Master Brewers Podcast

What’s your optimal flow rate during CIP and what happens if you don’t hit it?

Special Guest: Travis Audet.

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• CIP Flow Rates – when “rules of thumb” break

How to keep your brewery from becoming condominiums.

Special Guest: Bill Maca.

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• ​​​Pragmatic Aspects to Consistent Fermentation Quality

Could open-book management transform your brewery?

Special Guest: Audra Gaiziunas.

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• Forging Financials From Beskar: Protecting Our Breweries From Financial Distress

3 different perspectives from breweries large & small. You'll hear about the BA's Benchmarking tool, other resources to support your sustainability journey, and how to take some baby steps if you haven't made any progress yet.

Special Guests: Charlie Hoxmeier, Hannah Johnson, and Lizzy Waters.

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• Lessons Learned Implementing a Sustainability Program in a Craft Brewery​​

Should you be paying more attention to fermentable sugars instead of total extract?

Special Guest: Trevor Cowley.

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• Brewing Summit 2025

Our friends at Highland Brewing talk about the network of people, tools, forecasts, and workflows that build their production schedule.

Special Guests: Abbey Temoshchuk Reynolds and Matt McComish.

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• Cloudy with a Chance of Production: Tips for Effective Brewery Forecasting & Planning

What happens when you resurrect an old world landrace barley variety and give it to a bunch of brewers in CA?

Special Guests: Colin Johnston and Josh Wurzbacher.

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• Exploring the World’s First Malting Collaboration

How The Matt Brewing Company deals spent hop material & other things you wish you knew before you built a brewery.

Special Guest: Jim Kuhr.

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• ​Lessons Learned Regarding Spent Hop Material Recovered from Wastewater Stream and the Final Composting Solution​

Effects of regional location on the genotype and phenotype of historical Irish brewing yeast

Special Guest: Daniel Kerruish.

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• Effects of regional location on the genotype and phenotype of historical Irish brewing yeast

What happens the world's most popular yeast strain gets fermented at different temperatures and pitch rates?

Special Guest: Anne Flesch.

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• IMPACT OF THE FERMENTATION CONDITIONS ON THE WEIHENSTEPHAN LAGER STRAIN