Master Brewers Podcast
Each week, thousands of brewers download The Master Brewers Podcast to hear interviews with the industry's best and 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.
Episodes
Episode 259: Cannabaceae Creep (Sep 2022)
The quest to determine the origin of hop creep takes an interesting twist.Special Guest: Matt Cottrell.
Episode 370: Using Glycolipids to Prevent Refermentation
Yet another novel approach for micro stabilization of NA beerSpecial Guests: Nate Armbrust and Paul Marquardt.
Episode 245: Romp of Otters (Apr 2022)
A collaboration between OSU's Barley Project Lab, Admiral Maltings, and Seismic Brewing explores the possibilities for achieving Maris Otter flavor in newer barley varieties, bred for better agronomics & brewhouse performance.Special Guests: Campbell Morrissy and Curtis Davenport.
Episode 369: 10th Anniversary Special
A cast of characters from past episodes competes in a live quiz show to celebrate 10 years of the Master Brewers PodcastSpecial Guests: Ashton Lewis, Erin Maynard, Glen Fox, John Mallet, Laura Burns, Lauren Torres, Tom Shellhammer, Travis Audet, and Van Havig.
Episode 211: The Sweet Spot (May 2021)
Dextrose, cane sugar, beet sugar, corn syrups, back sweetening with stevia, and more.Special Guest: Scott Helstad.
Episode 368: We Can Totally Fit That Somewhere
A guide to strategically leveraging the used equipment market.Special Guests: Garrett Meier, Kayla Johnson, and Mike Gerhart.
Episode 148: OSHA in Your Brewery (Oct 2019)
If OSHA shows up at your brewery tomorrow, are you ready?Special Guests: John Olaechea and Nicole Reiman.
Episode 367: Arabinoxylan vs. Beta Glucan
The impact of Arabinoxylan vs. Beta Glucan on viscosity.Special Guest: Betsy Roberts.
Episode 138: Steeping: The Fulcrum Between Good and Bad Malt (Jul 2019)
Tyler Schoales of Country Malt Group takes us on a deep dive into the most important step in malting.Special Guest: Tyler Schoales.
Episode 366: Carbonation as a Control Mechanism of E. coli and Salmonella in NA Beer
E. coli and Salmonella can grow in NA beer, but there's a convenient catch.Special Guests: Grzegorz Rachon and Joy Waite-Cusic.
Episode 240: Understanding the Risk of Can Pressure Failures (Feb 2022)
Have you ever wondered if you're pushing the limits of how much pressure your cans can handle? A Master Brewers Past President joins us to discuss a chart he designed to keep you out of trouble.Special Guest: Jim Kuhr.
Episode 365: A Western Approach to Sake Production
If you think brewing sake in your brewery is out of reach, think again.Special Guests: Chijindu Onwuchekwa and Scott Lafontaine.
Episode 253: CIP Fundamentals (July 2022)
Oliver Meinhold takes us back to the basics of cleaning & sanitation in the brewery.Special Guest: Oliver Meinhold.
Episode 364: pH Fundamentals
The fundamentals of pH and why your mash pH might not be what you think it is.Special Guest: Ashton Lewis.
Episode 049: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream (August 2017)
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. Special Guests: Kerry Bloxham (Caldwell) and Sc
Episode 363: Sensomics
What it is, and what it has done/can do for beer.Special Guests: Klaas Reglitz and Martin Steinhaus.
Episode 140: Think Twice Before You Dump: A Journey to Wastewater Compliance (August 2019)
Ann Spevacek & Eric Ritchson from Pizza Port Brewing discuss water usage and their journey to wastewater compliance.Special Guests: Ann Spevacek and Eric Ritchson.
Episode 362: Aroma Hop Shelf Life
A recent OSU study of aroma hop shelf life under commercial storage conditions.Special Guests: Cécile Chenot and Tom Shellhammer.
Episode 075: How Isinglass Works
How isinglass works, how to optimize results, when and why to use auxiliary finings (such as silica solutions), and more.Special Guest: Andrew Fratianni.
Episode 361: How SHREDDER™ works
It’s not pasteurization. It’s not sterile filtration. So how exactly does the Shredder achieve microbiological stabilization?Special Guests: Jesse Kremenak and Matt Burkhardt.
Episode 054: Stuff You Should Know About Keg Valves
Steve Bradt from Micro Matic joins us to talk about keg valve design, function, maintenance, and safety. If you work with kegs, this episode is for you, regardless of your experience level.Special Guest: Steve Bradt.
Episode 360: How Pitch Rate Affects Cold Lager Fermentations
Can increased pitch rate accelerate fermentation at 8°C? How does pitch rate influence aroma formation in different lager yeast strains? Is there an optimal pitch rate for balancing clean flavour with desired complexity?Special Guest: Richard Preiss.
Episode 072: Yeast Propagation
Understanding the basics of yeast propagation is critical for commercial brewers of all sizes. With 50 years of experience researching yeast, Graham Stewart joins us to talk about the basic principles of brewer's yeast propagation.Special Guest: Graham Stewart.
Episode 359: Brewing Yeast Volume 1: Yeast Fundamentals and Propagation
A discussion with the authors of a new book about yeast.Special Guests: Bill Maca and Florian Kuplent.
Episode 241: Mash Filters
How & why to operate a mash filterSpecial Guest: Jason Platek.
Episode 358: Lager Sensory at von Trapp
How von Trapp uses sensory to lock in lagers.Special Guest: Jack Van Paepeghem.
Episode 236: Sustainability at Drake's
How Drake's Brewing Co approaches sustainability. Special Guest: Hal McConnellogue.
Episode 357: Dark Beer
What’s the secret to brewing award-winning dark, malty beers?Special Guest: Ryan Fields.
Episode 232: 074 (US Vista)
The hotly anticipated release of the USDA public hop breeding program's 1st tropical aroma bomb. What it took to finally get here, what the future looks like, and more.Special Guest: John Henning.
Episode 356: Carlsberg's New Barleys
How serious innovation at Carlsberg is changing the outlook and timeline for barley breeding.Special Guest: Birgitte Skadhauge.
Episode 230: Under Pressure
Using the dissolved CO2 content of active fermentations to control your process. Special Guests: Andrew MacIntosh and Karen Fortmann.
Episode 355: Micro Stabilization with Chitosan Fiber
An option for microbiological stabilization that might not be on your radar.Special Guests: Audrey Carpenter and David Brown.
Episode 260: Beer & Health
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?Special Guest: Glen Fox.
Episode 354: Hop Selection
Behind the scenes at hop selection with insights from Russian River, Breakside, Ghost Town, Haas, and Yakima Chief Hops.Special Guests: Ben Edmunds, Bridget Gates, Jeff Dailey, Justin Burdt, and Vinnie Cilurzo.
Episode 242: Brewing Purposefully with Wood
How our guest uses wood in brewing, how Louis Pasteur ruined beer, and how maybe when the liquid in a barrel can't become a beer, it can get another purpose.Special Guest: Peter Bouckaert.
Episode 353: Dialing in PUs with Yeast Ascopores
Just how much pasteurization is actually needed for your NA products?Special Guest: Grzegorz Rachon.
Episode 015: Simplifying the Understanding of Malt COAs
Industry veteran Joe Hertrich talks about what matters most on your malt Certificates of Analysis.Special Guest: Joe Hertrich.
Episode 352: Modern West Coast IPA at Breakside
Recipe, process, and key considerations when brewing modern West Coast IPA.Special Guest: Ben Edmunds.
Episode 238: Winter Barley
An exciting, new 2-row winter variety coming out of Virginia Tech, the advantages winter barley brings to growers, maltsters, and brewers, the challenges ahead, and how you can get involved.Special Guests: Ashley McFarland, Nicholas Santantonio, Trey Hill, and Zach Gaines.
Episode 351: Training in the Brewery: A Food Safety Fundamental
How Two Roads approaches training in the brewery. What to train, who trains, how to prove it, and how to make it stick on the floor.Special Guest: Jen Pesavento.
Episode 243: Terrified of Being Torrified
BSG's adjunct professor & head comedian explain the difference between terms like rolled, flaked, toasted, micronized, and torrified; How it's all made, what's "mash ready," what's not, and why.Special Guests: Allen Young and Ashton Lewis.
Episode 350: Russian River's CO2 Surplus
How would like to be in the position of figuring out how to sell your excess CO2 rather than just accepting the price, quality, and availability from a supplier?Special Guests: Garrison Fratoni, Kim Christian Dalum, and Vinnie Cilurzo.
Episode 235: Flavorings That Go BOOM in the Night
Everyone is doing it. Are you doing it safely?Special Guest: Mark Jaeggi.
Episode 349: Nontraditional Yeast for NA Beer
An analysis of every commercially available non-alcoholic yeast strain.Special Guests: Andrew Maust and Scott Lafontaine.
Episode 234: New Year's Resolution
2 real-life brewery horror stories and 3 guys who hope you'll make a new year's resolution to take brewery safety seriously.Special Guests: Brian Faivre and Eric Moore.
Episode 348: Sustainable Stabilization
The Lagunitas approach to sustainable stabilizationSpecial Guest: Sam Thompson.
Episode 229: Is Hop Creep Caused by Microorganisms?
Are we one step closer to understanding the origin of Hop Creep?Special Guest: Charlie Bamforth.
Episode 347: PFAS in Beer
The Linkage between Municipal Water and Brewing Location on PFAS in beer.Special Guests: Emanuele Sozzi and Jennifer Hoponick Redmon.
Episode 233: Deconstructing Le Petit Prince
Franco-Belgian style table beer & how Jester King brews their versionSpecial Guest: Jeffrey Stuffings.
Episode 346: N2 Generation at pFriem
What happens when there’s not enough CO2 available for your brewery?Special Guest: Campbell Morrissy.
Episode 226: Stainless Steel
Understanding stainless steel alloys, corrosion, vacuum failures, and more.Special Guest: Ashton Lewis.
Episode 345: Dialing in FAN at Hendler Family Brewing
What happened when a brewery started measuring FAN and how you can do it too.Special Guest: Damase Olsson.
Episode 222: The Top 10
This week on the show we count down the greatest hits that breweries take when OSHA shows up.Special Guests: Brian Godfrey, Dana Johnson, and Gary Nicholas.
Episode 344: Biases in sensory
Learn about the many forms of bias in sensory, and some practical takeaways you can put into practice right away.Special Guest: Jen Blair.
Episode 225: Cold IPA
What it means, where it came from, and how it's made.Special Guests: Andy Morrison, John Harris, and Kevin Davey.
Episode 343: Brewing Lager at Heater Allen
The keys to brewing lager at Heater Allen Brewing.Special Guest: Lisa Allen.
Episode 221: The Best of Both Worlds
How to get away with a mid-fermentation dry-hop AND harvest healthy yeast for repitching.Special Guest: Jessica Young.
Episode 342: Canning Essentials
Filling, seaming, and hygiene for your canning line.Special Guests: Grant Smith and Kyron Zawodny.
Episode 217: Dry Hopping & Yeast Health
Why dry hopping & yeast health are at odds with each other, what to look out for, and how to make the best of this challenging combination.Special Guest: John Giarratano.
Episode 341: So, You Want To Open A Kitchen?
12 years of lessons learned, trials & tribulations, points to consider if you're thinking about opening/adding a kitchen.Special Guest: Abby George.
Episode 215: Hops & Foam
Have you ever noticed that the more you dry-hop, the worse your foam is?Special Guest: John Paul Maye.
Episode 340: Communicating How Genetic Engineering Works to Consumers
Worried about how consumers will react to your GMO beer?Special Guest: Nick Harris.
Episode 200: Reconsidering the Congress Mash
Should the numbers on your malt COA be produced from a mash that's more similar to your brewery mashes? Did you know that's already happening when you buy UK malt? Listen up, then join the conversation.Special Guests: Glen Fox and Mary-Jane Maurice.
Episode 339: Alternative Grains and Sugars
Millet, canary seed, amaranth, chia, einkorn, farro, fonio, teff, purple corn, agave, birch sap, and more. Special Guest: Aaron Hyde.
Episode 214: Analysis of Commercial NEIPAs
Our friends at Hopsteiner continue to unlock the secrets of New England IPA Special Guests: Christina Schmidt and Martin Biendl.
Episode 338: Cost Savings Through Analysis
Analytical strategies for craft brewers.Special Guest: Spencer Grimm.
Episode 337: CIP Flow Rates – when “rules of thumb” break
What’s your optimal flow rate during CIP and what happens if you don’t hit it?Special Guest: Travis Audet.
Episode 220: Consistent Fermentations
How to keep your brewery from becoming condominiums.Special Guest: Bill Maca.
Episode 336: Financial Literacy for Brewers
Could open-book management transform your brewery?Special Guest: Audra Gaiziunas.
Episode 210: Benchmarking Sustainability
3 different perspectives from breweries large & small. You'll hear about the BA's Benchmarking tool, other resources to support your sustainability journey, and how to take some baby steps if you haven't made any progress yet.Special Guests: Charlie Hoxmeier, Hannah Johnson, and Lizzy Waters.
Episode 335: RVA
Should you be paying more attention to fermentable sugars instead of total extract?Special Guest: Trevor Cowley.
Episode 203: Cloudy with a Chance of Production
Our friends at Highland Brewing talk about the network of people, tools, forecasts, and workflows that build their production schedule.Special Guests: Abbey Temoshchuk Reynolds and Matt McComish.
Episode 334: Haná
What happens when you resurrect an old world landrace barley variety and give it to a bunch of brewers in CA?Special Guests: Colin Johnston and Josh Wurzbacher.
Episode 207: Spent Hops Disposal Dilemma
How The Matt Brewing Company deals spent hop material & other things you wish you knew before you built a brewery.Special Guest: Jim Kuhr.
Episode 333: Six Irish Brewing Yeasts
Effects of regional location on the genotype and phenotype of historical Irish brewing yeastSpecial Guest: Daniel Kerruish.
Episode 216: Profiling 34/70
What happens the world's most popular yeast strain gets fermented at different temperatures and pitch rates?Special Guest: Anne Flesch.
Episode 332: Substitutes for the Substitutes of the Substitutes
The last of the three-part series of Technical Quarterly articles providing insights to the upcoming MBAA publication The Inspiring and Surprising History and Legacy of American Lager Beer: 1941–1948, the focus of this paper is a review of the American brewing industry during the tumultuous years of World War II (1941–1945) and those immediately following in support of global famine relie
Episode 224: Can Liner Quality & Testing
This week on the show, something that most brewers new to canning never consider but can make or break a brewery.Special Guests: Hannah Krieg and Vivian Poteat.
Episode 218: Including Fermentation in Your Beer Recipe
Why you need a fermentation recipe just as much as you need a recipe in the brewhouse.Special Guest: Tim Faith.
Episode 331: How USDA ARS Funding Affects Your Brewery
What’s going on with the recent funding cuts to barely & hops research, and how does that affect your brewery?Special Guests: Alicia Adler, Ashley McFarland, and Scott Dorsch.
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