Master Brewers Podcast

Stijn Mertens and Jan Steensels talk about what's happening inside one of the world's most advanced yeast labs. Special Guests: Jan Steensels and Stijn Mertens.

How Wicked Weed made a beer smell like cannabis, without using cannabis. Special Guests: Joe Pawelek and Ross Hunsinger.

A collaboration between OSU's Barley Project Lab, Admiral Maltings, and Seismic Brewing explores the possibilities for achieving Maris Otter flavor in newer barley varieties, bred for better agronomics & brewhouse performance. Special Guests: Campbell Morrissy and Curtis Davenport.

To what extent does yeast strain selection & dry hop timing put the haze in your hazies? Special Guests: Keith Lacy and Laura Burns.

Joe Hertrich continues discussing how to establish your own criteria for malt performance on your specific recipe, process, and equipment rather than relying on theoretical "good" values on a malt COA. He explains how to track brewhouse yield, lauter performance, and attenuation vs. beta glucan. Special Guest: Joe Hertrich.

Fan favorite, Joe Hertrich, is back with an extremely practical approach to evaluating malt performance based on his experience at breweries of drastically different sizes over a 50-year period. Special Guest: Joe Hertrich.

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 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.

Luke Chadwick (Bell's), Andy Farrell (Bell's), Tom Shellhammer (OSU), and Jason Perkins (Allagash) take a deep dive into the phenomenon known as Dry Hop Creep. Special Guests: Andy Farrell, Jason Perkins, Luke Chadwick, and Tom Shellhammer.

How & why to operate a mash filter Special Guest: Jason Platek.

Have you ever wondered if you're pushing the limits of how much pressure your cans can handle? A Master Brewers Past President joins us to discuss a chart he designed to keep you out of trouble. Special Guest: Jim Kuhr.

How yeast propagation works (both in the lab & in the brewery) at Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. Special Guest: Florian Kuplent.

As reported in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03293-x), Charles Denby used CRISPR-Cas9 (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/update-crispr) to successfully engineer brewers yeast (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/science/craft-beer-hops.html) to produce linalool and geraniol. We interview both Charles and Bryan Donaldson (Lagunitas) who oversaw the sensory analysis for this groundbreaking study. Special Guests: Bryan Donaldson and Charles Denby.

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 & why Resident Culture conditions with speise. Special Guest: David Fuhrer.

How Drake's Brewing Co approaches sustainability. Special Guest: Hal McConnellogue.

Elliot Parcells & Josh Pohlmann put together some experiments to better understand if the sanitizers used at Bell's Brewery were doing their jobs.

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

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.

Over-carbonation. Exploding bottles. Lawsuits. Super-attenuation caused by diastaticus contamination is a hot topic in the brewing industry. We bring you interviews with brewers, yeast suppliers, and independent microbiologists to talk about detection, prevention, and more. Whether your strategy is to keep diastaticus out of your brewery altogether or to manage it alongside other Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains lacking the STA gene, you're guaranteed to learn something from these interviews. Special Guests: Andy Tveekrem, Matthew Peetz, Matt Linske, Michelle McHugh, Sylvie Van Zandycke, Tobias Fischborn, and Wade Begrow.