode 205: Brewing vs. Distilling
Mar 22, 2021
Episode 204: Confined Space Entry
Mar 15, 2021
Episode 203: Cloudy with a Chance of Production
Mar 08, 2021
Episode 079: Brewhouse Efficiency for the Small Brewer
Mar 01, 2021
Episode 202: The Omission Story + New Gluten-Free/Reduced Regs
Feb 22, 2021
Episode 201: Wort Separation
Feb 15, 2021
Episode 200: Reconsidering the Congress Mash
Feb 08, 2021
Episode 053: Improved Flavor via Trub Removal at Dogfish
Feb 01, 2021
Episode 199: The Yeast Hunter
Jan 25, 2021
Episode 198: Bierkrieg: Follow the Money
Jan 18, 2021
Episode 197: A History of Brewing Innovation
Jan 11, 2021
Episode 058: What Yeast has taught me about Brewing over the years
Jan 04, 2021
Episode 028: Draught Line Cleaning P2
Dec 28, 2020
Episode 027: Draught Line Cleaning P1
Dec 21, 2020
Episode 196: Goose Island's Wild Yeast Chase
Dec 14, 2020
Episode 195: Thiol-releasing Capability of Brewers Yeast
Dec 07, 2020
Episode 194: Metallic Off-flavor in Kettle-Sours
Nov 30, 2020
Episode 010: Free Education
Nov 23, 2020
Episode 193: Killer Yeast
Nov 16, 2020
Episode 192: PPE in the Brewery
Nov 09, 2020
Episode 191: Too Much Noise!
Nov 02, 2020
Episode 190: Variation in Starch Structure
Oct 26, 2020
Episode 189: Long Term Yeast Storage
Oct 19, 2020
Episode 188: Impossible Beer
Oct 12, 2020
Episode 187: The Guinness Yeast
Oct 05, 2020
Episode 186: CO2 Systems & Quality
Sep 28, 2020
Episode 185: Filler Cleaning Meets Quality at Surly
Sep 21, 2020
Mainstage
Sep 17, 2020
Episode 184: Just Say No to Leaking Can Seams
Sep 14, 2020
Episode 183: Dry Hop Creep During In-Package Conditioning
Sep 07, 2020
Episode 182: De-skunking Beer
Aug 31, 2020
Preview: 2020 WBC
Aug 27, 2020
Episode 181: Tracking Biotransformation of Sulfur Compounds in Beer
Aug 24, 2020
Episode 001: Total Oil Content ≠ Aroma
Aug 17, 2020
Episode 180: Exogenous Enzyme Applications in Malting
Aug 10, 2020
Episode 179: Reuse of Spent Dry Hop Slurry in the Brewhouse
Aug 03, 2020
Episode 178: Friends Don't Let Friends Drink Oxidized Beer
Jul 27, 2020
Episode 040: What is Aleppo?
Jul 20, 2020
Episode 177: The Art & Science of Roasting Specialty Malt
Jul 13, 2020
Episode 176: Functional Terroir
Jul 06, 2020
Episode 175: Know Barley, Know Beer
Jun 29, 2020
Episode 174: WHAT IS BEER?
Jun 15, 2020
Episode 173: Using Exogenous Enzymes to Boost Biotransformation​
Jun 08, 2020
Episode 047: Whirlpool Trub Carryover Effects on Beer Sensory Quality & Clarity
May 25, 2020
Episode 038: Comparison of the Contributions of Hop Pellets, Supercritical Fluid Hop Extracts, and Extracted Hop Material to the Hop Aroma and Terpenoid Content of Kettle-Hopped Lager Beers
Apr 27, 2020
Bonus: Introducing Plantopia
Apr 17, 2020
Episode 167: Manufacturing Hand Sanitizer in the Brewery
Apr 13, 2020
Bonus: The New Normal
Apr 10, 2020
Episode 045: Spoiler Alert
Apr 06, 2020
Episode 165: Bypassing the Malting Process with Koji
Mar 30, 2020
Episode 164: When Draught Dries Up
Mar 23, 2020
Episode 163: Kiln Temperature & Hop Quality
Mar 16, 2020
Episode 013: Uneven Heating? Damaged Jackets?
Mar 09, 2020
Episode 162: LAB Propagation & Process Control
Mar 02, 2020
Episode 161: New Malting Barley Varieties in Canada
Feb 24, 2020
Episode 160: Quantifying and Probing the Inefficiency of Dry-hopping
Feb 17, 2020
Episode 035: Brewhouse Water & Mash Chemistry
Feb 10, 2020
Episode 159: How Much Does it Take?
Feb 03, 2020
Episode 158: Hemp Flavor Development in Beer
Jan 27, 2020
Episode 157: Hop Oils & Haze Stabilization
Jan 20, 2020
Episode 044: Improving Brewhouse Efficiency by Adjusting Mash Thickness and Lauter and Sparge Volumes
Jan 13, 2020
Episode 156: How Low Can You Go?
Jan 06, 2020
Episode 155: Continuum of Malt Opportunities
Dec 30, 2019
Episode 012: Reducing Solid Waste in the Brewery
Dec 16, 2019
Episode 153: Plan Your Pitch
Dec 09, 2019
Episode 152: Evaluation of FPDM for STA1 Positive (Diastaticus) Yeast in the Brewery
Dec 02, 2019
Episode 151: Our $700 Hillbilly Yeast Propagator
Nov 25, 2019
Episode 039: The Language of Hops
Nov 18, 2019
Episode 149: Sourvisiae
Nov 04, 2019
Episode 148: OSHA in Your Brewery
Oct 28, 2019
Episode 043: The Hop Quality Group
Oct 21, 2019
Episode 146: Fermentation Consistency
Oct 07, 2019
Episode 145: Investigating the Factors Impacting Aroma, Flavor, and Stability in Dry-Hopped Beers
Sep 30, 2019
Episode 032: It Malt Not Be Extractly What You Think
Sep 23, 2019
Episode 144: Dr. Lewis
Sep 16, 2019
Episode 143: Improving Process Steam Systems
Sep 09, 2019
Episode 041: Zinc in Fermentation
Aug 26, 2019
Episode 141: Brewery Bots
Aug 19, 2019
Episode 140: Think Twice Before You Dump: A Journey to Wastewater Compliance
Aug 12, 2019
Episode 138: Steeping: The Fulcrum Between Good and Bad Malt
Jul 22, 2019
Episode 020: Kvass
Jul 01, 2019
Episode 134: Is PCR Right for your Brewery?
Jun 17, 2019
Episode 024: Malt Flavor Development
Jun 03, 2019
Episode 132: Yeast at Founders Brewing Co.
May 27, 2019
Episode 008: Steam Boilers in the Craft Brewing Industry
May 06, 2019
Episode 129: Beer Flavor Stability (Live Episode)
Apr 29, 2019
Episode 128: United We Brew (Live Episode)
Apr 22, 2019
Episode 127: Dry Hop Creep Continued - Does Variety Matter? (Live Episode)
Apr 15, 2019
Episode 015: Simplifying the Understanding of Malt COAs
Mar 25, 2019
Episode 122: The Pursuit of Freshness
Mar 04, 2019
Episode 042: Kilned vs. Roasted: A Differentiation of Caramelized Specialty Malts
Feb 25, 2019
Episode 121: Hot Side Hop Usage - Optimization with Extract
Feb 18, 2019
Episode 120: Hop Contracting 101
Feb 11, 2019
Episode 119: Biotransformation
Feb 04, 2019
Episode 055: TPO
Jan 28, 2019
Episode 118: Sensory Lab on a Shelf
Jan 21, 2019
Episode 085: Lactic Acid Bacteria Case Study
Dec 31, 2018
Episode 071: German Sour Beers of the Late 19th Century
Dec 24, 2018
Episode 114: Brewery Hose
Dec 10, 2018
Episode 112: Gluten-free barley: Lab to supermarket
Nov 26, 2018
Episode 031: Maintaining Good Yeast Health
Nov 12, 2018
Episode 036: Torulaspora delbrueckii
Oct 08, 2018
Episode 103: Colloidal Silica
Sep 10, 2018
Episode 021: Brewing Intensification
Sep 03, 2018
Episode 102: Kveik
Aug 27, 2018
Episode 100: Brewing Summit Keynote LIVE
Aug 13, 2018
Episode 097: Better Fermentations with Cloudy Wort
Jul 23, 2018
Episode 095: FSMA
Jul 02, 2018
Episode 094: Microbial Gluten Reduction in Beer Using Lactic Acid Bacteria and Standard Process Methods
Jun 25, 2018
Episode 092: Automated Brettanomyces Cell Counts
Jun 11, 2018
Episode 090: Sooner, Rather Than Later
May 28, 2018
Episode 087: Bottle Conditioning
May 07, 2018
Episode 086: How to Assure Quality in Hops from Small-Scale Growers
Apr 30, 2018
Episode 082: Insane in the (Hollow Fiber) Membrane
Apr 02, 2018
Episode 078: Quality Systems - Part 2
Mar 05, 2018
Episode 077: Quality Systems - Part 1
Feb 26, 2018
Episode 076: Revolutionary Dry-Hopping Techniques for Larger Beer Volumes
Feb 19, 2018
Episode 075: How Isinglass Works
Feb 12, 2018
Episode 074: Potential Causes for Loss of Extract in a Brewery
Feb 05, 2018
Episode 073: Dry Hopping's Correlation with Diacetyl
Jan 29, 2018
Episode 072: Yeast Propagation
Jan 22, 2018
Episode 070: Malting & Brewing Naked...Oats
Jan 08, 2018
Episode 064: Yeast Fundamentals
Nov 27, 2017
Episode 062: Co-fermentation Trials with S. cerevisiae & B. bruxellensis and the Organoleptic Benefits of Mixed Culture Fermentations
Nov 13, 2017
Episode 060: WW Pilot Study at Holy City Brewing Co.
Oct 30, 2017
Episode 057: The 2017 Hop Harvest
Oct 09, 2017
Episode 056: The Craft Malt Revolution
Oct 02, 2017
Episode 054: Stuff You Should Know About Keg Valves
Sep 18, 2017
Episode 004: Dry Hopping & Its Effects on Bitterness and the IBU Test
Sep 04, 2017
Episode 050: The Relationship Between Wort Gravity and Water-to-Grist Ratio
Aug 14, 2017