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 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 049: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
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 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.
Episode 330: Brewery Plant Integration & Automation
How automation enabled one of today’s largest craft brewers to grow to scale.Special Guest: Kevin Martini.
Episode 204: Confined Space Entry
Is your brewery prepared to rescue a team member from an FV or other confined space? Do you train & practice rescue regularly or do you plan to just wing it when seconds matter?Special Guest: Andy Troccoli.
Episode 329: Brewery Supply Chain
A former chair of the BA’s supply chain subcommittee has advice for navigating today’s challenges.Special Guest: Mitch Steele.
Episode 201: Wort Separation
Perhaps the most practical guide to wort separation on planet earth.Special Guest: Travis Audet.
Episode 328: Hitting Quality Targets
What NIR analysis of roughly 200 beers at UC Davis can tell us about hitting quality targets.Special Guests: Glen Fox and Sarah Suriano.
Episode 327: Creep Control
Understanding the enzymes that drive hop creep and a novel potential control strategy.Special Guest: Matt Cottrell.
Episode 199: The Yeast Hunter
Remember learning about Kveik back on episode 102? This time, we catch up with the man who tracked down these yeasts and reinvigorated a traditional farmhouse brewing culture that nearly died out. You'll also hear about a time when it was illegal NOT to brew Christmas beer.Special Guest: Lars Marius Garshol.
Episode 198: Bierkrieg: Follow the Money
The guy who explained how we narrowly avoided an American Reinheitsgebot on episode 174 is back with more surprises. This time you'll hear about the widespread use of malt substitutes in Germany, a beer war, and the birthplace of America's most popular beer style.Special Guest: Greg Casey.
Episode 326: THP
How mousey off-flavor is formed in beer and how it can be measured.Special Guests: Glen Fox and Paulina Streimikyte.
Episode 209: How Bells Brewery Significantly Reduced its Electrical Bill & Carbon Footprint
The story of how Bell's brewery reduced its electrical consumption 5% while growing production more than 3%.Special Guests: Kate Martini and Walker Modic.
Episode 325: Controlling t2N
Practical strategies for controlling trans-2 nonenal in your brewery.Special Guest: Eric Samp.
Episode 202: The Omission Story + New Gluten-Free/Reduced Regs
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.Special Guest: Joe Casey.
Episode 324: Flavor Stability
What New Glarus prioritizes to maximize flavor stability.Special Guest: Dan Carey.
Episode 197: A History of Brewing Innovation
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.Special Guest: Charlie Bamforth.
Episode 323: Brewing Fittings
Why Brewers Should Consider Alternatives to Tri-ClampSpecial Guest: Travis Audet.
Episode 145: Investigating the Factors Impacting Aroma, Flavor, and Stability in Dry-Hopped Beers
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.Special Guests: Scott Lafontaine and Tom Shellhammer.
Episode 322: Survival of Pathogens in Non-Alcoholic Beers
A study of 50 NA beers hunts for human pathogens.Special Guest: Grzegorz Rachon.
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