Master Brewers Podcast

A deep dive on beer foam with a couple of familiar guests, one of whom literally wrote the book on foam.

Special Guests: Ashton Lewis and Charlie Bamforth.

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• FOAM: Practical Guides for Beer Quality

Just when you thought light-struck flavor in beer was permanent...

Special Guests: Catherine Villa and Keith Villa.

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• Poster 143 - Prevention and reversal of the formation of light-struck (3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol) aroma in beer

A couple of experts offer tips to help your brewery beat the summer heat.

Special Guests: Nick Donofrio and Rissa Spalding.

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• Heat Illness Prevention

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 Guests: Kerry Bloxham (Caldwell) and Scott Zetterstrom.

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• Boil-Over Protection
• Brewery Safety — Master Brewers Brewery Safety Website
• Boil-Over Safety at Goose Island — Master Brewers Podcast Episode 251
• Brewery Configuration for Craft Brewing Optimization — 1997 MBAA TQ
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If you have the same canning line as Jack, you might want to listen up.

Special Guest: Jack Van Paepeghem.

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• Identifying and Eliminating Pectinatus in a Craft Lager Facility: A Sensory Case Study

Noise exposure may not be on your brewery's radar, but this is an area in which an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Special Guest: Jonathan Borntrager.

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• Controlling Noise Exposure in the Brewery Industry

Can chemical analytics be used to predict what a sensory panel will taste? Can machine learning be used to improve a beer?

Special Guests: Kevin Verstrepen and Michiel Schreurs.

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• Predicting and improving complex beer flavor through machine learning

Specialty malt freshness, roaster technology, flavor development & complexity in specialty malts, and more.

Special Guests: Aaron MacLeod, Chris Schooley, and Jeff Bloem.

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A unique study of California malting barley and its practical takeaways for brewers.

Special Guest: Maany Ramanan.

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• Effects of genotype and environment on productivity and quality in Californian malting barley

Three people who know a lot about malting talk about base malt flavor development and the variables driving a lot of creativity in brewing.

Special Guests: Aaron MacLeod, Curtis Davenport, and Sebastian Wolfrum.

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