Master Brewers Podcast

Master Brewers Podcast

Master Brewers Association of the Americas (MBAA)

United We Brew™

58 minutes 40 seconds

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.
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- Case Studies in Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Through Electrical Efficiency in Brewing Operations — 2020 MBAA TQ
- Focus Issue: Sustainability — 2020 MBAA TQ
- Technical Quarterly Author Guidelines — Submit Your Own TQ Article!
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- A Message From John Mallet
20 January 2025, 5:00 am
40 minutes 41 seconds

Episode 325: Controlling t2N
Practical strategies for controlling trans-2 nonenal in your brewery.
Special Guest: Eric Samp.
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13 January 2025, 5:00 am
48 minutes 50 seconds

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.
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- Recent FDA and TTB Rulings Governing the Gluten Label Claims of Fermented Beverages — 2020 District Northwest Presentation
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6 January 2025, 5:00 am
1 hour 54 seconds

Episode 324: Flavor Stability
What New Glarus prioritizes to maximize flavor stability.
Special Guest: Dan Carey.
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30 December 2024, 5:00 am
1 hour 9 minutes

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.
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- A History of Brewing Innovation — 2020 MBAA TQ
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23 December 2024, 5:00 am
45 minutes 15 seconds

Episode 323: Brewing Fittings
Why Brewers Should Consider Alternatives to Tri-Clamp
Special Guest: Travis Audet.
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16 December 2024, 5:00 am
46 minutes 2 seconds

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.
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9 December 2024, 5:00 am
32 minutes 36 seconds

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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- Survival of Pathogens in Non-alcoholic Beers — 2024 World Brewing Congress
- WBC Rewind — Revisit content from World Brewing Congress 2024
- Survival of Escherichia coli O157, Salmonella Enteritidis, Bacillus cereus and Clostridium botulinum in non-alcoholic beers — Journal of the Institute of Brewing
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2 December 2024, 5:00 am
30 minutes 23 seconds

Episode 196: Goose Island's Wild Yeast Chase
In 2018 Goose Island was plagued with a wild yeast contamination identified in post centrifuged products. This is how we systematically sought root cause, and ultimately eradicated the contamination despite our previous process understandings.
Special Guests: Alex Nham and Joey Tidei.
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- Poster 58 - Expectations vs reality: A systematic approach to finding the source of a micro issue in a brewery — 2020 World Brewing Congress
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25 November 2024, 5:00 am
28 minutes 28 seconds

Episode 321: Infusion Malts
The creator of infusion malts joins us to explain what they are and why they're special.
Special Guest: Cristal Peck.
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- Master Brewers Podcast Working Group — Contribute to the team that keeps the podcast running!
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18 November 2024, 5:00 am
37 minutes 3 seconds

Episode 190: Variation in Starch Structure
Did you know that the gelatinization temperature of your malt could be as low as 136F or as high as 154F? Charlie Bamforth's successor joins us to talk about variations in starch structure and what that might mean for your mash.
Special Guest: Glen Fox.
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- 158. The relationship between barley starch structure and the sugar profile of wort — 2012 World Brewing Congress
- 25. The comparison of DP enzyme release and persistence with the production of yeast-fermentable sugars during a modified IoB 65°C and Congress mashes — 2016 World Brewing Congress
- 90 - Confirmation of endogenous enzymes in Humulus lupulus and proposed lab method for determination of secondary fermentation — 2020 World Brewing Congress
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11 November 2024, 5:00 am
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