Master Brewers Podcast
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Episode 105: Wort Aeration
Master Brewers Podcast
09/24/18 • 28 min
Do you know how much DO is in your wort? What percentage of injected oxygen is solubilized? Derek Dawson set out to answer these questions at Modern Times Beer.
LINKS:
- 2018 Brewing Summit Poster: Developing a practical method for determining dissolved oxygen levels in knockout wort and its effects on the health of Saccharomyces strains in the brewery
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Episode 049: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
Master Brewers Podcast
07/19/21 • 44 min
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 Guest: Kerry Bloxham (Caldwell).
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Links:
- Boil-Over Protection
- Brewery Safety — Master Brewers Brewery Safety Website
- Brewery Configuration for Craft Brewing Optimization — 1997 MBAA TQ
- Upcoming Events - Master Brewers Calendar
- 2021 Master Brewers Conference — REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
- Technical Quarterly Author Guidelines — Submit Your Own TQ Article!
- Join Master Brewers — Use promo code BEER2021 to save 20% on dues
Episode 49: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
Master Brewers Podcast
07/29/19 • 44 min
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 Guest: Kerry Bloxham (Caldwell).
Sponsored By:
Links:
- Boil-Over Protection — Boil-Over Protection
- Brewery Safety — Master Brewers Brewery Safety Website
- Master Brewers Live!
Episode 107: Troubleshooting Acetaldehyde
Master Brewers Podcast
10/15/18 • 22 min
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.
Links:
- Get the fishbone diagrams
- Brewing Summit Poster: A practice in problem solving—Managing acetaldehyde in a 100 bbl brewhouse
- Get the Brewing Summit Proceedings
Special Guests: Becca Ransohoff and Trent Leslie.
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Episode 187: The Guinness Yeast
Master Brewers Podcast
04/01/24 • 40 min
The Guinness brewery was founded in 1759 by Arthur Guinness. The Guinness brewery group were early exponents of the advancements in microbiology, and particularly yeast husbandry that took place in Europe at the end of the 19th Century. This led Guinness to establish the Watling laboratory in 1901 and subsequent St James’s Gate yeast Library.
16 Guinness yeast isolates were taken from the St James’s Gate yeast library and sequenced using next generation whole genome sequencing. Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) analysis, the genetic lineage of the Guinness yeast were established, with the Guinness yeast forming a monophyletic group (all descendants of a common ancestor). Previous yeast studies have attributed geographical location to domestication; using this information the Guinness yeast were placed with yeast domesticated in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Within the 300+ yeast stored in the St James’s Gate yeast Library there are yeast from historical Irish Brewers. Using the same methods that established the genetic lineage of the Guinness yeast, 8 Irish brewing yeast were similarly assessed. In addition to the genotypic analysis of the Guinness and Irish yeast, the phenotype of the different yeasts were determined.
In this paper we present an understanding of the Guinness and Irish yeast from a genotypic and phenotypic perspective. This analysis established that despite the different brewing attributes of these Irish yeast they all have a common genetic ancestry which is different to that of the United Kingdom yeast and the United States yeast. Consequently, we suggest that there is potential scope for an Irish brewing terroir concept based upon brewing with Irish yeast.
Special Guest: Daniel Kerruish.
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- BSG:
- Precision Fermentation:
- The Lupulin Exchange:
- Berkeley Yeast:
- cytiva:
- ProLeiT:
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Episode 137: How a Beer Comes to Life
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07/15/19 • 47 min
Jason Perkins talks about beer development at Allagash Brewing Co.
Special Guest: Jason Perkins.
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Episode 251: Boil-Over Safety at Goose Island
Master Brewers Podcast
06/27/22 • 42 min
An incident at Goose Island that we can all learn from.
Special Guests: Daryl Hoedtke and Gabe Capan.
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Links:
- Volunteer Opportunity — Master Brewers Podcast Working Group
- Brewkettle Boil-Over Safety at Goose Island Beer Company — 2022 Illinois CBC
- Upcoming Events - Master Brewers Calendar
- Brewing Summit 2022 — Providence, Rhode Island | August 14-16, 2022
- Brewing and Malting Science Course
- Join Master Brewers — Use promo code BEER2022 to save 20% on dues
Episode 113: Reducing Error in Cell Counts
Master Brewers Podcast
12/03/18 • 35 min
It doesn't matter how good you are at counting cells if the sample wasn't prepared and handled properly. Bill Maca takes us on a deep dive into the most important part of yeast cell counts that nobody talks about: best practices during sampling & dilution.
Links:- Ask The Brewmasters: Yeast Viability Staining
- Ask The Brewmasters: Yeast methylene blue staining viability inconsistencies
- Ask The Brewmasters: Dilutions for slurry cell counts/viability
- MBAA.com: Bill's TQ articles & presentations
Special Guest: Bill Maca.
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Episode 139: Hot Side Aeration (HSA)
Master Brewers Podcast
08/05/19 • 24 min
Joe Williams, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Endowed Brewer at UC Davis, talks about HSA.
Special Guest: Joe Williams.
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Episode 172: What’s The Buzz? Non-alcoholic Beer Production
Master Brewers Podcast
06/01/20 • 52 min
There are lots of different approaches to producing NA beer. Justin McKellar walks us through the tradeoffs of each method.
Special Guest: Justin McKellar.
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How many episodes does Master Brewers Podcast have?
Master Brewers Podcast currently has 354 episodes available.
What topics does Master Brewers Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Beer, Brewing, Podcasts, Science, Arts and Food.
What is the most popular episode on Master Brewers Podcast?
The episode title 'Episode 248: Mashing' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Master Brewers Podcast?
The average episode length on Master Brewers Podcast is 39 minutes.
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Episodes of Master Brewers Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Master Brewers Podcast?
The first episode of Master Brewers Podcast was released on Aug 14, 2017.
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