Master Brewers Podcast

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.

How serious innovation at Carlsberg is changing the outlook and timeline for barley breeding.Special Guest: Birgitte Skadhauge.

Using the dissolved CO2 content of active fermentations to control your process. Special Guests: Andrew MacIntosh and Karen Fortmann.

An option for microbiological stabilization that might not be on your radar.Special Guests: Audrey Carpenter and David Brown.

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.

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.

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.

Just how much pasteurization is actually needed for your NA products?Special Guest: Grzegorz Rachon.

Industry veteran Joe Hertrich talks about what matters most on your malt Certificates of Analysis.Special Guest: Joe Hertrich.

Recipe, process, and key considerations when brewing modern West Coast IPA.Special Guest: Ben Edmunds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everyone is doing it. Are you doing it safely?Special Guest: Mark Jaeggi.

An analysis of every commercially available non-alcoholic yeast strain.Special Guests: Andrew Maust and Scott Lafontaine.

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.

The Lagunitas approach to sustainable stabilizationSpecial Guest: Sam Thompson.

Are we one step closer to understanding the origin of Hop Creep?Special Guest: Charlie Bamforth.

The Linkage between Municipal Water and Brewing Location on PFAS in beer.Special Guests: Emanuele Sozzi and Jennifer Hoponick Redmon.

Franco-Belgian style table beer & how Jester King brews their versionSpecial Guest: Jeffrey Stuffings.

What happens when there’s not enough CO2 available for your brewery?Special Guest: Campbell Morrissy.

Understanding stainless steel alloys, corrosion, vacuum failures, and more.Special Guest: Ashton Lewis.

What happened when a brewery started measuring FAN and how you can do it too.Special Guest: Damase Olsson.

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.

Learn about the many forms of bias in sensory, and some practical takeaways you can put into practice right away.Special Guest: Jen Blair.

What it means, where it came from, and how it's made.Special Guests: Andy Morrison, John Harris, and Kevin Davey.

The keys to brewing lager at Heater Allen Brewing.Special Guest: Lisa Allen.

How to get away with a mid-fermentation dry-hop AND harvest healthy yeast for repitching.Special Guest: Jessica Young.

Filling, seaming, and hygiene for your canning line.Special Guests: Grant Smith and Kyron Zawodny.

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.

12 years of lessons learned, trials & tribulations, points to consider if you're thinking about opening/adding a kitchen.Special Guest: Abby George.

Have you ever noticed that the more you dry-hop, the worse your foam is?Special Guest: John Paul Maye.

Worried about how consumers will react to your GMO beer?Special Guest: Nick Harris.

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.

Millet, canary seed, amaranth, chia, einkorn, farro, fonio, teff, purple corn, agave, birch sap, and more. Special Guest: Aaron Hyde.

Our friends at Hopsteiner continue to unlock the secrets of New England IPA Special Guests: Christina Schmidt and Martin Biendl.

Analytical strategies for craft brewers.Special Guest: Spencer Grimm.

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 Scott Zetterstrom.

What’s your optimal flow rate during CIP and what happens if you don’t hit it?Special Guest: Travis Audet.

How to keep your brewery from becoming condominiums.Special Guest: Bill Maca.

Could open-book management transform your brewery?Special Guest: Audra Gaiziunas.

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.

Should you be paying more attention to fermentable sugars instead of total extract?Special Guest: Trevor Cowley.