Master Brewers Podcast

Advice for how to navigate brewery construction

Special Guests: Andy Hooper and Jordan Schiess.

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• Construction Guidance

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.

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• Be Kind to Your Grind

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.

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• Yeast Viability Staining

A powerful tool for making quality decisions.

Special Guest: Travis Audet.

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• Thermal Degradation Units - A Tool to Guide Quality Decisions

Cécile Chenot discusses observations from thiol research at Université Catholique de Louvain

Special Guest: Cécile Chenot.

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• Free thiol release from cysteinylated and glutathionylated sulfanylalkyl alcohols in beer : by selecting yeasts and fermentation conditions

A thorough test of an age-old debate, conducted on modern beer styles

Special Guest: Ali Schultz.

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• Effect of pasteurization on bright and hazy IPAs

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.

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• Implementation of a burst bottle detection and mitigation program

Mitch Steele has advice for craft brewers who want to produce non-alcoholic products.

Special Guest: Mitch Steele.

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• Recipe and Process Considerations for the Craft Brewer

Boston Beer determines how to accurately measure sessionability before releasing a new brand.

Special Guest: Micaela Kraft.

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• Evaluating different approaches to measuring sessionability in beer and hard-seltzer water

What happens when an allergen is grown on the farm next door?

Special Guest: Wade Begrow.

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• A comparison of different allergen extraction and screening methods for the presence of tree nuts in hops and beer