Master Brewers Podcast

Follow Joe Walts on his journey building lauter simulations to better predict & improve brewhouse efficiency. Special Guest: Joe Walts.

Val Peacock talks about the biggest problem in hop quality - hop drying. You'll also hear from Bill Arendt, the Wisconsin hop grower who built a better mousetrap. Special Guests: Bill Arendt and Val Peacock.

The story behind the development of the first NA beer from Sam Adams Special Guest: Eryn Bottens.

Half of Odell's small but impressive quality team joins us to discuss what they do. Special Guests: Lauryn Rivera and Tess Downer.

Advice for how to navigate brewery construction Special Guests: Andy Hooper and Jordan Schiess.

Kevin Sibbett discusses a lauter tun upgrade at Yuengling, the process of optimizing brewhouse efficiency, troubleshooting malt handling, and understanding mill gaps and grist composition. Special Guest: Kevin Sibbett.

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. Special Guest: Bill Maca.

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.

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