Master Brewers Podcast

We celebrate the first decade of craft malt by catching up with a few of its pioneers and talking about what craft malt can do for beer. Special Guests: Andrea Stanley, Brent Manning, and Todd Olander.

We take a deep dive into oak barrels. You'll hear about the properties of oak, the different types, and all about the complexities of seasoning and toast. Special Guests: Amy LaHue, Andrew Wiehebrink, and Noah Steingraeber.

A preview of the Olympics of brewing conferences, the WBC, which only occurs every 4 years and hasn’t been held in person since 2016 due to the pandemic. Special Guests: Lauren Torres and Sylvie Van Zandycke.

We go behind the scenes with the 3 moderators responsible for ensuring the highest possible quality content on the industry’s best technical brewing forum. Special Guests: Andy Tveekrem, Lars Larson, and Walter Heeb.

Does your brewery can or bottle? Do you pay close attention to your rinser or just assume it does what it's supposed to? This week on the show, we take a deep dive into water rinsers with a team of Master Brewers who collaborated to publish a Best Practices document you can use to get bottle and can rinsing done right. Special Guests: Ben Bailey, Dave Duff, Eric Samp, Heather Muzzy Caron, and Tim Lozen.

We thought we'd celebrate our 300th episode by giving John Bryce they day off...kind of. Special Guest: John Bryce.

We take a look at spirit barrel aging techniques from the perspective of Julian Shrago at Beachwood Brewing Special Guest: Julian Shrago.

A case study at New Belgium to understand the impact of can coatings on beer volatiles. Special Guests: Brooke Gushen and Nate Burns.

This week on the show, presenters from the Juicy Dry Hopping workshop in Calgary (https://mbaa.confex.com/mbaa/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Session/1081) join us to talk about their quest to maximize flavor, aroma, and efficiency in heavily dry hopped beers. Special Guests: Ben Edmunds, Daniel Sharp, Evan Partridge, and Ryan Dunnavant.

Adjusting expectations and processes to navigate an increasingly delicate malt supply chain. Special Guests: Curtis Davenport, Harmonie Bettenhausen, and Xiang Yin.

Our friends at Goose Island talk about their journey reducing TPO on small scale canning lines. This episode was recorded live during the 2019 Master Brewers Conference. Special Guests: Brooke Bell and Mike Kania.

Different paths of evolution and answers to questions about the genetic identity of commercially available yeast strains. Special Guest: Fabio Faria-Oliveira.

Dry hop geyser survivors talk about their experiences and how you can avoid repeating their dangerous mistakes. Special Guests: Cody Green, Daniel Sharp, George de Piro, Jessica Young, Lee Lonnes, and Victor Rini.

Mechanisms and Strategies to Manage Temperature Stratification in Brewery Vessels Special Guest: Travis Audet.

To rinse or not to rinse - what's in your can? Our friends at Community Beer take us on a journey to eliminate microbes @ can filling. Special Guests: Jamie Fulton and Mark Bagazinski.

Real-world can seamer troubleshooting courtesy of Master Brewer's award-winning technical brewing forum. Special Guest: David Garab.

Jason Perkins talks about beer development at Allagash Brewing Co. Special Guest: Jason Perkins.

Frequent MBAA course lecturer, Gabriel Dominguez, offers tips to reduce your brewery's CO2 consumption. Special Guest: Gabriel Dominguez.

A simple engineering solution with complex implementation. Special Guest: Evan Meffert.

Maitreya Dunham and Tom Schmidlin talk about an exciting study that aims to better understand yeast mutations during serial repitching. Special Guests: Maitreya Dunham and Tom Schmidlin.