The Modern Brewer Podcast

By Chris Lewington

We all know how to make great beer right? But how do we become great brewers? Get stuck into all the topics you didn’t expect you needed to know when you first started brewing with experienced brewer ... more

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The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.

The Modern Brewer Podcast episodes:

April 15, 2024 Ep 20 - Sensory Part 1 - How To Assess Your Beer - Jethro Duarte-Holman
Everything you need to know on how perform sensory analysis on your beer, how to set up a sensory program and who should be involved.

Key topics covered

- A high-level view of what sensory is, what it aims to do and why is it so effective
- What are the key aspects and/or rules of sensory
- Who should be involved in sensory?
- How do you train people in sensory?
- Types of Test

Chapters
00:00 Welcome and Exciting Announcements
01:44 Introduction to Sensory Science
02:29 Special Guest: Jethro Duarte Holman
04:52 Deep Dive into Sensory Training
08:47 The Importance of Sensory in Brewing
17:57 Training and Mislabeling in Sensory
25:59 Involving Everyone in Sensory Panels
27:35 The Importance of Unbiased Sensory Evaluation
28:54 Training Your Team in Sensory Analysis
30:40 Recognising and Associating Flavors
32:02 The Role of Memory in Flavor Detection
35:57 Practical Tips for Sensory Evaluation
40:05 Assessment Types and Taste Gates
44:52 The Importance of Shelf Life Testing
47:41 Using Software for Sensory Data
52:22 Wrapping Up and What's Next

🌡️ Frigid.Cloud - The Ultimate Fermentation Control

📧 [email protected]

🔗 Chris' LinkedIn

🎵 Horacio Colombo

🧈 VDK Testing

🧪 ASBC Method
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54min
April 02, 2024Ep 19 - How To Progress Your Career - Adam Mills
We deep dive into key ways to progress your career both in brewing and if you want to move industry.

Adam Mills is the host of 'Adam Makes Beer' a hugely successful youtube channel promoting professional brewing, he is also the Director of Brewing Operations at Sonder Brewing in Ohio, US.

In this episode we discuss:
Educational growth habits
Personal/professional traits for success
Developmental steps to growing as a leader

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview
00:39 Recap of Episode 18: The Brewing Mystery
01:21 Solving the Brewing Problem
04:41 Shoutouts and Listener Engagement
06:03 Sponsor Highlight: Simpsons Malt
07:20 Guest Introduction: Adam Mills
08:13 Adam Mills' Brewing Journey
14:00 Challenges and Rewards in Brewing
19:39 Professional Development in Brewing
27:22 Learning and Networking in the Brewing Industry
40:05 The Power of Praise in Leadership
40:51 Effective Managerial Communication
41:50 Coaching and Developing Team Members
43:02 The Importance of Soft Skills in Brewing
45:48 Self-Awareness and Personal Growth
49:46 Parenthood and Character Development
54:29 The Role of Honesty in Management
01:01:55 Handling Mistakes and Accountability
01:08:48 Final Thoughts and Reflections

🌱 Simpsons Sustainability Report
🎥 Adam Makes Beer YouTube Channel
📷 Adam's Instagram
📨 [email protected]
💼 My LinkedIn
📷 My Instagram
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1h 14min
March 18, 2024 Ep 18 - Can You Solve This Issue??
In a new one-off format, I go solo on the show and share with you all the details of a real world brewing problem to see if you can solve it.

You will get the breweries problem as it was described to me.

A full understanding of their CIP routine, their yeast and fermentation practise and the actions they took to help diagnose it.

What do you think caused the issue? And how would you solve it?

🌱 Simpsons Sustainability Report
🎥 Sustainability Without CAPEX Talk
📨 [email protected]
💼 My LinkedIn
📷 My Instagram

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23min
March 04, 2024 Ep 17 - CO2 Recapture - Kim & Frederik Dalum & Jan Paul
We need to STOP purchasing CO2 for our breweries. The technology exists and for the first time ever is affordable to the craft brewer.

In this episode, we go over one of the most exciting technologies available to a craft brewer— CO2 Recapture.

Me, Kim & Frederik Dalum (Dalum Beverage Equipment) and Jan Paul (Brewery Consultant) discuss:

- What is CO2 Recapture, how does it work and what are the options to do it?
- Why is CO2 Recapture now affordable for the craft brewer?
- How they created the Dalum unit
- How much CO2 does your brewery produce?
- Case Study of Dalum in action
- How do you assess the quality of the CO2
- What is required other than the unit itself?
- CIP
- System size, costs, options to buy and ROI
- Environmental Savings

Chapters
02:30 - Simpsons Sustainability Report
04:19 - Intros
05:44 - What is CO2 Recapture, how does it work and what are the options to do it?

A big thanks to friends of the podcast Simpsons Malt and you must check out their exceptional sustainability report, linked below.

👉 Simpson Malt's Sustainability Report 👈

🫧 Contact Dalum to Assess Your CO2 Recapture Potential

🗣️ Connect with Jan Paul

🎓 Further Reading On CO2 Recapture (Articles by the IBD, agreed to be shared with listeners)
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59min
February 19, 2024 Ep 16 - Hoponomics - Douglas MacKinnon
Learn about the hop surplus, hop contracting and how to navigate the hop market as any sized brewer. My guest this week is Douglas MacKinnon, he's a leading writer (MacKinnon Report) on the hop market, one of the most important markets a brewer should understand.

Chapters
2:00 - History of hop market
28:00 - Farmer, merchant, brewer model
32:00 - Hop surplus
40:00 - Hop contracting
48:00 - New age hop contracting
53:00 - Do we have an open spot market?
62:00 - Is the latest harvest important?
67:00 - How to navigate the current hop market
73:00 - Doug's solution to the problem

🔗 MacKinnon Report
🔗 Chris's LinkedIn
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1h 35min
January 29, 2024 Ep 15 - Nitrogen Generation - Alex Redpath & Craig Smith
We need to STOP purchasing CO2 for our breweries. The technology exists and for the first time ever is affordable to the craft brewer.

In this episode, we go over one of the most exciting technologies available to a craft brewer—nitrogen generation.

Me, Alex Redpath (Full Circle Brewery) and Craig Smith (Pneumatech) discussed:

- What is nitrogen generation, how does it work and what are the options to do it?
- How much CO2 can you switch to nitrogen?
- How to switch your CO2 usage to N2
- In-depth discussion of Full Circle's nitrogen generator set-up, experience and savings
- Limitations of nitrogen
- Affordability for the small brewer
- Finance options
- What purity is necessary for breweries

Chapters
02:27 - Murphy's Bootcamps
05:28 - Intros
06:18 - What is nitrogen generation, how does it work and what are the options to do it?
08:31 - How can you switch CO2 to N2 in the brewery? (tank purges & canning)
18:52 - Cost savings with N2 gen vs purchased CO2
21:12 - Air compressor considerations
22:50 - Maintenance
24:20 - CO2e savings
29:19 - How did Full Circle future proof their unit
33:33 - At what size brewery does N2 gen make sense? (affordability and finance options)
41:40 - Purity discussion

Enjoy the show!

Notes:

Murphy's Eventbrite link

Download Pneumatech's Nitrogen Calculator

Craig Smith LinkedIn

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48min
December 18, 2023 Ep 14 - Brewing Aids & Treatments - Adam Johnson
This episode has guest Adam Johnson talking us through key topics in brewing and how you can help your brewery save time, money and the environment. The topics we cover:

- Definition of brewing aids and treatments
- Dosage rates and optimisation
- Water BA & T
- Kettle finings
- Beer finings
- Haze stability
- Foam stability
- Sustainability

Chapters
01:57 - Intros
06:37 - Definition of Brewing Aids and Treatments
08:02 - Dosage rates
11:55 - How to ensure BA & T's actually work
14:18 - Water BA&T
18:26 - Wort clarity
27:30 - The most common sources of clarity issues
28:39 - Beer clarity
30:11 - Beer Finings
31:47 - Haze stability
35:46 - Foam stability
42:00 - Sustainability
28:06 - Outros

Enjoy the episode!

Adams Contact -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjohnsondiplbrew/
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50min
December 04, 2023 Ep 13 - Understanding Malt - Part 3 - Jamie Ramshaw & Dan Cooper
Joined by Jamie Ramshaw and Dan Cooper of Simpsons Malt, this is part 3 of a 3-part mini-series on understanding one of the most important ingredients in beer, malt.

In the final episode, we tie up all the information learnt in parts 1 and 2 into how to read your Certificate of Analysis (CoA) for brewing. You will learn what parameters are essential to learn about extract, fermentation and flavour.

If you already have a good understanding of your CoA I guarantee you will learn a better way of viewing them, also you will learn more about how the analysis is conducted and how that affects the results you're getting.

Chapters
01:29 - Malt COA's and the standards of analysis
06:07 - Extract
13:04 - How to understand degree of modification
18:26 - What on a COA indicates a healthy fermentation (FAN
21:57 - What do you sacrifice with requesting low colour malt
23:59 - DMS and SMM (I bet you didn't know this)
26:47 - Diastatic Power
29:34 - Understanding how everything links together
31:45 - Colour
34:24 - How representative are malt COA's
40:19 - Does malt analysis change over time?
45:11 - Conclusions

A big thank you to everyone at Simpsons Malt.
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52min
November 20, 2023 Ep 12 - Understanding Malt - Part 2 - Jamie Ramshaw & Dan Cooper
Joined by Jamie Ramshaw and Dan Cooper of Simpsons Malt, this is part 2 of a 3 part mini series on understanding one of the most important ingredients in beer, malt.

In this episode we start to deep dive into germination, kilning and roasting.

After part 1 and part 2 you know everything you need to know as a brewer in barley and malting.

By the end of the mini-series you will understand in full your malt certificate of analysis, which analysis you need to monitor and how the malting process creates them.

Chapters
01:05 - High level on germination
03:12 - What control conditions are you lookin at in germination
05:44 - How germination changes by malt variety
07:07 - How do you ensure homogenous germination?
08:24 - High level view of Kilning and main control points
16:02 - Is there any challenges in making low colour compared to others?
19:33 - Roasting
22:59 - Do we even need to malt barley?
25:10 - How do you do new product development on malt

A big thank you to everyone at Simpsons Malt.
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33min
November 06, 2023 Ep 11 - Understanding Malt - Part 1 - Jamie Ramshaw & Dan Cooper
Joined by Jamie Ramshaw and Dan Cooper of Simpsons Malt, this is part 1 of a 3 part mini series on understanding one of the most important ingredients in beer, malt.

In this episode we start to discuss barley varieties, growing conditions, current and future trends in barley. Then we start to discuss the malting process starting with steeping.

By the end of the mini-series you will understand in full you malt certificate of analysis, which analysis you need to monitor and how the malting process creates them.

Chapters
02:51 - Intros
05:20 - How well are malt COAs understood by brewers
07:19 - Barley overview
11:05 - Importance of barley variety
16:40 - What are the future varieties to look out for?
18:24 - What important field characteristics are there for barley
20:03 - How sustainability is affecting barley farming
25:00 - How will this affect heritage varieties like Maris Otter?
26:50 - How new barley varieties come to market
31:35 - How is the 2023 crop looking?
34:06 - High level view of steeping
37:11 - How important is water quality?
38:15 - Is the water used in steeping reused?
41:11 - Moisture content in steeping

A big thank you to Simpsons Malt.
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45min

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How many episodes does The Modern Brewer Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.

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