Master Brewers Podcast

A powerful tool for making quality decisions. Special Guest: Travis Audet.

Cécile Chenot discusses observations from thiol research at Université Catholique de Louvain Special Guest: Cécile Chenot.

A thorough test of an age-old debate, conducted on modern beer styles Special Guest: Ali Schultz.

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. Members of the Craft Brewers Glass Quality Group describe the basic outline of such a procedure and resources to enable breweries to develop their own burst bottle mitigation program. Special Guests: Ben Bailey, Shawn Theriot, and Tim Lozen.

Mitch Steele has advice for craft brewers who want to produce non-alcoholic products. Special Guest: Mitch Steele.

Boston Beer determines how to accurately measure sessionability before releasing a new brand. Special Guest: Micaela Kraft.

What happens when an allergen is grown on the farm next door? Special Guest: Wade Begrow.

Sierra Nevada studies the impact of dry hopping at different stages of fermentation. Special Guests: Maria Moutsoglou and Will Cayler.

This week on the show, Gene editing for brewers... and where things might be headed for barley & hops. Special Guests: Steve Strauss and Tom Shellhammer.

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? Special Guest: Mark Zunkel.

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? Special Guest: Paige Lesondak.

There are lots of different approaches to producing NA beer. Justin McKellar walks us through the tradeoffs of each method. Special Guest: Justin McKellar.

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.

The quest to determine the origin of hop creep takes an interesting twist. Special Guest: Matt Cottrell.

The popularity of heavily-hopped beer styles has put USA hops front and center, but threats are looming; wildfire, climate change, water availability, the loss of hop farming families, and the ongoing shift from public to private hops. Hop growers Darren Gamache (VGF) and John Segal (Segal Ranch), master brewer Karl Ockert, and hop consultant Eric Sannerud joined John Bryce on stage during the 2022 Brewing Summit to discuss these topics and more. Special Guests: Darren Gamache, Eric Sannerud, John Segal, and Karl Ockert.

When Madtree Brewing Co. expanded from a 15 bbl brewhouse to a 100 bbl brewhouse, they experienced intermittent acetaldehyde spikes in one of their brands. Becca Ransohof & Trent Leslie walk us through the troubleshooting process that resolved the issue. Special Guests: Becca Ransohoff and Trent Leslie.

What is ISTT water and what can it do for us? Special Guests: Carl Halterman and Jeff Gunn.

The discovery of new alpha and beta acids. Special Guest: John Paul Maye.

Graham Stewart discusses the mechanics of yeast stress during the 2019 Master Brewers Conference in Calgary Special Guest: Graham Stewart.

OSU probes the sustainability of hops, from kiln cycles to double dry hopping. Special Guests: Lindsey Rubottom and Tom Shellhammer.