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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Why Brewers Should Consider Alternatives to Tri-Clamp

Special Guest: Travis Audet.

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• Brewing Fittings - Why Brewers Should Consider Alternatives to Tri-Clamp and What are the Alternatives? — District Presentation
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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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Links:

• Investigating the Factors Impacting Aroma, Flavor, and Stability in Dry-Hopped Beers — 2019 MBAA TQ
• How Hoppy Beer Production Has Redefined Hop Quality and a Discussion of Agricultural and Processing Strategies to Promote It​​​​​ — 2019 MBAA TQ
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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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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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Links:

• 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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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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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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Links:

• 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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The John Rowley approach to sour & funk

Special Guest: John Rowley.

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• Mixed Culture Fermentation – My Experiences in the Art — District Rocky Mountain Presentation
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The story of how Creature Comforts Brewing tracked down and eliminated metallic off-flavor in kettle-sours.

Special Guest: Spencer Britton.

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Links:

• Poster 14 - Tracking, quantifying, and reducing metallic qualities in kettle-soured beer — 2020 World Brewing Congress
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You've seen the headlines. Is the US government really about to change its recommendations for alcohol consumption?

Special Guests: Brian Crawford and Christopher Shepard.

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Links:

• Science Over Bias — Take Action!
• Beer & Health (EP 260) — You and I both know that beer has a lot of nutritional value, but are we prepared to speak intelligently about that? How do we get consumers to look past beer's stereotypes and click-bait headlines?
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